Ngrok just changed my entire QA approach like holy shit man

Been dreaming about code a lot lately. Guess now I’m gonna be dreaming about terraform config files

It’s funny how new developers are swaying between node and php(laravel) for their first run with api development. Laravels like your hand holding solution to warm you up before you dive in on express. Not shits configured for you with express or Koa. All the ORMs are fucked, everything and I mean everything is a separate npm package totally agnostic to your current environment. There’s barely a set of best practices or directory structure. It’s like being given some clay and water. Figure it out. I would never suggest anyone trying to find confidence in the web dev world to pick up node unless they’re working with an all in one framework like sales.js

Whenever I was working heavily with dynamically allocated websocket ports and having to make strategies for connecting them via this UI, I would dream that I was a switchboard operator connecting and reconnecting for what felt like hours.

And it always felt like a fever dream where I’m just having a panic through the whole experience and waking up in cold sweat. That went on for that whole month of 2018.

My current company has taught me a remarkable lesson. Just 1-2 really good full stack developers is all it takes to pull in Disney, Berkshire Hathaway and other fortune 500 companies. Cause at the end of the day these companies dont care about how many developers or how proficient the work flow is over here. They care about the history of the company, the mouth thats moving in these lunch meetings and the words being said. The sense of confidence and the nice building they see when they visit. Ive found a deep respect for marketing/sales, the facade that they can put up and the way a company builds off of facade until its no longer a facade. We literally wait until the big job is landed to hire the developers needed to make it happen. Its hilarious.

Mac offers no way out of the box to decompress archive files. Several mental breakdowns later

I could really get use to mobile app development because I’m really REALLY tired of responsive design.

I learned a lot about joomla this week, is something I had hoped never to say. If im commenting shit like this 2 months from now, remind me to quit.

How do I convince my agency (whome has history of being anti .Net) into letting me write one of our upcoming apps in .net core? I’ve been playing with it a lot on my own stuff but need my first go on a production app. C# devs throw me some good reasons. My towns huge on .net so it’s not even like they can’t find someone later that can maintain.

A bad PM looks at every project in the last 6 months noticing how they are each far over their estimated time, angrily asks why each is so far over and then continues to self quote development jobs.

Let’s talk American salaries. I wanna know salary ranges in diff American cities on this platform. Might put some graphs together or something. But drop em 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 and include your role.

Ahh man if i knew global state would eventually become this important I would have loaded everything into redux

I have the most anal-ur retentive client of all time. 5 pixels here. Little more aligned here. Ohhh i meant align a little more. Ohh its too aligned. Its too far left, too far right, now thats its centered its wrapping too much like make up your fcn mind man were all losing ours over here because of your dumb ass

Mentoring and encouragement is one distinct difference between a leader and a 10x developer. If your crucifying people on devrant for learning new things, I would hate to see the knowledge nazi you are in the office.

With that, devrants become a place of a pretentious, stuck up breed of developers that suck the joy out of the best part of the job which is learning.

It’s not any one person‘s fault, it’s just the way SM platforms with a specific niche and lifespan become.

If i cant build my mind sized react prototype on a t2.small ec2 instance without running out of memory, somethings wrong. Builds need to be much more efficient.

Welcome to React where everything eventually becomes a race exception.

where async got rid of spaghetti callbacks , React introduced setState callback hell.

Got all my birthday wishes:

My client came back with absolutely no further reported bugs or further wishes.

My first deployment pipelines finally running perfectly.

My sons entered remission!!

Couldn’t ask for more today.

Personal Challenge of the day:
Write an entire complex react component (think a form with internal dialogs and cross component functionality) without testing once. Attempt to build the entire piece with all functionality without looking at the screen.

Ive been doing these little personal challenges with front end and backend assignments.

Ive noticed the difference its made in my daily work as I grow less dependent on the time consuming habit of checking browser/terminal feedback in order to determine what to do next.

With that I know people enjoy test driven development now days and thats a different story entirely. Not something I enjoy at all but I have no faults with the concept.

Are there even any JavaScript advocates on devrant? Seems to be mostly a C# and typescript ridden community. A lot of the same bullshit stigmas here that you find on reddit. Everyone’s got a special little preference and an outlet for their anger.

I hated everything about college and the archaic mindset every professor had regarding programming. But there was one thing my most hated professor said that really hits home today.

We were struggling through double linked lists with classes that month and almost the entire class was throwing a fit over it and the tasks assignments.

The professor finally was fed up and said "If you do not get absolute enjoyment out of dealing with various dimensions of data and the complexities that surround them, you will never enjoy your job as a programmer".

In web development we think theres a possibility that we will not deal with most of the BS we dealt with in our data structure classes. Ohh so wrong. I dont think Ive even had one SPA framework yet that has not required a ridiculous amount of deep structures to function accordingly.

And if your not diving deep within your component then your only passing the structure down into another component to do more structuring on it in attempt to abstract some of the complexity.

Very quickly I realize that im essentially building (in some way or another) links lists of data flowing back and forth, just on a much more complex level.

So i guess not all schooling is so bad

Made this one myself. Real article I came across. Left me heartbroken

Theres no such thing as quick prototyping with micro-serviced infrastructures.

Never quote less than the time it will absolutely take to do. Because three months goes by and rather your PM did or didn't say something along the lines of "they cant afford that much time" or "We'll need to keep time around this range to make it happen for them and the residual income will cover that", your head will still be on the table when those words are forgotten and the question of the day is "why are we 200 hours over?" and your PMs response in none other then "dev quoted it".

"We enjoy typescript because it helps 'Massage our code' ". Dude if you used javascript enough to understand the difference between excellent and atrocious code then you could "Massage" all you damn well please.

Strict typed languages just keep the developer from making more mistakes. Being a GOOD dynamically typed programmer is an art form in itself. Most will be 'ehhh' cause languages like python/javascript/php allow you to be awful with zero repercussions and that feeling of liberty continues to make them so popular.

Give it up for the javascript developers that do not need a strict typed language to keep their ducks in a row or their tests in line.

Don't get me wrong, I am a huge fan of disparate microservices when building applications. I started 4 years ago building monolithic applications on symfony, laravel and .net.

SPAs have not only made my applications more flexible but have allowed me to build more flexible front ends. But I almost ALWAYS have this dirty, unorganized feeling when working in this microserviced approach.

My data always feels scattered. Because my backend doesn't have as tight of a grip on what view is being rendered and what data it gets, I am always left with a sense of disorganization and lack of security. I have more anxiety that my application will unravel at any given moment then I've ever had and that keeps me up at night.

Does anyone else feel this way when working with disparate systems?

And dont even get me started on mongo. Again, I love it, but the feeling of disorganization is intense when using it.

This job landed me with 15k more then my last where I thought I was doing pretty good money wise. Then I find out I should be making about 10-15k more then I am and that my employers are happily looking for devs in that price range. Man I can win at this game

Hello can I take a moment to tell you about my dev savior JavaScript

Say what you want about jquery but it always does EXACTLY what I expect it to do. I might write 4x the amount of code to make something reactive but I am not spending 2 hours trying to figure out why the reactive nature of my JS library isnt doing what i expect and another 2 ours building a workaround for it.

My best developer just accepted an offer at a corporation. Now it’s just me and the newbie with enough work flowing in to keep me busy for a year including custom app builds for freikan Disney!

I’ve never had to tackle the hiring process myself like this but I need advice for finding all around fantastic developers who can tackle whatever new thing is thrown at them.

If you move into v4+ revisions on a small to mid sized project, your PM is garbage