You think publishers should not be allowed to decide when they want to stop selling their goods?

Which is a rounding error in any commercial business.

Developer Unknown Worlds has shared a letter asking for patience from Subnautica fans after publisher Krafton announced the departure of its senior leadership⁠—including studio co-founder Max McGuire⁠—and the installation of Dead Space producer and Striking Distance (The Callisto Protocol) CEO, Steve Papoutsis, as the new studio head.

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The letter does firmly deny that the game will be live serviceified or otherwise experience a monetization change.

“Just add bots”

Article is from April 2025.

Unfortunately there are still bills to pay even if you don’t visit the site for months. Keeping the lights on is not free. So that is a very unlikely subscription model you’re describing.

Phoenix Project and Unicorn Project are about non technical skills. Very entertaining books as well.

Except book #2 I fully agree, these are great books to read for someone who wants to grow their non technical skills.

Having worked in this industry for going on 25 years, I long ago learned that there are way too many incompetent programmers in the world working critical jobs. It’s best not to think about it.

Extremely click bait title by the article author.

Here in Denmark we have zero carpool lanes. I think pretty much nobody carpools here. At the same time we have highly functional public transportation in most cities and in the largest cities we have trains, busses, and light rails to get around. As well as bicycle paths on most roads.

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On all the agile projects I’ve worked on, the teams have been very reluctant to make a specification in place before starting development. Often claiming that we can’t know the requirements up-front, because we’re agile.

Article is from 2016

Since the “new” version it has been shit. Typical big enterprises to break something the users like.

I develop C# on Linux, but I run the full VS inside of a Windows 10 VM.

Are there any online collectives that work together to stop this tomfoolery?

Same as it has been for the last 100 years: Vote with your money. If you don’t like the product/service, don’t buy it. Stop thinking you can force them to change their offering.

Missing perhaps the most important skill: Human to human communication, allowing you to:

• Discover the real requirements for your task by talking to the end user/stakeholder.
• Be able to propose and discuss alternatives to the requested solution, after you learn the real requirements.
• Clearly and timely communicate obstacles that occur during any phase in the project.

I suspect it is missing because most developers, myself included, dislike human communication. We like computers because they give us honest and logical answers.

If you have been gaining experience in the IT industry as a developer and have good hands-on experience on various issues that appear in any kind of application then you should consider moving higher in the corporate hierarchy.

Or, you know, keep doing what your enjoy and stay a developer.

I started developing software professionally, i.e. for a salary, about 20 years ago. I didn’t have any education beyond high school. Today I’m a freelance software consultant, currently working for a central bank in Europe. You know how I got here? By studying. Learning to use SQL, C#, PowerShell, bash, JSON, etc. I never learned computer algorithms and to this day I can’t write an efficient quick sort in either language. Along the way I learned the value of human interactions and efficient communication, vital to a freelance consultant wanting to be successful. Now my peers would tell you I write clean, efficient, readable, working code. My managers would say I deliver value and play well with others.

My point is it’s not about your theoretical knowledge about CS or The Art of Computer Programming, it’s about delivering tangible value to your employer.