10-15 years ago there was such a split for web engineering. They wanted to make everything on the web look like an app, and a lot of backend guys hate anything looking like UI, so lets have an amicable divorce and do everything through these god awful endpoints, so the backend folks don't have to touch UI and the frontend folks can think they're "more real" engineers by making stuff that looks like it's a black box app vs enjoying the natural versatility and iterability of the old web.

I'm sure I'll never get hired for it, but good ol PHP (hell for most things I skip the MySQL; poor mans no-SQL w/ JSON files on the file system works and scales well for so many things)... vanilla Javascript can even be beautifully declerative when you want it to, with string templates building up whatever new DOM you didn't get from the server. I have these sites that last for decades, and when it comes time to add something, they're easy to figure out and adapt and there's no library hell (browsers have gotten so GOOD yet still so backwards compatibile over the years)

So I look for like minded souls using terms like "buildless" and "evergreen". But it's like an underground movement...

If it's just plumbing; inventory objects, audio, money, users, and rendering,
shouldn't they have done that a hundred times over by now?
And they have comparatively boundless server and compute to pull it off.

Second Life has had at least 50,000 in-world users, all day and night, for over twenty years.
Figure out why those people stayed and paid, and copy that.

China: oh yeah? Bzzzzzzzt!!!

I had a GRiD 1530 laptop in 1991 that did exactly that.
It was as amazing as it was awful.

Shit, why pay them at all 'if I don't have to'?
That's the end point utopia they are working towards.
Seems they all have in common some weird 'if I was the last man on earth' syndrome.

We're only about 20% there, but they're accelerating with all the effort and focus they can muster.

Steve Jobs famously stated that the computer is like 'a bicycle for the mind'.
But now, we're the bicycle, for their mind.
Funny, that.

Drop a million or so off at the White House, and poof!
No more regulators. No more rulings. No more fines.
Just pure, friction-free Capitalism.

The kitchen cabinets in the house that ASF grew up in were made of white oak.
It's a nostalgia thing.

Use it for what? Anything, everything?
Just go use it!

good grief

Cave Johnson would never have let this happen.
He knows a thing or two, because he's seen a thing or two.

That's more of a failure of the phone's UI.

The only use case for a hinge phone is showing it to someone else for the first time.
To which they'll reply, "huh, I guess".

The ones complaining expected to get that $250,000 back in the first three months.

I don't know why anyone would need to spend a quarter mil
just to learn the best ways to take stuff and get away with it.

Those poor souls. Can you imagine having to do that every day?

And also, VB and FORTRAN are not "similarly" anything.

Hacked thing gives dangerous responses.

The employees take the performance review hit because of management's games,
so there will be false statements in upcoming SEC filings per the workforce.

It makes the managers look bad for having many underperformers, like it's their fault, too.
Meta workers need to form a good union.