Microcontrollers - Tumblr Posts

Happens a lot on all of tech as more companies is doing the Enshittification thing.

I was told by a senior engineer that what I was promising my boss I could build was not possible.

I countered by oppening the datasheet for the microcontroller in question and pointing to the page that said I was correct.

Turns out he have never read the documentation for the microcontroller he have been working on for the last 10 years.

I had read the entire thing before having been there a month

All his knowledge is based on rumors and hearsay

I think the real reason most websites are janky as hell to use these days is because web developers have become so specialised that nobody really understands how anything works anymore. The other day I had to explain why hosting critical Javascript libraries on a third-party CDN is a bad idea to a "lead developer" who genuinely didn't know the difference between server-side versus client-side scripting.