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There's some irony, is there not, in presuming to be able to identify "the best programmers" when you've created a programming blog that completely falls down when it gets significant web traffic?
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just my 0.02€
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I don't know. Career plans aside, to me, making software is a means to an end. There is no inherent value to producing software, as there may be in producing car tires or bananas. The best software is no software. And then who is the better programmer, the one who knows more about how to make software, or the one who knows more about what software to make?
>The best software is no software. Eh, I disagree. I like a lot of the software I'm using. There's inherent value to producing music with Ableton, cutting videos with Final Cut Pro, or just playing Super Mario for entertainment. Those are all more software than no software.
Yes yes! Although, in an interview, there is not always an easy way to separate out people that can’t say “I don’t know” during day to day work, from those that can. But what a difference. A strong need to hide a lack of omniscience is wildly irritating to me, in co-workers and people in general. It causes such problems!
> You built and shipped a critical service for a (larger) org. > You wrote a famous tool > You contribute to a popular open source tool > You wrote a book that is often mentioned all this will brand you as 'super nerd' and limit your career earning potential unless you are planning to become a principal engineer at google . don't be know for nerdy shit.
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I always get a lot of pushback for avoiding frameworks and libraries, and rolling most things by hand. But, most frameworks and libraries aren't built to be audit-grade robust, don't have enterprise level compatibility promises, can't guarantee that there won't be suprise performance impacts for arbitrary use cases, etc. Sometimes, a third party library (like sql-lite) makes the cut. But frameworks and libraries that…
I completely agree - though there are places where I trust an implementation of things like a well known algorithm. However, to add onto this, I'm consistently shocked at how often it is much CHEAPER to "roll your own." We've done some reviews on systems after a few years and the number of bugs and security vulnerabilities we experience with code based around packages is much MUCH higher. Its hard to put a number to…
The library space has become competitive, and people are running them as business. The goal is not to be correct or even good, but to be a "first mover" and selling tutorials, books, Github sponsorships, Patreon subscriptions...
It's bad not only in terms of security, but also in terms of developer experience.
I am constantly amazed at how little documentation things have, at how many BASIC cases they don't cover (let alone edge cases) and how many security holes those libraries have, and the number of dependencies just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
Another issue is that newer developers are being taught just the newfangled library and have zero experience with the foundations. The number of React devs who don't know how to use HTML forms without a library is nuts.
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I always get a lot of pushback for avoiding frameworks and libraries, and rolling most things by hand. But, most frameworks and libraries aren't built to be audit-grade robust, don't have enterprise level compatibility promises, can't guarantee that there won't be suprise performance impacts for arbitrary use cases, etc. Sometimes, a third party library (like sql-lite) makes the cut. But frameworks and libraries that…
This is a hard take, just because we all build on stacks. When we trust that Math.Abs() is going to work in some language, or that some socket library is going to do what it says on the tin, we're standing on the shoulders of giants. I also avoid frameworks as much as possible, but by frameworks I mean anything I'd rather roll myself in a scripting language, particularly when learning and keeping up with the framewor…
For those unable to open the link due to owner site being hit by Cloudflare limit, here's a link to web archive - https://web.archive.org/web/20250409082704/https://endler.de...
There's some irony, is there not, in presuming to be able to identify "the best programmers" when you've created a programming blog that completely falls down when it gets significant web traffic?
Now that they've gotten the hug of death they'll probably plan for it next time.