I don't think they did an exceptional job keeping teams separated. In fact, I think monorepos only end up artificially tying teams down with an arbitrary and completely unnecessary constraint.

Also, not all work is services.

Also, TIL that the IETF deprecated the X- prefix more than 10 years ago. Seems like that one didn’t pan out.

Can you elaborate on that? The X- prefix is supposedly only a recommendation, and intended to be used in non-standard, custom, ah-hoc request headers to avoid naming conflicts.

Taken from https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6648

In short, although in theory the "X-" convention was a good way to avoid collisions (and attendant interoperability problems) between standardized parameters and unstandardized parameters, in practice the benefits have been outweighed by the costs associated with the leakage of unstandardized parameters into the standards space.

I still work on software that extendively uses X- headers.

Ah, the Microsoft tradition of always having the wrong priorities.

I wouldn't be too hard on Microsoft. The requirement to curate public package repositories only emerged somewhat recently, as demonstrated by the likes of npm, and putting in place a process to audit and pull out offending packages might not be straight-forward.

I think the main take on this is to learn the lesson that it is not safe to install random software you come across online. Is this lesson new, though?

that managers want to stay in control of everything, and they decide whether they do it or not.

That's fine, it's a call from the manager.

That doesn't make it Agile's fault though. In fact, one of the key principles of Agile is providing developers with the support they need. Blaming Agile for the manager single-handledly pushing for something in spite of any feedback does not have any basis.

I feel this sort of endeavour is just a poorly researches attempt at reinventing the wheel. Packaging formats such as Debian's .DEB format consist basically of the directory tree structure to be deployed archived with Zip along with a couple of metadata files. It's not rocket science. In contrast, these tricks sound like overcomplicated hacks.

git switch and git restore were introduced way back in 2019. I don't think they count as new.

See also the C4 process RFC

What an unfortunate name.

https://c4model.com/

As a former civil engineer who now works in software, “software engineer” irks me. “Engineer” means you’re supposed to be licensed and you have a responsibility for the public good above your responsibility to your employer.

This. I think some people don't understand that titles are not whimsical status symbols and hold actual legal and regulatory meaning. A random guy can hold an engineering degree and not be an engineer, while a random guy with no degree can actually be a engineer if he jumps through all the hoops.

In engineering fields, being a member of a professional engineering body is critical to work in the field, because the main value proposition of these credentials is to prevent incompetent people from working on critical tasks which can potentially have important consequences to society if they are done poorly. For example, people can die if an engineer signs off on a project for a residential building that collapses due to shoddy work. If that happens then the engineers who signed off on the project will be investigated and if they are held responsible not only can they be held criminally responsible for their work but their license will be pulled, which is society's response to ensure this problem won't happen again.

Well, do you think its relevant to support anything else other than Git nowadays?

Yes. There are people who prefer Mercurial than Git, and there are quite a lot of projects out there which still use Subversion.

I really don't understand the mindset that leads to a belief that a monoculture is good or desirable.

Allura might do a bit more on that (...)

Yes, it does.

(...) but Gitea has way more features and the UI is actually decent.

That's debatable, but to each its own.

Perhaps this could shine some light on the "do you think it's relevant to suport anything else other than ".

I wish there was a linter that stopped my colleagues from adding in a half-gigabyte of Apache Spark artifacts to go with a single line of code, which makes the product impossible to deploy to customers;

It sounds like this would be simple to catch during code reviews, or in the very least with a regression test running after the packaging stage.

or to implement another fucking O(n^2) algorithm that flies through the test suite and craps out in production;

It sounds like the job for a performance test.

or our placement students from trying to get ChatGPT shit through code review.

Aren't code reviews catching this?

I also fucking hate checkstyle, or any of its friends like Google’s spotless; sometimes you want to format your code so that the underlying thinking is more obvious, perhaps to highlight how some parts are different and make things that are not as you would expect stand out, but no.

I'm afraid that's not supposed to be handled at the code formatting level. That's supposed to be handled by extracting code to a method or a dedicated class, and cover with unit tests to illustrate how it's expected to work. If you're trying to handle that with non-standard code formatting then I'm afraid you're writing bad code.

Then you’ll end up with tons of vulnerabilities within days.

You only end up with vulnerabilities if you refuse to update your dependencies. Updating a dependency is something you need to do yourself, along with running build validation tests after a successful update. Just because npm can download newer packages that does not mean those packages are good.

Electron apps created with React can definitely push the boundaries of what ‘acceptable’ memory usage is.

I have a pet theory that webview-based apps are popular only because currently there is absolutely no usable multiplatform desktop GUI framework. Therefore, developers have to resort to the one thing that works: load a webpage in a web browser.

Even React Native feels like a kludge in a way it converts React components to UI components.