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People waste so. Much. Time. On shiny tech, often just because it ends up on HN (or Tiktok or Insta). I remember evaluating the JAM stack years ago, and was un
by davedx 3y ago
People waste so. Much. Time. On shiny tech, often just because it ends up on HN (or Tiktok or Insta).
I remember evaluating the JAM stack years ago, and was underwhelmed. Like so many shiny new techs it didn’t really offer any big leaps forwards under the marketing and hype. People who lapped it up should think more critically about why they adopt tech.
- api 3y agoIt seems like something that was designed to sell more cloud SaaS services: content hosting services, build services, etc. Instead of having one host for your site you now need three.
- gochi 3y agoI don't mind the churn, adopting new tech can be its own form of personal enjoyment. What I dislike is the hype, people with sizeable bases acting irresponsibly about new tech. Encouraging early adoption, and spending so much time promoting it, funding conferences, and then after 5 years dumping all of it so you can "learn from your mistakes" to push for some new thing. It feels so dishonest, why would their current choice be any better if they made such reckless decisions not too long ago? So you're right we really do need to think critically about new tech and give people the means to assess things critically without the hype.
- whalesalad 3y agoThe problem with this attitude is that sometimes shiny new tech is awesome. I remember when nginx was shiny new tech and I had to deploy it into prod (back in 2007-2008) to prove that it was superior to Apache + mod_python. You need to be able to take the good with the bad and analyze everything objectively.
- davedx 3y agoWell yeah that’s what I mean about thinking critically.
- cpursley 3y agoHow is providing a github url and having your site live and distributed via a global CDN with zero fuss not a leap forward?