I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
At around 27:30 you talk about how it can be overwhelming dealing with so many variations of notifications and communications channels.
That's exactly what I used to use IRC for, via BitlBee. I could see IRC channels, Twitter, Mail, Facebook, etc., all in one interface and even more importantly, it was in chronological order. None of this problem where you look at a tweet and don't know whether you're supposed to scroll up or down to find the replies.
I don't really use it much any more because all the big players in social media do their best to not allow interoperability with other platforms and it becomes an arms race trying to stay connected. But it was a great example of how things could be.
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At around 27:30 you talk about how it can be overwhelming dealing with so many variations of notifications and communications channels.
That's exactly what I used to use IRC for, via BitlBee. I could see IRC channels, Twitter, Mail, Facebook, etc., all in one interface and even more importantly, it was in chronological order. None of this problem where you look at a tweet and don't know whether you're supposed to scroll up or down to find the replies.
I don't really use it much any more because all the big players in social media do their best to not allow interoperability with other platforms and it becomes an arms race trying to stay connected. But it was a great example of how things could be.