Hello! I was talking to some friends the other day about the types of
conference talks we enjoyed.

One category we came up with was “you know this thing that used to be super
hard? Turns out now it’s WAY EASIER and maybe you can do it now!“.

So I asked on Twitter about programming things that used to be hard and are now easy

Here are some of the answers I got. Not all of them are equally “easy”, but I
found reading the list really fun and it gave me some ideas for things to
learn. Maybe it’ll give you some ideas too.

• SSL certificates, with Let’s Encrypt
• Concurrency, with async/await (in several languages)
• Centering in CSS, with flexbox/grid
• Building fast programs, with Go
• Image recognition, with transfer learning (someone pointed out tha