• #063 - I was fired for using HTMX

  • Jul 22 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
  • Podcast

#063 - I was fired for using HTMX

  • Summary

  • In today’s episode, we bring Spiro Floropoulos, a senior developer and architect with over 20 years of experience. This episode is an unusual one, as Spiro recently got laid off due to a bizarre chain of events that involved HTMX, overworking, and technical debt.


    But we’ll learn from this story, as we want to shed some light on how situations that Spiro described could be avoided, namely how the tech industry is obsessing over developer experience and why that’s detrimental, why abstractions should be teaching you the technology as opposed to just doing the work for you, why you should be able to train your junior devs and much more!


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    Timestamps:


    00:00 Intro

    00:35 Why are we having this conversation

    01:33 How was HTMX involved in this?

    03:38 Spiro's background

    05:58 Why are we focusing so much on developer experience?

    13:38 The Tech Industry as a whole is headed down the wrong path

    16:17 Abstractions teaching you about the underlying technology rather than hiding it

    18:47 What are the long-term consequences of unresolved technical debt?

    26:46 There's things you can't blame frameworks for

    28:27 We have to slow down

    30:46 What happened after the introduction of HTMX into the project?

    40:26 Hiring juniors is great, but you should have the resources to train them

    47:00 The Technical Debt

    50:32 The more complex the feature became, the bigger the struggle with HTMX

    53:42 The reasons why Spiro was let go

    57:10 Instead of Agile we should treat our programmers like adults

    57:31 HTMX was instant and testing ability was better

    01:01:21 Is Spiro looking for work?

    01:02:00 Where to find Spiro


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