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Re:Software development topics I've changed my mind on after... by OJFord on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @06:46AM (#42947185)
It's not even more or less, it's just about different aspects. Consider a woodworker obsessing over sharp chisels - they don't all care beyond 'sharpish', or about the tools used to do so - but to some that's hugely important and how they are then able to do their best work.
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Re:Software development topics I've changed my mind on after... by chasd00 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @08:43AM (#42948363)
To take it further some woodworkers are really tool hobbyists. They obsess over the tools and never really touch the wood they’re supposedly working. Same goes for software devs, I think about this when reading threads obsessing over AWS services, pipelines, build stacks, instead of writing software.
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