<story><title>Building apps in minutes, not months</title><url>https://alexanderobenauer.com/labnotes/001/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gmaster1440</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s an excellent talk by Rich Hickey (I believe it&amp;#x27;s this one[1]) where he points out an obsession with how quick something is to understand immediately and be productive in—he gives the example of building websites in a single day, and contrasts it to musicians learning and mastering instruments over much longer periods of time.&lt;p&gt;While it&amp;#x27;s very intuitive to see the appeal in low barrier to entry, there&amp;#x27;s something to be said about tools that optimize for the long-term. Instruments aren&amp;#x27;t made for beginners, they&amp;#x27;re made for people who know how to play them.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=MCZ3YgeEUPg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=MCZ3YgeEUPg&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abetusk</author><text>Notice that the explosion of rap, hip-hop and punk were because the barrier to entry to music making through sampling and distribution was lowered. The 1980s and 1990s were replete with high profile artists that became famous by using the discarded drum machines and synthesizers of the time [0].&lt;p&gt;Today, (I believe) most artists use synthesizers and DAWs to create full albums. Eletronica, rap and hip-hop are some of the most popular musical genres [1] [2]. It&amp;#x27;s not uncommon to see artists that are just one or two people, enabled by a professional grade studio on a PC.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;4&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;15162488&amp;#x2F;roland-tr-808-music-drum-machine-revolutionized-music&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;4&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;15162488&amp;#x2F;roland-tr-808-mus...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ucladatares.medium.com&amp;#x2F;visualizing-trends-and-patterns-in-pitchfork-reviews-cad1a130869b&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ucladatares.medium.com&amp;#x2F;visualizing-trends-and-patter...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.r-bloggers.com&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;clustering-music-genres-with-r&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.r-bloggers.com&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;clustering-music-genres-w...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Building apps in minutes, not months</title><url>https://alexanderobenauer.com/labnotes/001/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gmaster1440</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s an excellent talk by Rich Hickey (I believe it&amp;#x27;s this one[1]) where he points out an obsession with how quick something is to understand immediately and be productive in—he gives the example of building websites in a single day, and contrasts it to musicians learning and mastering instruments over much longer periods of time.&lt;p&gt;While it&amp;#x27;s very intuitive to see the appeal in low barrier to entry, there&amp;#x27;s something to be said about tools that optimize for the long-term. Instruments aren&amp;#x27;t made for beginners, they&amp;#x27;re made for people who know how to play them.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=MCZ3YgeEUPg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=MCZ3YgeEUPg&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_peeley</author><text>Another great Rich Hickey talk is &lt;i&gt;Simple Made Easy&lt;/i&gt;, very similar message. So many of these auto-project tools are very easy to use, but in no way simple to understand and end up adding complexity in the long-term.&lt;p&gt;A good example is a tool like `create-react-app` (especially if you add TypeScript support). It&amp;#x27;s super easy to use and creates the project scaffold and enormous JS build system for you, but good luck trying to fix it if something breaks!</text></comment>