@CodeTalker I don’t care about rep on this platform. At least on StackOverflow, rep has benefits for my resumé.

I find it strange that I can’t at least set an avatar to begin with, meanwhile anything I post will be overlooked as “another green dot posting”; this rant and your warm welcome confirms that.

I just want a damn avatar. Getting rep on Stackoverflow was easier than this

If you think XML is too verbose, wait until you see XACML

Sounds familiar, I’ve been there. The wrong company doesn’t mean the wrong career. If you know what you value most I’d focus on finding a company that offers it.

The only time I’ve ever questioned my career is when my interests have changed over time, or my skills have adapted to something else (before I became a dev I was actually an architect, the bricks-and-mortar kind).

I’ll never let a company take the joy of programming away from me, and hopefully you’ll find yours again.

Usefulness of the project, that fills a genuine void, as well as creating something I can showcase future employers; something I can’t do with a company’s private repo.

I used to contribute to an Ecommerce platform called Sylius, written in PHP and based on the Symfony framework.

Magneto was the go to choice, fully featured and stable, whereas Sylius at the time was still in beta. However Sylius was more modern, decoupled, easier to mould into what I wanted and I was already familiar with Symfony so I find myself contributing new features that I needed for my own project.

It just so happens one online store also needed them and so I worked closely with them on it. As a result I got a job there.

Long enough that it at the very bare minimum includes the issue number, but not too long that if Vim fails to save I’d be super annoyed.

I like to think of it was writing a message to yourself in the future that you can easily search for. So that’s I treat Git like my personal diary.

CRAP-1837 Dear Git,

Why does nobody like me? Also fixed that bug I introduced that broke everything lolz

@12bitfloat the recruiter looks desperate in this scenario than the developer