Set up an Ubuntu AWS ec2 instance running nodejs reverse proxied by nginx, kept running by pm2 and SSL provisioned by certbot.

I know that sounds like nothing but buzzwords but it really felt awesome to get a little node app stack sorted out!

My wife: “Commit, then come to bed.”

How many HTTP requests does it take to turn on a lightbulb?

“...lightbulb is not responding.”

You know you’re spending more time writing javascript when you try to end a css attribute line with a comma as if it were an item in an object.

I was using the app Jobr to apply for random positions. It’s like tinder — only you swipe to send your resume.

A week or so later I got an email from a company locally that wanted to set up an interview. I honestly thought it was a scam! I didn’t even remember applying for the job.

Long story short, they’re mostly desktop developers, and I’m the first front end web guy. I was initially hired to help with UI stuff but on the last project I was developing Service Workers. So I guess I just get invested and give my fullest.

Now myself and one of the other programmers are working on the 3rd gen of our software, built with Vue.js and rest APIs.

My sense of confidence goes up when I have to explain CSS cascading and absolute vs relative units to back end devs, and their brains explode a little

It took a front end dev (me), a backend dev and the founder to figure out some Apache rewrite rules. Why is server management so stupidly complex?

Why anyone would hardcode the copyright date in their website footer is beyond me...

Sometimes it’s hard being the only front end web dev at an older desktop/backend centric shop... sometimes I say things that make me look so ignorant but then I’m like “...how do you not know how to write basic CSS?”

Been using Axios a lot for my AJAX requests. Who else has been enjoying it?

Does anyone know of an API/JSON schema designer for iPhone?

"Is it sexy when I talk in nerd words? Ie 11....backwards compatibility....fallback..."

My fiancé.

I don't have much to rant about at my new workplace! Great people, all super smart and everyone seems to "get it"! I haven't been super exposed to our clients yet....and that may be where the ranting comes in. 😉

Just accepted my first "real" job as a front end web developer at a software dev shop! I say "real" because I have no clout at my current job and I'm repeatedly thrown under the bus by the head of IT and my tech recommendations are typically scoffed at.

Really ready to be in a place where everyone else breathes programming. Yay.

I can't stand getting assigned tasks via email. There's no persistence. I don't want to manually go enter the data into a tool that you as my manager could have done the first time.

Any fun April Fools ideas??

Me: "bourbon sass mixin library"

Fiancé: "why are you mixing bourbon in a library?!"

😂

Focusing on node.js and vue.js because I really love the simplicity of them both, and I am working on some side projects I want to release this year which requires me to know the full stack.

When your VP of IT doesn't know how to use the browser console....wat?

Adding products to the cart....with a form submission. WTF

I've been tumbling down the webpack rabbit hole for the better part of the day. Irritable.

I get it to bundle and everything but then I can't access variables that I used to be able to. I'm confused and hungry.

Thanks for the stickers dudes!

@dfox has the "swipe" right to go back to the rant feed always been there? It was the only feature I was missing and I just accidentally triggered it. Anyway. Thanks for the work you guys have done on the app.

No source control. That's my life at work.

I decided I needed a hobby. I spend most of my time on work or personal projects...I thought I might just get something I can tinker with without feeling like I have to produce something that is intended for release. Although knowing myself I'll probably start thinking about how I can build something to release! Haha!

My best experience was going from static HTML and non-preprocessed CSS to having my mind blown by Sass & learning JavaScript and what "API" even means (and starting on ruby and basics in command line). I actually feel like I'm a developer in some sense of the word.

That was a ton of growth in a year where I transitioned from a purely graphic design role to having an influence over development processes and rolled out a number of projects to production that I spearheaded.

When your site was developed by someone with a programming degree from the 70s and has no API docs....wheeeeee

When you're the most "junior" person on the team and you're the one pushing for Git. How we've managed to come this far without any version control is beyond me. Especially with the fact that we've had to work alongside a 3rd party who handles a lot of the site dev...there have been a lot of "stepping on toes" over the years and no one ever thought "there has to be another way."

🙄

An ERP system still running on an IBM AS400. In 2016.