Post AnSmB0csvgWQxtYAxE by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
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 (DIR) Post #AnSm3Xxn6B8e2elplA by baldur@toot.cafe
       2024-10-28T10:58:26Z
       
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       Saw a discussion on Bluesky about how web devs end up having no body of work as sites disappear, companies fold, and agencies shutterThis first happened to me in the 2000s. Almost every project, large and small, I've worked on since has disappeared. Even most of the ebooks I made for a publishers have been replaced. I've been doing this for almost thirty years and my body of work exists only as screenshots and vague memories
       
 (DIR) Post #AnSm3YkiAIGoUNeu0m by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2024-10-28T11:06:00Z
       
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       @baldur > Almost every project, large and small, I've worked on since has disappearedWe think of ourselves as technological wizards, but tell that to Michaelangelo or the people who made the Great Wall. They've been dead for hundreds or thousands of years, but they were smart enough to craft in durable materials ; )
       
 (DIR) Post #AnSm3Yr5mZNGoAdzxQ by baldur@toot.cafe
       2024-10-28T10:58:55Z
       
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       The exception, as the original post points out (linked below), is the stuff on my own website. But that only represents a small fraction of the kind of work I have done and in no way represents what I can do.https://bsky.app/profile/darn.es/post/3l7ksvu5gex2a
       
 (DIR) Post #AnSmB0csvgWQxtYAxE by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2024-10-28T11:07:01Z
       
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       @baldur > Almost every project, large and small, I've worked on since has disappearedSame same. It's very depressing some days.We think of ourselves as technological wizards, but tell that to Michaelangelo or the people who made the Great Wall. They've been dead for hundreds or thousands of years, but they were smart enough to craft in durable materials ; )@szbalint
       
 (DIR) Post #AnSmxeIGkY5NtL6IXw by szbalint@x0r.be
       2024-10-28T11:16:01Z
       
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       @strypey @baldur I guess my view is more along the lines of “Asgard is its people not a place”
       
 (DIR) Post #AoCOoEBzrXVIfkLQ6C by JimmyTruth@poa.st
       2024-11-19T11:22:21.431250Z
       
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       @baldur But isn't that the very nature of digital anything? If I compare all of my broken, unuseable hard drives that I have owned over the years that had thousands of songs on them (I can't listen to one of them now) as opposed to say my record collection which has been following me and growing since the 80's. Or cassettes, or actual photographs.For 25 years now, we've been trusting these made in China devices to hold our (sometimes precious) belongings. Maybe that was a mistake. Cheaper quality, less reliability and almost impossible to pass down to your grand children...Welcome to the new world.