Outdated practices

Best practices can be a controversial thing, one hand they standardise working practices, on the other they limit a persons ability to think outside the box.

I used to be hard on best practices, I remember the frontend days where I would religiously follow practices for writing html and css. There was a term called divitis which was essentially using too many divs to create a layout of a page. It must be written with as little divs as possible, but for what? The things I build I am building by myself, modern browsers don’t exactly have performance issues with a few extra elements.

I did used to think there are some practices worth sticking to

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