John’s Internet House

John Whiles is a person from England. This website contains their blog, music, and other things. Hopefully it will one day be the sort of website that people will look at and say, “They used to make good websites back in the day. What happened?”

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Maybe you should do less 'work'

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Working in tech, I've observed developers who work as hard as possible when they don't need to. I’m here today to tell you that it's a bad idea and you shouldn't do it.