With UlyssesT out there touching grass, I haven’t seen this thread in a while. What in the past do you NOT miss? It could be very personal or just something everyone experienced but doesn’t anymore.
For me, I am so fucking happy the food scene in burgerland has changed since the 2000s. People seem to enjoy more well-seasoned foods and healthier options seem to outstrip the unhealthy slop I remember in the 2000s. Even my yee-yee ahh Ohio suburb has changed somewhat noticeably to support fresh ingredients. Less WASPslop is always good.
How about y’all?
Since you brought it up, I don’t miss UlyssesT. dude was an asshole debate pervert, was on the other end of all of the worst interactions I ever had on here, and never knew anything about the things he was malding about to boot. It’s a lot nicer now that he’s gone.
Fake plants, I feel like I’ve been seeing less and less of them over the years and I hope that plastic garbage stays gone forever
AngularJS
People having their ringers on in public
Carpeted flooring, especially high-pile carpets
I miss UT, but mostly because he was the only one close enough to the burning centre of the tech bro cult to actually be aware of the same things as me. Ah well at least everyone can mock Big Yud with me now.
I really need to write my “people’s history of transhumanism” one day
Really? Cause he only ever talked about tech and tech culture like he’d heard about it in passing from an old hippie that was actively tripping on shrooms, his tech bro cult rants were always so off-the-mark they struck me as pure hallucination
They seemed very specific to a certain part of silicon valley, all I can say is that if you’ve encountered that very niche set of ideas within the niche of silicon valley culture itself, it made some sense.
But I wasn’t really around for peak Ulysses T posting anyways. I only started posting regularly a few months ago. So maybe I’m wrong.
I had issues with the specifics but he definitely had close contact with Big Yud and the proto rationalist set, as well as 90s-early 2000s transhumanist silicon valley types.
If you were more closely aligned with the softer Doctorow style tech types it might come off as strange vibes though.
I second the fake plants. They’re not fooling anyone. Stop with the fake fucking figs already.
I recently overheard a young guy on a date(?) proudly tell his date that he decorated his new house/apt/whatever with fake plants because he can’t keep plants alive
Being proud of the simulacra? At least my real plants are a third, maybe second at best, order sign of the outdoors. smdh
On the one hand, good riddance.
On the other hand, React.
I long for the day I can put “javascript” in one of these lists generically. Javascript is bourgeois decadence and it isn’t even good
The web’s usability peaked in like 2005, where there was enough javascript to run gmail, but anything more complicated lived in a little flash player box, and I had click-to-activate enabled so ads and tracking scripts couldn’t do anything.
I hope they keep adding things like the <details> element until websites can do all the website things without javascript, and we somehow get back to a flash/applet style box for complex stuff (with a more reasonable security model, hell it’s fine if javascript is what lives in the box).
Hard agree. As is, marxists.org is unironically peak web design
I really wonder if people who hate on JS / Web Frameworks have made UI’s in another language/toolkit. Everything but QT is awful compared to web.
Also I just contend that people have never really worked with a well designed system because most shit out there is either dead simple, or quickly became a mess because the devs and managers were out of their element. I can sympathize. I’m currently bashing my head against the wall trying to get PMs to understand fairly difficult concepts. I had a meeting today where it was me, 2 UX designers, and 2 PMs on a call, and the PMs literally couldn’t functionally understand from either perspective the reason the propsed processes were needed.
My problem isn’t with javascript as a UI framework, it’s what I use too. Everything else is five independent platforms each with 3+ half implemented ways to do things, all of which have been left to wither on the vine as all the tech companies give up and use the web instead. The DOM is the best application tool remaining.
My problem is that javascript is both the tool to make basic enhancements to documents, like collapsible menus or form submissions, and the tool to create whole applications. The former needs it to run by default on every page, but the latter means that that it has the potential to harvest a zillion kinds of data, perform far more computation than is needed to display a webpage, and make cheap computers and poor connections unusable.
And it doesn’t matter that these problems are avoidable if companies get their shit together, because I’m not writing the code for every page I visit.
So to sum it up, webapps (capitalism)
may javascript be destroyed