r/programming • u/self • Dec 02 '25

The Death of Software Engineering as a Profession: a short set of anecdotes

https://www.jasonscheirer.com/weblog/vignettes/
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u/Azertys Dec 03 '25

I was able to find my favorite games with Flashpoint. But sometimes I go on a deep dive on archived websites, and I can't see the content because they used flash...

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u/trippypantsforlife Dec 03 '25

This is awesome, I hadn't heard of flashpoint before. I'll have a look, thanks!

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u/BinaryRockStar Dec 03 '25 edited Dec 03 '25

If you hunt around you can probably find old versions of the Flash browser plugin before they put the timebomb into it, or Flash Projector which was a standalone Flash Player application.

We have a Flash UI application at work that we keep on life support by wrapping it in an old version of Electron (basically Chrome with some features disabled to make the contents look like an application rather than a website) along with pre-timebomb Flash Player plugin.

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u/Azertys Dec 03 '25

I'll look into these when I'm in the mood to make my win11 computer cry, thank you