@OP, I'm an EM at "frugal", ldap is hcliff if you want to chat.
I'm assuming OP is L5, which does require "people influencing", although no formal leadership and or TL role is required. You can stay at this level indefinitely.
OP, is your manager ok with your current performance? Is your EM trying to grow you for promo or into the full level reqs? You should seek clarity here and if the former set boundaries/expectations as per the parent comment.
> But now I'm struggling to find motivation to do my work
Is this recent? I'm seeing this quite a bit with the current job insecurity and turmoil at the company. As other comments have advocated: therapy and consider extended leave or a team switch. FWIW I don't think lower stakes work is going to fix your motivation, something you care about may.
the user you're replying to has delightful previous comments such as "the US media is controlled by people eligible for Israeli citizenship" which is more dog-foghorn than dog-whistle
Not a question, but I just want to thank you for "inventing" review apps back in the day, the idea of having a full version of your app running for a branch was pretty game changing for the companies I worked at.
You should revisit this, in the last couple of years this has moved quite a bit, I'd say it's closer to 70-75 now.
Obviously you'll get more in the states (or even frankfurt!), but it's changing rapidly.
There's also some offers in berlin for meaningfully higher, I'm just taking a ballpark average for senior.
This is assuming that everyone is chasing the same level of perfection as apple. If the web can provide a "good enough" interface will the bulk of developers go to the extra effort of native apps?
Currently things like games are (largely) not good enough on mobile web and so the issue is forced, but building a native app for a nicer blur effect? Probably not.
Nice post.
With expanded use of css3 features (gradients, shadows etc...) this will probably become more of an issue, but I hadn't really considered the impact that compile to css languages are having.
With the dynamic nature of the DOM, it's going to be very difficult to automagically improve selectors (that x% unused figure only accounts for the current users actions, not potential actions)
I'm a big fan of embedly and will continue to use them, this is a bit aggravating though. I think it's important to lay the blame with the party responsible here - twitter; for their increasingly developer hostile attitude.
Why the hell does it matter to them how I acquire the embed code? I'm still using the same damn code, all this does is make my life harder.