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Comment by drenvuk | Hacker News Reader

You're ossifying and it doesn't seem like you realize it.

Perhaps, if you view it through my ostensible lack of interest in new computing technologies. From my perspective, computers have always been a tool to augment what I can do — gather information that my senses alone can't; crunch data that I can't do by hand; automate repetitive tasks; etc.

Most of that 1) relates to web development in some way (i.e. you get the data from a website), and 2) has gotten harder over time as software gets in the way.

How exactly does software “get in the way”? Everything is more free and more powerful than it ever was before.

To me, webdev seems like the most "unfun" morass of bullshit in the software industry. It's fundamentally awful technologies stacked on top of each other in rickety spires in fits of money-hungry, Silicon Valley ADHD. The modern web is gross, technologically, and abusive, ethically.

If it's all you live and breathe, I'd probably feel the way you do.

Agree 100%. There are a lot of amazing things you can do with modern computers. More possibilities than ever before. But if you're going to constrain yourself to "state of the art" front-end development, you're basically signing up for wizard school that involves constantly learning new arcane spells from an ever-changing line-up of frameworks that are endlessly re-inventing the wheel just so we can shoehorn everything into a browser DOM designed in the 90s. That little slice of computing is indeed "not fun anymore".

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