If calling half of your opponents supporters bigots while simultaneously giving the bigots the marketing opportunity of a lifetime isn't a massive campaign problem, then what is? I still see and block people who have "deplorable" in their name eight years later.
He insults christians and veterans, and yet they vote for him overwhelmingly. The rules and issues are obviously different for the left and the right, and whataboutism just doesn't work. Fighting the "fair fight" instead of the actual fight won't end well.
Yup - I just recently learned this lesson the hard way with Turso's LibSQL server. While some of the features (like s3 replication) are cool and interesting, the amount of time working around multiple writers and foreign key shenanigans was not worth it when Postgres would have just gotten the job done.
> People by and large do not want "solid, modern, coherent plans".
Surely a mother-knows-best attitude will work.
> Both kamala and hillary clinton had those.
Surely denying massive campaign problems, such as "basket of deplorables" and not distancing herself from Biden, will work.
> People want to be told the strong man will make everything better if you just give up a few rights.
Surely strawmanning any solid, modern, coherent plan as stripping away rights will work.
>Does your post, in specific, say anything meaningful? Not really, you just throw out some vapid complaints and then tell us you hope the world will change.
Did you want me to go say some full-time working-class person working paycheck to paycheck can just go run for office and singlehandedly defeat Trump in a landslide victory?
YMMV, but I would argue that claiming Trump is waging an unprecedented attack against the first amendment, accompanied by a picture of the first amendment ripped in half, is calling for (rightful) outrage and is inherently political. The post is very informational and well-cited, but it's not the changing hearts and minds of those it needs to.
Action has to be taken, but by people with the power to change things -- namely democratic leadership, who have the funds & influence (albeit dwindling). Do they understand the battlefield they're entering? I don't think so, as I think they're sticking to that same outrage strategy.
What Brian and a lot of the commenters here need to realize is that online outrage does not help progressive causes in the slightest.
While the examples in his article are valid & concerning, especially as talks of a third Trump term have started, I truly can't see anyone changing their mind because the response to it has been completely ineffective and tone-deaf:
Instead of a solid, modern, coherent plan to keep the democratic party alive in a time of populism and radicalization in response to a crumbling economy and cronyism, it has solely been a "look at all the bad stuff Trump is doing!" and "oh me oh my how outrageous!" which does nothing but fall on deaf ears after 2020.
This is because most of the people writing these "why you should be outraged" posts are in a bubble of educated, traditional-news-consuming, upper-middle class skilled workers -- all groups that are very quickly falling out of power and favor with the majority of the population.
I hope the democratic party finds a way to become a real contender again. While not everyone on the right is a boogeyman, there are plenty of Project 2025 supporters, much worse than anyone we know about, who will steamroll this country if left unchecked. If the right doesn't have a viable opposition party with strong messaging, we're in for a bumpy ride.
Calling young people stupid and idiots is a very poor way to get this point across, even if it's meant in an endearing way (which I'm suspicious of).
This cynicism is also entirely unwarranted, especially when your own personal example is, frankly, far more childish than anything in the OP. A company actively harming society through surveillance projects is a societal/ethics concern with the company essentially being a malicious actor. A company not properly securing their (presumably-internal) NFS is, at worst, a flaw/misconfiguration that was obviously not high priority.
The audacity of making some IT department's lives harder, people who are trying to tick a box, sends up so many red flags -- you can laugh about the inefficiencies in private with your mates, you can quit like the OP to find more efficient places to work, but you don't hold up other people trying to get that "god damn retirement money."
Don't compare your 20 years of technical tiffs with someone's desire to do what's right for their people.
This is the case for non-neurodivergent people too. Large companies these days are, largely, an exercise in corporate politics rather than solving technical problems.
This hits very close to home and I'm very glad to see I am (and you are) not alone. Thank you for writing it.
I'm currently in the process of leaving my "big tech" job. While I won't name my company, it is somewhat similar in some ways -- though ethics isn't my primary reason.
> I’ve decided that in the shitty job market, it’s not worth being a software engineer even if I make much less.
is a thought that has run through my head countless times over the past year, and when I finally gave my notice
>she kept telling me how “lucky” I am for working at Microsoft saying “it’s big tech” and “you’re neurodivergent” and “you won’t survive at a smaller company.”
was the loudest thing I heard, over and over again.
IME a lot of the pain comes from picking the wrong tool for the layer.
By that I mean saying everything has to be a JS framework or everything has to be server-delivered-HTML.
For very dynamic & interactive things maybe it makes sense to write it just in JS without a framework?
For full pages for data-powered applications (that heavily benefit from types & Typescript), maybe it makes sense to use something like Golang on the server.
And then you can embed those interactive dynamic islands inside the data-intensive application, with a thin layer of communication between the two.
Just my 2c - I've found that pattern to be super compelling
It was very disappointing to see Svelte 5 go the way of React. Yes, yes, I understand that it theoretically simplifies things and yadda yadda yadda, but after trying to actually use it, it felt like I was just using React with a much smaller ecosystem.
Svelte 4 felt awesome because it felt like I was just writing an HTML file, sure there was some magic ($:) but for the most part things were simple, easy to understand, and it all just worked. Runes totally changed that, maybe for the better because of all of the things previously cited, but not for my personal experience. I'll stop there because I'm 100% covering already-treaded ground.
I'm "joining the dark side" by trying the HTMX & Golang combo, just to see if I can hack together an on-par DX (which is going to be a herculean task, I know).
Yep! You're right, it does have the ability to bundle -- that's my bad. Rollup is just much better at bundling for production, just like TinyGo. Similarly, esbuild is better for development, just like Go.
In practice, I've very rarely seen a downside: I compare it to something like Vite, where it uses esbuild in development and rollup in production, because the two libraries are for different things (esbuild doesn't bundle, rollup does, etc).
In development, I compile it with Go. In production, I compile it with TinyGo. Yes, you need to be careful about imports, and it does add complexity, but the benefits of not managing two different completely different languages (JS and whatever you're compiling to WASM) far outweigh that cost.
As for Cloudflare, I don't think their service's benefits outweigh the complexity, but I've had luck in the past with the dual setup on Workers.
My struggle with Make and bash is that they're not very expressive - maybe that's something we want in our CIs, but I've always preferred writing an actual program in that program's native language for CI/CD, even if it has to shell out some commands every now and again.
My company is currently adopting this and I don't see the appeal yet - likely from a lack of knowing much about it.
I added it to a side project just to get familiar and it added quite a few sdk files and folders to my project, and lots of decorators. It also required Docker and yadda yadda yadda.
I just could not justify using it compared to just running some regular Typescript file with Bun (or, in a different project, `go run cmd/ci/main.go`)
He insults christians and veterans, and yet they vote for him overwhelmingly. The rules and issues are obviously different for the left and the right, and whataboutism just doesn't work. Fighting the "fair fight" instead of the actual fight won't end well.