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Maybe it's just because I'm old and grumpy and have seen lots of things come and go, but I don't understand how some frontend devs even have this much time to obsess over their tools.

It would be like car guys spending more time arguing about whether Snap-on is better than Craftsman than actually talking about and working on cars.



Snap-on and Craftsman are actually pretty antiquated tools by modern car guy standards. If you want a real wrench you go with a Mac RBRT - it’s the new hotness in combo wrenches but there are decent alternatives out there from Wright and Proto. Here’s a great video showing things you might have missed if you’ve been in Craftsman world for a while[1].

[1] https://youtu.be/hxtgWSpTC0o


I have absolutely no knowledge in mechanical engineering before and I am now really in a youtube-binge about wrench. Not sure it is a good thing that I can get captivated by absolute random topic or a bad thing because how technology just suck up our attention.


Have you met car guys? :)


> but I don't understand how some frontend devs even have this much time to obsess over their tools.

most of us don't. these comments are mostly from people whose idea of "web development" is a form and some static content.


Have you seen r/tools?

I thought the SnapOn koolaid was stale fifteen years ago. Turns out no.




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