Funny how some skills don’t change. I’m sitting here typing a CREATE TABLE and it’s essentially the same thing I was doing 25 years ago.

@manton Set theory hasn't changed a lot. 🤠

@_elena Yeah! Love Mastodon’s latest styling for code blocks and quotes.

@manton What’s different is now there are more people using NoSQL wishing they were writing CREATE TABLE this morning.

@manton worse, they don’t change and I’m still looking up the same css and html how-tos I’ve been looking at for years.

@manton For me it's important to remember that what you're doing isn't what you're doing.

@dimsumthinking I like that. The technical stuff is all just a means to an end.

@dimsumthinking I like that ;)

@manton When growing up my dad told me something to the effect of ‘SQL skills was essential 15 years ago, and it will be essential in 15 years’.

He was right.

@manton What gets me about the European cathedrals that took many hundreds of years to build is you were doing the same work as your father, grandfather, great^n and you don’t know how far back because those names are gone and the same will be true of your sons, grandson, great^n with no idea when it would be completed. Endless masonry.

@manton true, SQL is probable the one stack that has’t changed a tiny bit in the decades. New wrappers, new abstractions but the same core.