@legoktm yeah. i'm not sure if anything is too important to care about code quality, exactly, but above some baseline threshold of possible-to-improve, maybe code quality usually isn't really the problem except in a narrow mechanical sense, much the same way that language choice is rarely the real problem.[0]

a heretical thesis i should probably explore more.

(of course, the "narrow mechanical sense" makes up most of my job, but still.)

[0]. https://p1k3.com/2014/9/6/

@bstacey @brainblasted (mediawiki is hard to reason about, especially when you add a lot of traffic to the mix - or at least the parts i have to figure out who to beg for help with after they break in production are hard to reason about.

that said, it's also built by a lot of smart & experienced people, and it's not the kind of doomed, eldritch horror i used to encounter taking one-off craigslist webdev jobs or working on haphazard forks of early 2000s e-commerce platforms.)

@bstacey @brainblasted big same, although somewhat cyclically since i deploy wikipedia for a living

forget cards, i'm just against humanity.

@feonixrift not to be depressing - just, i guess, thanks for a moment of self-awareness. if it ain't the least bit of fun any more, that's a lot less to mourn when i finally do figure out how to escape it.

@feonixrift i've been trying to think, since you posted this, about what gave me pleasure / satisfaction in writing code the last few years. i couldn't come up with *anything at all* until i remembered half a dozen minor utility scripts with just me or a handful of coworkers as an audience.

i don't know whether this is more telling about me or the ecosystem. probably mostly me. there're a million things happening that must be fun for somebody, but i still feel like all the joy has leached out.