Twenty-five years of experience reduce to one principle: don't leave a burden for whoever comes next.
Heavy, opinionated frameworks fail the moment reality stops fitting the canonical pattern. A non-opinionated foundation (Hapi.js, for instance) lets the 60% generic pattern flow naturally, while the 40% exception lives beside it cleanly.
Human memory is bounded. A well-chosen naming convention is faster to teach than a 200-page API doc - and outlasts the framework that birthed it.
Five percent of an app's life is writing it. The rest is maintenance. Every decision should serve the person reading the code a year from now - not the fashion.
A 2.5 kB binding library (like my bimo) outlasts the "winning framework" of any given year. Because it's minimal. Because it's clean. Because it doesn't force its philosophy on you.
Same JavaScript on both sides. Tests cover real behaviour, not framework behaviour.
AI coding agents are part of the toolkit now - but the keyboard stays under human hands. I structure code so agents work effectively, build guardrails that keep their output reviewable, and treat AI as assisted coding, never vibe coding. Quality first, always.
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