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https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

by genter 3y ago

sph 3y ago
Jamie ranted about GNOME devs because he was a few decades too early for the clown show that is frontend Javascript development. Once upon a time the noobs started with PHP and gave it a bad name with their insecure spaghetti code, now they start with React and build lovecraftian towers of abstraction that need to be rewritten from scratch every 6 months. Most of the JS frontend ecosystem is held together by people with 2 years of programming experience. EDIT: wow, the testicle-in-an-eggcup has gone. Even jwz mellows down with age...
- erik_seaberg 3y ago
  Probably not. HN began using rel="nofollow noreferrer" in links.
- 59nadir 3y ago
  I think it's important to highlight how the myriad of bad ideas in JS and newbies implementing them really is no fault of the newbies. It should be obvious, but I wonder whether people reading posts like these interpret them as hostile towards the newbies. It's the technically challenged pseudo-leadership out there that is to blame for most of it. The running head-first into "DX" while still consistently having some of the worst developer experience known to man as a whole and not seeing this, this is a by-product of a largely inexperienced but overvalued senior layer in the tech world that find big voices either via Twitter or more directly via pseudo-lifestyle dev channels on YouTube. Some of them flaunt credentials that would fall apart immediately in real conversations but they are the ones that host the conversation so it can't really come up. Not all dev YouTubers are like that, of course, but I'm sure a few come to mind as people are reading this. On top of the above I think people aren't considering that software is often a reflection of values[0] and that people disguising theirs as "best practices" does not make them more valid than others. It's perfectly fine to not prematurely pessimize your solutions and that often requires making choices that some people will see as wrong because they have different values, for example. This is not only fine as a personal value but many businesses reach a point fairly fast where an ever-growing part of their work is performance oriented, despite what a lot of people tend to think. Solutions that see no real use or have no plurals tend to reach this point much slower or never than solutions that do. The above is also interesting to think about; a lot of people don't value reasonably fast software because they've largely never experienced it. It's not an uncommon reaction to marvel at simple solutions that have no real optimization put into them but simply aren't written completely wastefully from the beginning, because they're so much faster than what people are used to. [0] Bryan Cantrill - Platform as a Reflection of Values: https://vimeo.com/230142234 https://vimeo.com/230142234
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https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

by genter 3y ago

https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

sph 3y ago

Jamie ranted about GNOME devs because he was a few decades too early for the clown show that is frontend Javascript development. Once upon a time the noobs started with PHP and gave it a bad name with their insecure spaghetti code, now they start with React and build lovecraftian towers of abstraction that need to be rewritten from scratch every 6 months. Most of the JS frontend ecosystem is held together by people with 2 years of programming experience. EDIT: wow, the testicle-in-an-eggcup has gone. Even jwz mellows down with age...

erik_seaberg 3y ago
Probably not. HN began using rel="nofollow noreferrer" in links.
59nadir 3y ago
I think it's important to highlight how the myriad of bad ideas in JS and newbies implementing them really is no fault of the newbies. It should be obvious, but I wonder whether people reading posts like these interpret them as hostile towards the newbies. It's the technically challenged pseudo-leadership out there that is to blame for most of it. The running head-first into "DX" while still consistently having some of the worst developer experience known to man as a whole and not seeing this, this is a by-product of a largely inexperienced but overvalued senior layer in the tech world that find big voices either via Twitter or more directly via pseudo-lifestyle dev channels on YouTube. Some of them flaunt credentials that would fall apart immediately in real conversations but they are the ones that host the conversation so it can't really come up. Not all dev YouTubers are like that, of course, but I'm sure a few come to mind as people are reading this. On top of the above I think people aren't considering that software is often a reflection of values[0] and that people disguising theirs as "best practices" does not make them more valid than others. It's perfectly fine to not prematurely pessimize your solutions and that often requires making choices that some people will see as wrong because they have different values, for example. This is not only fine as a personal value but many businesses reach a point fairly fast where an ever-growing part of their work is performance oriented, despite what a lot of people tend to think. Solutions that see no real use or have no plurals tend to reach this point much slower or never than solutions that do. The above is also interesting to think about; a lot of people don't value reasonably fast software because they've largely never experienced it. It's not an uncommon reaction to marvel at simple solutions that have no real optimization put into them but simply aren't written completely wastefully from the beginning, because they're so much faster than what people are used to. [0] Bryan Cantrill - Platform as a Reflection of Values: https://vimeo.com/230142234 https://vimeo.com/230142234
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