For nearly six years and counting, I’ve had the misfortune of using Microsoft Teams, an infernal piece of shit that I am not entirely unconvinced isn’t sadistic psychological research into discovering novel UI/UX anti-patterns.
As I tried my best to use it today for a meeting, I realized that I’d rather tell people I sold fentanyl or ran a puppy mill than divulge that I’m an engineer at Microsoft who works on Teams.
Very cool. More CLI than UTM. Another is Lima.
Another is Swinsian which looks like iTunes of yore but doesn’t have dark mode (and, not that this means anything, appears to have no updates since 2018).
Both apps are paid. An Open-Source manager is the Strawberry Music Player
By Julia Evans. I don’t think an average dev will need anything more than what’s on here.
My university just announced that it’s dumping Blackboard, and there was much rejoicing. Why is Blackboard universally reviled? There’s a standard story of why “enterprise software” sucks. If you’ll bear with me, I think this is best appreciated by talking about… baby clothes! There are two types…
a GraphQL server is just a SOAP API that’s studied abroad @iamdevlopr…
The software industry is currently going through the “disposable plastic” crisis the physical world went through in the mid-20th century (and is still paying down the debt for). You can run software from 1980 or 2005 on a modern desktop without too much hassle, but anything between there and 2-3 y…