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Rémy 🤖 • Edited
  • PHP, anything done in PHP or related to PHP
    • Symfony was such a waste of my time back in 2010, I came back to life after discovering Django
    • WooCommerce as one of the few e-commerce platforms that clients know about (and thus that you can sell). Won't be using again, it's just impossible to work with a platform that treats orders and payments as blog posts.
    • Laravel has such an annoying DB migrations system. Didn't stray long from Django.
  • Vuetify. Like all those frameworks it's extremely hard to customize and then they decide to change the CSS pre-processor and suddenly all your work goes to shit. On top of that, it's heavy like crazy and creates render-blocking infinite loops in some conditions.
  • A had lots of hopes about lots of PaaS, hosting platforms or services like that. In the end they all crumble because of very basic stuff like secrets management or Git-flow-like process compatibility. Big ups to the DigitalOcean Apps platform that is finally where I need a PaaS to be (almost but I can emulate the rest).

No offense for the people creating those techs of course, I know how hard it is to tinker with something and end up with some high-profile piece of software.

Although interestingly in most cases it's not that those tools are bad "for the job at hand" but rather bad "for the job advised as the project's reason to be" which is kind of unsettling.