Impact over Performance

Short essay on 230705:

Impact over Performance is a philosophy. While we rage on the latest and greatest tech stack, tech is never the product. For example:

Original Post Link is now almost 14,000 lines of raw PHP mixed with inline HTML, CSS in <style> and raw JS in <script> tags

I did not use TS, flexbox or frameworks except jQuery

A lot of $.ajax() and float:left though

It has 1,872 paying customers making $61,808 per month

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— @levelsio (@levelsio) July 3, 2023

Pieter Levels generates millions of revenue every month but with jQuery. Who cares about the tech stack if they can make a good product? But I am too much of a technophile aesthete... so I have devised the IDOL Stack. Remember, use Boring Technologies.

• Use boring technologies
• Bootstrap
• Deliver day 1
• Sharable architectures: IDOL Stack
• Antipreneur
• Supergravity Products