re: Technical debt shitpost
@arielmt unfortunately at this point that would be more fun to me than modern programming
me: i could totally program a nes game entirely in assembly
also me: hasn't touched a compiler in months
also me: spent the last entire week doing nothing but browsing social medias
now i'm not saying that evolution and new developments shouldn't be made
but i don't think that the conglomerate that couldn't keep an RSS reader afloat should be in charge of what those new developments look like
png is more than plenty adequate for lossless images such as drawings and pixel art, was never considered adequate for things like photorealistic photographs, and yet now simply because it's old we think that it needs to be replaced by webp, a much less adequate format, introducing incompatibilities with anything that is no longer being currently developed (a budget BRICS smartphone from 2 weeks ago, for example), shoved down our throats by a company that quietly stopped saying "don't be evil"
it's interesting how in computing fields we say that anything old "sucks"
"zip compression sucks" so do internal combustion engines but for a while it was pretty much the only form of powering a car
there's a lot of this shifting perception of something being stationary while what moves is time and how it changes how we think and talk about it that i don't think other fields particularly have
or maybe i'm just spewing bullshit again. but i still think there's brain rot in computing
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