Yes. Innovation used to measured in gigaquacks. A decade ago.

With the process improvements of 2025, if it doesn't take you an innovation pool of at least 16 petaquacks to display a webpage, are you even trying?

Anyone else up downscaling their innovation?

I love boring stack. No nodejs and its dependence hell, no compilation, no frameworks that need reading encyclopedia to make a simple form :)

PHP or blazing fast PHP-fpm, MySQL/MariaDB or Postgres, json for config, jQuery… it is good enough for most cases.

For Netflix, Spotify, Facebook, Waze, and other heavily used sites with millions users… it is a different game.

	▲	balamatom 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Node.js is boring stack for me. But instead I am asked to work with tools from the wet nightmares of React developers. Stuff that runs in Node - yet is designed as if Node, the DOM, or the OS, didn't exist. Now that's never boring. They can't even consider that everything might work better without their favorite tool, than with it. It's surreal. And awful.