> Feels a bit out of place that the website tries to aggressively make me download Firefox
It's firefox.com, feels like the perfect place to encourage people to download Firefox. That would be like going to a car dealership and being put off by people trying to sell you a car
I've started recording loom videos of myself walking through features. It's turned into a great way of testing my own code as subtle errors are more obvious when you've effectively set up a spotlight and pointed a camera at what you've built. The voiceover on top them acts as a form of rubber duck for UX.
I feel there's a lack of respect for the person being interacted with in these ads. They all end too soon to show the consequences of transparent AI use and imply the other character has never heard of AI.
More accurate endings would be:
- "I thought we told Warren to stop uploading company emails to chatgpt."
- "A photo collage?!, after I spent a week building you that new console table for your birthday."
You can think of docker files and other manifests as a highly structured and more direct-to-machine form of communication. Instead of a developer informing other developers to ensure that the dev machines and servers are upgraded to the right version of the JVM via a confluence page or slack message, that developer has left machine-readable instructions in a consistent format in a readily accessible place.
This is a good way to fix those problems with communication/practices/documentation and processes.
Adding to that, it is very good for wrapping around the ends of cords like chargers and headphones to stop them fraying (Apple products were very prone to this for a while)
F5 was very much a hardware company in a world of software vendors. The high and low end of the hardware market has shrunk rapidly as cloud has taken over. At high end, cloud providers like Amazon, Facebook and Google are building their own hardware[0] and at the other end, companies are increasingly just using those cloud providers.
For any large company, the easiest way to enter a new market is to just buy some of the competition. Of Nginx's competitors, most are either not "enterprise-y" enough (Caddy) or are already part of the CNCF (Traefik, Envoy). Really, I think the only other option could have been HaProxy.
It's firefox.com, feels like the perfect place to encourage people to download Firefox. That would be like going to a car dealership and being put off by people trying to sell you a car