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Frank Chimero<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I had fifteen years of experience designing for web clients, she had one year, and yet some how, we were in the same situation: we enjoyed the work, but were utterly confused and overwhelmed by the rapidly increasing complexity of it all. What the hell happened?<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Except with the websites. They separate themselves from the others, because I don’t feel much better at making them after 20 years. My knowledge and skills develop a bit, then things change, and half of what I know becomes dead weight. This hardly happens with any of the other work I do.<\/p>\n

I wonder if I have twenty years of experience making websites, or if it is really five years of experience, repeated four times.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Oluseyi Sonaiya<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Two days ago this contention that web tech is self-obsoleting sparked a bunch of agitated responses from people who assumed I didn’t know what I was talking about.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Over the last five years or so, even the most basic website stopped being treated as a collection of documents and started being thought of as software. Over the same period of time, I have gone from thinking that I know how to build a website quickly and efficiently to having absolutely no clue where to start learning about any<\/em> of this stuff. I can’t imagine being eight years old again and being interested in the web as something anyone<\/em> can contribute to.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

David Mack<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I appreciate now that technologies have a surprisingly short lifespan. CoffeeScript and AngularJS are our most obviously tired components (we plan to migrate to TypeScript and latest Angular). All of our technologies were fairly bleeding-edge when we adopted them and it’s a blessing that my predilection for hipster technologies has not caused any serious problems.<\/p>\n

I’ve hugely appreciated the succinct functional syntax of CoffeeScript and believe it’s helped me achieve greater personal productivity over the years.<\/p>\n

Building on the above, I now know that you need to budget time and strategize for the replacement of technologies. You accept long-term “technical debt” with the adoption of any technology.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Marc Edwards<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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It’s amazing how much variation there is in blur radius across browsers and design tools. You can’t assume things will look the same.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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