I just read @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz’s blog post over here:

https://bubblegum.girlonthemoon.xyz/articles/learning-to-code-like-it-s-the-90s

Jesus, it must be so overwhelming for young people to get started with programming.

When I started programming, there was the built-in ROM BASIC of that PC and probably a bit of BASIC on a floppy, and that was it. Nowadays? Millions of libraries and frameworks and languages and what not – and, much worse, there’s the expectation that you need to make something fancy. When I started, printing something and understanding IF was good enough.

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Installing software was (is?) such an incomprehensible mess on Windows 
 Why did you allow any program to install files anywhere in the system? Why was this considered normal and okay? With no chance of ever cleanly removing that stuff again?

And now we’re back to the trend of curl | bash these days 
 same thing.

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org This apparently depends on the program now 
 Some Qt6 programs still allow that, others don’t. I can’t remember if GTK ever had that feature. đŸ€” But yeah, this whole “move stuff around as you please”-mentality is mostly gone.

I know I keep referring to StarOffice 3.1 a lot, but it’s just such a good example for all these things. All the toolbars and panels could be rearranged:

https://movq.de/v/2fb714931d/s.png

(This is running in Wine, btw.)

LibreOffice is the descendant of StarOffice and it doesn’t support anything like that anymore.

Maybe it was deemed too confusing for users? “Oh no, I mis-clicked something and now that bar is gone! How do I get it back? I don’t even know what it’s called!” đŸ€”

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The #obsidian sync plugin is making good progress! Today I built a #KirbyCMS panel button which allows you to clone and sync pages with obsidian with just one click! I think, I am not far away from publishing those plugins. Kirby 5.5.0 even comes with a frontmatter parser, which might make things even easier!

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Heute sollten Bilder vom alten Eingangsbereich des URZ gefunden werden. Ich fand!
Hier eine Collage: Collage vom Eingangsbereich des ehemaligen RechenzentrumsgebÀudes der UniversitÀt Greifswald.

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I had a short night today and am tired af. I am currently working on the obsidian kirby sync plugin. I was just wondering, why the hell the panel button wouldn‘t open the linked file in obsidian
 took me more than 10 minutes to realize that I deleted all files in obsidian and don’t have any which could be opened 
 Guess I need more Club Mate 


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In-reply-to » @ Nekoweb is great example of how the web can be people oriented.

More importantly, the original twtxt doesn’t have a reply function. Perhaps the other party can’t see my reply. 😆 I replied with my balloon account.

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