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While I am trying to create a freelancing career, I reflected on this:
Why would a client want to hire an expensive developer rather than creating an account on any website builder, such as WordPress, Wix, Hostinger, etc.?
Hiring a developer means a big ordeal explaining what they want, explaining what they want again, correcting the mistakes that definitely will appear, all that not being able to see in real-time with you as it's developed. Of course, one can be hired to work on these builders, like I am, in fact, but aren't we coders? Don't we rather code than play virtual Lego?
One could argue that he or she could be a busy person and has no time to build their own site, but at the same time, I see this as exactly what makes these builders appealing, since they are supposed to be quick to build a website and put it online for you. Hell, buy the fucking theme and done.
All I can think of is customization, since flexibility is the main selling point about hiring a developer to build your website. However, the more complex it is, a team would probably be needed, or it would take a huge amount of time to finish the project, not to mention bug fixes afterward. Also, I don't believe most people give a shit about how customized it is. They want to see the blocks stacked with their branding and that's it.
My client's website is on Kajabi, and he wants it there because it has a myriad of integrations he needs. Another uses WordPress. However, I did finish a website for a friend, and I am about to start another one for somebody else that I will build from scratch, which is nice, at least.
Maybe we are better off being hired by companies, working 9 to 5s with other team members on big projects for a common goal to satisfy the client and the boss, and not work a freelancer or alone, unless we're ready to spend months working on a project because what the client wants is beyond a landing page and cannot be done in a simple builder, or always work on simple, brain-dead landing pages that at most have some cool animation with GSAP or Framer.6 -
my neighbor decided to breakdown all walls in their apartment. Like, seriously, all of them, so I've gotta hear hardcore construction sounds from 8am till 5pm, everyday...
So now I'm waking up at 4pm and going to bed 7am. That way, since I can sleep thru a zombie apocalypse itself, I avoid that torture.
I'm not someone who holds grudges, but I am leaving a speaker blasting whitenoise during my sleep time. That way, I can make sure the motherfuckers go thru at least some of the discomforts I'm went before I managed to go nocturnal2 -
God, so tilted right now, after having to "urgently" (joke's on them, they will get charged the urgent rate) check why some deployments weren't working due to some npm dependencies not being found.
(Just from mentioning npm you surely think I'm gonna bash JS, but no!)
I'm tilted by TS devs that don't bother to learn the very basics of git pathspecs and just add "dist" to their .gitignore, not knowing that it's gonna exclude any file or directory named "dist" *ANYWHERE* in the project.
And when your poor CI pipeline tries to transfer the build artifacts (so, keeping the .gitignore excludes but manually including node_modules and dist), it excludes the dist dir in some packages and wrecks the deployment.
Please,, please, PLEASE.
if you want to:
A) Make your entry relative to the .gitignore...
Put a slash first.
B) make it only match directories and not files...
Put a slash last.3 -
oh dear Lord, the live spaghetti stopped working this morning.
ColdFusion endpoint throws a 503, fuck knows why, entire front end demon spaghetti web app is stuck in a loading screen.
Whoever architected this application is an idiot.7 -
No raise. Not like I single handedly rewrote one of our weirdest and most complex legacy code bases or anything... Oh and even so they whined about how long that took that's probably reason they'll cite if I ask about this lack of raise thing.
I mean, technically I got a little more just because the tax rates are different for the new financial year but come on5 -
Spent weeks cleaning up legacy code, because my phone was ringing non-stop about errors and crashes, got it done. The CEO has been on vacation for like a month and a half, so I had to make executive judgements, and has just now returned. I got called down to the CEO's office so that I could get bitched at for marginally changing the appearance and behavior of a part of the site. I explain that it was necessary, and the response I got was "it was working fine for five years". All I could say to that was "no it fucking wasn't, are we working at the same company?" When I go to take another job, I might just put all of the old code back in place to remind them of how much "better" things ran before I worked here. Massive headache now, physical and proverbial.
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A new development rule I've started to implement:
All backend APIs will be written with the assumption that it's gonna get distributed as an API for 3rd parties to be integrated in their systems - meaning that every API I write will have proper response status codes for appropriate scenarios (like 400, 429, 500 status codes).
No more `res.json({status: false, message: 'message'})` with 200 status code across the board.13 -
I swear the longer I use AI for auto complete in my IDE the worse it gets
today it can't even get the syntax of basic method calls right
last few weeks it was failing to rewrite code I already had in another part of the codebase and was just hallucinating confused garbage instead -- it knew what I meant but it was just not there right
when I first got it I could write comments and then autocomplete the code but that stopped working at some point and I just thought maybe I was asking things that were too complex for it, but now I'm thinking all these things degrade over time and can't not degrade for some reason
they keep claiming they don't learn but if they degrade they must be doing some sort of feedback system
I remember back when they did IBM AI and such and that stuff degraded as well, then AI fell out of fashion for a bunch of years4 -
Is it possible to print something on the moon using laser from earth ?
If so the first shit we will see are advertisements.13 -
I broke my code,
got distracted fixing it,
annnnd accidentally flaked on my friend
fuck
why am I like this
I have such regrets8 -
Here’s a novel rant no one has ever seen before.
The iPhone keyboard is absolutely the worst input method ever created. Even primitive keyboards from the 80s are more usable.
I would use a madcatz controller to type instead of this garbage given the choice.
And you know what’s a good interface design? Making the music player controls on the lock screen disappear when Bluetooth connects22 -
CTO: you guys are not sharing the shit
VP: Bikash, share the shit
PE(principle engnr): Im sharing the shit
sheet*13 -
Crowdstrike event caused a disaster at my company.
No, we didn't had a single crash, but something much worse has happened. My tech lead who lives in early 90's got his confirmation that we shall run with 0 internet, everything on premise, no source control, no external libraries only the absolute must that doesn't need ever any update. Finally we started to show him how powerful an azure pipeline would be, but after this, there's no hope.5 -
Little bit of background I've been a front end developer for the past eight years not a good one but I get by. Last 4 working with consulting firms for fortune 500 clients. Big projects big plans big structure, following someone else's lead and just knowing the basics of code reviewing, git flow, code deployment and everything else... life happens and i end up as a front end developer for a big company not tech related that wants to depend less from consultants and do more in house dev. Seems a pretty straightforward project front in angular. Back on python doing queries to a database with sql server. I finish the on-boarding and after two weeks finally get access to the repos. Worst spaghetti code I've ever seen. Seems like someone took a vanilla script project from 10 years ago and push it into an angular tutorial project. Commented code, no comments for the code, deprecated functions still there, no use of typescript nested ifs hell. I try to do my job doing new features do comments clean up a bit. Senior developers get annoyed4
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Why do otherwise intelligent people think chatgpt code is a good idea if they don't know what the code does?
I am a bit in shock by this prospect. I asked about some lines of code that was using some templates I had not used before. The response was "I dunno, chatgpt." This person is really really smart. Yet deploying code that they don't understand completely. This seems dangerous and irresponsible. I ended up rewriting the function I had questions about. It was significantly shorter and didn't do a fuckton of copying strings around.
WTF is wrong with people? Are people afraid to think? Now I want to get out before this kind of shit becomes the norm.5 -
TIL:
How to become root w/o having to provide a password:
unshare -rm
no go ahead and bind-mount your own /etc/hosts (or any other file/directory) w/o affecting the rest of the system!1 -
Got a legit question/semi rant for anyone who may know. I want to start by saying that I'm not really a "network" person, at least on MS systems. I can physically plug cables in and shit like that, but the software side of networking is not a thing with which I can claim familiarity. Anyone who's read my recent rants will know that I am forced to deal with IIS, because my boss is an insufferable microshit fanboy of the highest level, and is easily frightened and threatened by the use of a keyboard for anything other than using facebook.
I've got a couple of microservices running under IIS, and our customers thankfully are able to access them with no issues. Those of us in the "IT department" are also able to access it. No one else in the building, on our network can, and despite me not having set up this network, or really having anything to do with it, the rest of my "team" (LOL) refuses to help me solve the problem, because developer = networking specialist and printer fixer. Does anyone here have an idea? I found a think on Stack Overflow about firewall rules, but those are already set appropriately.11