The sea of things I don’t know, even within an area so confined as ‘UI development’ or ‘JS' is now too much to reasonably handle. The ever mutating ‘front end’ field is now a massive treasure chest of things I don’t know. It’s very well, knowing Backbone or Knockout, but before long you need Angular too, and Ember… and React… and Polymer. The early days: GritWhat originally sold me on all this lovely stuff was the grit, the scrappiness, the openness to hacking. There is still a persisting love of grit and hacking, but it feels sidelined or masked beneath layers of marketable-framework’y-kool-aid.