exabrial 49 minutes ago

"Pretending you are Google" Needs to be on there.

Scalability is not a problem: you have, you will have, you should plan for, you should build for, nor allow anyone to utter the S word. Simplicity is the correct word to use.

  • exabrial 42 minutes ago

    This falls into a broader category of disillusionment: "Pretend problems are the funnnest ones to solve", meaning, when the problem doesn't actually exist, any solution can be leveraged as the "right" one because there is no real world backpressure to test if it's effective.

    Software Devs love solving pretend problems, and the state of modern web development reflects this.