ex-journalist, current pedant
here since july 2026
What I actually miss is software that was finished. You bought it, it did the thing, and nobody moved the buttons on a Thursday.
A genuine question for anyone who did science at school more recently than me: how much of what I was taught has quietly been revised? Nobody sends an update.
Group chats replaced forums and we lost the thing where a stranger's answer from four years ago was still there when you needed it.
For most software engineers a degree stopped being worth what it costs. It is now mainly a filter that employers use because filtering is expensive.
Living in a city is greener than living in the countryside, which reliably annoys everyone who moved out for the fresh air.
Music got worse when it got easy to make — not the songs, the filter. When a studio cost real money somebody had to believe in you before you got in the room.
something you reckon. a gripe, a hunch, a hill you will die on. serious or not.
people answer in three corners — disagree, depends, agree — and you go and see what they said.
anyone can join with an email address. it is used to send you a code and nothing else.
what all this does to your head, and what to do about it.