I have a problem that I've been dragging for years: personal organization. I've always been looking for the perfect system, that structure that fits exactly with my way of thinking, but time and again I end up at the same point: my system doesn't work.
For more than five years I've been switching between frameworks and... See more
reddit.comMore than 5 years overengineering my framework
I ended my time at @Meta as a director.
But I started as an engineer on FB Chat.
Everything about it was broken — we had to rewrite it.
And while the effort to fix it is one the projects that led to @reactjs, the most important fix was far... See more
Jim is an engineer and works for “THE COMPANY”. A client has requested a JSON file that contains all recent, Canadian buyers of their “PRODUCT ABC”. Jim can handle this task no problem, but thinks it is a little short-sighted. Jim thinks to himself, “What if they want to check buyers from the US? What if they want a shorter or longer time frame?”.... See more
Deliver the Bare Minimum
The reality of building web apps in 2025 is that it's a bit like assembling IKEA furniture. There's no "full-stack" product with batteries included, you have to piece together and configure many individual services:
- frontend / backend (e.g. React, Next.js, APIs)
- hosting (cdn, https, domains,... See more
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