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I really appreciate you taking the time to respond with these details. I do go deep on application-level tech (CSS, HTML, JS with and without frameworks, iOS de

by irskep 4y ago

I really appreciate you taking the time to respond with these details. I do go deep on application-level tech (CSS, HTML, JS with and without frameworks, iOS dev, etc) and it's always disheartening for people to claim that choosing not to focus on specific technologies makes you a worse human being. The other thing that's going completely over people's heads here is that I made this repo with the intent of helping other people who know less than me. I know I can figure out all the deployment bullshit, but I mentor folks who can't, and also don't have much money, and yet still need to deploy their portfolio projects to the Internet in order to find jobs. I was trying to find a balance of ease-of-maintenance vs monetary cost. If there's an even simpler solution with an even lower cost, that a random bootcamp grad could maintain, I'd adopt it in my template in a heartbeat. If any of these people claiming it's easy want to work with me on a reboot of the "deploy a web site easy and cheap" template, I'd absolutely collaborate with them on it. I think it's important to democratize all the cheap computing power lying around these days.

JohnBooty 4y ago
And thank you so much for doing what you do. That use case of, "how the heck do I host my portfolio projects?" is really unreasonably confusing in 2023. You are working to remove a significant barrier to entry in our industry.
stirfish 4y ago
>choosing not to focus on specific technologies makes you a worse human being. maybe that'll make you a worse engineer, but engineers are not human beings.
- justinclift 4y ago
  > engineers are not human beings That's funny, all the engineers I've known have been. What crowd have you been hanging out with? :)
- Kranar 4y ago
  Don't know what version of Chat-GPT you're using, but last I checked engineers are still human.
bogwog 4y ago
> and it's always disheartening for people to claim that choosing not to focus on specific technologies makes you a worse human being. Hey, I'm the guy who wrote that original response to you. I apologize if that's how you interpreted my comment, but that's not what I meant by it. I wasn't even trying to say that you're a bad engineer (and certainly not a bad human being), I just wanted to say that I disagree with the attitude of that comment. I'm sure if I said it to you in person, you would have picked up on the non-hostile intent and narrow scope of my criticism, but the internet tends to twist things in very negative ways. Nobody can know everything, and not knowing something doesn't make someone a bad engineer. Software development in particular is more about learning than about knowing, which is why when I see someone saying that they don't need to learn something because <X>, it bothers me. In your comment, you said that you don't want to be a release engineer, but IMO that's a poor excuse since "release engineer" isn't even a role that exists at many places. And for the record, I didn't even look at the project you linked to. So if you also thought I was criticizing it, then rest assured that I'm much too lazy for that. When I was still learning, online tutorials and resources like yours were extremely valuable to me, so I know how helpful they can be to people even if they're not "perfect" by some snobby asshole's definition...so keep at it!

by irskep 4y ago

JohnBooty 4y ago

And thank you so much for doing what you do. That use case of, "how the heck do I host my portfolio projects?" is really unreasonably confusing in 2023. You are working to remove a significant barrier to entry in our industry.

stirfish 4y ago

>choosing not to focus on specific technologies makes you a worse human being. maybe that'll make you a worse engineer, but engineers are not human beings.

justinclift 4y ago
> engineers are not human beings That's funny, all the engineers I've known have been. What crowd have you been hanging out with? :)
Kranar 4y ago
Don't know what version of Chat-GPT you're using, but last I checked engineers are still human.

bogwog 4y ago

> and it's always disheartening for people to claim that choosing not to focus on specific technologies makes you a worse human being. Hey, I'm the guy who wrote that original response to you. I apologize if that's how you interpreted my comment, but that's not what I meant by it. I wasn't even trying to say that you're a bad engineer (and certainly not a bad human being), I just wanted to say that I disagree with the attitude of that comment. I'm sure if I said it to you in person, you would have picked up on the non-hostile intent and narrow scope of my criticism, but the internet tends to twist things in very negative ways. Nobody can know everything, and not knowing something doesn't make someone a bad engineer. Software development in particular is more about learning than about knowing, which is why when I see someone saying that they don't need to learn something because <X>, it bothers me. In your comment, you said that you don't want to be a release engineer, but IMO that's a poor excuse since "release engineer" isn't even a role that exists at many places. And for the record, I didn't even look at the project you linked to. So if you also thought I was criticizing it, then rest assured that I'm much too lazy for that. When I was still learning, online tutorials and resources like yours were extremely valuable to me, so I know how helpful they can be to people even if they're not "perfect" by some snobby asshole's definition...so keep at it!