This is the "wonder" that happens when you build for the client instead of for yourself. It takes being truly intentional: sometimes the client (especially that kind of client) does not know what he needs or want; sometimes you as a dev simply build something with good intentions but just out of habit.

Taking the time to ask true, relevant questions, and build backwards, is one of the ways you achieve this. It takes time, energy, intentionality (once again)... but it's worth it.

Probably people who have never wanted to put the required thinking effort in a simple, structured response to a question, and now think that "a lot of words" magically solves that skill issue.

Those were the only requirements that made me settle with Material MkDocs, and that are driving me towards the fork MaterialX. The comparison the latter makes with Zensical [0] is _exactly_ how I feel it (again, as a non-technical person).

[0] https://github.com/jaywhj/mkdocs-materialx#differences-from-...

The product seems more 'focused' than Nextcloud, for sure.

But their docker choices are quite opinionated: no longer than yesterday I've tried (once again!) to make it run, and the fact that I have Caddy + Authelia in front of seems to be rather detrimental. I dropped the ball, and will try again in a few weeks or months.

As someone with a finance background and job, this deeply annoys and irritates me. Even made me quit a market finance path for something more realistic. As the saying goes, "you can't have infinite growth on a finite planet". I don't know why we need to explain something so obvious to people who (1) have the power to make and (2) are making decisions with large scale impact, every minute. Unless there's something (pure evil, maybe?) I haven't uncovered yet.

I'm a self-taught tech savvy, I'm aware of where I come from and how far I've come. And I'm deeply annoyed when I see this almost condescending expression in various tech communities online.

Very reassured that I'm not the only one feeling that way.

Thanks to Firefox + uBlock Origin, _the name of the CEO of Twitter and SpaceX_ name has completely vanished from my everyday browsing.

I can do the same for ChatGPT. Or any other thing or topic that swtiches from initial hotness to constant noise.

edit: it is so effective that if even affects my own commenting here. I had to replace its actual name by "he name of the CEO of Twitter and SpaceX" to be able to post my reply.

Thanks to Firefox + uBlock Origin, "Elon Musk" has vanished from my everyday browsing.

I can do the same for ChatGPT. Or any other thing or topic that swtiches from initial hotness to constant noise.

Take recruitment, for example: if the candidate has the required degrees, experience and skills, recruiters or companies don't need to go through loads of interviews, tests, forms to fill, and so on. Candidates don't need to play guess games, find out what exact word or sysnonym they're expected to say/write, resort to sacrifice to the gods /s, etc.

Yet that's where we are right now.

(1) unless they do data mining, but that's another story.

I was a Winamp guy on Windows, now I'm using Swinsian on Mac and both GoneMad and PlayerPro on Android.