Martin Stadler

13/ Es gibt keine "guten" Plattformen. Es gibt keine "schlechten" Plattformen. Tech-Unternehmen sind amoralisch. In den Worten Milton Friedmans: The Business of Business is Business. Moralisierung in egal welche Richtung ist PR, die je nach politischer Windlage anders ausfällt.

It implicitly teaches newcomers to a craft that power in a craft comes from being the authority, and authority comes from knowing the rules better than anyone, and you can trust the rules because they came from an authority (who by definition knows the rules better than anyone).

I'm all for specialization in software engineering, but client/server isn't a good boundary. As a frontend engineer you need to control the entire user experience, and that requires being empowered to program the frontend server.

Related quote that helps me justify giving up when I can tell I’m not going to change their mind: “Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it.”

A common mistake: "Let's abstract this in case we want to replace it later." Examples: 🚫 "Let's abstract React in case we switch JS frameworks." 🚫 "Let's abstract Tailwind in case we switch CSS approaches." 🚫 "Let's abstract Mongo in case we switch Databases". This is typically a waste of time, and often hinders current use too. Why? Because to effectively abstract something, we need to know the API we're abstracting. But we have no idea what a new technology's API will be. Thus, we have no idea whether our abstraction will work with the new technology. In summary, abstraction can be useful. But avoid abstracting merely to support changing to some unknown future technology.

> Es ist Zukunftsangt. Dieser Hass, diese blinde Wut. Und vor allem die vollkommene Hemmungslosigkeit, diese so lautstark und unverhohlen zu demonstrieren. Ohne Scham. Ohne Konsequenzen zu fürchten. Das lässt mich mich in die Knochen erschaudern. >