Same ... sort of. I thought it was going to extol the virtues of Vibe Coding. I am quite happy to be "disappointed".

This is absolutely despicable!

I was in the Air Force back in the late '80s, and SO MANY of the old equipment I worked with fit quite nicely into this color scheme. I can almost smell the old electronics now. It also reminds me of the AWESOME aesthetic that is the nixie tube.

> "I personally dropped $20k on a high end desktop"

This absolutely boggles my mind. Do you mind if I ask what type of computing you do in order to justify this purchase to yourself?

Any and all. It's not particularly justifiable. It's more like, I'm a software engineer, and this is my home workshop. I run dozens of services, experiment with a bunch of different LLMs, tune my Postgres instance for good performance on large datasets, run ML data prep pipelines. All sorts really.

I'm also into motorcycles. Before I owned a house with a garage, I had to continuously pack my tools up and unpack them the next day. A bigger project meant schlepping parts in and out of the house. I had to keep track of the weather to work on my bikes.

Then, when I got a house, I made sure to get one with a garage and power. It transformed my experience. I was able to leave projects in situ until I had time. I had a place to put all my tools.

The workstation is a lot like that. The alternative would be renting. But then I'd spend a lot of my time schlepping data back and forth, investing in setting things up and tearing them down.

YMMV. I wouldn't dream of trying to universalize my experience.

I'm thinking the same. My total computing purchases in the last 25 years, including desktops, laptops, monitors, phones, and tablets is way under 20k.

I would bet it continues to be more affordable to buy reasonable specs with current consumer hardware, rather than buying a top system once.

I haven't purchased a new computer in, at least, 10 years. I take pride (i.e., I have a sickness) in purchasing used laptops off eBay, beefing them up, and loading Debian on them. My two main computers are a Dell E5440 and a Lenovo ThinkPad T420. I, too, am a software developer, but [apparently] not as much of a rock star software developer at this gentleman. :-D

~%25 of mean US household income.

> "somebody, somewhere, is doing stream processing of TB-sized JSON objects"

That's crazy to think about. My JSON files can be measured in bytes. :-D

Well obviously that would happen mostly only on the biggest business scales or maybe academic research; one example from Nvidia, which showcases Apache Spark with GPU acceleration to process "tens of terabytes of JSON data":

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/accelerating-json-processi...

All files can be measured in bytes. :)

You, sir or ma'am, are a first class smarty pants.

I wish all of this technology could have been around when my grandparents were still alive. :-(

The family has a TON of videos and photos, but no resource to guide us through what is what.

Aaaahhh ... the IBM Selectric. Fond memories.

Just out of curiosity, is there a log file viewer that ISN'T for the terminal?

conversely to all the web interfaces for all major logging providers.

every editor ever :)

I am completely astounded that Opera even caught on, as they were one of the very few companies that charged for their browser.

Probably because their model let you customize it for the application.

If you have a Mazda from the mid 2010s, the infotainment system runs in JavaScript on an Opera browser customized for the car system.

> "This bothers a lot of people for a reason (I think) that has nothing to do with the technology. The fear isn't really about losing a job title, it's about losing the story you tell yourself about who you are."

No, it is 100% about the fear of losing a job due to companies replacing skilled people with AI.