@multiverseofbadness@lukem I certainly got a bit of “I am deliberately running a weird version of Firefox and your site is broken on it, dummy” energy recently.
@multiverseofbadness@lukem Also I am suspicious of new people on Threads because Meta has been experimenting with engagement-bots in Facebook groups. 😬
@multiverseofbadness@lukem I’ve seen a drop-off in movie-related conversation, but the web development stuff seems much more active here than elsewhere. I find Threads massively irritating to use, though, so I check in maybe once every week or two.
“Robots.txt” is one of those standards only conscientious developers follow, because adherence is voluntary, it’s not backed by law, and requires more work than ignoring the file does. Only slightly more effective than posting a copyright notice on your Facebook page.
I love Cal Newport's take on "Slow Productivity," but it is remarkably hard to accomplish something like that when the business culture as it stands brings every financial and emotional weapon to bear to push people into burnout-inducing behavior.
To get that moving, most companies are going to need some organized group to force the issue. A team, unified in purpose and goal, to make the work both sustainable and financially rewarding.
I used to think agile / scrum was the path there, and I still do to a certain extent. Agile processes paired with true, company-wide commitment to agile values can certainly get us there.
But agile processes implemented with *opposition* to transparency, a sustainable working pace, and worker-led planning is the quickest route to burnout.
If I was a professional comedian a decade or two past my prime, I bet I would *also* desperately cling to the "woke audience" excuse instead of acknowledge that my jokes just aren't fucking funny.
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