Chris Heilmann

We are obsessed with coding and creating automated workflows and optimizations. And yet our final products aren't making it easy for people to use them.

We are obsessed with coding and creating automated workflows and optimizations. And yet our final products aren't making it easy for people to use them. Somewhere, we lost empathy for our end-users and other developers. Maybe it is time to change that. Here are some ideas.

2019

dotJS

Develop, Debug, Learn?

Being a JavaScript developer is pretty messy. The frontend development world is in constant change and we don't even stop to analyse what we're doing any more. 

We build libraries to fix problems and keep using them although the problems are gone. We stifle creativity and innovation by telling people off for "doing things wrong". And we don't even consider understanding what others did before replacing it with the next new thing. 

Let's take a breather and stop chasing great ideas not very likely to ever be how we work. We need more people to work on interfaces. Let's concentrate on what matters.