So much of my echo chamber is consumed by people, including myself, who have a very dim view of JavaScript frameworks being thrown at everything, arguing with the people who are in the process of throwing JavaScript frameworks at everything. We forget one very important thing, though: we represent the minority of the web community and our arguments probably look very pointless and silly to the majority.
Some of the explanations get a little ranty, but Heydon’s collection of observed fallacies rings true:
I’ve definitely had the Luddite fallacy and the scale fallacy thrown in my face as QEDs.
The ‘made at Facebook’ fallacy is pretty much identical to what I’ve been calling the fallacy of assumed competency: copying something that large corporation X is doing just because large corporation X is doing it.
Strangers on a train.
A superb explanation of rhetorical devices by Ethan.
A wonderful piece of writing by Stephen Fry that frames the problems communication in cross-cultural settings and then works through said problems.