#opinion

I remember the early days of Discord when it was a fledgling chat app that blew Skype out of the water. Things were simple back then. But recently I am seriously starting to hate Discord.

In the 13 years since I got my fourth-generation Kindle, ereaders have gotten some great new features, but they have also sacrificed their greatest advantages to compete with smartphones.

This is going to be a bit of a technical rant about something most programmers won't have the misfortune of dealing with: type erasure. A two-decade old solution to generics for Java that should have been shelved long ago. Java devs claim it is "necessary"—it's bullshit.