this is the first meme I have ever made (yes I am that old) - so be gentle :)

what does being modern mean to you?

  • CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca
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    12 hours ago

    Oh my god my biggest pet peeve is every single new project awarding itself “modern, lightweight, blazing fast”. Seeing these words actually negatively affects my perception of your new super cool project. Along with the fucking emojis.

    aka:

    Modern: “I couldn’t understand the codebase of the previous solution, so I rewrote it using stuff I’m familiar with”

    Lightweight: “Featureless/no features that I don’t use”

    Blazing fast: “Doesn’t have any edge cases handled yet”

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      5 hours ago

      haha indeed - modern has this “blinking lights” connotation. something that is shiny.

      True story - once, in primary school, I went to a halloween party, where all the boys were dressed as batman and all the girls as macarena (guess my age). The host of the party was maybe the only one not dressed as batman.

      He was wearing some weird jell in the hair, like a punk kind of thing, with a lot of strass, stars all over his body, some heart or thunder shaped big mirror glasses, a shiny jacket and the best looking blue mocasines I have ever seen. He also had a big radio antenna (??) coming through his nylon electric yellow vest.

      I asked him: what are you dressed as? and he replied: “Modern”.

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      12 hours ago

      To be fair a lot of these things are js. I could probably write a new one faster than I could understand the existing code base.