The latest articles on DEV Community by Brent Soles (@brentsoles). https://dev.to/brentsoles https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F143205%2F62f43571-c379-4686-9231-9ef906eb1145.jpeg https://dev.to/brentsoles en Brent Soles Fri, 29 Jan 2021 17:53:16 +0000 https://dev.to/brentsoles/product-stack-7dp https://dev.to/brentsoles/product-stack-7dp <p>The title is supposed to signal a virtue (if it can be called such), which I have picked up after being in the industry for a few years. A virtue that took me too long to grasp and has been subtle hindrance in my career.</p> <p>The virtue is this: care more about making a product (or project) good and useful, rather than the technology used to build it.</p> <p>Countless times I have seen "X built using Y and/or Z", almost as if building "X" is deemed valuable and useful by "Y" and "Z" tech used in its development. What I have grown to care more about is if the thing being developed is actually a net benefit (whatever that means for your project or personal life).</p> <p>To make things a bit less philosophical, I don't care if about something being built in a MERN stack, or a frontend app is built on jQuery, or Java Server Pages with good ol' Java 7, etc... I care if it makes the lives of the software users better/easier.</p> <p>My encouragement to you, reader, is to strive to build amazing and useful products/projects, seeing the technology used only as a means to an end.</p> discuss advice devlog