Why?
I stopped all I was doing to build this website to tell you about this collection of technologies I found working great for me.
Why?
Because I believe we build our world.
And quoting Steve Jobs:
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.
I can sense when I don’t like using something. And with nothing forcing me to use it, be it an employer or a sponsor, I can do whatever I want.
And I want simplicity.
But keeping things simple is hard:
“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.” – Edsger W. Dijkstra
Things I’m into right now:
- Less abstraction, more predictability
- Less serverless, more server
- Less complexity, more simplicity
- Less “edge”, more one single location (you know if my app has zero users…)
- Less “autoscaling”, more “I just need this much”
I tweeted this back in 2021 and I’ve only seen it materialize years later:
I believe we’re on the verge of a major shift in how we build apps, the tools are all going in the same direction.
More simplicity, less boilerplate, easier, faster, and less fluff.
And deployment platforms becoming easier, cheaper, and well integrated with tools