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The ATP episode where he talked about this was incredibly fascinating. Marco is such a role model to me - he has a complete immunity to fads and trends, and just does things the way he wants to. He adopts the 'new and cool' things only when they have a real benefit.

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ATP, also known as “Accidental Tech Podcast”.

I largely subscribe to the use boring tech ethos ... but php? come on man.

and yet... successful people have used it to build really successful things: Facebook, Tumblr (I think), the things Marco's been involved with.

I just dunno outside of meta should we really be pushing php with all its flaws? or is it still flawed and I need to update my priors?

There’s something major to be said for going to war with the tools you have.

And living with decisions made 15 years ago may be much more successful than trying to change horses mid-stream.

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