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Reminds me of a funny take from @marginalia: The Static File Startup: > We’re going to disrupt Internet hosting and serve static files in a novel way through a cloud based SaaS. https://www.marginalia.nu/log/51-the-file-startup/
Not from a modern developer. You need to jump down the rabbit hole of the history of solid and proven solutions. Indeed. I've noticed an increasing number of people who call themselves "developers" and appear to create software, but all they can do is follow step-by-step tutorials to glue together some massively bloated thing that they have absolutely no understanding of, much less the skills to debug it when somethi…
Then how are these people getting jobs but not my more competent friend? Asking for friend.
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Dunno if it actually is democratizing software engineering. Looks more like a cargo cult to me. You get a second class of developers that don't quite get it. Not because they aren't capable, but because nobody shared the secrets with them and they had to piece together everything from flotsam.
Cargo cult programming is a starting point. Plenty of people won't go any further, but when what you're putting together is all source code, it's mostly transparent boxes you're putting together. You can look inside and see the secrets whenever you want, if you ever want. Sure, maybe there's some design principles to share that aren't obvious. But it's hard to share and teach those before someone has experience with…
The way to bring a cargo cult developer into the light typically involves debunking or contextualizing a whole bunch of weird ideas.
Reminds me of a funny take from @marginalia: The Static File Startup: > We’re going to disrupt Internet hosting and serve static files in a novel way through a cloud based SaaS. https://www.marginalia.nu/log/51-the-file-startup/
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At some point, the plane flew so high above the clouds, and it hasn't seen the ground for so long, the passengers might think the clouds is the ground.
When "Hello World" is a cloud instance spun up and billed on your tuition. That won't really happen, right? No Computer Science (CS) professor would designate special cloud Interactive Development Environments (IDEs) to students. On the other hand, it would really resolve a lot of "doesn't work on my machine" issues.
Not from a modern developer. You need to jump down the rabbit hole of the history of solid and proven solutions. Indeed. I've noticed an increasing number of people who call themselves "developers" and appear to create software, but all they can do is follow step-by-step tutorials to glue together some massively bloated thing that they have absolutely no understanding of, much less the skills to debug it when somethi…
Not from a modern developer. You need to jump down the rabbit hole of the history of solid and proven solutions. Indeed. I've noticed an increasing number of people who call themselves "developers" and appear to create software, but all they can do is follow step-by-step tutorials to glue together some massively bloated thing that they have absolutely no understanding of, much less the skills to debug it when somethi…
> glue together some massively bloated thing that they have absolutely no understanding of Welcome to the world of npm and supply-chain hell
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Is caddy that easy to setup and run?
Yes. Caddy excels at making simple [1] use-cases trivial - either with no config, or 3-5 lines of config. It might seem jarring comming from Apache or nginx - but i think a lot of it comes from the developers having destilled a lot of common use-cases and carefully chosen reasonable defaults. [1] Simple to articulate; not necessarily simple to execute - eg letsencrypt works out of the box. Caddy will give you https i…
To be fair to NGINX, there is a lot of boilerplate config, but if you have a good set of default files, the server blocks can be small. The same could be said for Apache, of course. But yeah, Caddy is great in how little config it takes, no boilerplate, to do what the incumbents do.
Content-Type?