> As software subtends to becoming more and more "solved" ...

Really? Maybe if we do not care about robustness, elegance, coherence, consistency and generally anything beyond making a buck and leaving more waste behind... sure!

Reading the post made me quite sad because it felt like the author didn't understand the actual purpose of a hackathon and just shit out some AI crap tied to a raspberry pi and pat themselves on their back.

At least game jams still carry on that general spirit and the people that try to put together stuff with AI immediately make it obvious.

> This is 7 years old.

Yeah, I actually totally forgot to check the date...

I use Notepad from time to time for quick notes and I have noticed exactly zero friction added to this "workflow". Not sure what you are talking about.

Not having an extra language to deal with and so many features being just a flag away is why I decided to go with QtWidgets for the GUI of a project I am working on at work. And it is so nice to use despite being very old. For the graphically intensive parts I am just using Vulkan. I understand this might not be enough for all types of GUIs though and just wish QtWidgets had some sort of GPU acceleration.

I thought that if you have some idea about how hardware works, it is kind of more or less obvious whether something is synthesizable or not.

> but we’d be ruled forever by ageless ghouls.

We all know what the ruled do when they get really pissed. The prospective ghouls know it very well too.

Exactly... Nothing can stop the masses. Plus, we have laws that can change and adapt.

Imagine the kind of garbage that some people consider "robust, working code"...

I'd reframe it as a stupid game..

On the other hand, they grew 400% in one year.

Get a flip phone. Being reachable and able to reach is good, and you'll still get all the other benefits.

Any device connected to cell towers is constantly having its location tracked via triangulation, which is sold to endless surveillance capitalism organizations and governments to monitor where we shop, and where we protest, to optimally manipulate us.

I am specifically opting out of cellular networks for this reason, though open hardware/software wifi and meshtastic solutions I am always open to.