StealthyCoder

It seems not only appropriate as a topic for the Nobel prize for literature winning book, but seems to actually be an effect that seems to be real in modern day life. The Buried Giant is about the 1100s in Britain where there exists a memory stripping fog. People tend to forget things that they were doing and suddenly things seem like they were always just like that.

Supermarket

Not to sound too nostalgic, but sometimes we can say the things were better before. So I will start with saying the view from my elementary school was a nice green grassy field that was an adequate size to house a small carnival. To one side there was a small library building, across from us the rival school (because they were across from us) and further some dwellings and abodes. Very old ones since the village I grew up in existed since 794 AD. Suddenly a perfectly nice piece of real estate got torn down and in its place the construction of a modern, ugly looking supermarket was begun. Everyone was opposed and hated that that business came. It had no right to be there. We already had a butcher, a baker and a grocer to cover all you needed.

Then construction finished and everyone acted like it always been there. It is very weird thinking back on this.

Software development

What has that to do with anything nowadays? Well turns out a lot. It seems on the one hand we hang on too tightly to axioms and laws and idioms that are too young to have been proven and seem to be the opinion of a few selective individuals in the field rather than actual experience driven statements. The other hand we seem to be reinventing the same concept over and over again since we act like whatever the newest trend is that is how it has always been and that is the way the whole world is now.

For example everything had to be microservices, the frontend needed to be more and more complex and now we came full circle that a project called trcp gets funding to make their concept known again in the world. I have nothing against this project, it is at it's base just Typescript MVC. Nothing more, nothing less. This has been around for a long time. Before we did everything in the backend language, Java or C# for example and then now that got shifted to Typescript / JavaScript which is mainly a frontend language.

It is very odd to see this behaviour pop up and once I recognized it, I might see it more often than not.

Tangent

A tangent is that I visited my home town again recently. It just does not feel the same anymore, and mainly that has to do with the local city council (government) tearing up all the old buildings. It is what gives the town character and soul. When you take that out, you leave this soulless emptiness behind and you cannot regrow that. It has to evolve over time, but the new aesthetic is not pleasing to the eye. It uses cheap colours, cheap materials and overall it needs to be cost effective more than it needs to be built to last and attribute to the general communal aesthetic and fit in with the rest.

The result is a clash of soulless buildings with soulful historic ones opposite and it seems very chaotic and causes unrest when walking past. The only soothing thing to see was that the cherry blossom tree of yore still stood at the same place blooming like always.

Historical context

I think it is always a nice thing to briefly consider if there might be a historical precedent to this idea and how it panned out. Just put everything into it's own historical context. Giving context to problems further more helps them to be more nuanced and potentially also better defined.