"Resentful" is a perfect way of putting it - I may just be old and grumpy now, but I think it's sad what we as a community have done to the process of web development. It's such a circle jerk. Node in my view is the worst thing that ever happened to building web applications.

Enter Claude Cowork. I've spent the past few days building an app that would have taken me weeks of time in the past. It's using a framework I've never built with, and I don't have to learn the intricacies. Shipping this to Vercel and hosting the database on Supabase is incredibly easy and it's very exciting. The only drawback so far is the unsettling fear of the unknown regarding leaking secrets and whatnot, so I'm going to have to manually audit the finished project before deploying.

And here I thought my days of "side projects" were completely over.

Tools like Claude Code are the ultimate cheat code for me and have breathed new life into my desire to create. I know more than enough about architecture and coding to understand the plumbing and effectively debug, yet I don't have to know or care about implementation details. It's almost an unfair unlock.

It'll also be good to see leetcode die.

Regarding blamelessness, I think it was W. Edwards Deming who emphasized the importance of blaming process over people, which is always preferable, but its critical for individuals to at least be aware of their role in the problem.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-netflix-executiv...

It's like the people who are against hunting, but who are happy to eat store bought meat.

https://www.craigslist.org/about/craigslist_is_hiring

In many ways, this is how so many folks end up drowning in debt. They "bet on the come" by assuming they are investing in the right education, will be successful in their field, etc.

They delude themselves into thinking that just because they make $75k/yr that they aren't broke.

Driving out fear (of colleagues, of management, etc) was one of his key principles in creating quality for the organization.

http://www.quality-assurance-solutions.com/Deming-Point-8.ht...

In many ways, if a "coder" comes in and starts wanting to change a bunch of things purely because they are opinionated about languages, then that person is not going to go very far.

I think that we should layer the CIA triad on top of the Time-Cost-Quality triad when implementing application security.

Vegetables are good. Processed foods (including sugar) are bad. Mix in some fish and chicken from time to time. Don't pour salt all over it. There you have it. A healthy diet.

The bottom line is that eating healthy is not hard, nor is it prohibitively expensive. It's all about priority. If you would rather have the flat screen TV than a budget for Whole Foods, then that's your prerogative.