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@rml the whole way of thinking and talking where there are reified concepts of “senior software engineers” and “best practices”, free-floating ideas of “beginner friendly” and “production quality”/“production ready”, along with a whole class of ever-changing meaningless truisms “actually abstractions are bad”, “actually comments are bad” “everything is a trade off”makes me despair - people are genuinely convinced there is something meaningful about all of the above and become very angry if you doubt the framing

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Boarders

@rml I only wish dijkstra could have lived to see “agile” and its cargo cult

Zelphir Kaltstahl

@boarders We probably would have gotten a few more great quotes out of that. A shame really.

Duchamp Pérez

@boarders @rml I read some years ago a piece that said that "best-practices" killed innovation and tech discussions because it is hard to disagree with "best."

In reality most "best-practices" are whatever the cool kids are doing right now. If they switch to the opposite next week, so do "best-practices."

It would be nice for people to be humble and say, "this is how we did it, and it worked ok for us" instead

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