The tech industry is full of thought leaders trying to sell us their inventions.
Adam should have said that Tailwind is a good solution for him. Instead, he said that Tailwind is better than everything else and piggy-backed on famous people in tech to sell his idea. Which created a cult-like following.
Cults are bad for tech because it prevents out-of-the-box thinking.
I just start coding, then if it sucks, I throw away the code, and start from scratch. Github branches help with this.
When I start from scratch again, I usually do much better than the first time because you get to use all the experience from the previous iteration to make the current out better.
Read Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground. You'll realize that anti-social behavior is quite old.
It could be that some people evolve to be anti-social so that society can progress, because such people typically spend more time on intellectual endeavors like inventing programming languages. I say typically because the underground man spent all his brain power to fuel his existential crisis instead of working for the advancement of the human race.
But some highly productive aren't anti-social. Take Jeff Bezos for example, who is incredibly charismatic but still invented the best online shopping experience in the world. Compare him to Elon Musk, who I can't listen to for more than 30 seconds because of how awkward he is. Sometimes I think he's trolling us by pretending to be awkward.
I believe anti-social behavior can and should be treated.
It's interesting how in 2024, managers still believe that building software is simply the act of pushing random buttons on a keyboard while moving a mouse.
If the developer stops typing for a minute, or a few hours in order to use his brain to think about a hard problem, then the developer doesn't deserve to get paid because he's not actively using his computer?
If you really want to track developer hours accurately, you need to invent a microchip that will be implanted in the developer's brain.
This chip will track all electrical activity related to building your software, so that you get the best bang for the hourly rate you're paying the developer.
Same. It's been proven time and time again that hard problems can be solved by simply walking away while the brain keeps working on it in the background.
Are you a developer? Because it seems to be geared towards developers. It's something like a all-in-one backend that you can use as a starting point and extend if needed.
Personally, I think the website is clear and concise. Doesn't even have any marketing filler which is a huge plus in my corner.
It is a simple program that (1) hosts a webserver, (2) runs server-side code, and (3) hosts a database. It also has built-in support for logging in and permissions to data.
Thus, if you want to write a simple website that needs permissions, storage, and server-side code, it's a great backend solution. The limitation is that it isn't high performance.
It's like a smaller Supabase, which was an open source alternative of Firebase. So basically a database, authentication, file storage, and backend in one solution.
I use Poetry because it makes my life easy and works just like Ruby's bundler and npm in Nodejs.
Some people hate it because they forced people to upgrade a while ago. It's childish to dismiss such an amazing tool because of one bad decision on the maintainers part.
Adam should have said that Tailwind is a good solution for him. Instead, he said that Tailwind is better than everything else and piggy-backed on famous people in tech to sell his idea. Which created a cult-like following.
Cults are bad for tech because it prevents out-of-the-box thinking.