Just wanted to chime in and say it’s nice to see someone from IT on the site. I love the site and can follow a lot of things but feel like it’s mostly developers here.

There are a lot of non devs here ... a lot.

We just let the kiddies crack on and widdle in public but we are still here!

I should point out:

Every now and then you will note a comment here that looks a bit more ... insightful than the rest - it might be bollocks or not. Search the username etc. or follow the threads and someone will eventually note who made it.

You will find some remarkable people hereabouts. The rest is the usual noise of any other social.

I like this post because I feel like I don't see a ton of I.T applicable posts on the site. Thanks!

I can absolutely code if necessary. It was honestly more of the "look" and display of the data that was I looking for more of the shortcut for. I have a computer science degree. I am a little rusty as I work in IT now but should be able to bulldoze through it. I recently downloaded a lot of the data breach info and wanted to sort it in a database and create my own search engine similar to sites like "weleakinfo" and what not for my house. It seemed like a fun project and good opportunity to learn something new. I figured there was some type of platform/framework that was common for that opposed to coding everything from scratch. Just curious though. Thank you for the reply.

Dang that is wild. Didn't know that.

same for UC employees, but we set up a web site so the FOIA/CPRA requests don't have to be made https://ucannualwage.ucop.edu/wage/

It has our UC police in it too.

I would love to be able to make a bot for the snapchat group my friends and I have. We already have a blast using it now. A bot that could randomly do things that we could all interact with would be hilarious. Sadly I don't think this functionality will be introduced. So it will be cool to maybe slap something together before all of this gets fixed.

I’d be curious if there is someone designing art or tech in this style.

Zillions of people. Usually it gets called steampunk (18xx) or dieselpunk (193x-194x). 195x-6x futurism usually ends up going very Googie. And we’re starting to see 70s/80s retrofuturism, mostly I’d say the word associated with that is vaporwave.

More art than actual tech, and most of the tech is one-off hand-built stuff.

Cassette Futurism for the '80s. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CassetteFuturism

Vaporwave, despite using a lot of 80s samples, is generally more associated with the 90s. Vaporwave is all about the simultaneous apex and decline of mall culture, consumer excess in optimism of the post-Cold War, and early WWW aesthetic.

70s/80s would be Cassette Futurism and Sythwave.

Would cyberpunk count as 90s retrofuturism? Or have we decided it hits too close to home for present times?

Nah cyberpunk is it's own thing and the aesthetic way predates the 90s.

Cyberdecks[0] come to mind. There seems to be quite an active modding scene; I remember seeing a few Pi-based ones recently.

[0] https://www.cyberdeck.cafe/