They may not have to be horrible, but they DO have to be beige... apparently?

By MIT currently, do you mean it will eventually change to a different OSS license, or it may become a closed source product? That latter would be rather sad...

Sorry for the confusion. I'm not a native English speaker. What I meant is "currently in developer preview".

The last bit is very true - companies are making money for the owners _and_ to pay the programmer's often relatively high salary.

It's a general rule in life that the more 'fun' or 'fulfilling' your job is, the more likely it is to pay peanuts.

This feels like the author simply went for the entirely wrong jobs. It sounds like what he wants is to make decisions, and those you can only make in small teams, small companies, and in lead positions. Going for any sort of FAANG or corporate job is the opposite of this - and that is not specific to programming jobs in any way. Nobody is 'free to just improve the world' in a large group.

I kinda felt the big red 'Download package' button gave it away?

Also: `brew install --cask red-canary-mac-monitor`

I don't have a big red 'Download package' button. The only large red button I see on the submitted article says 'Get a Demo'.

Sorry, my mistake, you were referring to the blog post and I was thinking of the product page...

No worries, I was wondering if we were being A/B tested!

In the case of Jira, how much of that is related to frontend code, compared to backend code / inefficient queries?

I find performance suffers mostly when media assets, advertisments, marketing and tracking scripts etc. come into play. The frontend rendering rarely makes a dent at that point.

The FE is like 5% of the slowness if that. You have a 2 second query and then 50-100ms to render.

Netflix did that for a long time with the very right item in the suggestion list where I could never see the details because it would instead scroll to the next page, making the item I was interested in disappear to the left :) Seems like they fixed that though

I might just be getting old and cranky, but I get the feeling we're re-inventing common sense, but replace sense with technology. Can I get an app that tells me to stop letting the water run while I brush my teeth as well?

Mhh, I don't know.

Yes, you could also do this without any technology.

On the other hand, I can cook rice in a normal pot yet all of Japan uses rice cookers. So why not?

And blazingly fast. Don't forget how blazingly fast it is.