[bjeds]

Interesting. Two years earlier, when I worked at Spotify in 2013, I wrote a similar article: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2013/02/25/in-praise-of-bo...

[Kye]

Maybe this is tech's crab.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation

[afarrell]

That is like expecting that carpenters are going to keep making jigs and saying "measure twice, cut once" in various forms.

If you could read the advice of a from carpenter 2000 years ago, I think he'd also be talking a lot about how humans make errors and need to account for that.

[Kye]

I think this gets at why people keep going back to old, time-tested tools. All new languages, frameworks, and tools seem to converge on the same things with enough time. Carpentry, computers, and programming languages all end up with a router.

They also end up with some kind of cruft, or annoyance. A time-tested tool has time-tested failure modes. Everyone eventually figures out they need to start a nail with taps and remove their hand before swinging. Some people prefer to figure it out on their own, others like to know the path ahead.

[politelemon]

Some info about the memes mentioned at the bottom

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/carcinization

[chanux]

I remembered the article and came here to comment about it. What a nice surprise to see the author beating me to it :D. Loved it!