[illumin8]

One thing I've learned from reading Medium blog posts recently on programming is that there are some truly misinformed people out there that write extremely well-worded posts describing why their language or framework of choice is better than anything else. If you're just entering the field, you might take their advice as gospel, and think they're really knowledgeable, but they're not. It's just cringeworthy to see the vast amount of bad advice out there.

The most click-baity "ten reasons why you should use my favorite JS framework" posts seem to win, and it's troubling. We will soon be a world full of dumbed down workers, who can't experiment and think for ourselves, but instead get advice from whatever click-bait article included enough buzzwords to get recommended by an algorithm. What ever happened to tinkering and figuring it out on your own?