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I think it might be fundamentally important to note that #scale is not what hyperscalers and longtermists say it is. Software is great at scale. Practitioners who work closely with software are pretty good at it too. Business plans and people who assume scale means “this thing I think I know, only bigger” are *terrible* at it.

Moving away from hyperscalers seems to be a growing trend.
The reason? One respondent didn’t beat about the bush: “The risk of Trump”.
https://www.computing.co.uk/research/2026/…

Hyperscaler exit plans rise as IT leaders weigh geopolitical exposure
In the fifth part of our technology trends research we look at security, with a focus on cloud plans and how they are changing with ...

…crucially, I’d argue that (2) is •not• the only cause of (1): narrowing the problem space was not the only thing Hypercard did that lowered the barrier to entry. There have been other tools that also aggressively narrowed the problem space yet did not catch on the way Hypercard did.
Narrowing the class of problems is •part• of Hypercard’s barrier-removing success, to be sure! For example, I mentioned UI layout upthread. Hypercard stacks aren’t resizable. Layout involved absolute positioning, end of story (mostly).

And a few years later Apple gave us a preview of OpenDoc, which looked like a real contender for a new development model. Which got Steved. @… https://mastodon.social/@jonathanhog…

Lightning talks will start soon at 1600 at Jansen. Come and see the most fun part of #FOSDEM
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/CNPVJL-lightning_lightning_talks_1/

FOSDEM 2026 - Lightning lightning talks 1

And this is partly how it happens: 'Clarivate...defines anything that doesn't appear in [their] indexes as either non-existing, or "non-scholarly" ... Neither academia nor the tech industry are short on hubris, but even in that context, "anything not listed in our proprietary databases isn't credible" is a pretty eyebrow-raising claim.' @…

The article below reminds me of a play that I crewed on:
In the play the Earth is taken over by space aliens who eat people. Earth people don't like this. The aliens try to fix things by hiring a PR firm to improve their public image. But the PR firm turns out to be a front for Earth-people resistance. And it went from there.
So here we have a couple of brothers - who have so much hubris that they are effectively space aliens in relation to the rest of us - who do bad things…

Brothers Charged With Sex Trafficking Wage Campaign to Shame Accusers
The Alexander brothers, once titans of the New York party scene, have retained a high-stakes public relations strategist, Juda Engelmayer, whose clients include Harvey Weinstein.

Still, per the OP’s point, we should learn from what it is about vibe coding that really appeals to people.
The OP makes the case that we should find better abstractions and better idioms to fight boilerplate. Yes. And that we should look to things like Hypercard that reward inexperienced experimentation and exploration. Very very yes.
The latter part of my thread argues that we should •also• search for better solutions to the “Don’t make me decide! Just do something typical!” problem. I don’t know what that looks like, but we should take that problem more seriously.

Ritter Sport muss Niederlage im Verpackungsstreit einstecken
https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/ritter-sport-vs-wacker-schokoladenhersteller-unterliegt-im-verpackungsstre…

Disput zwischen Schokoladenherstellern: Ritter Sport muss Niederlage im Verpackungsstreit einstecken
Die Firma Wacker stellt Haferriegel her. Die Snacks erinnern in ihrer Form an Ritter Sport – wogegen der Schokohersteller gerichtlich vorgegangen ist und unterlag. Zuvor hatte sich der Beklagte einen Seitenhieb erlaubt.