I usually lurk on here but this is one of the most infuriating posts I’ve ever seen.

Using a framework does not make you a bad developer, having the hubris to believe you are better than everyone else because you don’t does. The worst part of doing this is eventually creating your own random framework that does 90% of what for instance rails does in some arbitrary way that’s probably worse thought out and you have to support forever.

So, it’s emacs? More seriously, what value can there be in a 38 year old editor. Written in 1980, the age of modems and bulletin boards.There’s no info about it in the article (other than a git link) so no one can actually form an impression.

I’ve thought about this on and off over the years and I feel like the answer is maybe. Sometimes you absolutely need to do stuff outside of work to advance your career and maybe sometimes you should just be focusing on other aspects of your life.

Generally speaking however I think people who actually try to improve on a daily basis rather than just doing the absolute minimum each day has more of an effect career wise than coding outside of work.

Intuition about where problems might be or code that might cause them is something I think comes from experience. After a lot of years you’ve just seen a lot of bugs and know the type of thing that causes them.