Welcome back to Tech Tuesday. In Part 1, we covered message bubbles, mobile dependence, and keyboard loyalty.
In Part 2, we’re going deeper — into frameworks, file systems, content management, and whether today’s developers are even functional human beings.
Let’s jump in.
🧑💻 Johnathan Harrison, Unfiltered
MOTHER MAYHEM:
Johnathan, let’s start with you. You’ve mentioned you built your own CMS back in the 2010s?
JOHNATHAN HARRISON:
Yeah — full-stack, raw PHP and MySQL.
Booking system for a healthcare company. No Laravel. No WordPress. No fluff.
OOP, proper folder structure, reusable components — everything handled through my own logic.
CASPER DUNN:
Wow, okay. That’s… very hands-on.
Was there a reason you didn’t just use an existing platform?
JOHNATHAN:
Yeah. Because I wasn’t lazy.
🗃️ File Systems: Lost Knowledge
EVELYN CROSS:
You know what’s crazy? Half of Gen Z can’t even use a file system.
Too stupid to drag a file into a folder.
They save everything to downloads, panic, then re-download it again.
Parents hand them smartphones before they can find a file they just saved.
MOTHER MAYHEM:
Casper, thoughts?
CASPER:
I think Evelyn’s being a bit harsh. I mean, everything’s cloud-based now. Organization just looks different.
EVELYN:
Call it what you want. If you can’t manage a file tree, you’re not managing anything. You’re coasting in apps designed to babysit you.
🚫 The TikTok Ban
MOTHER MAYHEM:
Johnathan, you’ve mentioned you’re strict with your daughter’s screen time?
JOHNATHAN:
Absolutely. No TikTok. No Instagram.
She’s learning to code, write clean markup, and version control her homework in Git.
I’m not raising a dopamine junkie. I’m raising a builder.
CASPER:
That’s… kind of toxic. Don’t you think that’s controlling?
JOHNATHAN:
No. It’s parenting.
EVELYN:
You call it toxic. I call it functional.
You can’t form adults by handing them social media before they’ve earned basic cognitive endurance.
🧰 Frameworks: Friend or Crutch?
CASPER:
I just think tools exist to make life easier. Why not use them?
JOHNATHAN:
Because abstraction isn’t always progress.
Half the tools you praise solve problems you’ve never even encountered.
Casper’s idea of development is dragging blocks into place like digital Legos and praying Wix doesn’t crash.
CASPER:
It’s efficient. People just want websites that work.
EVELYN:
They want websites that scale. That don’t break under pressure.
If your stack relies on magic, you’re not a dev — you’re a hobbyist with a mouse.
🔚 The Final Word
MOTHER MAYHEM:
Casper. Johnathan. Evelyn. Any closing thoughts?
CASPER:
I just think we need to let tech evolve. Not everything needs to be hand-built. Some of this elitism is just gatekeeping.
JOHNATHAN:
It’s not gatekeeping. It’s standards. And they don’t evolve just because you’re tired.
EVELYN: (finally looking up)
My office has a coffee machine. Not a Tide Pod vending machine.
I hire producers. Not excuses.
🧠 Tech Tuesday Wrap-Up
Two devs. One purist. One nocoder. And one enforcer who doesn’t tolerate fragility.
Let this be your weekly reminder:
Code like it matters. Communicate like an adult. And save your damn files properly.
