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The Shoemaker's Children: A Developer Allegory

Jonathan Cass on March 14, 2018

It was a simple plan: give my personal website a makeover and write a blog post about the process. I had built my website shortly after learning a...
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Ben Halpern

Definitely agree with this post. We often don't even know what the right tool for the job is for smaller personal stuff because we spend so much time thinking in terms of our professional lives.

My personal projects often don’t get the love and rigor that I apply at work.

One thing I'll say here is that if you know you won't have the time to maintain/garden your personal stuff, you definitely want to KISS and maybe eliminate build dependencies like SASS even if it cleans up your code, because if you come back and you can't remember how to compile your code or can't make a quick change directly on GitHub, the change may never happen.

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Dinesh Pandiyan

This is a fantastic write-up. Thanks for the mention Jonathan. I am glad to know that you and a lot others find dev-landing-page to be helpful.

Your site looks fantastic! You rock!

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Jonathan Cass

Thanks! I can't exactly take credit for the look of my site though - that's all you πŸ˜€

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Ernesto Palafox

Thanks for sharing @joncassdev ! Your site looks great πŸ‘

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JC

these are great mental models that we can implement in other parts of our daily life.