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AboutFull stack JS dev
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LocationAustralia
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Ahh yes my good friend null
I don't know how Airbnb keeps having weird little bugs pop up across their apps. Don't they test? -
So I didn't realise till I was helping a colleague debug but his build take 3 minutes for every tiny change.
On my machine it takes 4s
This guy has been sitting around waiting for builds 90% of the time FOR MONTHS
And hasn't thought to try and fix that2 -
Working on modifying a legacy web project and just about every single element is `position: absolute` with crazy z-index juggling and hard-coded pixel sizes and positions everywhere 😭
To make it even worse, a bunch of the javascript will also change elements sizes and positions so it takes forever to track down why an element is where it is1 -
Why do javascript dates have to be so shitty?
Can anyone explain why 'Feb 18, 1977' is in the local timezone but '1977-02-18' is UTC?2 -
Told the new hire that for the first week they can just familiarise themselves with the JS framework, do the tutorials, and read through the code / docs.
Boss comes by Tuesday morning "you should be finished with all the tutorials by the end of the day"
Looks like we're throwing him in the deep end!
Context: new dev has Java and 3d games background. Our app is full stack JS7 -
Just started onboarding the new hire and it made me realise how much of a dumpster fire some of our code is
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Somehow this got into my inbox by some clever scammers. It's pretty brutal
I can imagine a lot of guys panicking and paying anything they ask based off this10 -
Why can't people construct decent questions?
To make things worse, this question has been edited twice by high rep users despite it's obvious flaws3