offtopic: Such a great engineer and yet their blog says: Website Powered by Word...

haolez · on April 20, 2022

Making use of existing tools and being able to manage their shortcomings is an important engineering skill.

papito · on April 20, 2022

WP is a never-ending source of security vulnerabilities. 30% of the internet runs on it.

I found Jekyll and never looked back.

nvarsj · on April 20, 2022

That’s why you use managed Wordpress, aka wordpress.com.

gzer0 · on April 20, 2022

The paradox of choice. I suffer from this way too often.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice

sydthrowaway · on April 20, 2022

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samhw · on April 20, 2022

In case you genuinely missed the point: he was saying that the person is a great engineer for not wasting their time optimising irrelevant details like their blog. Time allocation is an optimisation problem like any other.

hatware · on April 20, 2022

Did one person design the SR-71...?

sydthrowaway · on April 20, 2022

hatware · on April 22, 2022

He was the head of the engineering team. He didn't go into a cave and come out with completed designs...

sydthrowaway · on April 22, 2022

Who gets credit for a really good movie?

samhw · on April 23, 2022

…the people who made it? I know none of us sit through the credits, but I can assure you they do typically carry on rolling for quite some time.