[pojzon]

Its not only in web development but software development as a whole.

Very smart ppl very easly fall for “not invented here” way of thinking and pretty much solve the problems that were solved already like hundred times.

It’s hard to fight that, seems to be our nature. But this is something that probably diffrentiates “great” devs from “just” devs.

[notreallyserio]

I’ve been “burned” many times by using standard off the shelf solutions to problems. Not because they didn’t work or had security issues but because they didn’t do precisely what a stakeholder expected, down to the pixel. No amount of me saying “nobody will notice if our app works the same as everyone else’s” worked.