The case for boring technology
Elena Voss·
Postgres, html, and a cron job have outlived three of my clever ideas.
I am not against new tools. I am against novelty as a personality. A forum, a ledger, a queue — most of the work is naming the nouns and not dropping the writes.
What is the most unfashionable piece of your stack that you would defend in a room of people who love the next thing?