<story><title>Most tech content is bullshit (2020)</title><url>https://www.aleksandra.codes/tech-content-consumer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spacemadness</author><text>One devious form of bullshit is always using the simplest of examples to prove out an architecture pattern and call it a day. I’ve lost count on how many times I’ve seen patterns with glaring open questions and pitfalls the author avoids. Then the cacophony of likes follow from folks who’re likely very early in their career or hobby and don’t know any better. This is very prevalent on iOS development blogs as authors rush to write their blog posts after every WWDC.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>factorialboy</author><text>The fundamental deficiency with our society is that we value talking about X more than performing&amp;#x2F;implementing X.&lt;p&gt;This is true for most fields, including programming.&lt;p&gt;Most teams have folks to do the heavy lifting, and a small percentage of folks who talk about it.&lt;p&gt;The talkers are considered more valuable than the doers, within the organization or without.&lt;p&gt;These are our thought leaders, influencers, architects, you name it.&lt;p&gt;I am not complaining, this is a game we are all playing. It took me far too long to recognize it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Most tech content is bullshit (2020)</title><url>https://www.aleksandra.codes/tech-content-consumer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spacemadness</author><text>One devious form of bullshit is always using the simplest of examples to prove out an architecture pattern and call it a day. I’ve lost count on how many times I’ve seen patterns with glaring open questions and pitfalls the author avoids. Then the cacophony of likes follow from folks who’re likely very early in their career or hobby and don’t know any better. This is very prevalent on iOS development blogs as authors rush to write their blog posts after every WWDC.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>I’ve learned to wait a couple of years for dubdub hype to subside, and “lessons learned” to be shared.&lt;p&gt;I get tired of the “write an app in five minutes” demos. As someone that regularly works on &lt;i&gt;ship&lt;/i&gt; apps, I can report that there is a &lt;i&gt;world&lt;/i&gt; of difference between academic demos, and something that can be shipped.</text></comment>