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Discussion on: Make your own blog site with GatsbyJS

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Jon Randy 🎖️ • Edited

Seems very over-engineered for a simple blog. Also, Gatsby does weird stuff when reloading pages (not returning to the correct part of the page on refresh in the same way an ordinary page would)

I really don't understand why people re-engineer stuff all the time - stuff that works perfectly well already - things as diverse a simple blog site, or a simple dropdown on a form. They make this stuff, realise it doesn't behave as well as what it was intended to replace, then make all kinds of finicky fixes to make it behave 'normally' - and end up with something that looks normal, but still doesn't behave as well or perform as well as the original thing it was intended to 'improve'. Add on top of that all of the associated tooling to make working with this 'cool' stuff 'easier'. All that effort for... what?

Sorry if these seems like an attack or criticism of you or your work - it's not... it's a criticism of the ridiculous state of modern web development - with its tendency to use sledgehammers to crack nuts

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Bo

Have to stay busy and justify the developer salary :D