When I watch videos of the English countryside, the scenery feels almost ‘storybook’ or cartoon-like to me, the homes, the colors, the calm atmosphere.It makes me wonder why some places trigger this feeling of peace or nostalgia even if we've never lived there. Is it cultural exposure, childhood media, or something else? Has anyone else felt this way about a place they’ve never been?
What if developers don’t actually need to track every update? chasing everything creates stress, not skill. When you step back, focus on building, and learn things when you need them, nothing bad really happens. Is staying up-to-date overrated?
I feel like a lot of the best tech updates, new libraries, tool releases, smart engineering insights, show up first in random Twitter replies or buried threads. I don’t want to spend my whole day refreshing Twitter just to stay informed, but I also don’t want to miss important stuff. How do you keep up with tech as a developer without being glued to Twitter?
I have a friend who works at a big company. He only knows .NET. I asked him about other technologies, but he doesn’t seem to care, he’s paid well. Another friend works in the banking field as a developer using Java and jQuery. I told him about React.js and modern frontend tools, but he only knows jQuery
was building facebook with PHP considered a mistake ? (no hate for php it is just a question)
simple answer: write the code with Rust and they will hire you everytime
many developers who only build wrappers around AI models talk confidently about AGI, even without deep AI knowledge, what’s going on here?
can someone end the javascript war
Other ecosystems solved auth years ago. Frameworks like Laravel, Rails, Django.Developers there just build and ship products.Meanwhile, in JavaScript land, we’re stuck gluing together 1,000 npm packages and 1,000 paid external services. I don’t see this level of chaos in other languages.It feels like VC money loves the JS ecosystem because it creates endless gaps to monetize. Auth is the best...
I’ve been thinking about how much of the SaaS world feels circular, software companies building products and services, but their main customers are often other software companies, from dev tools to cloud hosting to analytics. are software companies mostly just selling to each other, and if so, what are the long-term effects?
i know there is no perfect choice, every thing has pros and cons, but come on guys there is a tech stack that you used at least once and you didn't find the same joy in other stack like DX,speed, performance...
Focusing on accessibility, longevity, performance, and simplicity
https://www.arrow-js.com/docs/
A tiny ~2kb library for building reactive interfaces in native JavaScript
writing pure sql brings me joy than dealing with ORMs, the reason that writing sql i feel at home, knowing every part of the query without the magic of ORMs, prisma good ORM launch typedSql inspired from SQLX and pgtyped, but i need a minimal alternative, i look at kysely, it is like pure sql but as chain of functions, any other solutions, a type safe query builder ?