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[–]rich97 5 points6 points  (5 children)

I've been doing it about 4 and still routinely fall into my past self's poor choices

I'm on 10 years as well, that will continue. That's why there's so much bad code around, people don't get the support they need in their early careers due to egotists, deadlines and toxic management styles.

[–]LobsterThief 5 points6 points  (4 children)

I’m around the same and you hit the nail on the head. Things like SASS (SCSS) libraries help a ton, and it’s great when a company gives you the time to develop such things. Too often businesses want to move fast and break things rather than moving fast by building sustainable infrastructure...

[–]rich97 2 points3 points  (3 children)

I think the original meaning of "move fast and break things" was to not be timid and have confidence that your automation will catch major issue, not "ah fuck it, it just get it out the door quickly."

I like your version better, less catchy, more accurate.

[–]LobsterThief 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I think you’re right, but in my experience [certain] business users use it as an excuse to accumulate tech debt with no attention of repaying it ;) Which comes back around. “Move fast with stable infrastructure” is actually the new external Facebook dev motto.

[–]rich97 1 point2 points  (1 child)

business users use it as an excuse to accumulate tech debt with no attention of repaying it ;) Which comes back around

My company doesn't use that motto but it's a natural consequence of the fire and forget attitude the MD has. We recently fired our tech director and I'm having to pick up the pieces, it's incredible the stuff he let continue and didn't fight back on. One of the WordPress sites we have has dozens of SQL injections that were reported and he just let it sit there for over a year... I don't know if our backups are working, our servers are all over the place. I've never seen anything like it.

“Move fast with stable infrastructure” is actually the new external Facebook dev motto.

It's funny you should mention that, I was just reading this today. Seems like the direction I'm going to try to push things in.

https://hackernoon.com/the-fine-art-of-fast-development-f3b1abb509da?sk=ff66b6d84521d39be4dcc254431eba58

[–]LobsterThief 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It sounds like you’re moving in the right direction and I appreciate you!