Yeah, that’s great, until you need to conditionally compose a query. Suddenly your pre baked queries are not enough. So you either:

• create your own shitty ORM based on string concatenation
• create your own shitty ORM
• or use a well supported ORM, those almost always support query composition and native queries

You write like it’s ORM vs native. ORMs let you write native queries and execute them while also doing all the tedious work for you such as:

• mapping results to model objects
• SQL injection safety
• query composition
• connection builders
• transaction management

So if you love native queries write native queries in an ORM which will do all the tedious shit for you.

Serverless will forever be stuck as a tech that’s only good for majority async stuff because of cold boot speed, scaling costs, and general latency.

I’m learning Scala, is that close enough?

Language absolutely is a marketable skill because most companies are looking to hire someone who can start working day one not someone they’ll have to train for weeks or even months in a new language that heavily relies on some specific framework.

Jira is a pain, slow, bloated, and ugly.

Trello okay is for student projects, too basic.

ClickUp was decent when I used it professionally, I still use it for personal project management.

Azure DevOps is baby’s 1st JIRA, but somehow Microsoft made it worse in every way.

I find ChatGPT more coherent than stackoverflow in many cases. Sure it hallucinates and sometimes acts like it has dementia but at the very least it won’t write 5 paragraphs about how the framework behind my issue works without giving any examples.

Stackoverflow is good for finding alternative approaches, getting explanations for how stuff works in the framework, and error investigations. Useless for getting information on stuff you don’t already know.

Legacy code is just code inherited from developers that are no longer around. It’s quality has nothing to do with its age.