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  Questions for software engineers about estimates. Feel free to answer any of these in any order. Have you ever had an explicit conversation about how to estimate projects? How did you learn? If you feel that you were never taught the skill in any real sense, what do you feel you're doing at work when you're asked for estimates? Are you making it up? Have you developed your own personal guidelines? On average, how confident are you in your own estimates? How do you measure su...

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  A lot of frontend teams are very convinced that rewriting their frontend will lead to the promised land. And I am the bearer of bad tidings. If you are building a product that you hope has longevity, your frontend framework is the least interesting technical decision for you to make. And all of the time you spend arguing about it is wasted energy. I will die on this hill.

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  @davatron5000 huh. Most of this stuff I don't worry about at all for small projects. A good pass will handle security sandboxing between the app and database. Small app means connection limits and caching are a yagni problem. Etc. If these issues feel like barriers to people (again, specifically talking about small software), then I'd like to address that in some way.

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  I asked this question the other day and I promised to leave some of my own thoughts. In general, I prefer to move towards automation and push-button deploys sooner rather than later. For my least several projects, I've introduced docker and github actions way sooner than most people would or a personal project. I like a good PaaS system that allows me to just chuck a package at it and set how many nodes I want. Right now fly.io is my goto. https://social.polotek.net/@polotek/11565229637...

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  I forgot to mention that I also set up automated database migration systems in my personal projects. I’m such weirdo. https://kind.social/@bo_brinkman/115663891259094850