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@darkcode I'm not directly saying it but MAY be very strongly implying it 😉
Seriously, I'm on the side of favoring the person over the tool (most things we do can be achieved in any number of ways) - this just happened to be the self-aggrandizing job description that pushed me over the edge ... but I'm unnaturally cynical
Wrote a script that calms the extreme use of exclamation/question marks and capslocked rants, do have to say, ...
* Yesterday:*
PM: Yes, so, could you please do those changes on this page tomorrow by 3 pm and push to prod?
...
Can we collectively as an industry just calm down a little and stop lying to ourselves in a misguided attempt to inflate our sense of purpose...
I just stumbled upon a job listing for a WordPress developer position that described it as "helping solve the big problems of the day". Seriously?! Let's stop and get real you're probably just building themes. Maybe a plugin or two. So just relax and accept you're just another web developer building yet another 💩site you're not solving "the big problems"...
... Then again it IS WordPress...
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calm down
get real
just shut up