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Choosing a tech stack

Software projects often get postponed while I decide on the tech stack. What kind of data storage? What programming language? Which framework, if any? My abundant choices sometimes paralyze me from actual building. There are many stories one might approach software development, but one that I might benefit from goes, “code is cheap. Build it with what you know and, if it needs to be improved, rebuild it.” Julia Evan’s three points from Ines Sombra explores this in the reverse; what motivates a system change:…