Meredith Matthews @braindouche@qoto.org
Joined Nov 2022
Anyone got any tips on search terms to use to find web dev jobs outside of the React Industrial Complex? I just found the third "build us landing pages on Vercel" listing of the day and I'm just tired, y'all.
@rablewis
I want to know why so many teams are like that.
My current brainworm is tech hiring, and like, how hiring is used as a substitute for training. Like, take for example the delusion that large cobol mainframe systems used by banks or states or whatever, must be rewritten because the only remaining cobol programmers are all geriatric. Or, we have to rewrite this angularJS app we spent a lot of time and money on because nobody has angularJS on their resume these days (true story).
So many teams seem helpless when faced with their own previous decisions and can't seem to fathom training up someone inhouse to deal with a persistent technology. Why? Programmers are professional learners-of-stuff, that's our chief skill.
What is this even a reaction to? I've heard of the programmer that's got 1 year of experience 20 times, but I've never met them. Is it grumpy old developers who have over-specialized? Never met them either. What gives?
@octothorpe
This is why I think shadow DOM is kind of a red herring. It's optional, and I think it's usecase is only in very large codebases with extremely distributed microfrontends.
@5t3ph
@marcamos
Ehhh thanks lol. I'd rather not be searching for "my next great opportunity" this year, but what are you gonna do?
@marcamos
Yeah. I've just got 15 years of crap spread over netlify, bluehost, GoDaddy, heroku, and 3 months of piping hot severance, I'm thinking there must be something better I can do
Hey, what are the cool kids doing for web hosting these days?
Ok, I gotta pick a vue component library, and primevue looks like catnip for cranky old web developers that hate react like me. I like it's opinions, I like where it's unopinionated, and I like the progressive enhancement approach it seems to have.
Quick, argue me out of it.
@hollie
Are agile coaches and scrum masters still in demand? That's another direction she might check.
@castastrophe
That's great news! I'm gunna apply to this SO HARD
@patrickfulton
This looks like amazing compassionate work -- can the position be done remotely?
If someone could remind me that a cover letter to a major tech company isn't the place to share my feelings of disillusionment and dissatisfaction with my current career and my naive hopes that moving to [REDACTED] would solve that for [REASONS], I could really use the help right now
I'm serious, if you want nothing but html coming back at you from the server, please tell me because I have SO MANY QUESTIONS
HTMX: hey, wanna get a little freaky and run your ajax as an html attribute?
Me: I have so many endpoints. Pls take them.
HTMX: WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS JSON CRAP I CAN'T WITH THESE RESPONSES
Freshly squeezed html responses from the server? Who is this for?
HTMX: hey, wanna get a little freaky and run your ajax as an html attribute?
Me: I have so many endpoints. Pls take them.
HTMX: WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS JSON CRAP I CAN'T WITH THESE RESPONSES
Freshly squeezed html responses from the server? Who is this for?
Meredith Matthews
boosted
Suggesting or greenlighting a new React-based project in 2023 is not a victimless act. It's the fast-track to team pain, P&L trouble, and user marginalisation.
Pay people to solve problems with HTML & CSS, not to make them with JS.
@cferdinandi
I don't even like writing php all that much, but it's a pretty good language that's very good at the things it's good at and I've been tired of the discourse for however long the wayback machine tells you I have been.
I am entirely on board the jamstack, progressive enhancement, browser performance, a11y-first, vanilla-everything pain train, and I've been pretty good at finding jobs for my 17 years as a web dev, but I'm having a terrible time finding jobs that actually do this stuff. I'm convinced I'm not searching the right keywords, but maybe that's not it.
Any suggestions, fediverse?
@cferdinandi
I'd jump on board with both feet and start hollering, but heroku decided to start charging me to run phpdoesnotsuck.com after like 10 years and I didn't agree with that and I have done absolutely nothing to fix my broken website yet so I'm not a greeeeaaaaat person to march at the front of this particular parade, but yes.
Joined Nov 2022
