I find the serverless frontend to be way more tedious than a monolith approach.
Things that used to be hard and are now easy
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Re: Things that used to be hard and are now easy
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#53Would be interested in also seeing a "things that used to be easy but are now hard list". Feels like basic stuff is harder now: * Privacy online * Google search for niche or exact matches * Browsing without captchas and blockers, especially if you don't adhere to big tech's rules for the internet * Sending emails without worrying about spam filters being way too aggressive * SEO before it got hacked to hell * Barrier…
I suggest that "barrier to entry" also includes getting started programming in general. Too much to choose from, large leap in skill level required from text in a terminal to graphics on the screen, etc.
Re: Things that used to be hard and are now easy
#54Would be interested in also seeing a "things that used to be easy but are now hard list". Feels like basic stuff is harder now: * Privacy online * Google search for niche or exact matches * Browsing without captchas and blockers, especially if you don't adhere to big tech's rules for the internet * Sending emails without worrying about spam filters being way too aggressive * SEO before it got hacked to hell * Barrier…
Logging into an online account on a computer you don't normally use when you don't have your phone. This can range from "had to jump through a bunch of extra hoops" to impossible if you haven't saved backup codes ahead of time (Google).
My wife lost her phone when we were on vacation and it was literally impossible for us to login into her Google account in order to use find my Android.
We were trying to login on a relative's PC to use find my phone, but it was a catch 22 because we need a phone to login to Google on a relative's PC.
I pity the fool who loses their phone in the age of 2FA.
Re: Things that used to be hard and are now easy
#55Would be interested in also seeing a "things that used to be easy but are now hard list". Feels like basic stuff is harder now: * Privacy online * Google search for niche or exact matches * Browsing without captchas and blockers, especially if you don't adhere to big tech's rules for the internet * Sending emails without worrying about spam filters being way too aggressive * SEO before it got hacked to hell * Barrier…
> * Privacy online
Privacy is a lost cause, the younger generations don't care.
I remember when people were warned about sharing their real information online. over 50% of people I knew were just nicknames on the internet. I had zero clue about their gender, where they lived or what they did for a living. Didn't affect our conversations the least bit.
Now everyone is plastering their faces everywhere they go. Every picture they take has their face next to it. Usually along with their name, the location and the exact time they were in there and who they were with.
Re: Things that used to be hard and are now easy
#56> Things that used to be hard and are now easy: > Concurrency, with async/await (in several languages) The number of times I've been bitten by the very specific semantics around async/await in JavaScript makes me wonder if I've hit some kind of a ceiling in trying to grok it. Coming from the world of threads, I've found Kotlin's structured concurrency approach the best of the lot I've used so far, even if it isn't wi…
> The number of times I've been bitten by the very specific semantics around async/await in JavaScript makes me wonder if I've hit some kind of a ceiling in trying to grok it.
Got any examples? I've mucked around a fair bit with JS's async and never felt like it got in the way. (Other than the whole function coloring ordeal)
Re: Things that used to be hard and are now easy
#57Would be interested in also seeing a "things that used to be easy but are now hard list". Feels like basic stuff is harder now: * Privacy online * Google search for niche or exact matches * Browsing without captchas and blockers, especially if you don't adhere to big tech's rules for the internet * Sending emails without worrying about spam filters being way too aggressive * SEO before it got hacked to hell * Barrier…
CGNAT will be here for the forseeable future and I wouldn't be surprised if ISPs end up deploying some version of CGNAT on IPv6, assuming they're somehow forced to use IPv6 in the future.
Re: Things that used to be hard and are now easy
#58Personally, I disagree that parsing was hard before and made easy with PEG parsing. For decades it has been easy and common to implement parsers by hand. From what I can tell, universities and textbooks just overcomplicated the process by teaching parser generators. I have done a few studies of various open source ecosystems now and (edited: other than CPython) I haven't seen PEG parsers really used in anything but t…
It’s been a minute but parsing with decent performance is what caused all the parser generator stuff. It is a historically hard problem.
PEGs allow the generator input to more closely match the mental model programmers have, *LR require the language to be structured just a little differently than how most people think it.
Re: Things that used to be hard and are now easy
#59> Building cross-platform GUIs, with Electron How about no. I so want this abomination of a technology uninvented.
I really don’t care at all about the resource usage or speed of Electron apps in 2022. Any semi-modern PC has no problem running Electron apps. Download sizes aren’t an issue with modern internet speeds. It doesn’t make sense to try to optimize for people with the slowest systems when everything is only getting faster.
I keep hearing that argument, but I also dropped Evernote for Apple notes because Evernote was too slow, even on my M1 mac. So there is definitely such a thing as optimizing your programs.
Re: Things that used to be hard and are now easy
#60Would be interested in also seeing a "things that used to be easy but are now hard list". Feels like basic stuff is harder now: * Privacy online * Google search for niche or exact matches * Browsing without captchas and blockers, especially if you don't adhere to big tech's rules for the internet * Sending emails without worrying about spam filters being way too aggressive * SEO before it got hacked to hell * Barrier…
CGNAT will be here for the forseeable future and I wouldn't be surprised if ISPs end up deploying some version of CGNAT on IPv6, assuming they're somehow forced to use IPv6 in the future.
Why would they want to run CGNAT on ipv6?