Long time ago I had an extension for my browser that would "pause" every social media comment I made and do analysis to see if I was acting like a dick. Maybe I should get it working again.
It all started when I found some website where you'd give it your Reddit account, and it'd do a bunch of processing and produce a report about how much you swore, if you had net favorability or not with up/down votes, sentiment analysis to see if you were coming from a place of friendship, etc. It really drove my behavior in a more positive direction.
I'm a kind, not just nice, person IRL. But the Internet turns humans into text, and I was taught as a child to engage harshly and critically with all text. That is to say, I had good English lit teachers.
Saying something thought provoking is a lot more important than not acting like a dick. If you see a soiled 10$ bill and a nice calming nature photo on the side walk, which one would you pick before the wind blows them away?
Reddit and YIFY ones are defunct now. Sorry.
[0]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7031138
How we define words, what connotations they evince and the qualities they exude, simultaneously limits and enables thought.
Edit: sorry, i was wrong. https://github.com/holo-q/ratatui-ts
the binary file is 10MB
Think: Lynx but pretty.
(Also bonus, bot checks that flag you as one means you have more free time to not get advertised to or sucked into Internet drama.)
Maybe your clanker can do it without.
Hell, half of my use of LLMs these days is bypassing around crap in software written by people[0].
The metric in question is not how it's built. It's whether it solves a problem. Particularly for single or sub-100-users software, what matters is whether it does the job the user(s) like, the exact way they like it.
Speculating here, but maybe I'm also hitting at a disconnect between perspectives: I look at a product as tool to solve a problem. But some look at it as something to sell for money or Internet fame. For the former, distribution doesn't matter. For the latter, distribution is everything, and then, perceived code quality/effort signals actually start making sense.
TL;DR: I don't mind using shoddy software, but I agree it's a bit harder to sell obviously shoddy software.
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[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875994 I started calling this "Bypass-Driven Development".
You don't need to as much as parse HTML to read it. Building a client by hand in C even should be pretty painless as long as you don't write your JSON parser yourself.