I think I jumped over from DOS at 3.1. High five!

ME was the abbreviation for Millennium in Windows ME.

Something something "1%" isn't better, it's just an infantile bragging rights distinction with an abhorrently "premium" price-tag. Fucking "1%ers" think they're better simply for being able to pay more for the same shit on the spoon.

They were ahead of their time, but even that couldn't save that legendary version.

"Crap? I like crap. I love crap. I need crap. Crap is what sells newspapers. Look around you. Crap, crap, crap. Crap, crap, crap, crap."

By definition, SemVer is supposed to have meaning to end users. If you see the third number increase, no worries, it's just bugfixes.

If you see the second number increase, well, in theory no worries, it's just cool new features but doesn't break anything you were doing, whatever you were doing should keep on working as always, and you can explore the new features at your leisure.

The first number changes: beware, something you may be used to can change/go away so it's not necessarily a slam dunk to update that.

The problem is that many projects just call it SemVer when they just play with arbitrary numbers. I'll call it "Marketing Versioning".

I just don't see what the point is of making the version the date. If I care about time then look up the release date metadata associated with the version.

Semver shows breaking changes. That seems more important than time to me, and I'd think for most people. Calver implies to me that people are manually reviewing releases and going "yeah this date is more recent so I think I'll go with that one" which makes no sense to me. Basically everyone has some automated update system.

What does matter to me is if an update with break anything or includes new features.

Maybe the software will be around in 2126, but I most certainly won't, not my problem 😂

Maybe it's just the horror that we work with a very questionable version of it :(

263.2

2026 release, major 3, minor 2

That was incredible. I had no idea it could be so easy.

Good thing it's not Morgan Freeman, then. Even naturally sounding like him can get you sued for impersonation, IIRC. 🙃

Hunh. So it tracks, then? Throwing the gates wide for the desperate plebs to run amok across the lands, chasing dreams of a better life —just softening up the resistance of those who came long before and effectively paving the way with their blood, sweat, and sundry lives.

The playbook hasn't changed in centuries.