ALT Modified Calvin & Hobbs comic shows Spaceman Spiff in a spacecraft. Panels read: "We join the fearless Spaceman Spiff, interplanetary explorer extra extraordinaire, out at the farthest reaches of the galaxy… with nerves of steel our hero sets forth on his dangerous mission! He fires his hyper-jets and… blasts into the fifth dimension! Into a world beyond human comprehension! Into a world where…". The rest of the comic has been replaces with a screenshot of Flaki (@flaki@flaki.social)'s Mastodon profile, itself sporting a Calvin & Hobbes illustration in the header.

ALT Developer experience is both a very old, and, paradoxically, new, space that is largely measured by what the kids these days call “vibes”. Especially in open source, this leads to “katamari”-style product development, where features are green-lit without consideration for coherence on a larger and longer term scale. As a result, tools that started out simple, grow complex and drive users into a hype cycle of finding the next new thing, not in search of novelty, but usability. What we if we inverted how we thought about tools- instead of focusing on features, focusing on problems to solve- and had that reinforced by our development systems?