Boomer Humor Doomergod

And a nightmare for an application developer told to make some app with a spreadsheet for a database scale

I’ve never had problem finding a WFH gig. The last five jobs I’ve had since 2011 have been at least partially WFH. And I’m a very schmoey Joe

The hardest part is really having a separate room for work, especially if other people live with you.

What sucks is that was the starting wage when I got into the tech industry back in the early ‘00s

Counter offer: Rent an apartment in Bumfuck, Flyover and work for a tech company.

It’s the only way I’ve been able to afford a house.

Gitlab has an online web editor and can be self hosted.

(Though it’s a bit of a resource hog)

Some plex audiobook clients like Prologue for iOS have this built in

As someone whose had to analyze probably a billion lines of log files in my career, having an AI to do at least some sifting would be pretty great.

Or one that watches a Grafana dashboard and figures out some obscure, long term pattern I can’t see that’s causing an annoying problem.

Keeping the electrical grid balanced with varying loads is so hard I’m amazed it works at all.

Yeah, I can’t imagine a medium sized town all using Starlink at once without issues.

The 19th and 20th centuries saw so much technological advancement and we got used to that amount of change.

That’s why people were expecting Mars by the mid 80s and flying cars and other fanciful tech by now.

The problem is that the rate of advancement is slowing down, and economies that demand infinite, compounding growth are not prepared for this.