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Earlier this year, while at CppNow, I completely broke the RSS feed for this blog. Really sorry about that, and thanks to Jonathan for pointing it out. However, I have been distracted with work, life, and a bunch of complications over the intervening months and have only now managed to fix it. I hope? Let’s hope. As is all-too-common, the fix was easy once I understood how to fix it and understood the surprising constraints on how to add that fix to the blog infrastructure.
The web platform has grown in complexity over the years and with it the complexity in the tools we use to build for the web. Tools like Gulp and Webpack are intended to make our life easier but also introduce a significant amount of complexity that must be managed and maintained over the lifecycle of a project. Don’t get me wrong: I’ve always enjoyed the conveniences that task runners and module bundlers have to offer, but I also feel a bit overwhelmed by the configuration they require, the diligence needed to maintain it, and the mental energy it takes to be productive during each development session.