tranny demon hacker
and this has had the consequence of making the needs of those Very Large Websites drive the development of some very specific tools
React, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes, Terraform
these are systems no human needs, they are only needed by corporations. two of those came out of two of the literally biggest companies on the planet!
tranny demon hacker
React is suited to the needs of Facebook, not you
Kubernetes is suited to the needs of Google, not you
Docker is suited to the needs of large corporations trying to scale to bajillions of people, not you
tranny demon hacker
when you look at the history of the web, it used to be in the 1990s that most things were transparent in how they were working, at least the site itself
you could right click and view source, and see how the HTML worked, how the CSS worked, how the JavaScript worked
tranny demon hacker
you *technically* still can, but today, there's so much framework nonsense that its functionally impossible to do so. in the 90s, there was none of that and so you could actually LEARN things, learn HTML, CSS, and JS, just from reading source
tranny demon hacker
this happened as well in other domains, such as deployment systems. it used to be that in order to set up a web server for some web app, you'd set up, i dunno, Apache with PHP or something, maybe some MySQL, and just point it at a directly and you're done
tranny demon hacker
nowadays even the simplest of tools is ensconsed in docker and and ansible and yadda yadda and you have to use NPM to manage your things and maybe you transpile your blah blah blah
tranny demon hacker
its a nightmare of tooling that makes even the most basic of things a horrible experience
but why is it like that?
tranny demon hacker
i think there's at least two reasons here
the first is that in the 90s, The Web consisted of like, at most, a few tens of millions of users, and the problems that companies faced were mostly getting developers at all
but as tech evolved in the 2000s and 2010s, the web grew to BILLIONS of users and sites yearned to have as many users as the entire web did a decade or two prior
tranny demon hacker
i've discusses this before in the context of decentralization and why so much of the web has become a giant pile of shit tools but it's worth repeating bits of it, so here goes
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