I read Joel's blog back in university, this must have been around 2010. I was very inspired and I remember binge-reading his archives during several late night

I read Joel's blog back in university, this must have been around 2010. I was very inspired and I remember binge-reading his archives during several late night coursework sessions in the CS lab. This seems to have been around the time the hipster-tech culture started taking off in a big way. I graduated right in the middle of it, and looking back, I realise I'd taken for granted that the professional tech world would follow Joel's more adult way of thinking. Instead we have a cult of youth. No planning (under a misguided interpretation of "lean"), minimum processes (under a misguided interpretation of "agile"), no knowledge of design patterns (TDD supposedly makes this obsolete), weird fake hipster quirkiness (but omg don't make any jokes about killing ex-girlfriends, or Anil Dash will put you on an industry blacklist).