WN15: What is the best piece of content you found?

This week I tried out some AWS services with Angular, but you can find the same with React and Vue.

First impression: wow, super cool, it works!!!.
Second impression: How on earth can I change "whatever you want" without breaking the whole thing??

Final thoughts: AWS Amplify hides a lot of the complexities related to the AWS ecosystem. It's a great way in, but nowhere near enough to understand those services.

Opinions on AWS or competitors?

I think there's this misconception (driven by our world of late-stage capitalism maybe) that anything you do, even as a hobby, has to be done for the sake of extrinsic gains such as hits or views or likes or shares or even monetary profit. Those things are nice probably, but if you're getting into something for such gains, it really may become difficult to sustain.

For me, blogging and maintaining this website are a hobby that I enjoy. The same way that some people enjoy tinkering with cars or old computers or cosplay or such, I enjoy tinkering around with this site, writing posts, figuring out the best writing style for me and so on. I don't do it because I think I'll make a profit or become famous or whatever. I do it because it gives me joy.

From roytang.net/2022/04/thoughts-on-bl...