<story><title>Choose Exciting Technology</title><url>https://lucjan.medium.com/choose-exciting-technology-e735bba08acc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hliyan</author><text>Engineers who find a stable technology boring after a few years probably lack curiosity and are not digging deep enough. It&amp;#x27;s a form of ADHD.&lt;p&gt;After almost a decade, I still find lots of interesting ways to write plain vanilla JS code that makes developer&amp;#x27;s jobs easier in lots of interesting ways. Before that, I spent a full decade writing C++ using nothing but a restricted set of in-house libraries. I don&amp;#x27;t recall ever being bored because I always felt like a carpenter: have a problem? You have the tools to build more tools to make your life easier. I experimented with event driven models vs. streams vs. queues, doing complex calculations by spreading them across the nodes of a tree, developing unit and API test tools (C++ had none, many years ago).&lt;p&gt;Today, architecture feels more like technology shopping than tinkering.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluemetal</author><text>FYI using the terms ADHD&amp;#x2F;ADD when not talking about the actual disorder is often offensive to people who have ADHD. It fails to acknowledge that the condition is more complicated than just getting bored quickly, especially when your statement can be interpreted as implying that people with ADHD &amp;quot;lack curiosity and are not digging deep enough&amp;quot;. Things are hard enough for people with ADHD without trivialising&amp;#x2F;generalising&amp;#x2F;moralising their problems.</text></comment>
<story><title>Choose Exciting Technology</title><url>https://lucjan.medium.com/choose-exciting-technology-e735bba08acc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hliyan</author><text>Engineers who find a stable technology boring after a few years probably lack curiosity and are not digging deep enough. It&amp;#x27;s a form of ADHD.&lt;p&gt;After almost a decade, I still find lots of interesting ways to write plain vanilla JS code that makes developer&amp;#x27;s jobs easier in lots of interesting ways. Before that, I spent a full decade writing C++ using nothing but a restricted set of in-house libraries. I don&amp;#x27;t recall ever being bored because I always felt like a carpenter: have a problem? You have the tools to build more tools to make your life easier. I experimented with event driven models vs. streams vs. queues, doing complex calculations by spreading them across the nodes of a tree, developing unit and API test tools (C++ had none, many years ago).&lt;p&gt;Today, architecture feels more like technology shopping than tinkering.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forgotmypw17</author><text>I write mostly HTML 3.2 (with progressive enhancement additions on top for newer browsers) and I&amp;#x27;m still finding new things to do with it after 20+ years.</text></comment>