From 9491ef1c40f03a60ffc8f05b642663adc0afc6ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Atridad Lahiji Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2025 01:01:02 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Create enshittified-dev-tools.md --- src/content/posts/enshittified-dev-tools.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/content/posts/enshittified-dev-tools.md diff --git a/src/content/posts/enshittified-dev-tools.md b/src/content/posts/enshittified-dev-tools.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2289c5b --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/posts/enshittified-dev-tools.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +--- +title: "My Personal List of Enshittified Dev Tools" +description: "My Personal List of Enshittified Dev Tools" +pubDate: "2025-06-03" +tags: ["list"] +--- + +To quote some Wikipedia article: "Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is a pattern in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time." So what this will be is a running list of tools I've used in my work which have undergone such processes: + +1. Insomnia (API Tester) - They changed their product to _require_ an account. I should not need an account to send a GET request to my local dev server. +2. Redis (In-memory Key Value Store) - Redis moved from their BSD license to a split license, one of which is source available. + Awesome for visualizing changes when you have larger code changes. +3. Minio - "Depricated" or just straight up deleted their open source admin console from the project in favour of a significantly worse object viewer on the community edition, saving the admin features for paid users. Best part: this move was largely not announced and blindsided many (myself included). + +This will be periodically updated to avoid outdated information.