That's what you started with? For some reason, I thought you were older.

Valid point. I had the opportunity to employ and work with some brilliant programmers. I hired my first in 1992 and it was a lot like herding cats, but they were brilliant. Without them, I'd not be where I am today.

Passionate and adept programmers seem to be a rarity today. I blame "everyone can code" and the "normies" finding out that programming paid really well.

I see you've used Slack!

You ever watch The Muppet Show?

In the Muppets, there were these two old puppets that sat up in the balcony and made grumpy wisecracks.

That's v/Programming - and don't you ever change. This one is for you two muppets up in the balcony.

I kind of like VS Code. I'm pretty sure that's an Electron app.

I promise to not admit that again.

;-) It's long but worth reading. I think, if nothing else, the programmers on Voat will find it amusing.

I don't submit to this sub often, but I like to because you're all a bunch of grumpy old curmudgeons. Even the young ones are grumpy old curmudgeons.

LOL I only linked, I didn't write it. I only link to things I think people may find interesting or might spark a discussion. You do seem eager to opine, so I think I did well.

You should like this...

I paid $100/MB for RAM. I once had to solder 'memory chips' so that I had enough memory to write lowercase letters. I have more compute power, flops, in my house than I had in a whole data center with piped cooling, a network closet, and a half-dozen people working in it. I have more storage space, in just my laptop, than would have been fiscally viable in the year 1999 and would have been a seven digit figure even if I could have figured out a way to make it fit.

I can remember our trade secret was that we had burst the TB of data sets, before Walmart had. It was a series of disk arrays that ran through a cluster of early Sun blade servers. It was state of the art and the total insurance value was well into the seven digit area, just for the hardware.

I have more compute power than that on my desk. I might have more than that on my tablet.

LOL The only reason people like vi, or vim, is because they have no other choice when they realize they don't know how to exit it.

I love me some alpha systems from DEC.

Kids! LOL There's plenty of room on my lawn, but it's cold and there's wine indoors.

I turn 60 at the end of this month. Yeah, you'd have been there for some great computing years.

I actually hated computers but I was obligated to use them. I used them when they were useless unless you were a programmer. My first exposure was in 1971 on the HP 9100. A few years later, we'd have a mainframe connection to Dartmouth. That was high school. I went to a snooty prep school/boarding school. My next exposure would be in the late seventies. Then, I'd have a TRS 80 and it just goes on from there. At one point, my computer was more expensive than my new car, with all the peripherals.

I hated them. We made our peace in about 2002, about five years before I retired. I worked on some pretty big iron and, truthfully, it sucked for the longest time. I was a DEC shop until Sun bought them and I stuck with Sun and some HP stuff, more or less. We were clustering pretty early on, so we could be agnostic bit I was most happy with the products, price, and support from those three.

Sweet! I'm currently using an iPad. I usually use open source stuff but not on mobile. I'd love to, but that's not realistic. Android sucks balls, before you ask.

I know the guy who wrote the original printer drivers. I guess some of the code is still in use. These were the old teletype printers, before monitors. I should say he wrote drivers and helped author the spec. I know loads of people!

How old are you, if you don't mind my asking?

My code was eventually taken by competent programmers and converted to C++. In fact, they took away my commit privs on my own code.

It was for the best, as I'm particularly horrible at it. I've worked with great programmers, thankfully. I can hack something out but you don't want it in production. I also used to code while drinking, often heavily, and would comment EVERYTHING. I'm not kidding, I mean everything. I have had more lines of comments than of code.

Fortunately, I'm retired. The scary thing is, my code has probably impacted your life. I modeled traffic and eventually also modeled pedestrian traffic. Yup... Fortunately, I hired professionals as soon as it was fiscally viable.

Agile and 'anyone can learn to code.'

This should keep ya busy.

This should come in handy.

I remember the days of proprietary compilers, including VB!

I'm going to see if I can smoke those memories away.

Isn't web assembly supposed to fix this?

My ISP lets me run a server. It is time to go back to hosting locally, I suppose. I do not accept a neutral platform being politicized. There is no need for it.