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[2024-07-31T00:08:27Z] <midfavila> sitting in a conference with the tech committee from my local bike cooperative
[2024-07-31T00:08:48Z] <midfavila> they spent 20k on commissioning some dude to write a webapp that runs in node inside docker that just provides a menu-based interface to a database
[2024-07-31T00:08:53Z] <midfavila> and its not even going to be accessed remotely
[2024-07-31T00:08:59Z] <midfavila> im screaming rn
[2024-07-31T00:09:24Z] <midfavila> i could write that in a couple weekends in shell and curses and awk with like some teeny sql backend
[2024-07-31T00:09:41Z] <midfavila> and theyre using like seven different languages for this
[2024-07-31T00:09:51Z] * midfavila rubs their temples
[2024-07-31T00:12:32Z] <midfavila> like... come on...
[2024-07-31T04:03:50Z] <riteo> The modern "Web" is just pain
[2024-07-31T04:04:27Z] <riteo> I had to ask for a passport renewal recently and the italian website for doing that is the dumbest thing ever, yet it has god-knows how many layers of JS on top
[2024-07-31T04:04:42Z] <riteo> it's the slowest thing ever and I kid you not, it regularly kept telling me "unexpected error" in a popup
[2024-07-31T04:04:58Z] <riteo> how hard is it to make a form ffs
[2024-07-31T04:06:02Z] <riteo> The funny thing is that the "Web" as a concept it's not that bad per-se. A proper HTML document goes long ways and I'm quite sure that nobody foresaw JS being used for backends
[2024-07-31T05:08:21Z] <sad_plan> why make things simple when you can overcomplicate something to a whole new level? lol.
[2024-07-31T18:26:05Z] <sad_plan> when writing Makefiles, does using ${var} as opposed to $(var) make any difference? or is this just a style thing? I noticed I used curly braces on mine, whereas others I just peaked at used regular parathases