Re:Advice to Young Web Developers
by ehnto on Friday June 19, 2020 @03:12AM
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In my personal life I serve HTML, CSS and native, gracefully degrading JS (if any), for the same reasons.
In my professional life though, I realised that 95% of the things I build will be changed in the next year or so. We often inherit projects that were only just finished, and our first task is to start changing it entirely.
So I aim for robustness of maintenance rather than robustness of the finished product. It's inevitable that it will change, but I can anticipate that in the same way a well engineered car can anticipate it's maintenance cycles.
In my professional life though, I realised that 95% of the things I build will be changed in the next year or so. We often inherit projects that were only just finished, and our first task is to start changing it entirely.
So I aim for robustness of maintenance rather than robustness of the finished product. It's inevitable that it will change, but I can anticipate that in the same way a well engineered car can anticipate it's maintenance cycles.