Need job advice:
I love where I work but I just had an interview which a much bigger company that is offering 25k more!
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m so nervous that they'll call me back with the next steps for speaking to the CTO that I almost just wish they wouldn't. I dont know if thats me actually not wanting this job or just so nervous about leaving my job I love for a newer position that Id rather not bother with it.

Regarless, my family needs the money and Id never make the same where im at. Any advice?

I am shocked in how well php is keeping up with the communities needs and trending features. I’m tempted to go back to it for the next few projects even. Maybe some laravel magic or symfony again. Well...maybe not symfony

Any web assembly multi compilation process over top of going back to javascript is just sketchy to me. But i remember the last time Microsoft tried for a blazer. It was called silverlight 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

In my friends grad speech for her bachelors in stats she said “I’ve written so many for loops” lol like tf that suppose to even mean? The rest of the speech was equally as embarrassing. College, I’ll pass

FullContacts api is my favorite not because it’s necessarily the best structured api (especially after its updates in attempt to make it more understandable for the less technologically savvy) but because it’s a blast to use. You feed in an email address and get back a gigantic Json response of data on that user including demographics, sex, company, social media presence, etc. it’s really a must for CRM providers

I have created a seeding for every single table in my db. Not just users and primary entities. No, every single table has valid data to get rolling with. Ive been with large and small companies that have never taken the time and care to do this. There is nothing like having test data the minute you start your dev env.

50,000+ lines of javascript later - have not written the word "function" once - nor the word "class"

My PMs daughter is my daughter's best friend. My PM drops her off to spend the night regularly and were just like "ya man seeya tomorrow or monday or whatever". It's so odd and funny because he's also like 20+ years older than me but it's just all chill as can be. I know some PMs out there make devs lives hell.

Two months ago I was complaining how knex doesn’t handle enough of the DB concerns for me. Today I would not go back to a fully managed ORM. I mean we’re programmers 🤠 we’re suppose to relish in the idea of having more control and say

I dont get how anyone can do just front end architecture. That shits stressful. Taking a step back and building out the api is like a sigh of relief to freshen up before going back in on reacts convoluted way or ordering things.

Maintaining referential transparency might find its use in the inner working of a process but I cannot find any practical usage for it around the basis of your standard app.

For instance: you make an axios request to your api, you wait for the response. Two reasonable ways of checking are to catch anything errors (axios throws on 404 and 500s) or checking if status is not 200/201/whatever. If its not then alert the user that there was an error fetching whatever they needed or however you go about error handling. This is a standard in application interfaces, to alert users of issues. Request functions cant be referentially transparent because we rely on them to make a binary decision.

Same ont eh api side when we're writing these controller actions and services. They need to fail or succeed and we need to return a 500 or 200/201. I guess the fact that a response is coming back despite its state makes it somewhat transparent but the type of response the usr can expect will never be transparent.

Point being, functional programming has its place in my programs but im finding many places where it just doesn't fit in/

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.