Engineering is a discipline of design through investigation and constraint, with the goal to develop useful products that serve users and help society.
The opposite of engineering is bullshit; substituting fairy tales for inquiry and evidence.
If the tone of my blog tends towards despair, it's because the professionalisation of frontend appears not to have made more engineers, no matter how generously the word gets slathered on CVs:
https://infrequently.org/2024/01/performance-inequality-gap-2024/
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