- Some of the older heads here are 100% with you, the notes and comments in this thread should be clear enough indication of that.
But you're right, tools that make short work of ridiculous incantations, 100% good.
We don't sit around trying to re-write arithmetic, but apparently not knowing how to do git pull --rebase is a crime to these smart folks, who don't seem to realize they know very little about getting sh!t done.
- If you self host and also write some of your own services, the same requirements are as they always were.
minimal ~ < $100 hardware (Dell, Acer etc mini or ssf pc)
install your linux distro, use your preferred containers, or just run as services on the os.
There's no ads, no ai, no layer of shite, it can't be "enshittified" unless you're doing the shittifying.
- I made ocomacs for this purpose, it's designed as a minimal config layer which is more of a pattern to follow than a "does everything for you" framework.
- There's a threshold, of both user ability and scale of 'problem'
I mostly agree with you dfabulich - the repeated efforts to create node/pipeline tools "visual programming languages" are not built for us, and feel redundant.
But I took issue with "where you don't need it" as this is very much dependent on who "you" is.
- It's runable as a standalone https://github.com/maio/smagit
there's a faithful conversion as edamagit for vs-code.
It's way more casual than having to know Emacs.
- With the actuators... never seen one, and I saw many many of the sit down or the stand up cabinets.
First game I saw with merely lean based controls was hang on or space harrier, several years later.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say you found a highly custom cabinet, and I'm jealous.
- They also make Grid Ranger ... which gives me Gridrunner + Tempest + Star Wars vibes.
"Everyone should code"
This led to a flood of projects trying to get pitched to software, and it also crashed headlong into COVID / furloughs.
That entire C-suite team have been churned, that's how good that idea was.