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Even though I'm not a front-end developer, I dealt with WordPress advanced custom development for a certain amount of time to realize web development - as we cu
by stephen82 6y ago
Even though I'm not a front-end developer, I dealt with WordPress advanced custom development for a certain amount of time to realize web development - as we currently know it - is not worth it...like *at all*!
As an OCD person I cannot count the number of times I got panic attacks for realizing how many tests I needed to go through to test:
* have I checked my PHP code, packages, and settings? Are they all good?
* is Composer and my various packages updated?
* what about npm and yarn packages? are they updated?
* wait...do I need worry about CSS as well now, to look for extra security measurements? WHY?! Oh yeah, CSS injection [1] /facepalm
You cannot imagine how many times I jumped out of bed to run to my computer to double-check a security measurement on an infrastructure I thought I did not secure only to find out I already did an extra step that double-secured it...
It's not worth it anymore.
It's SO FREAKING STRESSFUL!
I decided to stop dealing with web development as a whole and I'm playing with C and C++ now, like the good ol' days.
I can't do multiple things at once.
I live and breathe the UNIX philosophy: Do one thing and do it well.
[1] https://www.netsparker.com/blog/web-security/private-data-stolen-exploiting-css-injection/ https://www.netsparker.com/blog/web-security/private-data-st...
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