Software has a problem.
OK, it has many problems. I’ve already highlighted one of them. But this is another important one.
The problem is that software—all software, with no exceptions—sucks. The reason for this is multifaceted and we could spend years and years arguing about who has the larger list of reasons, but in the end it boils down to the proverbial shoemaker’s children: Our development tools are the worst of the worst in software.
Oh irony of ironies, today is a perfect example of what I’m alluding to in the blog. I was unable to post this all day today because the recent server update caused some problem with a component that Lemmy uses for pictures.
Software sucks.
Note, I’m not trying to drag Lemmy’s programmers here. They can’t help the fact that the software tooling landscape is a wasteland. They’re the victims in this, not the perps.