All writings tagged with "Mistakes"
I haven’t seen that kind of pure, unadulterated joy in years. I think I used to feel that way about my Java builds 14 years ago, before the cynicism of a thousand deployments set in. That’s the thing about experience: you start taking the small wins for granted, forgetting the magic of a successful compile
Most technical posts today are not written to be useful. They are written to look useful. In the AI era that is a losing game. If your post sounds like everyone else, it will be read like everyone else, which is to say skimmed, liked, and forgotten.
Every developer with a MacBook became a visionary founder. To do lists. Flashlight apps. Another to do list but this one is social. The App Store filled up. So did the graveyard.
JavaScript is the only language where you can take a six-month sabbatical and come back to find that your entire tech stack has been deprecated, replaced, and then 're-imagined' as a Rust-based CLI tool