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As a user, I use a couple of them with Claude: dash0 + linear + readonly access to a prod db, I can now understand and debug our user's issues in minutes with all the forensic automated.

In our product, we found it hard to onboard people on our platform because even though the data was rich, our features were subpar and in development. I've opened the MCP API based on our GraphQL API (like 100 lines of code and config, piece of cake), and we got heavy usage day 1. The adoption went from convincing them to use the platform, to them flooding us with new feautres and data requests.

Front-end is awful in (large) part because of the tooling IMO. In the backend world, you need to make sure your _vertical_ (aka scale) is respected. It's a matter of your code, your infra plus the tooling to help you. If you're good at what you do, use the correct engineering approaches to have an efficient program and use up to date infrastructure or platforms, and use an up to date language (Rust, Python, Java is excellent here, whatever) you'll have all the tools. Your ground won't move as long as you didn't ask him to move. So, For me, it's easier to maintain (but still requires a loooot of care and attention to not fall apart)

In the frontend world, as you said, it's movement everywhere. Browsers, JS, JS package managers, CSS and so on. Even if your code don't move, the platform under will. Your code performance is not only dependent of you, making you tied to the evolution if you want to be up to date. That's so hard, and ungrateful...

If you want to stay in the frontend world, you should definitely increase your knowledge in CSS + Responsive, I think it's the best skill. In JS, stay on par with the language spec. Libraries will come and go, you can learn one (Vue or React, whatever it's the same) to understand the foundations, and it can land you a job basically everywhere.

Backend is easier because it's vertically aligned: performance and stability on a given system that you own. Frontend is horizontally aligned: acceptable performance and rendering on a shitload of systems which enslave you.

What interested me those last months is another path: Mobile dev, especially with Flutter. You keep some stability of a fixed OS (you still have the different versions + screen size, but you choose which one to support), and have the tooling of something close to the backend (compiled languages, package manager, big community). I think you should take a look there if you still want to keep a feet in "client" software, plus you'll never get out of job offers!

Nice work! What's the difference between this and .po/.mo files and the ugettext standard?