[diminoten]

In other words, "Only I hold the real keys, everyone else is lying to you. Trust only me."

No, sorry. Invalidates the entire post, #3 notwithstanding. Such a cheap, low effort, lazy cop-out when writing about any topic.

What the hell was this guy thinking? I'm certain he's got better wisdom to share than this.

[oneepic]

Personally I don't think that's necessarily what he meant, and I don't think it invalidates the entire post. I do wish he added more detail though. He doesn't come off as an asshole to me, like your comment seems to imply.

If he were to say that most coding advice was noisy... I mean, I get that feeling too. There's lots of different approaches to the same problem that work in different scenarios, different work environments, domains of expertise, constraints, etc. And yet lots of coding advice is similar to, "<always/never> do X". Unilaterally. Period. And you will end up receiving lots of conflicting advice.

It seems like the smarter thing to do is take everything with a grain of salt. You don't have to change everything you do as soon as you read a new blog post, it's just a different approach you could add to your toolbox, then use it someday if it makes sense.

[diminoten]

He's not an asshole, but he gave in to the lack of any kind of rigor required to make a blog post. We're all guilty of it, but I hope we're all also willing to call each other on it.