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
The making of burdens
Why was that system so bad? What was it that I did that made it so inextensible and brittle?
The first reason is greed . I wanted to make something cool . I sought a challenge where non existed! The problem I was seeking to solve was primarily my own creation.
The second reason is ignorance . I naively believed that the original... See more
Why was that system so bad? What was it that I did that made it so inextensible and brittle?
The first reason is greed . I wanted to make something cool . I sought a challenge where non existed! The problem I was seeking to solve was primarily my own creation.
The second reason is ignorance . I naively believed that the original... See more
Sourceless - Perfect isn't Good Enough
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