Jason GormanAfter 34 years in software development, I'm beginning to wonder if being "left behind" might in fact be the secret to a long career.
Russell Garner@jasongorman I've managed to almost completely avoid React.js in this way and have come out the other side where "SSR" is the new hotness despite having done nothing but SSR since 1996
Steve Purcell@rgarner @jasongorman Same, I have tactically avoided putting significant life force into a number of trends that felt "off" to me, React, k8s, extreme microservices and proprietary cloud services among them. I know enough about these things to happily leave the deep expertise to others, preferably far away, and in competitors' businesses rather than my own.
@sanityinc @jasongorman hey I think we've avoided the same technologies.
I'm going to add Tailwind to this list.
@sanityinc @jasongorman things I've bet the farm on that haven't gone away: HTTP, HTML, CSS, SQL. All stuff with some kind of not-directly-corporate standard behind it. The binding execution language is in some ways the least interesting part.
@rgarner @jasongorman fuck yeah to this whole list
@sanityinc I mean I'd add JS, because I do lots of it, but quite reluctantly.
@rgarner understood, some things can be left unspoken
@rgarner @jasongorman amazing what you can do if you just skate directly to the puck rather than renting a generalized puck-location-finding, ice-polishing, skate-grinding mobile operations centre from ex Googlers.
EdTheDev@sanityinc @rgarner @jasongorman I'm going to use this amazing sentence. Thank you. It cuts right to the heart of the conversation.
Ryan McCuaig@sanityinc @rgarner @jasongorman I set up a new thing recently as bare-VPS with bash script installers, deploy is a post-receive hook, and I’m now quite irritated whenever I work on something that isn’t this. (Also, having another bare repo around when github is down is pretty great).
@rgm the classics are classics for a reason!