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Interesting. Two years earlier, when I worked at Spotify in 2013, I wrote a similar article: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2013/02/25/in-praise-of-boring-te

• Kye 6y ago
  Maybe this is tech's crab. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
  • politelemon 6y ago
    Some info about the memes mentioned at the bottom https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/carcinization https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/carcinization
  • afarrell 6y ago
    That is like expecting that carpenters are going to keep making jigs and saying "measure twice, cut once" in various forms. If you could read the advice of a from carpenter 2000 years ago, I think he'd also be talking a lot about how humans make errors and need to account for that.
    • Kye 6y ago
      I think this gets at why people keep going back to old, time-tested tools. All new languages, frameworks, and tools seem to converge on the same things with enough time. Carpentry, computers, and programming languages all end up with a router. They also end up with some kind of cruft, or annoyance. A time-tested tool has time-tested failure modes. Everyone eventually figures out they need to start a nail with taps and remove their hand before swinging. Some people prefer to figure it out on their own, others like to know the path ahead.
• chanux 6y ago
  I remembered the article and came here to comment about it. What a nice surprise to see the author beating me to it :D. Loved it!