There are far too many opinions on social media. Especially on places like Twitter & LinkedIn. How one approach is just a death sentence or why the another approach is the best. One of my favorite things about programming is that you can build anything you want the way you want. It's a purely permission-less activity. All these "best practices" bullshit just harms new programmers or at least delays their growth. Which happens when you follow your interests and curiosity, obliviously. I was one of them, early on I was convinced I needed to find out the best and safe way to do something, this meant I never tried things out on my own, because how could I know. I'm not disregarding insights from years of experience here. What I don't like is all this crap about best programming languages, frameworks or libraries. Fuck libraries. They are the worst. Except Htmx ofcourse.
Outside of work
I think for most of us, our most interesting work is done in our free time. It's at the very least true for me. Outside of work, I like to do whatever it is that I like to explore, using languages I like and disregarding any rules. I rarely use libraries, it's purely exploratory. It's quite refreshing to build things as I think they should be built, without consulting the Internet. I find the worst ways to do certain things, but at the very least I really know why it is so. Most times though, the rules don't matter. As the context is simpler. It's quite freeing. Over time these effect how I do my day to day programming for work.
Avoiding all social media
It's not something I'm trying to do actively but I just don't get it. So I find it quite easy to avoid it all. It's been years since I've been active on any of the social media. I'm not missing out on anything. Especially since I've figured out how to get caught up with what's happening. It's quite simple really, Hacker news and Youtube. Even on Youtube there are only a handful of people I listen to. It seem to be just enough that I need to stay more or less updated.
Ignorance is bliss
It truly is. What else can I say. All my energy is spent on what I care about, which are not a lot. Everything else to me is just noise. It's a very simple life, looks really boring from the outside. But I cannot translate this feeling on content(ness?) in knowing what to do and doing it. Without a care in the world as to what anyone else thinks about it.