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[HumanOpinions-bzky]

Freelancer here. Love your content man. Makes me feel good about some of the choices I've made throughout the years.

[neugey]

Stef is spot on. Be pragmatic. Advocate for simplicity. If I have learned one thing from my pet project and my day job in 2024, it is this!

[capcadoi]

I've been saying the EXACT SAME things about absurdly complex dev ops, unneeded cloud computing complexity and obsession with scaling, in apps that end up having 100 concurrent users max, and advocating for the pragmatism of using whatever language you are faster in, to solve problems for your clients and get paid.

Also, as somebody who quit the main job 1 year ago to focus on being an independent contractor/freelancer and ended up making 2X what I used to make over the past year, I couldn't agree more. I have several clients, and any one of them can go f themselves if they don't want a fair collaboration. You can't fire your boss, but you can fire one of your 10 clients if you don't like them anymore. Empowering is the word.

[mucholangs]

You're speaking my mind. I've always coded in plain vanilla PHP. But everybody seems to swear by the necessity of frameworks, libraries, etc.

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[itstrainerred]

As someone who went to a bootcamp and cant find a job AT ALL, this is awesome to hear. We cant predict the future, but I've been thinking about getting into freelancing for a while now cause of your videos! Thanks for all the tips, I might finally bite the bullet soon

[maxfrischdev]

Thank you Stef! I acknowledge that it's difficult to create UNIQUE conent on a very regular schedule like yours, but this video is kind of one of those. Great stuff! 👍🏼🤘🏼😊

[jcoronazt]

Uncle Stef!!! You're the best! I hope you live another 169 years so you can keep helping us with your knowledge and real world experience. Keep up the amazing work and the Ruby jokes :-)

[BenHewart]

I have been banging on about vanilla coding with native web components even built a web app... Performance is key!!

[sayedaliaqamousavi]

Thanks for sharing your thoughtful tipsand advices.

[Bright-Great]

I have move from framework to framework but I love php currently building Laravel package and wp plugin although I don't have a job but I love php. Thanks a lot sir

[iampyotr]

This is why Ruby on Rails from star to present time is focused on simplicity, happiness and consistency. Super fast and scales!

[Jollyprez]

I'll hold my breath on that "simplify their lives" thing. My leads and directors are all-in on complexity, complexity, complexity. I recently proposed a fully-working, simple feature that could be extended literally with no code on the api-side. It was up to the front-end to add it - and THAT was a single line of code. Nope. They couldn't abide that.

[toby]

Totally agree with you. Though I'm not a web developer, we still see library bloat in application development. Sometimes multiple versions of the same library because one version has bug x while another has bug y. We need both.

[Tech.Library]

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[mr_don_key]

for solo development (or very small teams): vanilla is often a less ideal scenario to go.
Some Reasons are:
security (most devs are not an expert)
optimizations (most devs are likely not an expert there either)
best practises applied in the core of the app (again, most devs are not experts in these areas)
stability (often frameworks and libraries have tons of users and developers, so they become battle tested against bugs)..
etc etc etc etc

The trick is to find the right libs and frameworks to use. Avoid the "framework du jour" hype trains, use only well established libs/frameworks and stick with them (yes they are often boring).

[peynao]

Hi uncle Stef!
Thanks for your videos! You bring very grounded and experienced opinions. We need more chilled and realistic developers in YouTube like you.
Hey how do you see all this WP drama?
What do you think is the safest way foe WordPress and WP Engine developers to do in this situation??

[jcy]

Vanilla code is definitely the way to go, but in 2024 going with PHP in the backend means you'll spend lots of time writing your own integrations with pretty much any third party API. Whereas if you use Node JS, all you need is to install their package and off you go. Plus you just need a single language for frontend and backend.

[dvdragon]

Why be a peasant at a FAANG when you can build an empire on PHP?

[javabeanz]

I learned PHP back in 2006, and have been using it ever since. And I have been very resistant to using frameworks. PHP 8.4 is in the RC stage, with some great new features.

[MadalinIgnisca]

After a couple of decades, many times I still go back to PHP... Just to make something simple, in almost programming languages, hell to start and configure, unless you use boilerplates, generators, etc. PHP just has it there, and you can be online asap without any added package.