Podcast Episode 93: Web dev is a slog
In today's episode I complain about how web development has not been fun for a while, the excesses of modern development patterns, and cargo cults following huge enterprise patterns for a 5 person teams.
We touch on the RAM/SSD crisis and how it may have the potential to make people appreciate the constraints. There's a discussion how the entire industry is being opened to more people with every new iterations, with only a few remaining holdouts, like embedded and video games, but even these industries are brought on the same bandwagon of unconstrained development.
I've argued many times that constraints are important for learning, growth, and mastery, and without them it's becoming trivial to produce infinite amount of sloppa.