Worse than Slack…

Now that is saying something

I had the opposite experience. Some in house devs are extremely talented and have (middle) management support.

(Upper management fires those groups and uses the savings to buy Atlassian)

Remember open source wikis? Twiki?

They were much better. More functional, faster, intuitive.

Corporates got rid of those and Atlassian got rich

BugZilla works for lots of usecases also

As a person who has designed several enterprise data models, I would like to personally congratulate the entire middle school class that belched up Atlassian’s

Having used quite a few others: hard disagree

Several companies I’ve worked at had bespoke internal systems that were less general but extremely efficient to use.

It kills me to think some bean counters probably gutted them and gave the money to Atlassian

IMO it’s a nice middle ground between a typical Linux system where every app you run has access to everything else you run, vs a system like Qubes where every app is locked down in its own VM

I bought one of those release CDs. I used it to be able to use ppp + my 486’s modem to connect to my employer’s network which let me WFH on an 80x24 tty.

check this dope URL I picked up, I have an idea and it’s totally going to be viral

Interesting, that dynamic is in line with the ‘radiator’ theory of human brain evolution.

From a more recent article:

the shift to an aerobic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle in early Homo, including long-distance running, exerted selection pressures that favored both increased endurance and enhanced brain growth

Edit: … so, we’re not batteries. We’re cooling fins.