This attention to detail is what separates the mediocre frontend devs from the rest. How the heck do I improve our hiring process so we get more of you!!!
ACE 4, raised by my grandmother and alcoholic drug addict mother in the projects. I made it out only because my aunt gave me a handmedown PC when I was 13, I lucked out into a magnet high school, and was granted admission with full financial aid into MIT (and was somehow able to graduate in 4 years). Grateful for it every day.
After I birthed my first kid in my early 30s at the start of the pandemic, my struggles with depression and anxiety seemingly vanished.
I've always been very risk averse, so I fear I'll never be able to start a startup or something like that. It's always sounded fun. Now that I'm very stable and well, and ok financially (the house cost way more than I'd like)... it still feels too risky for me to leave my normal job. Maybe I'll try in my 40s...
I recently watched a documentary[0] about the social media dangers for children. It mostly centers around narratives & interviews from a variety of people young and old, and in my opinion decently avoids trite pearl-clutching over vague assumptions about 'technology' or any particular company. Among other things, I am a bit floored by how much child suicide has increased over the past decades.
Having grown up in the bottom decile of poverty in the USA I can believe it. I credit my childhood's stability for much of my success in life. Sure my life, especially at home with my family, was broke, boring, uninspiring, not the least bit enriched... but it was incredibly stable thanks to living in public housing and being on welfare. It's much easier to find your way out if you don't have to process and respond to chaos :)
Noise canceling wireless earbuds. I’ve had both a Jabra and a Beats… very happy with both. Nice for blocking out noise. No messy cables, can use with any device…
I was skeptical, I liked my corded headphones fine. Just turns out these sound better and are way more useful for me.
I try to push for making websites without JavaScript but nobody wants to because it requires some forethought. TIL Amazon has a functional no-JS version, amazing!
Many apps with moderate interactivity don’t need thousands of lines of JavaScript. And using a backend framework for templating is not mutually exclusive to using a JS build system for helping transpile files and purge CSS and such.
Related, the junior FE devs want our web app to be a SPA because they think it’s the only idiomatic way to write reusable components (think a JSX-written React component). Often they’ve never used anything else (so like TFA mentioned, for them it’s not an open choice).
I hate that my job these days has to involve counteracting this notion, probably looking like some weird Luddite in the process, for simply highlighting the same points from TFA.
> React is still a good tool for writing MPAs, if you can get your team to stick to it. But unfortunately, if you aren't careful, React has become an infectious disease and slowly eats your whole frontend, even where it's not necessary and in fact, counterproductive. Pages which initially had a component or two, slowly are completely rendered in React, and when this happens to enough pages, someone starts wondering why your site isn't an SPA.
This started happening to me this year. And all the other senior devs who know better happen to be gone from this project, so I'm alone having to convince these junior engineers (working on a very large non-JS-backend web application mostly with content pages!) that SPAs are not the ultimate solution to all. It's so frustrating.
excuse me, what? No, if I need to walk through late at night, I want to be safe. You have some options:
- put the bedrooms away from the street
- invest in some curtains
- live somewhere more pastoral???