Tech Itch

12 Apr 2024 - Ben

What is the tech itch?

For me, it’s the feeling that a new technology would solve the problem I have in a simple manner, but taking my current project into the new tech is too heady a task and too big a risk for it to maybe solve the problem.

I define a new technology as anything me and my co workers are unfamiliar with, not that it’s new to people. They are technologies that I’m unsure the best use case for and I don’t know somebody who is knowledgable about it. In these cases, I need to find external sources like blogs or videos to get an idea, or use it for myself.

Usually the itch isn’t satisfied until I’ve determined whether a technology will or won’t work for my use case, until I no longer have that problem, or until I’m not feeling the pain of the problem anymore and no team weight was behind solving it.

This itch is usually what leads me into hobby projects (including this blog!)