caspii
Joined 10 years ago
Joined 10 years ago
I came back to frontend development after a break of 10 years. Back then there was jQuery, CSS and HTML.
I found that the complexity of the tooling had increased 20-fold. All these build and task runners that were cool for a year and then a new one came along.
Those were the costs, but what was the upside? It seems that you can do maybe 10%-20% "more" than back then. It seems to me that this is a very very steep price to pay.
I realised that my life will be over relatively soon too. I decided to make it count (in little ways). Quit my job. Became a freelancer. Made a big effort to cut bullshit from my life. To give less fucks about irrelevant stuff. To be happier in simple and sustainable ways.
My favourite quote: "We all have 2 lives, the second begins when we realise we have only 1".