(Takes cover, opens popcorn)
I think nostr:npub1f6ugxyxkknket3kkdgu4k0fu74vmshawermkj8d06sz6jts9t4kslazcka and I are the only professional software analysts on here.
Is this true?
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There are a gazillion builders on on here, and a grand total of two trained inspectors. Both of us aren't on the payroll, so we're just in here, chatting in our down-time.
So, the bridges keep falling down. 😂
Adding more new bridges faster isn't going to make driving over rickety bridges more appealing. People are going to stick to driving where everyone else is driving because they know that those bridges are also rickety, but they get repaired faster.
I just noticed this because I'll go inspect a bridge and I'm like "yo, bridge totally rickety, yo" and everyone is like, "oh, whatever, nobody uses that bridge".
Oh, okay.
And bridges will be built and there's a big opening ceremony and rah rah and then I go back a month later and the bridge is gone.
Just... no longer there.
Sounds like... Open Source. I'm afraid this isn't just a Nostr problem.
When I'm looking for a new app to fill some need, I'm always very suspicious of code written in fashionable languages. JavaScript updated last week probably won't run, but C99 by some long-dead Boomer probably will.
And the bridges don't go where you expect them to go because they're built to appeal to other bridge-builders and not to people who want to travel someplace.
So, you hear about a bridge going in the general direction you want to travel and you get on it all hopeful... And then you find out that the bridge actually has a sharp turn at the end and just heads straight for a wall.
Yo, builder, nobody wants to go to that wall. We all thought you were taking us down to the valley.
All my Amethyst crashes I've been able to walk away from :-D
There are cultures who do all their engineering like this.
I remember talking to a guy who had worked out of a hotel in Kuwait after the first Iraq War.
There was an unfinished bridge nearby, long unfinished. At least once a week there would be a "boom" in the night as some privileged Kuwaiti kid drove off it in a flashy sportscar and died abruptly.
He blamed drugs. I blame whichever engineering firm took the money but never finished the bridge. Zero accountability...
I have to force-close and cache-empty Amethyst about every 45 minutes or so.
I'm a heavy user, but software shouldn't automatically come with a usage-limit.
And that's the best app, by far.
I agree that it's cultural.
There's a macho hacker culture on here that actively discourages more high-quality development.
Developers working more thoughtfully and carefully get overrun by competitors just hacking shit together for their cheering crowd and people throwing money at them, and they are tempted to give up.
Don't give up, y'all. That hacked-together shit don't work.
Everyone be like "stay humble". Yeah, that applies to development, too. Don't FOMO in. Stay steady.
