While I haven't been officially hired for any UI dev jobs, there was one front-end position I was going for where the hiring manager viewed my programming test for the application process and just sort of gave me a "sorry, we're choosing not to move forward with you" email even though my code was simple and refractored. When I thanked him for the opportunity and asked for feedback he just kinda disappeared without a trace.

I understand that time is money and maybe they just didn't want to spend the time responding, but is this kinda thing normal?

10 years ago I was using Notepad (not ++) as my "text editor."

Thank God I graduated from that

Using Java for the first time for a homework assignment in uni, everything ran properly the first time.

Gonna go buy some lottery tickets.

Honestly either an excess of headbanging or dabbing, whichever is most appropriate for the genre of music being played 😑

UI/UX dev.

I've been all over the place since I started as a kid and spent the majority of last year confused as to what I really wanted to do, but it seems like ultimately I found my way back home when I met React.

Debugging my resume built with some simple js/jQuery functions

Took 30 minutes

Missing a comma and semicolon I didn't even remove

I didn't know any other appropriate reaction so I just threw up instead

No boot device found

Finally making myself learn SQL within the last couple months and have no idea why I used to overcomplicate the basics 😑

I keep getting phone calls from what I assume are people in foreign countries using a VoIP service and my public info to get me to apply for jobs that probably don't exist.

I just wanna design/develop cool stuff for the rest of my life but this is aggravating 😑

RubyGems had to have SSL configuration errors for right when I'm working on a demo rails project for a firm 🙃🙃🙃 Got it working, but still

!rant

Just got a response from a firm I interviewed with for a junior Rails developer position, they want me to work on a demo project as a next part of the interview process.

This might be my first dev position coming through!

Anyone got any favorite Atom themes/plugins?

Mine right now is HTML Live Preview, just to save myself from having to refresh every 10 seconds 🙃

var newBlack = "orange";

The next season feels like forever from now.

!rant

I think I'm addicted to devrant

Never realized how often I use rubber duck debugging until I learned there was a name for it ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°

Favorite albums to listen to while coding?

I've usually got Coheed and Cambria on💃

Anyone else have major issues with confidence when applying for jobs?

I've been going for mainly junior positions aggressively since the top of the year and I can't get over all the failed interviews. Feels like I'll be stuck doing computer repairs forever instead but I'm trying to stay positive though.