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> Don't use a framework. I'd like to see people using the appropriate tools for the task at hand. I can imagine slapping my head and asking "Why the hell didn'

> Don't use a framework. I'd like to see people using the appropriate tools for the task at hand. I can imagine slapping my head and asking "Why the hell didn't they just use x". I wouldn't want to pay someone to reinvent the wheel and I'd want someone to demonstrate both their awareness of and their ability to evaluate appropriate code from the relevant ecosystem.

ashark 9y ago
It's easy to address that in a readme. "This is a showcase of my craft, for which reason I avoid using frameworks or anything else that would obscure my work with boilerplate or autogenerated code, or anything that's not really mine, though I do rely on others' libraries when it makes sense as those complement and clarify rather than obscure my code. If you just want to see a TODO app I wrote in Rails with a bunch of 3rd party auth via Devise and a Firebase backend and like 100 lines of code that I actually wrote myself, click HERE" [EDIT] tense agreement fix. [EDIT2] misplaced apostrophe