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The truth is, most things don’t scale, and never need to. We made Tailscale for those things, so you can spend your time scaling the things that really need it. The long tail of jobs that are 90% of what every developer spends their time on. Even developers at companies that make stuff that scales to billions of users, spend most of their time on stuff that doesn’t, like dashboards and meme generators. As an industry, we’ve spent all our time making the hard things possible, and none of our time making the easy things easy.

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The truth is, most things don’t scale, and never need to. We made Tailscale for those things, so you can spend your time scaling the things that really need it. The long tail of jobs that are 90% of what every developer spends their time on. Even developers at companies that make stuff that scales to billions of users, spend most of their time on stuff that doesn’t, like dashboards and meme generators. As an industry, we’ve spent all our time making the hard things possible, and none of our time making the easy things easy.
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Matthew Sheffield (mattsheffield@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Jul-2024 05:40:56 JST Matthew Sheffield

This is a great essay on how most of software development is a waste of time.
Most things don't need to scale to millions of users. HTML and Javascript alone are much faster and better to maintain than the zillion frameworks that have been pushed out.
Development got overcomplicated with almost no benefit whatsoever https://tailscale.com/blog/new-internet #webdev #cloud #linux #freebsd

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