So we have a confluence page all about best practices (there’s not even a lot in it) but when you check the repository, most rules are not followed 😭

When I wasn’t the lead yet there are so many things I want to do and improve. I have asked and judged my lead’s choices a thousand times for choosing the easy and fast way instead of the right way.

Now that he left and his role was given to me, I can now sense the same judgements from my members to the decisions I make (or not make).
I now understand. We don’t always have the luxury of time. If I say yes to improving everything at once then our app will never be done. (That our bosses will blame me for)

me: Just to be clear, we're only supporting chrome?
boss: Yes.

* few days later *

QA: I have a lot of bugs to report, the bosses asked me to test the app in all browsers

I am a frontend dev but please don’t trust me 100% with responsive, works in every browser, animation heavy, top of the line, UIs.

Also I don’t know how to work with Wordpress.

Also don’t ask me questions about Webpack, Node, or anything related to builds/configs. (I will be happy to google search my answers for you tho)

But I am a frontend dev.

We are working on an AngularJs 1.x project for a long time now. Maybe we’ll use it forever because we will never be allowed to rewrite the whole app with much timely tools 💆🏻‍♀️

How to be a great team lead?

Everyone’s a “fullstack” until they have to make a button go all the way to the right

What I miss about not being a team lead is how I used to spend all my hours in the office coding. Just coding.

Being a team lead is watching your members grow more and more while you stay out of date because you don’t have any more time to read and learn what’s new

That time of the day I have to google search why is the child container getting more height than the parent

dev: ugh we need to set and implement coding standards

same dev: no I don't need to follow what you just said, it's already clean and readable (it's not)

This team mate of mine always finds a way to escape my suggestions in his pull requests.

Today he told me that what I'm asking him is just my personal preference and that it's not a thing just because our formatter isn't powerful enough to do it automatically.