I had to get some login issues fixed working for a big tech company that had outsourced that particular set of work. The Indian person I interacted with could not give a fuck less. Total burnout, I felt bad for him.

As compared to writing css by hand? Fuck that. We do was the site to look good.

Back in the mid to late nineties I used America Online and the warez chat rooms. I found out Visual Basic was used to create bot programs and now I work for a big tech company.

Not everything is at scale. We have adopted these techniques (at the beginning of this year) for our internal web frontend to our build system at work and it makes it possible for all of the team to work on this system without having to setup a complex node environment or deal with npm. We also get the pretty shiny that Tailwind brings to the table. Our system is as simple as can be but not any simpler.

When bringing people online from other languages, I first get them to find out what python there is in their environment and go with that if it’s recent enough. Then I tell them about pyenv and it’s plugins after a bit. Whenever I go straight into installing pyenv, it feels like I’m throwing some one in the deep ocean.