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You describe FOMO -- fear of missing out. A lot of what gets announced and contributes to the illusion of constant change and "so much happening these days" am

You describe FOMO -- fear of missing out. A lot of what gets announced and contributes to the illusion of constant change and "so much happening these days" amounts to fad and fashion, mostly short-lived and niche. You don't have to jump on every new shiny thing. Ask yourself, would you want to work for a company or client who constantly chased fads? If some new thing gets traction, last for a few years, grows a developer base, and has successful products that use it, take a look and see if it fits your work. If it just "sounds real neat" maybe play with it but don't change course or waste a lot of time -- wait to see if it goes anywhere. No one can learn all of the actually useful tools, languages, frameworks, much less the niche and ephemeral, so don't stress over it. Truly useful and innovative things prove themselves over time. I focus my time and attention on tools that seem to have staying power, make me more effective delivering value, and that I can get paid for.

bronlund 2y ago
Thank you for answering. It's not just FOMO, I guess it's some of that, but what saddens me really, is the fact that so much of the new stuff is node-based. Specially with all this new AI stuff. I do want to try out things, but as soon as I see that npm command, it's kind of a dealbreaker for me. I just don't want to be bothered with that :) I know it's kind of biased, I don't really have this issue with other stacks. I have preferences of course, but not the kind of dislike I have for JavaScript on the server-side.
- gregjor 2y ago
  I have the same reaction to node and npm. I just don’t use it. Plenty of other tools I can make a living with. I ignore so-called AI too. I tried Copilot and ChatGPT, not a big time savings for me. If I have to carefully audit and debug code I’d rather mentor a junior human programmer than a corporate parasite LLM. Maybe I will miss out, who can tell. I have survived and stayed employable for over four decades. I get the most work from Unix/Linux and SQL expertise.
  - bronlund 2y ago
    Thank you. Good to know I'm not alone. On the other hand, we may both be old farts :D

bronlund 2y ago

Thank you for answering. It's not just FOMO, I guess it's some of that, but what saddens me really, is the fact that so much of the new stuff is node-based. Specially with all this new AI stuff. I do want to try out things, but as soon as I see that npm command, it's kind of a dealbreaker for me. I just don't want to be bothered with that :) I know it's kind of biased, I don't really have this issue with other stacks. I have preferences of course, but not the kind of dislike I have for JavaScript on the server-side.

gregjor 2y ago
I have the same reaction to node and npm. I just don’t use it. Plenty of other tools I can make a living with. I ignore so-called AI too. I tried Copilot and ChatGPT, not a big time savings for me. If I have to carefully audit and debug code I’d rather mentor a junior human programmer than a corporate parasite LLM. Maybe I will miss out, who can tell. I have survived and stayed employable for over four decades. I get the most work from Unix/Linux and SQL expertise.
- bronlund 2y ago
  Thank you. Good to know I'm not alone. On the other hand, we may both be old farts :D