Sticking with the same set of technologies is a premature death for your career as a programmer.
The whole article builds up on a point that people tend to fail more when they are using new tools. That point is false. In reality, when you use a wrong but ’accustomed’ tooling in inappropriate situation, you end up writing code that you would never write if you had chosen right tools. You are effectively reinventing the wheel.
You also have an idea about ’innovation tokens’ that builds up on a static representation of weight of a new technology in a project. That is ridiculous.
There is no definition of ’boring’ in this article. I don't understand why you call PHP, Postgres and Cron ’boring’. What is ’interesting’ then?
It seems like you have made a wrong choice while thinking about the problem. The problem is clear: people fuck up projects by using modern, hyped technologies that are inappropriate for project's domain. They are just as wrong as you are.
On the one hand I agree with you, but having looked at some CV's recently, I see people who list every language and web framework under the sun. If you have learned 10 new frameworks in the last year, then you can' have any in depth knowledge of them.
The whole article builds up on a point that people tend to fail more when they are using new tools. That point is false. In reality, when you use a wrong but ’accustomed’ tooling in inappropriate situation, you end up writing code that you would never write if you had chosen right tools. You are effectively reinventing the wheel.
You also have an idea about ’innovation tokens’ that builds up on a static representation of weight of a new technology in a project. That is ridiculous.
There is no definition of ’boring’ in this article. I don't understand why you call PHP, Postgres and Cron ’boring’. What is ’interesting’ then?
It seems like you have made a wrong choice while thinking about the problem. The problem is clear: people fuck up projects by using modern, hyped technologies that are inappropriate for project's domain. They are just as wrong as you are.