Device developers, stop doing this! You people realize that LANs exist, don't you?
I argued breathlessly against it for days. I’ll never forget the sales chad raising his voice to shut me down with a cop-out:“This is the way the industry is going!”.
It’s not the developers making these changes.
Not saying that’s what you could or would have done, I’ve just gotten to the point in life where I’m alreaover it, ready to throw it back at them. Maybe it’s from living in this part of the world, but our plumber said “always be ready for people to be mean to you“ and while it doesn’t make for a very peaceful life, it certainly makes for fun ripping heads off.
- Access points that don’t let WiFi devices talk to wired devices.
- Office networks that don’t repeat broadcast discovery traffic into different segments.
- People in McMansions who don’t understand extenders and use two different SSIDs for each half of their house or for indoor vs poolside.
- Phone is on cellular network, speaker is on WiFi, “controls don’t work”
- Network teams who won’t “open the ports” or configure mDNS or Zeroconf or Bonjour but will let port 443 to the internet.
- people who want to turn their speakers on at home while they are at work, for their dog.
- people who want to turn their speakers off at their second home after they returned from holiday and left the pool party music playing.
- diagnostic logs that would be nice if they went somewhere.
- People who lost their phone and want a website on their laptop to control their speakers.
- people who have their speakers nicked and want to login to your website to see their speakers checking in and “remote wipe” block them.
- People who want the status of all their speakers live in their phone app, even the ones at other properties.
- tons of buggy low quality, low cost, network devices (switches, hubs, cables, routers, firewalls, NATs).
Just about the only thing which is used enough to be reasonably trustable on any random customer network is HTTPS to the big CDNs and Cloud providers.
Unpopular Opinion, but if you have absolutely zero say in the content of what you're developing, and just take orders from JIRA, you shouldn't call yourself an engineer. You should also keep your eyes open for a better job.
Again this is mostly our biases playing us. Within HN and similar communities there are a lot of above average and caring developers. Those who don’t care aren’t going to be here to look like they do.