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I read this toot, then the linked blog, then the toot’s comments, and it strongly indicates that people need the things I would be working on if I didn’t have to work on the opposite things to make a living.

The system that keeps technology moving in the worst direction extends beyond developer and engineer choice, it is capitalism itself, and while I feel strongly that I have solutions to the software and hardware parts of this problem I don’t know how to see them through until we find a way to survive while we pursue them.

https://webperf.social/@ryantownsend/112858150684793128

@requiem to be contrarian (and also I’m on vacation so I’m not gonna share any real numbers) large webapps with complex workflows can’t be a “simple perl or php cgi-bin,” particularly when you get into large databases across many clusters, and total codebases older than 10 years. So much time is spent in querying and compute to render.

The author is correct, however, that most people don’t have this problem starting out, for personal sites, for startups, etc.

@requiem I know I missed the point, but I think a better way to phrase the original is is: personal projects don’t need to be “web scale” or over-architected. Locally-run programs in a language that you’re good at, are fine, & you don’t need “industry best practices”.

The things that we have to do to support a centralized service that hits 5rps for tens of thousands of customers during a workday aren’t needed for a personal blog. And so on. Build what you need and enjoy, for yourself.

@mathiasx I think this applies beyond personal projects as well. I think the only companies who need to hyper-scale are well, the three or four hyperscalers. 😁

There is the problem of “now that your data is spread across a thousand systems how do you manage it without hyperscale”, but to me that’s a migration problem that begins with scaling it down.

There is also a social/moral aspect to this in that most of these massive datasets exist for bad reasons to begin with, so if smaller scale solutions don’t support things like mass surveillance and theft, I’m OK with that 😇

@requiem right before Covid hit. I was making a menu bar application that lets you broadcast on the local network that you wanted to go to lunch and help you find people who also wanted to go to lunch. It would be really cool to have that capability again.

@reconbot that would be cool.

To me a non-routeable internet is not an internet at all, and the reason we are stuck with one seems to be a combination of artificial scarcity and lazy approaches to security.

@requiem ip6 is so freaking cool btw, a wildly different approach to the networking I’m used to and very friendly to a routable internet

@reconbot I honestly think the biggest thing holding-back ipv6 is the ergonomics. IPv4 addresses are compatible with the human brain but ipv6, not so much.

@kazriko

Tired: map reduce
Wired: crap reduce