[MuffinFlavored]

> monstrosities

why do you have to sprinkle that snark + negativity in there? it implies a toxic role of "you are superior" and "people who use JavaScript to serve static blog content" are inferior.

why can't we all just get along? especially in this tight-knit programming community that is supposed to be full of love and collaboration. in today's modern day of inclusion and emphasis on mental health, you're spreading hate towards people who use JavaScript to serve static blog content and talking down to them. not every 2022 of you, in my opinion.

let's work to get rid of the culture where you imply somebody else's code project doesn't meet your standards, and that since they wrote it, they are dumber than you for making poor design decisions in your opinion.

[rglover]

> especially in this tight-knit programming community that is supposed to be full of love and collaboration

You must be new here.

[epolanski]

While I don't like as well the tone of previous poster, I think that any field should have a healthy dose of "elitism" and "competition" and the previous user is right.

[EnKopVand]

Why do you think the previous poster is right? I personally think they are being sort of silly.

Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely think you should consider your tools, but I recently had to get a screw out of a bookcase. It was stuck in free air and was just going round and round, so I ended up using a hammer to push it in the right direction. This is far from the only time I’ve used my hammer for something it wasn’t intended for, and it got some new scratches on the side, but at the end of the day, the screw got out.

Which is important to remember here on HN, because this isn’t really a “programming community”, it is (or was perhaps) a platform for investors to sneak peak on interesting opportunities masked as social media for hackers. And the ”monstrosity” was launched after all, which is the most important aspect of any product.

Aside from that, I think it’s reasonable to assume that a lot of smaller and personal websites are used as learning experiences. So naturally a lot of them are going to be build “suboptimal” because the reason the tool was chosen was the tool itself.

[alt227]

Should have used some pliers...

[irrational]

> full of love and collaboration

Why do you have to sprinkle that positivity in there? It implies a toxic role of “I am naive”.

Ah, I’m just jerking your chain. For the most part I agree with you. Calling the way other people do things a “monstrosity” really is uncalled for.

[dustymcp]

Having to support these "monstrosities" i cant see it as toxic but merely a way of life..

[FpUser]

>"tight-knit programming community that is supposed to be full of love and collaboration."

Now you owe me a coffee and a monitor.