Starting to think that web dev desperately needs a blog resurgence.
Web dev on social media devolves quickly into gossip but the problems we're facing can only be tackled with discourse: a community of structured and argued writing.
There are a few that do this sort of writing but─from a reader's perspective (me)─it looks like there are too few to form a community of discourse.
And most of what's on Medium are just gossip digests and rehashes of old arguments.
How often have you seen conversations go along these lines in web dev social media:
"X looks interesting."
"Ah, yeah. Y does X. Swears by it."
"Well, Z does X and says it gives them cramps, so they don't recommend it."
"Well, the rich people across the road use X and they swear by it. They can't be wrong."
@baldur Basically all decisions about frontend development seem to be based on cargo-culting. Which is not a... terrible strategy given that there's safety in numbers, in terms of easily finding StackOverflow answers, a large ecosystem of components and plugins, etc. But ideally it should just be one factor among many.
@baldur @nolan (Says the programmer who has written basic, pascal, java, groovy, ansi c, c#, swift, javascript... maybe it's not too late for us yet)