These tweets made me giggle a little bit:

Folog

@fogus

You want to stay relevant as a software developer for the next 10 years?

These are 3 major things you should focus on:

- ActiveX
- OLE
- ATL

(c) 1998 twitter.com/scottwlaschin/…

18:59 PM - 18 Nov 2018

Scott Wlaschin @ScottWlaschin

You want to stay relevant as a software developer for the next 10 years? These are 3 major things you should focus on: - SOAP & WS-* specifications - Enterprise Service Bus - AJAX with XML (c) 2008 https://t.co/wwIRmwct70

and a variation

Jason Lenny

@j4lenn

@ScottWlaschin @olearycrew You want to stay relevant as a software developer for the next 10 years?

These are 3 major things you should focus on:

- Perl CGI
- Hand-written HTML table nesting
- A bit of C for when you really need to get the most out of your Pentium with 4MB RAM

(c) 1998

21:55 PM - 19 Nov 2018

then in 2008

Scott Wlaschin

@scottwlaschin

You want to stay relevant as a software developer for the next 10 years?

These are 3 major things you should focus on:

- SOAP & WS-* specifications
- Enterprise Service Bus
- AJAX with XML

(c) 2008 twitter.com/beeman_nl/stat…

22:21 PM - 17 Nov 2018

beeman 🐝 @beeman_nl

You want to stay relevant as a software developer for the next 10 years? These are 3 major things you should focus on: - GraphQL. - Web Assembly. - Web Components. You will most likely end up using it so no better time to start learning it than today! 🔥

The chain started because of this serious tweet:

beeman 🐝

@beeman_nl

You want to stay relevant as a software developer for the next 10 years?

These are 3 major things you should focus on:

- GraphQL.
- Web Assembly.
- Web Components.

You will most likely end up using it so no better time to start learning it than today! 🔥

22:46 PM - 16 Nov 2018

Who knows if GraphQL, WebAssembly and WebComponents will be relevant in 10 years or won't be.

I think the real lesson from the first three tweets is twofold:

• don't be too attached to a technology (most of us, me included, have a bias when it comes to our favorite piece of tech)

• "always be learning" (as in be ready to move on when the time comes, and be curious)

Question time

Which three technologies would you bet on in the next 10 years?

Which three technologies you think/wish won't be relevant anymore in the next 10 years?