[Go Make Things] Coping with technology FOMO

Friday, September 20, 2024

This morning, my buddy Avdi Grimm dropped an awesome article on coping with technology FOMO (fear of missing out) that really resonates with a lot of what I've been writing about recently…

A lot of developer angst grows from anxiety over technical churn. It shows itself in different ways for different people:

Personal projects caught in perpetual cycles of framework upgrades; never gaining features, just ported from one shiny tech to the next; or

…vocal disdain for the "kids and their need for shiny new objects"; or

…vocal disdain for old fogeys who refuse to keep up; or

…"We need standardization!"; or

"…Look at how community X handles this better!"

Then, he offers some advice on what to do. My personal favorite is…

80% of real-world developer work is maintenance. You are more likely to be asked to bone up on an obsolete tech than on a bleeding-edge one. Give up trying to predict the tech you need.

In my experience, most front-end jobs are really focused on React right now (honestly, React is probably old enough that it's a "legacy" technology now).

But there are still a lot of jobs to be found in PHP and WordPress, working with Ruby or Python, and so on.

Cheers,
Chris

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