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Jaana Dogan :unverified:

FOMO in tech is a disease and is working against anyone who wants to tackle hard & important problems. I don't know any other sophisticated/technical industry where trends matter this much, and have this level of impact. We routinely force people to drop what they do and pivot to catch a bus they already missed.

24 April at 1:28 | Open on m.rakyll.org
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pgcd

@rakyll you're so right. Devs are afflicted by FOMO, and tech managers doubly so.

24 April at 9:56 | Open on mastodon.online
Jey is enjoying this old 🐘

@pgcd @rakyll that's so true, also because management is full of trends and fashion, so it makes sense that a tech manager would be doubly so 😑

24 April at 10:29 | Open on dftba.club
James

@rakyll I am fighting that battle right now and it’s soul-emptying…

24 April at 9:59 | Open on mastodon.ie
Kate Bowles

@rakyll @pettter Oh my, this has helped me understand something that also applies with force in universities.

24 April at 12:01 | Open on aus.social
pettter

@kate @rakyll It's going to be a feature anywhere your funding and future career depends on getting support from trend-sensitive panels such as funding bodies or executive/company boards.

24 April at 12:03 | Open on mastodon.acc.umu.se
pettter
dr2chase

@pettter @kate @rakyll I remember working for a startup long ago, looking for maybe-customers (people who had a burning problem we could solve, basically) and I went looking at the publicly listed investments of various VC firms, and it was like Pokemon trainers. Each one had a Fire, and a Water, and a Ground, and an Electric, etc. Gotta catch 'em all!

24 April at 12:43 | Open on ohai.social
Gregory

@rakyll I had this happen to me recently when I decided to show the Android developer community how I build small and fast Android apps. It broke many people's logic because "your code is so simple and straightforward, really refreshing" but "you aren't using the best practices which means it's an unmaintainable mess in case a team of 50 developers (49 of them junior) needs to work on it".

24 April at 13:10 | Open on mastodon.social
mike805

@grishka @rakyll The good thing about small and simple apps is you don't need an entire zoo full of monkeys to maintain them. Are you using Compose or regular XML definitions?

25 April at 2:30 | Open on noc.social
Gregory

@mike805 @rakyll XML. And I don't use Kotlin or any libraries written in it.

25 April at 2:47 | Open on mastodon.social
mike805

@grishka @rakyll After my experiences with Kotlin and Compose, which basically consisted of trying to beat it into submission so it would do what it was told, I am inclined to go back and learn the XML approach if I want to write another app.

It wound up about 3.5 MB, which isn't TOO bad, but I think it could be smaller without Compose. I saw a 100+ MB app for a connected light bulb, which earned the bulb a bad Amazon review.

25 April at 7:36 | Open on noc.social
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