Re:IKEA for Software
by yobbo on Saturday January 17, 2026 @02:39AM
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> We treat every new project like a piece of bespoke furniture, meticulously hand-carving the same legs, joints, and frames that have been built a million times before.
No, we don't. The scale of his own code contributions relative to "Postgres, Timescale and S3), a view layer (a set of Vue web apps) and a business logic layer, consisting of a set of NestJS") is negligible. The price he paid was the time it took to climb a learning curve.
Re:IKEA for Software
by tgirotto on Thursday January 22, 2026 @05:02AM
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@yobbo author here. Totally agree on my contributions being negligible ;) That being said, doesn't that actually prove the point? If a good amount of business value is coming from gluing pieces together, why not start from the top?
No, we don't. The scale of his own code contributions relative to "Postgres, Timescale and S3), a view layer (a set of Vue web apps) and a business logic layer, consisting of a set of NestJS") is negligible. The price he paid was the time it took to climb a learning curve.