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I am referring to the following mental algorithm I see being used by managers and some devs: 1. My front end guy does JS 2. My backend guy costs money 3. Let me remove 2 and get 1 …

I don't think node.js per se is the worst thing. However, the way it is used, particularly what I believe to be a misguided attempt to do "full stack development" is really terribl…

So, you want people to write web apps in C: a language with overflows all over the place and something a child could launch a DDoS attack against. This is not a defense against fea…

I have a theory that by optimizing for the UI/UX of a First time user, things have gotten worse for the power user. In the past when most of our apps were desktop apps, there was a…

I would blame Scrum and the culture of storyboards. Go and take a look at any storyboard. 99% of it is feature addition. Not speed improvement, not security. It is some "scrum mast…

Well the only way a 20 year old is getting weirded out by a Win 95 interface is (1) he has never seen a Windows machine because Win 10 basically reverted to the same Win 95 interfa…

The front end developer at one of the companies I was working for nearly fainted when I told him I like Craigslist's web interface. The only criticism he could muster was "But it l…

You can: try FP languages. My personal recommendations (from opposite ends of the FP spectrum) would be Clojure and Haskell. F# is pretty nice too.