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bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

@igb became an instant folk hero when he called out the world's wealthiest man, taking him to task for his grievous misperceptions on how software systems actually work:

https://twitter.com/iamraisini/status/1605538033612177408

While brief, this exchange hit on some deep issues in software engineering; @ahl and I are thrilled to announce that @igb will be joining us for our @oxidecomputer and Friends on Monday. Join us as we break it down with Ian Brown:

https://discord.gg/shdPpXSu?event=1054558914982707220

Recorded, as always:

https://feeds.transistor.fm/oxide-and-friends

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dadrummond@mastodon.online ("D. Allan Drummond") wrote:

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UncleDuke1969@mstdn.party ("Uncle Duke :verified:") wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) (2018 Mono Remaster) by Aretha Franklin

https://pandora.app.link/l7WHrWYaXvb

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allafarce@hachyderm.io ("Dave Guarino") wrote:

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Obviously, doing so would shrink the market for inappropriate uses of technology that, in the main, isn't working.

I can see why they might not feel moved to make such a case. But we need to apply a more metrics-based, analytical lens to these claims, even if the thinkfluencers and salesmen won't.

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Leather and Lace (2016 Remaster) by Stevie Nicks & Don Henley

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Basically, you want to divide your cumulative costs by the number of trips through the interaction loop per session.

A theoretical case for this technology that falls out of a tiny model like this, and apologists for client-side bloat (which, at this point, seems to be most of the frontend world?) could be putting forward metrics with interaction depth amortization too...but they haven't.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Now, it's possible for us to come up with metrics that help illuminate how we can architect for better UX all around, and such metrics would start with session depth.

E.g., here's a tiny mental model I've been sketching on whiteboards for a while to anyone who will listen:

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mmasnick ("Mike Masnick ✅") wrote:

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• He said that the platform had been on course to spend about $5bn in 2023. Overall costs at Twitter in 2021, the last annual period that the company reported before being taken private, were $5.6bn, during which time it made a pre-tax loss of $221,409. Musk predicted that Twitter’s net cash outflow, “if you didn’t make any changes”, would be about $6bn to $6.5bn next year. This is partly because the company has been loaded with $12.5bn of debt to help to fund his acquisition, requiring about $1.5bn a year in annual debt servicing payments amid rising interest rates, he said. “Not good since Twitter has $1bn in cash,” he said. “So that’s why I spent the last five weeks cutting costs like crazy.” His remarks suggested the company was on track to make about $3bn in annual revenues next year. That would suggest Twitter was on course for revenues as much as $2bn lower in 2023 than the $5bn it achieved in 2021 - which mainly came from advertising. Many marketers have pulled out of the platform since Musk’s takeover over moderation concerns.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

When you add complexity to the client side, you multiply costs relative to doing the same thing on the server. But none of the thinkfluencers are going to level with you about that.

At this excruciatingly late date it's still a pile of "could" and "can", rather than "does" and "do". Why? Because they know.

They know it's more expensive and isn't working, but their careers depend on you thinking they know the path forward.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

When I'm hanging around the kiddo, I have to be prepared to give voice to any number of characters like their dolls, the dinosaurs, that face on a pringles can, the earth, etc., and tonight we added a new one: the chopsticks I was using to eat some vegetables with.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

And that's before we get to the management consequences of more complex output. How much new infrastructure and attention will need to be spent to keep the slower output in check?

Hint: it's a lot.

https://infrequently.org/2022/05/performance-management-maturity/

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Knockin' on Your Screen Door by John Prine ahhhh

https://pandora.app.link/FgOR7CH8Wvb

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

And remember, anyone claiming "better DX" is on the hook to explain the maintenance costs of the toolchain. How many hours per month in chore PRs to keep it working?

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

And remember, anyone claiming "better DX" is on the book to explain the maintenance costs of the toolchain. How many hours per month in chore PRs to keep it working?

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

There's a lot to say about how frontend, as a discipline, has wasted a decade in JS fads that simply have not panned out.

The tell that there's "no there there" is that there are still no metrics to back up the asserted "better UX" and "better productivity" claims.

10 years in, flaming disasters in tow, and they want us to take this shit on a pinky swear?

Laugh it out of the room.

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Midnight Rider (Early Mix) by Gregg Allman

https://pandora.app.link/Q0vZfGW7Wvb

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Going online in half an hour, talking about spiders, exoplanets, idiot transphobes, & creationism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6i9ntzVhCU

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Too Long at the Fair (Remastered) by Bonnie Raitt on LOUD

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Trouble Child by Joni Mitchell

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Me and Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin

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lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

"Asian don't raisin" but white hairs sure are a ton more noticeable on our heads / beards :p

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blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

@NfNitLoop terrible

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@blithe Irresistibly cute smolness. And how was the taste?

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

#FeoBlog is good for hiding messages. Can you find it? 😉

YAGNI:

https://blog.nfnitloop.com/u/42P3FTZoCmN8DRmLSu89y419XfYfHP9Py7a9vNLfD72F/i/3DyCkXaNdaHv7aeugUWAe41YvNMqrLeDMQGnKAvr1r7mUDFx2MaB2SRJfMBhrmCxJCSaSm7EnYdMdSV6BW1yn8nM/

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swallez@mastodon.tetaneutral.net ("Sylvain Wallez") wrote:

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Now ready to cope with whatever weather the upper midwest want to hurl at us.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/12/21/a-manly-soup/

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john@sauropods.win ("John Conway") wrote:

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• A portrait painted tool look like a portrait of the the Doge of Venice by Giovanni Bellini, except his body is the doge from the doge meme. A series of coins hang from his neck, with the logos of various cryptocurrencies on them. (remote)