Lady @Lady@cat.family

@aescling @Satsuma @alyssa quaquaval has boy pants and i respect this choice in gender presentation

@alyssa @aescling @Satsuma i guess i’m just surprised that the kids who liked singing had time for drama club and weren’t in, y’know, choir

@aescling @Satsuma @alyssa high school musical ass high school

@aescling @Satsuma @alyssa horrifying

@aescling @Satsuma @alyssa because my high school theatre friends were all in on the magic

@aescling @Satsuma @alyssa and your high school theatre friends sang?? and didn’t do magic tricks??

@aescling @Satsuma @alyssa so your high school didn’t have a theatre program, then

@aescling @Satsuma @alyssa meowscarada’s entire deal is theatrics???

@wallhackio they are all whale girls

@aescling quaquaval is not in this poll

@epilanthanomai if you connect the dots, what i’m saying here is that good tech is created by small teams for small numbers of clients. tech is in a bad place right now because we have big companies with lots of employees providing vendored solutions, instead of lots of small companies providing highly specific solutions for individual usecases or clients. it is not that we have too many software developers, it’s that they’re all working to build flashy new features for Google instead of working to make the medical charts at the local hospital actually respect patients’ lived names. the former makes money while the latter has no funding.

but as to your question, “what companies”? no companies. all the best tech work is happening in-house at an institution whose main mission is something else. and you never see it unless you work there.

@epilanthanomai anybody developing bespoke enterprise software is going to be looking to minimize change as much as possible or else be out of a job. it’s only with non-bespoke solutions trying to gain new adopters where “flashy new features” looks attractive.

developers of bespoke solutions might still be crunching against deadlines and produce subpar work as a result, but those deadlines are being set by administration (of the enterprise they are building solutions for), not by the technical workers/teams/departments/organizations themselves. which is different. if somebody hires you to build something in five weeks, they get what they pay for. and those somebodies aren’t tech companies, but libraries, hospitals, schools, and government offices.