I work with pedagogies, teach, write curricula, coach, manage, mentor, consult, speak publicly, polemicize, and sometimes work as a full-stack web developer, architect, ontologist, and more.
I use a Mac. It's better, but not as much as it should be.
The problem is that most developers are mediocre. This is not a dis on devs. Most people are mediocre at most things -- when they are not entirely incompetent.
This is unavoidable. Intelligence, talent, etc. are distributed on a bell curve. Most people are in the middle, hence mediocre, which means average.
So most devs copy and paste code, which isn't a problem unless you don't really understand what you're copying and pasting. Most devs turn to libraries, frameworks, and other dependencies as a first resort. They only code it themselves as a last resort. And then badly because using dependencies and copying and pasting doesn't teach you to code well.
Because most devs (like everyone else) are mediocre and, frankly, infantile (need supervision, essentially), there is an enormous overhead of process (and people to monitor that process).
Because we all (infants all) really just look out for ourselves, personal gain takes precedence over the group's ostensible goals. Most employees are working against the system, and those who try to do good work are generally frustrated and exhausted or driven out.
But the real question that no one asks is this: Do we really need all this garbage? What if we only made what we actually need, and then shared everything so that everyone was fed, housed, kept healthy, entertained, etc.?
Nope! Nose to the grindstone slaves! We must crank out another million lines of tech debt this week! Extinction is right around the corner. MUST. WRITE. MORE. USELESS. CODE.
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I use a Mac. It's better, but not as much as it should be.
The problem is that most developers are mediocre. This is not a dis on devs. Most people are mediocre at most things -- when they are not entirely incompetent.
This is unavoidable. Intelligence, talent, etc. are distributed on a bell curve. Most people are in the middle, hence mediocre, which means average.
So most devs copy and paste code, which isn't a problem unless you don't really understand what you're copying and pasting. Most devs turn to libraries, frameworks, and other dependencies as a first resort. They only code it themselves as a last resort. And then badly because using dependencies and copying and pasting doesn't teach you to code well.
Because most devs (like everyone else) are mediocre and, frankly, infantile (need supervision, essentially), there is an enormous overhead of process (and people to monitor that process).
Because we all (infants all) really just look out for ourselves, personal gain takes precedence over the group's ostensible goals. Most employees are working against the system, and those who try to do good work are generally frustrated and exhausted or driven out.
But the real question that no one asks is this: Do we really need all this garbage? What if we only made what we actually need, and then shared everything so that everyone was fed, housed, kept healthy, entertained, etc.?
Nope! Nose to the grindstone slaves! We must crank out another million lines of tech debt this week! Extinction is right around the corner. MUST. WRITE. MORE. USELESS. CODE.
You definitely need to write books haha 😄
I really like your comments 😍