The Most Prolific Web Dev Myth

Tell me if you’ve heard this before:

“It doesn’t matter that the server is slow, most of the latency will be in the db call or the network.”

I have.

This is bad for two reasons. It’s bad because the part of it that’s somewhat true, …

You Can Just Not Go

Quick piece today about the current state of the internet, for a bigger audience than normal.

You know the restaurant that you used to go to regularly, and you haven’t been to in years?

Of course you do. We all have one.

Maybe the food got worse, maybe it gave you food …

Landmines, Landmines, Everywhere

Hello, reader from the future! Why is my proverbial leg gone, you ask?

I lost it many moons ago, stepping on landmines.

Programming, as an industry, is strangely religious. For something that was supposedly backed by “computer science,” there isn’t …