I saw this a longer while ago on reddit and wasn't convinced, because I asked questions but felt ridiculed in the answer.
The question was about component reusability and inheritance.
Also what about real time changes to contents when the values in the data store change (see ngrx, redux, vuex) aka reactivity.
However good that I found it here because I wanted to take a closer look at it and play with it and doubt that I'd be able to find the post on reddit again.
Also as much as I dislike Rust, it's closer to typescript in philosophy than Go and might actually be a good fit for the frontend wasm.
I'm ignorant however and idk if the binary size is also a problem for Rust like it is for Go.
Well sorry but I prefer backend because no one has an opinion about how something looks or presumes to know about that area.
To managers backend is voodoo stuff and frontend is where they have an opinion, because they are directly exposed to the result of the frontend, the presentation.
However working purely frontend or purely backend gets equally boring.
I don't agree with the article.
Btw I'd like to know if I'm passively banned. My karma remains 20 and I can post 2 comments per day at most.
Back in the day I could choose ad formats and place them to be non-invasive.
Since a while ago Adsense only has the responsive ad format.
It stretches across the full width and is extremely high.
I tried what they suggested to limit the size but it isn't working.
The site looks nice without ads. And I personally hate so see it so full of ads.
But server needs to be paid and I'd like to also earn something for my time and knowledge spent on developing the site and maintaining.
There's a lot of work to be done there. I'd like the audience to be able to write their own reviews, upload images, maybe even offer a way to play those games in the browser.
The site used to be #1 in search results, but since Google prefers wikis it's not anymore.
I've also decided to not track my visitors via any trackers, so no piwik, no GA. Only server logs.
There's also legacy.c64g.com which despite not being listed anywhere anymore performs better than the main site in ad revenue.
It has static banner ads that are not invasive.
I had a free forums service many years ago. German audience.
Barely made server costs.
I wanted of course to earn something for my time maintaining it so I put those annoying layer ads there.
It was a downward spiral.
The layer ads initially brought additional revenue, really nice revenue but people started protesting and after a while leaving and using adblockers, who could blame them.
It was so full of ads it was unusable.
I wrote an adblocker-blocker, which displayed a black screen if adblock was detected.
That lead to people leaving even more.
Eventually so many people left that removing the annoying ads resulted in not being able to pay the server rent and it had to close down.
Ads are a necessity for some sites (subscription based model won't work) Google is actively destroying the sites that choose to put those ads on them by removing choice of ad formats.
Recently I moved away from chrome on the phone for my daily browsing because Firefox allows me to install an adblocker add addon and chrome doesn't.
Even worse are those cookie nag screens. Every top result on Google search has an annoying one.
I blame the, sorry but it's true, idiots of the EU parliament who make half assed laws without taking care of the consequences.
Remeber Shareware of the 90s? It's worse than that now. I wish there were cookie screen blockers.
Lately I started to just navigate back when I visit a site with a modal cookie dialog that wants you to accept all by default. In most cases I don't bother to click anything anymore, if I visit your site and can't read the info I came for to read I will leave. Too bad there isn't a metric to count that.
GA is some of the worst spyware and since the US government has access to it whenever it desires it's also used to track individuals. It's one part of the huge spy apparatus the US shadow government built.
Long story short
Worked with PHP without Frameworks since 2001. Had top 1000 sites. Made 700 a day passively peak times.
Drank the Kool aid of PHP Frameworks and spent 2 years with Symfony. Years later regretting that. It's the worst dependency he'll. Worse than old red hat.
Switched to Go, AngularJS, Angular. All the Google crap.
Went full independent frontend and backend. Never GraphQL because it's stupid like everything coming from Facebook.
Go disappointed me with their holier than thou attitude.
Having Rust for bring hyped despite being a step back from Go.
Lately gotten into the Vue ecosystem. I love it. I loooove it. I love Svelte. I love it. Played with flutter. It's fun. Tried switching to Java/Spring boot but always landing at Go again.
Last summer all my projects imploded.
I'm now down to 10€/ month ad revenue. Aka I'm dead.
I've been looking for a job as I live in Germany. They're all shit.
Arrogant companies who don't want to pay you your worth in money and want you to work 5 jobs.
I'm so full of hate of it all. The clueless recruiters, the Kool aid drinking managers, the students who think they know better while I was usually the one fixing projects those students never finished.
I know what I'm doing.
I'm using Go for 8 years now.
I wrote my own backend generator. It's in v3 now. All I need to do is define my data models and generate, do some minor adjustments and I'm done.
I didn't reinvent the wheel.
I use keycloak for my auth needs.
It doesn't matter if I build classic websites or modern api/frontend.
I can't find a job where reading the job ad doesn't drive my blood pressure up.
And if I find a good job ad, it's already taken (happened 2 times in 2 years).
So yeah I like learning new things where it makes sense.
I would love to have automated deployments. But git pull Go build over remote ssh is good enough. Or building locally pushing via bash script to prod.
I get it when your larger you need different solutions.
I like to go with the times when it makes sense.
But I'm not falling for the docker crap especially k8s. It's made so you're being reliant on cloud providers like gce aws and all that vendorlocking overpriced CRAP.
I've been coding since the age of 11. I've cracked games at 13 and wrote and linked cracktros.
I made music but that career was a pipe dream literally. It was my 1st choice. Computers my 2nd. I was good at it but I didn't love it. I loved life. Now I've wasted years upon years in front of the computer screen. And I'm back to where I started.
If you ask me I would just love a simple job driving across the countryside delivering things, not solving problems. Not sitting hours upon hours staring at a screen, living in my mind, in a fake reality.
Still I'm good at what I do.
Go was a huge leap forward in experience. PHP, in hindsight was a toy for children. The PHP world is full of pseudo smart people aka not smart.
Being exposed to C++ back in 2000 was mind altering.
I'm not the smartest but I'm smarter than most in this field.
I like to keep it simple.
So yeah shameless plug I'm looking for work. Remote only.
OP, you need to adapt. Or you don't, up to you. If you don't feel the need to there's mydriads of PHP jobs. But PHP is ill, mentally. It tried being Java with all the bad things it brings. Php is synonymous with everything wrong with the world. Wrong tool for the job.
I don't know what to tell you.
I quit nicotine. Because I had to.
My lungs hurt.
I tried to quit before but something always brought me back.
Nicotine is the most addictive substance I ever took.
I did take a lot of drugs. Different drugs.
This article for me is just another on the trash heap.
You have to differentiate.
There is mental and body addiction.
There are so many reasons.
I know people who quit heroin.
It's not all the same.
Overcoming something is "easy" just stop taking it anymore and find other things to do instead.
If "the web" means the internet then that's a lie. I remember it being available around 1995.
And I remember smart, friendly, educated people pre y2k, mostly.
I remember searching and finding meaningful facts as opposed to opinions and half truths post y2k.
I remember everything being freely available as opposed to the pay2 unculture of today.
I remember a colorful internet of individual sites that was fun to browse as opposed of the uniformity and censorship of FacebookTwitterShit.
I remember the internet as a unregulated space the majority didn't know or care about where you could do whatever you want.
True freedom is what this felt like. The world was different too.
More understanding of how people are and behave or misbehave.
Today's netizens are ignorant assholes for the most part and we are at war with each other.
HN for instance doesn't allow you to write more than 2 or 3 comments in a certain time period.
Ridiculous. Imagine that in the internet pre y2k.