There are already plenty of blogs and rants and manifestos out there,written in minimal HTML with a droplet of css, lamenting the current state of modern technology. I'd like to pretend this page will be different, but it probably won't be.
Here's the general idea. Modern computing is in a state of complete and total psychosis. Someone gave it a dose of acid and it never came down from the trip, so in its inherently non-lucid state it has convinced itself that renting data centre tenancy from a megacorp is the same thing as having a distributed cloud. It's chasing fairies around the garden, believing in expensive black box managed services with all their feature rich design and heavy GUI configurations are actually somehow good, useful, timesaving, convienient, reliable or secure. They're literally none of those things.
Find me a developer who likes building CI/CD pipelines in an enterprise cvs and I'll show you someone who's brain never managed to shake the crystals after getting dosed at a rave.
The modern desktop experience is not a space for computing or for productivity or for creativity; it's a glorified multimedia centre. I've got no problem with a PC being an entertainment machine, but let's not pretend that all the bells and whistles and gemstones that emblazon the modern operating system have anything to do with actually using a computer. It's mostly just sensory stimulation, as is most of the internet now.
I think it's ok to go backwards a few steps. We have some incredible hardware that the technomages of old could've only dreamed of, but we extend what we're trying to do so far that it makes that improvement utterly redundant. How much more we can do by going back to first principles, sitting at a terminal and trying to make some magic happen in the simplest terms possible.
We keep following the fairies round the garden, building shit upon shit. They say we stand on the shoulders of giants and it's true - but also some of those giants made some pretty big mistakes and we've all collectively decided in our delusions to lean as hard into those mistakes as possible, rather than taking advantage of the hardware and infrastructure available to us to go backward and start again now that we know what we know.
So many mistakes were made because of the limitations of the hardware. Beautiful hacks that got the job done at the time, but ended up being the lynchpin of our ecosystems, when it was never meant to bear such load.
To put it another way: This Cloud SaaS Project Management Support Desk Software Could've Been a .csv.
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