Ingo Steinke is a Berlin-based senior web developer focusing on front-end web development to create and improve websites and make the web more accessible, sustainable, and user-friendly.
Thanks for your post, especially your examples which I found funny compared to my own change of mind.
When I first heard about noSQL I found it terribly wrong, just like I did when I first heard about using JavaScript in the backend, and just like I did when I ... started to use SQL!
So long ago that I forgot in the meantime, but there have been many technologies that I later came to embrace and even love, or at least dispise less. In the end, they are nothing but tools anyway to make some electronic devices to some arcane process to produce some useful output.
I even remember writing a parody about SQL for its unintuitive behavior of NULL, calling it the "NON language" where everything that ever has the slightest contact with "NON" turns itself into "NON". Later, I got to like SQL for its compact syntax that can fit a lot of complex logic into a single line of code.
I also remember being quite skeptical about computers and programming when my cousin first showed me some code and its disappointing output. We were both kids back then.
Funnily, opinions can go on a round-trip much like major technological trends. Assembly machine language vs. high level human readable languages (or even prompts to a chatbot that would write the actual code), separation of content and style vs. the comeback of functional CSS class names in Tailwind CSS (that never went away, see Bootstrap) which, of course, reminds me of the hard time changing all of my <font color=red> to <span class="red"> to <span class='site__article--main-article'> to ... (and so on) over the years.
I used to be very skeptical about Windows, or graphical point-and-click interfaces in general (everything used to be so quick and simple just keeping my 10 fingers perfectly positioned above my mechanical keyboard?), same with CSS (why would we want to move markup away from where it's going to be applied?). Now I use a lot of the tools together or when they seem to fit, still typing on a mechanical keyboard most of the time, using the vi editor for git and configuration files, but a complex IDE for coding, and web browsers with their developer tools which are hard to imagine without a graphical context.
I remember a few technical tools that I liked from the start and still do, including Linux, HTML, and the GIMP.
Concerning people, we can be wrong about others, we can change our mind, and we should. There is love at first sight, there are deceptive characters, impostors, or people getting corrupted by power, money, or grief. On the other hand, as you mentioned junior developers, some people have a weak start or a bad day but make up for that in the long run. So I would never judge anybody based on the first impression either.
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Thanks for your post, especially your examples which I found funny compared to my own change of mind.
When I first heard about noSQL I found it terribly wrong, just like I did when I first heard about using JavaScript in the backend, and just like I did when I ... started to use SQL!
So long ago that I forgot in the meantime, but there have been many technologies that I later came to embrace and even love, or at least dispise less. In the end, they are nothing but tools anyway to make some electronic devices to some arcane process to produce some useful output.
I even remember writing a parody about SQL for its unintuitive behavior of NULL, calling it the "NON language" where everything that ever has the slightest contact with "NON" turns itself into "NON". Later, I got to like SQL for its compact syntax that can fit a lot of complex logic into a single line of code.
I also remember being quite skeptical about computers and programming when my cousin first showed me some code and its disappointing output. We were both kids back then.
Funnily, opinions can go on a round-trip much like major technological trends. Assembly machine language vs. high level human readable languages (or even prompts to a chatbot that would write the actual code), separation of content and style vs. the comeback of functional CSS class names in Tailwind CSS (that never went away, see Bootstrap) which, of course, reminds me of the hard time changing all of my
<font color=red>to<span class="red">to<span class='site__article--main-article'>to ... (and so on) over the years.I used to be very skeptical about Windows, or graphical point-and-click interfaces in general (everything used to be so quick and simple just keeping my 10 fingers perfectly positioned above my mechanical keyboard?), same with CSS (why would we want to move markup away from where it's going to be applied?). Now I use a lot of the tools together or when they seem to fit, still typing on a mechanical keyboard most of the time, using the
vieditor forgitand configuration files, but a complex IDE for coding, and web browsers with their developer tools which are hard to imagine without a graphical context.I remember a few technical tools that I liked from the start and still do, including Linux, HTML, and the GIMP.
Concerning people, we can be wrong about others, we can change our mind, and we should. There is love at first sight, there are deceptive characters, impostors, or people getting corrupted by power, money, or grief. On the other hand, as you mentioned junior developers, some people have a weak start or a bad day but make up for that in the long run. So I would never judge anybody based on the first impression either.