Frontend

In an era where everyone and their mother can generate and deploy the same generic-looking React / Tailwind / shadcn/ui slop to Vercel at the press of a button, your moat as a frontend developer remains the following:

• mastering the underlying web standards
• understanding tradeoffs and hard limits of existing frameworks/libraries/abstractions
• knowing how to cut bloat and replace building blocks with leaner, more flexible, or more maintainable alternatives
• leveraging lesser-explored platform features to create delightful, net-new experiences on the web

In an era where everyone and their mother can generate and deploy the same generic-looking React / Tailwind / shadcn/ui slop to Vercel at the press of a button, your moat as a frontend developer remains the following:

• mastering the underlying web standards
• understanding tradeoffs and hard limits of existing frameworks/libraries/abstractions
• knowing how to cut bloat and replace building blocks with leaner, more flexible, or more maintainable alternatives
• leveraging lesser-explored platform features to create delightful, net-new experiences on the web

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/frontend dev・founder/decentralized data wrangler /blockhead・UI/UX abstractionist・DeFi/web3 builder・dropout・24・prev /dydx, ritual.net・x.com/darryl__yeo

AND KNOWING HOW TO ACTUALLY DESIGN

Have an actual fucking opinion and stop settling for Fisher-Price safe UI. It's so boring.

Helping build a better 'Net × Architech × Excessively Black × East Coast kid on the West Coast × https://blog.webb.page

Yes but it’s over valued. Longevity comes from PMF products otherwise you’re in a shitfight and margins short, viability even more minimal. Living in a different paradigm.