Baldur Bjarnason on Nostr: Spending the holidays processing just how betrayed I feel by the software and web ...
Spending the holidays processing just how betrayed I feel by the software and web industry
Basically my career has been fifteen years of hope and promise—some fulfilled, some not—followed by a decade where the industry dropped all pretence and switched to just overtly looting, manipulating, and gouging.
Being a bit angry about it is probably quite reasonable
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