Comment on AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 4 days agoIts only boring, if everything works as it should. My old mattress was dysfunctional and I had to fight with it every night. I’m so glad my current one is boring and forgettable.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 4 days ago
I look for “boring” in most products. Excitement is for experiences, not furniture.
dan@upvote.au 4 days ago
I feel the same about software development. For personal projects, I’ll often use a technology stack I’m very familiar with, like C# and MySQL on a Debian Linux server. Maybe not the fanciest, but they’re proven, reliable technologies that have been around for a long time, and will likely still be around a long time from now.
New frameworks, libraries, and languages pop up all the time, but some of the ecosystems move way too quickly. I have some Node.js sites I built years ago that I can’t even run any more without major changes.
Relevant: expatsoftware.com/…/happiness-is-a-boring-stack.h…
colournoun@beehaw.org 4 days ago
Also mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
dan@upvote.au 3 days ago
This is a great post that I hadn’t seen before. Thanks for the link!