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I agree with everything you've written here, particularly your process of tool evaluation and refinement. My only push back is with respect to the way you chara

I agree with everything you've written here, particularly your process of tool evaluation and refinement. My only push back is with respect to the way you characterized the merit of "overhyped" tools (in your previous comment) that didn't line up with the productivity profile of your personal experience. I agree that Django/Rails/Postgres/MySQL/NodeJS/Redis are all reliable tools, but I am not a fan of the philosophy that labels other people's work as unnecessary or harmful simply for existing outside the pantheon of worthy tooling.

bitexploder 6y ago
In isolation of any constraint new things are always worth playing with and trying. I know I am certainly more biased (hopefully in a mostly good way) now than I was when I started in tech. Your thought strikes me as Very similar to when someone shares some hobby project they are working on and someone else doesn’t get it and states: “wow, you must have a lot of time on your hands”. So I do try to take new projects seriously while at the same time balancing time constraints. It’s hard :)