<![CDATA[Ran into a guy recently who's worked 20 years at the same company delivering Delphi GUI apps for Windows users in some incredibly niche domain, shipping or something, and really feeling that FOMO.]]>Ran into a guy recently who's worked 20 years at the same company delivering Delphi GUI apps for Windows users in some incredibly niche domain, shipping or something, and really feeling that FOMO.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/29f73e5d-be2d-43a3-b0d2-b1f1ba1502d7/ran-into-a-guy-recently-who-s-worked-20-years-at-the-same-company-delivering-delphi-gui-apps-for-windows-users-in-some-incredibly-niche-domain-shipping-or-something-and-really-feeling-that-fomo.RSS for NodeWed, 15 Apr 2026 08:56:29 GMTThu, 19 Mar 2026 20:20:27 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Ran into a guy recently who's worked 20 years at the same company delivering Delphi GUI apps for Windows users in some incredibly niche domain, shipping or something, and really feeling that FOMO. on Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:18:56 GMT]]>@deech you could do a lot worse than Delphi 🙂

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://vmst.io/users/t0yv0/statuses/116258395700642520https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://vmst.io/users/t0yv0/statuses/116258395700642520Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:18:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ran into a guy recently who's worked 20 years at the same company delivering Delphi GUI apps for Windows users in some incredibly niche domain, shipping or something, and really feeling that FOMO. on Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:11:34 GMT]]>@deech the last stage is getting over your own survivor's guilt 😅

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://merveilles.town/users/d6/statuses/116258366689751021https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://merveilles.town/users/d6/statuses/116258366689751021Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:11:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ran into a guy recently who's worked 20 years at the same company delivering Delphi GUI apps for Windows users in some incredibly niche domain, shipping or something, and really feeling that FOMO. on Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:15:18 GMT]]>@d6 what does escaping the cycle of samsara feel like?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/deech/statuses/116257909550271654https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/deech/statuses/116257909550271654Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:15:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ran into a guy recently who's worked 20 years at the same company delivering Delphi GUI apps for Windows users in some incredibly niche domain, shipping or something, and really feeling that FOMO. on Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:08:02 GMT]]>@deech 40-year career maintaining a mainframe-era card catalog system for a rich but obscure library

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://merveilles.town/users/d6/statuses/116257880948113512https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://merveilles.town/users/d6/statuses/116257880948113512Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:08:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ran into a guy recently who's worked 20 years at the same company delivering Delphi GUI apps for Windows users in some incredibly niche domain, shipping or something, and really feeling that FOMO. on Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:46:40 GMT]]>@deech Word!

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/dwardoric/statuses/116257796925625739https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/dwardoric/statuses/116257796925625739Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:46:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ran into a guy recently who's worked 20 years at the same company delivering Delphi GUI apps for Windows users in some incredibly niche domain, shipping or something, and really feeling that FOMO. on Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:28:25 GMT]]>@superfunc "How about *you* figure out what's in this Dim I'm late for my Battle Of Gettysburg re-enactment"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/deech/statuses/116257725182690948https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/deech/statuses/116257725182690948Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:28:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ran into a guy recently who's worked 20 years at the same company delivering Delphi GUI apps for Windows users in some incredibly niche domain, shipping or something, and really feeling that FOMO. on Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:24:39 GMT]]>@deech I worked with a guy with so much institutional knowledge they let him write everything in VB and made us translate it into C#, he really knew how to live

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/superfunc/statuses/116257710396670504https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/superfunc/statuses/116257710396670504Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:24:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ran into a guy recently who's worked 20 years at the same company delivering Delphi GUI apps for Windows users in some incredibly niche domain, shipping or something, and really feeling that FOMO. on Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:22:33 GMT]]>I think 👆 is my version of the quit all this and become a farmer fantasy.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/deech/statuses/116257702120543000https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/deech/statuses/116257702120543000Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:22:33 GMT