Definitely agree with the article that engineers should be more aware of scenarios where those interacting with the systems they build have slow internet.
Another thing I think people should think about is scenarios with intermittent connectivity where there is literally no internet for periods ranging from minutes to days.
Sadly in both these regards I believe we're utterly screwed.
Even the Offline First and Local First movements who you'd think would handle these issues in at least a semi-intelligent manner don't actually practice what they preach.
Look at Automerge or frankly the vast majority of the other projects that came out of those movements. Logically you'd think they have offline documentation that allows people to study them in a Local First fashion. Sadly that's not the case. The hypocrisy is truly a marvel to behold. You'd think that if they can get hard stuff like CRDTs right they'd get simple stuff right like actually providing offline / local first docs in a trivial to obtain way. Again sadly not.
Again at this point the jokes are frankly writing themselves. Like bro make it possible for people to follow your advice.
Also if you directly state or indirectly insinuate that your tool is ANY/ALL OF Local First, or Open Source, or Free As In Freedom you better have offline docs.
If you don't have offline docs your users and collaborators don't have Freedom 1. If you can't exercise Freedom 1 you are severely hampered in your ability to exercise Freedoms 0, 2, or 3 for any nontrivial FOSS system.
Another thing I think people should think about is scenarios with intermittent connectivity where there is literally no internet for periods ranging from minutes to days.
Sadly in both these regards I believe we're utterly screwed.
Even the Offline First and Local First movements who you'd think would handle these issues in at least a semi-intelligent manner don't actually practice what they preach.
Look at Automerge or frankly the vast majority of the other projects that came out of those movements. Logically you'd think they have offline documentation that allows people to study them in a Local First fashion. Sadly that's not the case. The hypocrisy is truly a marvel to behold. You'd think that if they can get hard stuff like CRDTs right they'd get simple stuff right like actually providing offline / local first docs in a trivial to obtain way. Again sadly not.
The following two links are yet another example of a similar kind of hypocrisy: https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/1781840288300097896 https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/issues/1052#issuecommen...
Again at this point the jokes are frankly writing themselves. Like bro make it possible for people to follow your advice.
Also if you directly state or indirectly insinuate that your tool is ANY/ALL OF Local First, or Open Source, or Free As In Freedom you better have offline docs.
If you don't have offline docs your users and collaborators don't have Freedom 1. If you can't exercise Freedom 1 you are severely hampered in your ability to exercise Freedoms 0, 2, or 3 for any nontrivial FOSS system.
The problem has gotten so bad the I started the Freedom Respecting Technology movement which I'm gonna plug here: https://makesourcenotcode.github.io/freedom_respecting_techn...