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Went to a tech meetup last night had a

2026-01-13 20:00:02.25852+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Went to a tech meetup last night, had a lot of younger developers there. Was amazed by how many side projects were essentially the same inventory/POS projects people were doing in xBase back in the '80s.

Only this time the tooling is way less suited to task.

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