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> yet another web app/thing that renders DB records to HTML/thing that takes one JSON blob and turns it to another Ouch, this is currently my "pet" project. I
by MH15 7y ago
> yet another web app/thing that renders DB records to HTML/thing that takes one JSON blob and turns it to another
Ouch, this is currently my "pet" project. I totally get what you mean though. I'm honestly not sure if it can even considered a pet project anymore, as it works way better than I expected.
- vanderZwan 7y agoI think it's a rehash (conscious or not) of Thomas Figg's famous "Webapps, or as I like to call them: Skins around databases."-joke that he used in his "Programming is terrible—Lessons learned from a life wasted" talk from many years ago. It's no longer completely true, but honestly it's still kind of true. And I've been making my living writing them for years now ;) [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c
- ljm 7y agoIt's probably my main source of disappointment as a programmer specialising in web applications. There are a lot of other things I know how to do or like to play with, but the main money is in the boring stuff. Of course, it's not boring to the newcomers and our new juniors. But the step up for me isn't a more interesting problem to tackle, it's leadership. (Although at my current job I do get a few interesting challenges on top of that.)