Impact over Performance
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Short essay on 230705:
Impact over Performance is a philosophy. While we rage on the latest and greatest tech stack, tech is never the product. For example:
Original Post Link is now almost 14,000 lines of raw PHP mixed with inline HTML, CSS in <style> and raw JS in <script> tags
I did not use TS, flexbox or frameworks except jQuery
A lot of $.ajax() and float
thoughIt has 1,872 paying customers making $61,808 per month
— @levelsio (@levelsio) July 3, 2023
Pieter Levels generates millions of revenue every month but with jQuery. Who cares about the tech stack if they can make a good product? But I am too much of a technophile aesthete... so I have devised the IDOL Stack. Remember, use Boring Technologies.
- Use boring technologies
- Bootstrap
- Deliver day 1
- Sharable architectures: IDOL Stack
- Antipreneur
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