Computers Aren't Fun Anymore (2020)

Re:Computers Aren't Fun Anymore (2020) by feifan on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @03:46PM (#26158604)

Perhaps, if you view it through my ostensible lack of interest in new computing technologies. From my perspective, computers have always been a tool to augment what I can do — gather information that my senses alone can't; crunch data that I can't do by hand; automate repetitive tasks; etc.

Most of that 1) relates to web development in some way (i.e. you get the data from a website), and 2) has gotten harder over time as software gets in the way.

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Re:Computers Aren't Fun Anymore (2020) by shrimp_emoji on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @04:22PM (#26158966)

To me, webdev seems like the most "unfun" morass of bullshit in the software industry. It's fundamentally awful technologies stacked on top of each other in rickety spires in fits of money-hungry, Silicon Valley ADHD. The modern web is gross, technologically, and abusive, ethically.

If it's all you live and breathe, I'd probably feel the way you do.

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Re:Computers Aren't Fun Anymore (2020) by ryandvm on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:52AM (#26167736)

Agree 100%. There are a lot of amazing things you can do with modern computers. More possibilities than ever before. But if you're going to constrain yourself to "state of the art" front-end development, you're basically signing up for wizard school that involves constantly learning new arcane spells from an ever-changing line-up of frameworks that are endlessly re-inventing the wheel just so we can shoehorn everything into a browser DOM designed in the 90s. That little slice of computing is indeed "not fun anymore".

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Re:Computers Aren't Fun Anymore (2020) by refactor_master on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @04:16PM (#26158892)

How exactly does software “get in the way”? Everything is more free and more powerful than it ever was before.

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