Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
There's plenty of more recent pushes to allow non-technical users to build apps, more than are countable. As far as "great" ones, maybe Azure Logic Apps? It's Microsoft's option for low/no code automation in Azure. It's all code under the hood, but it mainly works as premade blocks you drag and drop, and connect like a flow chart. Pretty sure it's event driven. Most blocks have some drop down options and settings to fill in the blanks of. I think you can also just have some code as a block too.
Haven't used it myself, just had to help support some of the input, output, and governance. Also have seen it brought up a bunch in Azure certification paths (work has a requirement of some training courses each year, and unfortunately those are the most relevant ones offered through the vendor we have a deal with).
@wizardbeard @istewart sounds like Scratch tbh
I believe OG Scratch was on top of Squeak Smalltalk, current version is on top of JavaScript.