Worst of breed software

Just last week at my job we apparently converged on a Kubernetes deployment to host a static site, due to company security policies related to publicly exposing buckets to the internet... I died a little inside that day.

Re: Worst of breed software

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Post by gjsman-1000 » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 9:59 PM UTC

I have personally seen well meaning older devs saying that building on Microsoft Access with VBA is absolutely a viable greenfield stack in 2026 for small business.

And we wonder why ageism exists in our industry. Not saying that’s fair or all of it by any stretch, but ouch. It goes to show many of these worst practices are alive, well, and employable.

Re: Worst of breed software

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Post by anishgupta » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 10:08 PM UTC

did you try making it a slop but ended up making UI good? fun website, seems we're back in the days of early 2000s when discovering new websites like this was fun

Re: Worst of breed software

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Post by Devasta » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 10:08 PM UTC

HendrikHensen wrote: post #7

Just last week at my job we apparently converged on a Kubernetes deployment to host a static site, due to company security policies related to publicly exposing buckets to the internet... I died a little inside that day.

Thats honestly the reason why most stuff is a web app these days. For desktop software you need to deal with IT security losers who recoil in horror at the idea of computers running software, and god help you if you need a port opened.

Far better to shove everything through port 443 and redownload the software over and over until the end of time.