It just happened again. I spoke to a company, with some great engineers, and they just experienced the doomed rewrite. I remember the days of the Monty Hall Rewrite, which is a situation I would much prefer to DOOM. With Monty Hall, you run into the following situation: A website uses a given tech stack. […]
Tag Archives: Web Development
Becoming a better Pacesetter for Web Developers in 2019
Roger Bannister breaking the 4 minute mile barrier When you work on a platform, you quickly feel how you are one part of the overall ecosystem. The Web is a huge ecosystem with diversity galore. Web standards, multiple browsers, a huge number and variety of devices, a plethora of tools and services available. It can be […]
It’s time the Web did some Undergrounding
I live in a simple neighborhood in Palo Alto, California. My street is fortunate to have some nice old trees. We have small houses that the wealthy are slowly purchasing, tearing down, and then filling up the entire lot with house. From most vantage points it looks quaint, but then you get the wrong angle, […]