My team runs OpenCode, Pi, and Copilot — three different folder structures, three different YAML headers, three different everything. If you've felt that pain, this one's for you. A rant about lock-in, dead frameworks, and the enshittification of agentic tooling.
In my home country, we have a saying: "No religion or politics in the bar." People who drink alcohol best avoid these as you end up in a fight sooner or later.
We also do this at work. I am here to do a job. Just keep it focused on the professional side. I don't need to be your best friend. Or share the same religion or political beliefs. At work, I come together to reach a common goal.
But that said, I hate people enforcing diversity for diversity's sake. They are actually introducing politics on the work floor.
I installed a FTP server on the professors computer. It automatically shared your network disk once you logged in. All the COBOL assignments and solutions where there. Juvenile but hey....
1/ Being "safer" using public wifis. I use 5g hotspot to my phone to avoid that.
2/ Proxy to other countries for streaming reasons. Still use it for this.
I have a feeling good things get "improved" upon but I never really saw what it brought.
What I do like about reddit. It is still one place where you just use an email address and nick name. So you can be anonymous. Or reasonable anonymous. No one looking back 10 years back into your posts to cancel you for something you said that in that time maybe was not an issue.
I was so reluctant making a Facebook account back in the day because they wanted your REAL identity. Man I was a nickname on irc or on the internet in general. That was what I loved about it.
Usenet was the same you could just use throw away email account and just say whatever. Ask whatever without being scared.
Reddit is the only place where you still can do that.
English is my 3rd language. I read only English not in my native tongue. I used to keep a booklet with me write down words I didn't understand. Looked them up later. After a while had a big list which I regularly. Kindle shows you the meaning automatically now and keeps also a list of words which I regularly review.
Over time your vocabulary gets much wider. I have native English speakers asking me where I got certain words from because they are not often used spoken.
Another trick is when you write look up synonyms instead of using the same word over and over again.
But in the words you dropped I learned at least 1 new one. To simper :)
Exactly... People sitting next to me ping me on team chat instead of talking.
Everyone zoom calls all the time where I can hear other people in other zoom meetings in our zoom meeting. I hate it.
when we worked full remote. We gave a stipend to setup with proper microphone/headphone setup. We requested people to sit in a quiet location for meetings. Worked wonderful...
this hybrid shit just makes everything much worse....
He talks about hybrid which I agree is shit. Too much juggling going on.
You either go full remote and organize yourself around async and better written communication. Or you all sit in the office the whole time and much of the comms is just talk. The in between sucks.
I worked full remote and it works fine. Teams were working well, information flowed, blockers were dealt with. We didn't even use our cameras in meetings. Now I worked for 1 month hybrid and am quitting. This has all the downsides from both remote and on site working.