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2020 Reality Check: every tech platform launched Stories instead of flying cars
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2020 Reality Check: every tech platform launched Stories instead of flying cars

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Dark-mode screenshot of a tweet. The avatar is a green-background profile photo with the face blurred. Display name: “Shubh Agrawal”; handle: “@theshubhagrwl”. Tweet text reads line-by-line: “We will have flying cars in 2020” followed by a blank line and then “2020:” and three bullet-like lines: “Introducing linkedin stories”, “Introducing vs code stories”, “Introducing github stories”. The meme contrasts lofty technological predictions (flying cars) with the mundane 2020 reality of every product team copying the Instagram-style Stories feature - even professional and developer tools like LinkedIn, Visual Studio Code, and GitHub. It jokes about industry hype cycles, feature cloning, and how developer tooling trends sometimes prioritize marketing over groundbreaking innovation

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick 2020 innovation roadmap: we’ve ported Instagram to every surface - next sprint is cronjob stories in /var/log so ops can swipe up to acknowledge the outage
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    2020 innovation roadmap: we’ve ported Instagram to every surface - next sprint is cronjob stories in /var/log so ops can swipe up to acknowledge the outage

  2. Anonymous

    We spent decades optimizing database queries and building distributed systems, only to realize the real scalability challenge was convincing developers they needed disappearing content in their IDE. Next up: VS Code introducing 'Reels' where you can watch your code compile in slow motion with trending audio

  3. Anonymous

    We promised flying cars but delivered Stories to every platform instead - because nothing says 'innovation' like adding disappearing content to your code repository. At least when your deployment fails, the evidence vanishes in 24 hours

  4. Anonymous

    2020: when every PM learned it’s easier to move the KPI from p99 latency to “daily story starts” - and suddenly my IDE was a social network

  5. Anonymous

    2020 product strategy: we asked for flying cars; the OKR said “boost DAU,” so we got Stories in everything - including GitHub, where history is the one thing not supposed to be ephemeral

  6. Anonymous

    Flying cars grounded; instead, 'stories' in GitHub - because nothing says 'immutable history' like 24-hour commit regrets

  7. @mvolfik 5y

    I believe this is a joke and everyone please let me go to bed peacefully

    1. dev_meme 5y

      https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/119760/linkedin-stories-overview?lang=en

      1. @mvolfik 5y

        I was talking about the github ones

  8. @zaspirin 5y

    Waiting for Telegram stories 🌚

    1. dev_meme 5y

      Actually at some point they promised to make them

      1. @bit69tream 5y

        telegram -> instagram

  9. dev_meme 5y

    There a lot of people who don’t want to see any stories, so Tg team does a great job by postponing such features for years 😂

    1. @obemenko 5y

      That's actually true, so lets just say "thanks" to Telegram developers

  10. @doorhinge 5y

    i love vscode stories

  11. @AmindaEU 5y

    That would justify me calling GitHub and other Git forges as social medias

  12. @x_Arthur_x 5y

    GitLab FTW anyway

    1. @AmindaEU 5y

      I kind of prefer Gitea, Git with a cup of tea 😛

      1. @x_Arthur_x 5y

        Oh, did you know Keybase have their own encrypted Git service?

        1. @AmindaEU 5y

          Yes, but I don't know how long Keybase is going to be a things under Zoom's ownership and closed source server as the development has mostly stopped

          1. @x_Arthur_x 5y

            Wait, it's all closed source?

            1. @AmindaEU 5y

              Server is closed source, client is open source

              1. @x_Arthur_x 5y

                "Always has been"

          2. @x_Arthur_x 5y

            Looks like Zoom don't care about Keybase and want the devs to do other jobs. I think most of Keybase users will have to ditch it soon and create their own websites to protect their identity, just like before Keybase was a thing. TrustNo1, I guess...

  13. @x_Arthur_x 5y

    Looks like you prefer self-hosted solutions anyway, I guess Keybase wouldn't mean much to you then

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