"Its s rather simple idea with only four real relationships that need considered. So we need to know, can you do with 70 hours? This is the time we're throwing by him and its his high end price range." I reluctantly agree with many hesitant points made.

150 hours later: project has 28 tables, more than 12 pivot tables. I sit here staggered for days on how relationships even will tie together in the end as our designers (who wireframe and promise this and that based on their wireframes) had delivered feature sets that are near impossible to reach.

At work, cause mine doesn’t suck like yours

With startups is it better to remain bootstrapped or seek A seedings? I’ve worked on both sides of the fence and regardless of which one was a genuinely good product, whoever had the names and dough seemed to get quick buyout offers.

I work 8-9 hours a day. With my PMs love for contextual switching I avg 6 hours of client billable time.

Debating if I should bother having this talk with them. My PMs a fcn bull dog which makes things hard. Can’t address anything without it being a bull taking session.

Hadn’t realized my career was so easy

What managers fail to realize is us developers and designers work close. We talk about things, we bicker, we find related problems that we have in our workplace. We band together and we form efforts. They are few and we are many. A project managers job is to be a servant to who they manage. If you cannot be straight forward and well respected At the same tome then it is not the job for you.

What’s the hardest step of greenfielding an application? For me it’s database schema. Finding the correct schema to best serve the underlying business logic. Then comes css. A love hate relationship.

"So we know you came from a past environment of API development, healthcare encoding and micro-service architecture. With that, we have a shopify site that needs built in 2 weeks. Have fun (finger quotes) DEV".

Laravel voyager! Who’s using that bad ass plugin? I’m new to this agency and Am replacing all drupal work with voyager

In the depths of dev hell lied the “developers” that build full applications with drupal.

I’ve spent at least 30 hours the past two weeks quoting many large applications. The next 8-10 months are going to be ridiculous!

And each builds so diverse in its purpose that I’m excited to learn all that I will. If I keep this up for a few years I’ll be ready for consultant work.

And best of all one the clients is freikan Disney!

agency lesson 10motherfucking1 . Never take your project managers demands and run with them. Ask 10s, 100s of questions if needed. Layout every little aspect of the project and every little demand and every little asset needed.

They will fuck you in your ass and turn every eye on you when the client gets angry. They will fucking ruin you for the sake of their job.

Cover your ass in every way possible. Do not let your asshole manager define how shit is going down because (say it with me) THOSE WHO CAN DO! THOSE WHO CANT MANAGE!

Simple weather along with most of my other jquery plugins have been archived!!! ABANDONED!!! Left to rot along with the sections of my website that demanded them.

The era of jQuery is officially no more!

Is there room for docker in an agency environment? Or should it be utilized solely for larger scale application deployment?

My first time using an MVC framework, not understanding packaging libraries, essentially writing over a composer package for it to do what I needed. 3 days of work later, did a composer install annnnnnd surprised pikachu

Project managers have been pissing me off immensely today with little anal pixel for pixel changes so I've simply been making their requested changes and then telling them it was already fixed and that they have failed to clear their cache before addressing. Transfer that egg to their face.

Thats a first. Then i run sudo on it and says that sudo is an unrecognized command.

Would anyone full heartedly suggest Joomla for a semi robust site build ? Were thinking about trying one site in it but dont want to invest the learning time if it is not something worth using in the future.

What makes a senior? Tell me that cause everyone In my community seems to call themselves one

just found out about GraphQL this week in some deep R&D sessions. Sooo are we just trying to entirely automate server side now? I mean I've got strapi for API point/click creation with GraphQL installed so I've gotten the entire POC out the door without a line written server side. That seems remarkable and pretty disappointing at the same time.

Gained access to a fortune 500 companies "naughty word" filter table. Everything from "bootie wootie" to "comshot". And some sad soul had to put in all 30,000 of these entries

Let your front end carry the weight. Progressive web apps aren't made off of server heavy, request tangled interfaces. Let the client's computer handle the load thats not necessary on the server.

Webpack

Ahh shit my company is crafting me into a system admin! Is this good or bad. It has been a point of weakness in my career that needs worked on to achieve well rounding. But AWS, fuuuuuck its too much to understand.

16 yrs old. KFC. School all day, fried chicken all night. Had to debone chicken for hours cause that’s what they put in your mashed potato bowels. It made me realize very quickly that my destiny belonged at a desk vaping, eating kfc and writing code

Pitching my first app on a headless CMS. Cut that backend time in half. Bumped front end time up 7 hours and whatcha know we’re building CMS/react stacks in 60 hours

I’ve thought it over a lot lately and I’m not sure if I see any purpose to Wordpress and drupal any more with the introduction of headless CMSs (cms with a detachable backend allowing for a devs choice in front end consumption) . They have plugins, Seo grading, analytics, etc. with the two big players ( drupal and Wordpress) I find myself building out my site according to their template’s standards. Pretty soon you become a Wordpress or drup templating expert instead of a front end expert because modern front end architectures not on these old CMS’s agendas. Rather it’s a js spa front end or plain html with jquery or a http client, devs working with CMSs need to work in an environment that keeps them current with front end standards and backend consumption. On top of that being my primary reason, from a business point of view this allows for all of the conveniences of separating front end and backend code bases (also the headless CMSs allow for use with front end as one codebase by utilizing proxies). You can then separate priorities by team or individuals more particularly. You can outsource work on your front end/backend according to priority. You can scale each one according to its needs and most importantly. Your front end can be entirely replaced in the future when your front end base has met its expiration for whatever reasons that might be. That alone might be the most important factor in this argument. I’m convinced headless CMSs are the future of agency work and many other approaches.

Why try an pursue this start up dream of building the next game changing app if you cant put down more then 30k on it? You'll fork out 300k on the market any day as chump change but cant put your money where your mouth is when it comes to your own ideas! Come back to talk when your serious. Is are field truly though to be valued so little ?

Drupal Starter Kit:
- .class:after:{ content: "text" }
- early 2000s site architecture
- a desire to work on dying CMSs
- lack of care for a customers long standing relationship

As a developer the only way I know how to spend my lunch is by lifting weights until I’m nearly crying blood. All the sitting, contemplating, reading and collaborating tunnels me directly into a toxic pit of my own compulsive disorders. By 12 pm I am near ready to put my fist through my cheap cubicle siding, squeeze my rubber duck till its head pops off (no pun intended I swear, stop it!) and more then anything ready to find Brendan eich, wherever he resides and beat him over the head with my new MacBook that would equate to smacking him with a plastic ruler. However, After screaming my way through a self deprecating hour of of lifting weights my mind is restored and all is made right in the world. Eich goes back to being the 10 day genius behind the language that’s redefining my career field and my alcoholic colleagues become more then tolerable. Some people take a pill. This is my pill.