Set me right on whether caring is even possible
I know I have a weird and kind of skewed view of the world, since I expect nobody else to care about some things, and then the world goes and surprises me by jumping on it anyway. About six months ago, I expected the worst for my whole "let's improve the feed reader ecosystem" thoughts, and figured it would go unnoticed, and yet it's been anything but.
Clearly, I am miscalibrated for what the world is willing to do. So, with that in mind, I figured that I need to bring more things up in this context to see what the reaction is instead of just discarding it early due to my own doubts.
Tonight's concern goes like this: I was flipping through some old posts and ran across something from 2013 where I said "your simple (shell) script is someone else's bad day". It was inspired by the "onboarding" process for dev servers at FB which I was going through that week, and it was a total shit-show. It had plenty of the aforementioned scripts that you couldn't restart without making things worse. It took way too long for me to get my hands on a Linux box that had things set up so I could crank on stupid www stuff.
In re-reading that post the other night, it got me wondering what I could do in this space to try to raise awareness of various topics. Maybe I'd look at a few old posts, decide that there's a cluster of problems ("idempotence" in this case), and that maybe it would be a net win for humanity if more people were slightly better at it. Then I'd try to address that directly... somehow.
