This post resonates with me. I remember in Kindergarten getting my very first life experience with computing tech: grounding myself by touching the bottom screws of a Apple IIe. I've loved them in nearly the same way as OP.

I get the way he feels. I remember how special this stuff used to be because of how niche it was. It does feel a bit like the normies co-opted it but that is my personal and selfish view.

> but on a more tired or rushed day

This has nearly gotten me before, and I got lucky.

If you draft Tom Brady in the sixth round, you can win seven Super Bowls.

> Makes bank for 9 years > Quits > Takes the moral high ground on the way out despite highly profiting from all the things he's decrying

Pretty nice life if you ask me.

They had some cool form factors too. I remember I had one of the phones with a landscape slide-out physical keyboard.

Way more fun than JaCoCo (which I actually like): https://www.eclemma.org/jacoco/

An equally rude and aggressive response.

In what way? I didn't attack his character like he did to the blog author.

At this point you can abstract what you wrote to any kind of task. I'm seeing people generate multiple takes on one concrete topic, poop out all kinds of artifacts, and keep emitting them within and outside of the company.

Kids aren't allowed to play at the playground unsupervised or walk around anywhere by themselves. Cars are all now 4,000 pounds, have terrible sight lines and are lifeless. I don't like this world.

Wasn't this the same thing when enterprises started using cloud computing? Did the bomb explode for them?

Yes actually. After zirp ended, cloud costs got materially more expensive for enough enterprises that there was a good year or so of celebrated "we're moving back on-prem" stories on hn, where companies were announcing savings in the several to tens of millions per year.