- Tags:: 🗞️Articles , Coding, Infoxication
- Author:: Aleksandra Sikora
- Link:: https://web.archive.org/web/20200917110100/https://www.aleksandra.codes/tech-content-consumer/
- Source date:: 2020-06-07
- Finished date:: 2020-08-27
Why are you taking this approach?
- I don’t know. It was in some article.
- I don’t know. I copy-pasted it from X.
- I don’t know. I was doing it in my previous project.
- I don’t know. Someone told me so.
I thought that if someone was brave enough to post a blog post or take part in a tech discussion, they always know what they are doing. I couldn’t be more wrong! At some point, I realized that most of the technical content on the internet is bullshit (this blog may be bullshit as well). Tutorials show harmful patterns. Articles have plenty of conceptual mistakes. And people are not perfect, either! Senior developers are not always good developers. Tech leads’ solutions may be far from perfect. Well-selling, correctly working app’s architecture may be entirely fucked up. I saw people in senior positions who don’t know shit about programming! And yet they write on the internet about it! And then someone comes and be like I used solution suggested by this person, they’re a senior at company X.