Stoicism and Software Engineering

April 5, 2020

Software engineering is hard, no doubt about it. Sometimes it seems that our profession is full of snake oil salesmen. New technologies are created and evangelized for monetary reasons without bringing progress to the field. I have been coding for over 20 years. Trust me, every six months, you need to be updating your skills, or else you will get outdated—nothing worst than the old guys that got stuck with the new Cobol: the monolith J2EE WebSphere. ...