So, refactor it and keep plugging away. It doesn't sound so bad to me. In fact, it sounds like a hell of an improvement over some of the non-sense projects I've been working this year.

email on acid - It will make your life a whole hell of a lot easier.

Someone needs to learn how to hook up a trailer without it hitting their bumper.

I prefer VSCode to any other GUI editor.

Vim FTW though

They cross at the knee, I wouldn't trust them.

Seems to that the issue here isn't flex box, but more an issue with the person trying to use it. Sure, its not perfect and it does take some fiddling around to get things right. That being said, I haven't seen anything that is a significant improvement over flex.

CSS Grid is great, but the browser support still isn't all that amazing. If you're developing for maximum compatibility it is an absolute goddamn nightmare.

I do think once IE 11 is dead and buried, and Edge is running on Chromium grid will be a more viable option. Until then, flex box all the things.

@Wisecrack You're preaching to the choir on that one. I'm considering finishing my criminal justice degree so I can become a reserve police officer. I need some excitement in my work life.

I don't have any of these issues with any of the Dell laptops I've loaded Ubuntu on. Including my Alienware gaming laptop. Sounds like a screwy linux distro problem to me.

I'm really glad the company I work for doesn't have HR waste time with candidates. Its the Engineering Director's responsibility to weed out crap candidates before they come in for interviews with the team.

Even with that, I will say, we've had a few crap hires. People that look good on paper, and sound like they know what they're doing in person may be shit developers in reality.

If the client is happy, and the app is stable; then the code is good.

@devTea That makes sense, but it's still icky!

The smart money would be to automate the job, and just not say anything about it. They spend 8 hours automating the job, then bill you for 2-6 hours every time you need the task completed cause they're doing it "manually". Seems brilliant, albeit shady, to me.

Does the fact that I have no idea what you're talking about mean that I am not actually a software engineer too?

People still use jQuery?

@irene Praise away, I guess

@possum Unfortunately, yes. People feel the need to bring their personal faith in to every public forum they possibly can. Typically they claim they're being unfairly targeted/oppressed when told to knock it off too.

All these complaints about Trump, but the American economy is doing better than it has in a long time. That unemployment rate? Lower than it has been in 50 years. I haven't seen anything to bitch about with the man's leadership.

I do wish someone would take his cellphone away so he would quit tweeting so damn much though.

Keep America Great: Trump 2020

Sounds like some Government Motors nonsense to me

Noise canceling headphones (Sony WH1000 XM3) + Dubstep works wonders to block out noise.

Our deadline due to coincide with our clients announcement of receiving a large investment from some VC groups. The final date was yesterday, but they decided to push the due date now.

Unsurprisingly, it is due to the client not getting their content entered in the CMS as we requested they start doing 10 weeks ago.

Oh well, home stretch and we should be done by Friday. This project has been a nightmare from day one.

@asgs If we don't finish it this weekend we'll probably need to start looking for new jobs next week. I doubt the company is going to keep us around when they get sued

We just added our entire dev team to this project to try to crash it out the door over the weekend. 24 hours in and we're sitting at 260 sass-lint warnings.

We're gonna keep running --no-verify on our git commits until this thing explodes!

@Devnergy I missed this comment.

No Overtime, No offset, and some times we have proper sprint planning.

Client should always be signing off on designs before they go to dev. What ever, it all pays the same at the end of the day, right?

This sort of thing is why I dropped out of high school in the 10th grade (USA). Never looked back, and hasn't been a hinderance to me what so ever.

That was almost 19 years ago at this point. I went and signed up for college courses at the local community college a couple weeks after I dropped out. One of the best decisions I've ever made TBH.

I couldn't design myself out of a box. Give me some sexy looking invision comps and I can turn those out all day long.

Design and development are two very different skill sets. Some people have both, some don't. The key is getting to a place where you only have to have the one you have.

The day I don't feel like an imposter (mPasta!) is the day I start looking for a new job.

I drive by their office every morning.

I work on all sorts of fun thing at work :)

Also, YAY CAPITALISM!

There is a plugin (name escapes me) for saving your assets to an external host, then use WP2Static to generate static version of your site to host on the CDN of your choice. Secure, fast, reliable. What more do you need?