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Re:TinyLetter Shut Down by Mailchimp, So I Built the LetterDrop by latexr on Monday June 24, 2024 @06:50AM (#40774467)
> Quality went down at every step along the abstraction train

Hard disagree. Abstraction by itself does not correlate with declining quality, you can be a very competent developer working in a high level language, or a crappy developer working in low level languages.

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Re:TinyLetter Shut Down by Mailchimp, So I Built the LetterDrop by pwillia7 on Monday June 24, 2024 @10:32AM (#40776538)
That's too narrowly scoped and it's not a neg on the people. If you write CSS code all day, there's no reason/benefit to understand EE. It's easier for me to think about giant old wooden ships and how that knowledge got lost/replaced at we built modern navy ships. Find me someone to caulk a boat with Oakum today for instance.
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