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I judge boring by how many external dependencies a website depends on, this is not boring. Boring is a server with Postgres (or SQLite). Maybe two servers, in w

by SPBS 3y ago

I judge boring by how many external dependencies a website depends on, this is not boring. Boring is a server with Postgres (or SQLite). Maybe two servers, in which case you'd need a load balancer (another dependency). > I write code and run the dev servers (Django runserver & webpack dev server) by using PyCharm. Yea, I know, it’s boring. After all, it’s not Visual Studio Code or Atom or whatever cool IDEs. He seems a little fixated on calling everything he does "boring", even when uh... using an IDE?

behnamoh 3y ago
> He seems a little fixated on calling everything he does "boring", even when uh... using an IDE? I think he means PyCharm is not as "sexy" as VSCode but he uses it nevertheless.
- MrDresden 3y ago
  Honestly can't see anything sexy (nor powerful) about VSCode and I have been using it for years now (due to lack of support in other preferred IDE's).
coldtea 3y ago
>He seems a little fixated on calling everything he does "boring" Isn't that the whole point of the post? To give an account on the "boring" tech (which is a notion older than him and his post, which has been covered a few times on HN over the years) he uses? And he's right in describing what he does as boring, when compared to what is seen as "standard practice"/cool/sexy/cutting edge/modern stacks nowadays. That's one or two RDBMS servers, a regular old-school web application server (Django). That would be very "boring" (that is: older, tried and true) tech bets in 2024. >even when uh... using an IDE? IDEs have not been "exciting new tech" since the era of Symbolics and early Smalltalk IDEs. What he says is that he doesn't use some "latest cool" IDE/editor, but an standard IntelliJ offering, like millions of enterprise programmers.