I wonder if the bullies who used to beat me up over on Stack Overflow are gonna be okay.

The Pragmatic Engineer

Stack overflow is almost dead

Today, Stack overflow has almost as few questions asked per month, as when it launched back in 2009. A recap of its slow, then rapid, downfall.

This was written/posted using "Konetik" at

konetik

A text-only Nostr client with Nostr-to-Hive bridging

(#Nostr & #Hive) Would love for a few others to try it, test it, give feedback.

Goals today: #gardening, #football, nap, $baseball. Roughly in that order.

I'm seeing more "psychology posts" lately for some reason. They're not about psychology per se, but contain the kernel of psychological principles within them. Not sure what that means about the current psyche of people, but I think it's a good thing.

I recently watched "Lord of the Flies" again (1990 version). Solid story. Makes me want to read the other #books by Golding.

American politicians have reverted to 7th grade boys' locker room potty-mouth language. But, all I hear is: - "The cool kids are all cursing, so I'll curse." - "I want to look cool too, so I'll curse." - "My argument isn't too good, so I'll just fling a few F-bombs and just look cool." - "Ooh. An M-F bomb would be even better!" - "I'm cool now, right?"

Test #gos

Vibe coding is like a blind mouse stumbling through a maze looking for cheese at the exit.

I've decided that zinnias are like Christmas day...the expectation is as good as the real thing.

With the #bitcoin ATH, someone posted something about January 3, 2009. Reminded me of this proverb: "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." "The best time to buy bitcoin was January 3, 2009. The second best time is now."