I am feeling old reading the phrase "traditional frameworks" as a reference to SPA/Virtual DOM frameworks all while the actual traditional frameworks like Backbone, jQuery, etc. actually worked the way described in the blogpost.
I've actually just did exactly that a few weeks ago.
I knew what to expect from Rails from my previous experience.
Yet, I wasn't prepared for how freaking fast it is to iterate with Rails and some LLM (I use Cursor atm) when you know what you are doing.
The MVP I expected to take at least 2 months to finish, is going to be done in under 3 weeks, with the current speed, given there are no large blockers.
Thanks for sharing this!
It's been only a few posts so far since I started the blog, but I am actually looking for persons first, and the "coolness" of a setup doesn't really matter to me. In fact, I find a laptop that moves between sofa and a kitchen table as inspiring as some intricate setups. There is something about doing more with less. And I am sure there will be people with such setups featured on the blog, as well.
Here we come again with the "Ukrainian nationalism" and "coup". So boring. Will you ever update your guide on Russian propaganda? Even the russian troll factory stopped using these arguments like 2 years ago.
Nice list! I love that the Code by Charles Petzold is on it!
I created something similar out of my list of books which I used to navigate the transition to a Tech Lead role: https://techleadcompass.com/. I see that some of the books presented on the OP's list overlap with my list.
Thank you for such a detailed, honest feedback! I really appreciate it!
There are a lot of books on Rails and I don't think I can add much value there.
But approaching at it from a different, more pragmatic "what needs to be done to have it running" angle feels fresh to me. I know of one success story where non-technical founders learned just enough of RoR to build an MVP, but AFAIR it took them several months only to learn to use Ruby/RoR. And it would be exactly this problem that I am trying to solve: bringing it from several months down to several weeks.
Calling it a "Ukraine crisis" omits mentioning Russia and the full-scale invasion of annihilation and genocide it's conducting. Please, consider calling it "Russian invasion of Ukraine" or similar. Thank you.
Thank you for elaborating!
I still have a question though if you don't mind? Wouldn't a Wordpress or Ghost or anything similar be that GUI? I understand that neither Wordpress or Ghost is SSG but I simply don't see why a photographer, let's say, would care about the underlying technology as long as their art is published online on a nice-looking web page?
I am not trying to downplay your idea. Just really curious if I am not missing an interesting, niche project idea here.
Thank you
Wake up, go the the bathroom, look in the mirror and tell myself I don't have depression. Then I grab whatever t-shirt from the pile on the floor, open the laptop and make myself coffee before joining a standup meeting.
For anyone talking about the freedom of speech here, you should know that nazi symbols are also prohibited in Germany. So basically what's happening here, is russian invasion and it's symbols ("Z") are being equated to nazi.
This might be difficult for Americans to understand, but the freedom of speech has certain lines that cannot be crossed in Europe, and it's mostly about clearly hateful symbols and/or words. You just can't put a swastika on your sleeve and expect no repercussions in Germany, like it or not.