I'm a successful front-end developer and I really don't care about any of this stuff. This is one of the last manifesto's I'd personally subscribe to. In fact

I'm a successful front-end developer and I really don't care about any of this stuff. This is one of the last manifesto's I'd personally subscribe to. In fact, I feel sad for anyone who takes front-end development this seriously. This is a field that exists because of fragmentation and the strange place that the web has arrived at. On the whole, we aren't solving interesting problems. We are building what someone else has designed and then patching that build across devices and browsers. Sometimes there are fun problems to solve while doing that, but its nothing compared to what we could be doing as programmers. I get paid well to make applications work cross device and cross browser, and I have an extremely flexible work environment. That is why I work hard. Not because Tom from Oklahoma is going to have a slightly better day because he doesn't have to figure out how to get on with his life when the site I'm working on doesn't break on his particular device or browser. Look up at the stars. Think bigger.