More Github grumping
Random Github thoughts after struggling with the latest major update of Poser.

Their developers switched to using the latest version of Python for scripting. There's nothing new in Python that could possibly be needed. The change was purely motivated by Github fashion.

This change basically destroys all existing tools for Poser, because they will require heavy rewriting. I've got a thousand of these tools, some used constantly, all used occasionally, for play and courseware development.

Seems like there should be a business opportunity for anti-Github programs. The 'open source' world almost entirely goes the other way, toward maximum rapid change.

Basic fact: People who actually use tools, whether the tools are hammers or programs, need to have STABLE tools. A hammer that changes its shape every month, requiring a new type of nails every month, will ruin the carpenter's coordination and speed. A text editor** or operating system or graphic app that changes every month requires you to spend all your time relearning instead of working.

This is just another form of psychopathic aggression. Psychopaths destroy PURPOSE and STABILITY above all.

Carpenters have an advantage because their hammers and saws (so far) aren't web-connected. The hammer doesn't "phone home" every millisecond to check the server for updates, and doesn't turn itself off when your subscription to the hammering service expires, or when the house you're building disagrees with the architectural or political tastes of the hammering service.

There should be money in a STABLE source of software.

This would be another function of the new Trinity House in my dreams, the anti-Parkinson pro-PURPOSE pro-SKILL pro-SCIENCE crowdfunded foundation.

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** Text editor: I'm eternally grateful to the developers of Kedit, the text editor I've been using since 1987. They updated it from DOS to Windows, and then basically stopped. They never switched to subscription or cloud mode. It's still possible to order Kedit, and it still works. I've tried all the alleged alternatives, and nothing else does the same job. I would be HAPPY to pay an annual subscription fee for Kedit, to GUARANTEE that it NEVER changes. But the developers don't want money. They're missing an opportunity.

Labels: Parkinson, Patient things, skill-estate, Trinity House

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