Same. We have a big fat OneNote. Hard to update, hard to search, hard to index, hard to link to specific things. I don’t love OneNote.

We use OneNote and Word docs scattered about on SharePoint. There’s nothing good about it.

Having a little experience with this, yes, it’s terrible. Search in SharePoint is next to useless and document uploading is baffling (seriously, creating directory hierarchies is an incredible chore). And good luck with history.

If this is your setup, I pity you, and seriously consider switching to something else. It’s this kind of setup that made me not hate Confluence.

Those look great, though I haven’t used them in any working capacity. For me the gold standard is Mozilla’s Web Docs. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/

as far as I know those are erb templates compiled to static files (sprockets seems to be used for css/js) then served with nginx. so a pretty simple custom solution but written with a lot of care for details (and clearly a lot of time is dedicated to make those great).

apparently their internal tools are pretty good too.

I came to say the exact same thing.

My last job was a shop of 20 or so developers. We all had the same standard-issue macbook. I could tell mine apart because I put a Firefox sticker on it. I evangelized quite a bit with my teammates. By the end of my three-year tenure there, I had convinced nobody that at least supporting Firefox in our web applications was neccesary, and nobody to use Firefox as their main browser.

I left that job a few weeks ago, and I learned from my old boss that he and two others started using Firefox because they missed me and my ridiculous evangelism.

It’s okay to give up, or take a break, from evangelizing because it’s kind of exhausting and puts your likability with others at risk. But I think it’s hard to tell when you’re actually being effective. There’s no real feedback loop. So if you’re tired of it and don’t want to do it anymore, by all means stop evangelizing. But if you want to stop just because you don’t think you’re not being effective, you may be wrong.

You can’t convince “normal” people by saying it’s “freer” and open source (unfortunately, not even more private) - they don’t care about this stuff.

I convinced my wife to try FF once quantum came out saying “it is much faster”. She got used to it.

I managed to convince a teammate to use FF because of the new grid inspector.

People only care about “what’s in it for me”.

On the other hand, I consider lack of history a feature, a highly desirable feature.

I don’t need to be notified of everything that happens, I don’t need to know all of the history.

IRC is like walking into a bar. If there’s an interesting conversation, you jump in. And when you’re away, if something important happened, someone else will fill you in. Otherwise, it wasn’t important.

Just miss out without fear. It’s okay. Do other things.

If you need persistent and slow communication, use a different protocol, but leave chat protocols as ephemeral and forgettable.

I’ve always been saying that if you want a paper trail, you want email. There’s nothing wrong with it, it works. Chats are for real-time conversations, and those don’t mix well with having a paper trail. Whenever I’m forced to use Slack in companies where it’s the main way of communication, it’s obvious how inconvenient it is to hold a conversation over a few days (or time zones) buried in a constant stream of messages not separated into topics.

That’s certainly one of the biggest drivers that’s forced my scrum team to transition to AWS Chime.

Being able to have persistent messages regardless of client connection state is an absolute deal breaker for us. Coordination becomes much MUCH more difficult otherwise. We used to use IRC, and it got to the point where I was the only one with ZNC working in the whole team :\

In my teenage and early 20s, when this was first published, I had a problem with World of Warcraft exactly the way the author describes. I also struggled with nicotine addiction. The problems he describes are very real - and they continue today.

Having known people on heroin, there’s definitely parallels between that addictive behavior and how people use modern tech. They can even look similar. The heroin addicts would lay around staring at TV’s doing nothing but getting high. Had trouble interacting with people, kind of zoned out, or not liking bright lights. Folks motionless staring at a screen with a controller in hand getting highs on meaningless level ups for hours on end often look and act kind of similar. Both decline creative skills. Unless it’s a creative game which is its own debate.

With social media, there are interactions between people by design. They seem like a degraded mode of what social interactions or writing can be vs what focused authors or stage debaters do. They’re optimized to quickly throw out something small (talking points) to get Internet points in terms of upvotes, likes, shares, etc. The rewards reinforce the social behavior that works in those apps. The more people do that, the more their brains get optimized for receiving and delivering that. I’d argue that combo is hugely bad for society given the complexity of most issues we face. The corporate media was doing it first. Now, we get to do it to ourselves on social media, too.

To top it off, it’s extraordinarily hard to get people to stop using these products once they start. They also go through withdrawls. I doubt they’re as severe as heroin for most people. They’re there, though. The analogy fits if we keep in mind heroin is a more extreme version of the current phenomenon. Author even states that themselves.

Was Bootstrap one of the reasons the web became boring? The first framework where every site looked the same?

Just applied this to the work app. Gonna have to seriously resist pushing this live on April 1st for a bit. (Our users hate change sadly, as per usual.)

Sadly for a very old version of bootstrap. Any newer versions for v3 or v4?

I remember using that site to learn about calling winmm.dll function from VB6 in order to play background music for a text game I was making. The code quality was horrible, but still, it was there for us. I also remember learning a lot from PHP documentation comments a few years later.

Indeed, though it sounds like in this particular case, the third-party api being down wasn’t that big of a deal.

What CO2 sensor do you use?

Shout out to the MX518, I still use mine from over a decade ago

Aeron is super worth it, even at full price. I have one that is (I think) 19 years old now. Had to replace a wheel one time, that’s it.

“However, it’s all made of plastic, it clearly doesn’t worth 375€, it’s damn overpriced. But hey, they are the only one selling this kind of keyboard”

Business opportunity is what Im seeing in this.

I’m envious of your chair - where’d you get it that cheap?! :D