Note that we also had COVID and shifted to remote gigs in Germany. This means that we compete with people located in smaller cities or even villages which probably have a pretty good pay rate bump.
Sublime Text editor is my day-dreaming destination when I feel depressed of work. It makes me really happy that 2-3 people can actually build something, sell a piece of it in an non-disturbing way, and do this for a living.
It's also one of the best shareware models ( Is this even a word these days? ), that I've ever stumbled upon.
> which day to day tech workers working on internal B2B do not face
That's so true. Good luck explaining to management that the front-end app needs additional cloud resources, such as a server, so we are on the edge of the trend with SSR.
Most apps behind a login face tough architectural / security meetings, defending SSR for their use-case.
Wow. I hope this won’t spread further. Looking at DAX, Deutsche Bank shares dropped as well as HSBC.
When I first read the news, I thought about another hit for the crypto, however looking at what happens I’m a bit worried where will the avalanche reach next Monday.
As explained in the article, if that's the case then you can't really trust the JWT anymore only for it's cryptographic signature and you rely on an internal store entry that makes the token valid / invalid.
This makes no benefits as to bearer token or any random string that the server "knows" is a valid authenticated request via internal store, like a DB.
There is hardly an app that I use these days that doesn't require internet connection. I guess once your app needs it, you will have the same problems.
> You could certainly build Facebook as a fully server-rendered PHP app, but that would hurt Facebook's business because its servers would need to do more work and its users would have to wait longer for content.
I think they do that mostly because for the users who’ll have to download the header 100 times for each action they’ll do. Not really sure that all benefits from SPA are hidden in company costs. Mostly they are in modern tech approach.
Writing this I still agree with the article. SPA is needed when you are under authentication but publicly you can live with progressive web.
34 and I feel pretty happy freelancing. Freelance IMO is closer to real life for most of the devs I’ve talked to. You are not committed to bullshit, often excluded from company brainwash meetings and actually getting paid by the hour, so you can manage the amount of “life you sell”.
Mentioning corona here, I think the society is desperate to find more IT folks around and loosing someone because of shitty interview process ( which I mostly skip because I’m a freelancer ) is quite sad.
As a longtime WebStorm user I would really appreciate a WebStorm + let’s say PyCharm vs IntelliJ. I’m a bit happy by the default configuration of each dedicated IDE, rather than clicking around in IntelliJ and fix stuff. What’s your opinion on that?
Probably my 1 year old daughter talks right now, but I really have no time to do stuff on the weekend. I'm happily not living with a visa though, but still I think if you don't have enough time, you can always "spend" some career achievements and go to a less paid gig. When the market recovers your career will recover too.