Navigating the hype-driven frontend development world without going insane
summary
Argues that FOMO comes from impulse-driven upgrades and social media noise and shows concrete decisions: a 14‑page remove node modules RFC as comic evidence, migrations timed by real breaking points (Sass → Aphrodite → glamorous → motion, GraphQL adopted when backend rewrites happen, avoiding React Router v4 until needed), business advice including €50k/month with PHP and jQuery as an example, and tactics like sleep on npm installs, copy‑paste before abstracting, and focus on users or revenue.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00SPOILERS
- 5:01Ninja Developer
- 5:11Senior Developer
- 6:37Your vision of yourself after the conference
- 6:51Reality
- 13:25RECOGNIZE THE BREAKING POINT
- 18:21SLEEP ON IT
- 19:10STOP LEARNING "JUST IN CASE" STUFF
- 21:40WHAT CAN YOU FOCUS ON INSTEAD
- 23:18What developers don't want to talk about
- 24:19It's never been easier to make money as a developer
- 25:39Nomadlist example
- 29:01Work on legacy systems
- 29:43Junior Developer
- 32:27Less abstractions, more copy-paste
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