New term proposed! Front-End Pharaoh: A developer who creates front-ends that require the surplus labor of an entire bronze-age kingdom to build and maintain. Someone who doesn't factor in scale of developer resources against the incidental complexity of systems they create.
@lawnsea
My boss: "so before he quit, Scott implemented this app's interface with Angular and graphQL, and we need you to make some updates for the client real quick."
Me: "sure. Indenture me an army of laborers and schedule a blood sacrifice at the temple and I'll have this out of here in no time."
@braindouche i'm sorry brian but the omens do not auger well for this work. perhaps in q4 if ra wills it
@lawnsea
Not to get all American Gods on this but like, why isn't Thoth a patron of programmers? He's the boss of magis spells, sacred texts, knowledge and writing, he's entirely our dude.
@braindouche the build fails if you anger the gods and opening the project later risks an ancient curse.
@anxietocracy
Some day I'll share the story of a legacy build that took me a week and two principal engineers to get running, and in the process of fixing the thing that needed fixed I replaced almost all of that infrastructure by moving the whole thing to WLS and writing a three-line bash script.
@braindouche frontends that are basically pyramid schemes huh