I think if you work with your head up in the clouds of pure software your whole career, you don't outgrow that. Like how fiat bankers and economists live in the fiat matrix where anything is possible if you just print more money, but with code.
My software experience was always tied to physical systems, so I didn't have that luxury. I had to make sure I didn't destroy critical industrial equipment with bad code, and that's pretty humbling.
Totally felt that. I'm from a critical systems background, including automotive, banking, and medical, and the widespread habit of delivering prototypes makes me want to claw my eyes out.
Everyone acts like it's funny or a joke. But it's not.
It leaves the impression that the protocol is bad, but it isn't.
even when i have already delivered the protocol as described and works with most clients for the relay side
it's so awful i need to clean it up and make a new thing
which is now officially past the beginnings as i have an openapi 3.1 UI and the essentials - publishing new events, and import/export of events
tomorrow i should have the filter done but i got mass and a philosophy discussion group to prep for and be part of
but yes... nostr protocol itself is practically still alpha, because it's stupidly messy and complicated, and even with all the things right the clients are working, not working, working, oh not working
yeah makes me want to claw my eyes out too
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You have the absolute worst NIP, tho. The people implementing it barely understand what it's for.
i don't negotiate with communists, i just write good docs, a solid implementation that is hybrid with the standard protocol and it can do both things and then we just need a few client libraries
i can build WASM binaries for the web frontends also, and i have already got in mind building a simple event store that uses web browser storage, i'll just do a real simple thing along the lines of jumble and basta
Fascinating. I have known quite a few web devs in my life, and this rings really true to me. Modern SaaS doesn't give any shit about high quality software, only velocity.
I've had many occurances while working at SaaS that has made me feel like the people in that world are often disconnected from reality. So, you saying that about physical systems is very interesting to me.
