Published: Fri 03 July 2020
By Rory Hartong-Redden
In Python .
tags: miniessays
After a few years in tech you notice trends come and go, seemingly faster and faster every year, like tides in the ocean.
Is everyone who writes code condemned to run on a treadmill struggling to stay in place?
In short, yes.
Security patches, updates, and best practices are always evolving and it's our job to keep up.
Yet some things have remained.
Tech
Year
Comments
SQL
1974
The language for data
Make
1976
Build recipes
vi
1976
Still the best text editor
ssh
1976
Get in there
Bash
1989
Still the best shell
Python
1990
Programming for humans
HTTP
1991
Deliver that HTML
HTML
1993
Websites
PostgreSQL
1996
Excellent database
curl
1997
download stuff
matplotlib
2003
plots
git
2005
version control
These are tools I use every day.
You don't have to be on a treadmill.
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