How do you like mobbing on everything? My company does it too and I find it terrible.

Ah, well clearly I forget to set the proper tag.

@petergriffin not sure I understand your question. Mobbing is essentially like pairing, but with more than 2 people. Sometimes up to 7 people. 5 minute turns writing code. All day. You read that right, multiple experienced devs working on one thing at a time—even a simple bug fix—and taking turns every 5 minutes writing the code. It's absolutely fucking ridiculous and it won't change—it's the reason I'm looking for a new job.

@NoMad what about muting through the software? Do you really just leave the mic on while not talking and let the noise through?

This happens often when I mentor/ pair with interns. It never bothers me because they don’t do it to personally annoy me and I don’t want to stress them out by coming off as frustrated.

@pxeger Politics aren’t allowed “unless they are directly related to a current event directly impacting development/tech.” Which this is.

Also, OP doesn’t post about politics often, not a lot of people do. Not sure where the frustration is coming from but you should post a rant about it maybe? :p

Just some more thoughts on the "master" branch naming: a lot of black devs actually don't give a shit about it, it also doesn't have the master/slave naming convention like you have with HDDs. It's also ironic that we have white CEOs and devs calling for this change while ignoring the actual problems that minorities and POC face... this virtue signalling is actually distracting from real issues and is doing more harm than good, and what precedent does it set? Are we going to remove "Masters" degrees, what about "master of ceremonies" and I guess masterclass.com is going to have to rebrand their entire company...

A lot of our clients are doing the same thing... a lot of virtue signalling but no real change. Virtue signalling is getting so bad that it's actually more racist in some cases to virtue signal than to actually do nothing—for example when HBO pulled 'Gone With The Wind' from its library because it had racist ideas, while also erasing the movie to contain the first Black person to win an Oscar, while ignoring any historical context surrounding the movie. Brainwashed idiots...

@Bubbles
It’s bad, and they keep doing it, it makes it hard to go through my notifications to get to the real ones.

@rooter
I don’t care about fake internet points either but it’s annoying af, and I don’t understand how in the fuck spamming someone can be even remotely considered “nice”

Shit, got me too.

Me too, my office work is basically developing someone else’s dream, side projects are my own dreams and I have ultimate control over them, only myself to answer to.

I hate those phrases, along with “for you convenience.” If it was actually to give us a better experience you wouldn’t have to warn us about it.

I’m not even home alone and it’s killing me. I miss the social interaction and activities I used to do with coworkers.

Some good points here. BTW I’m not in charge of the ad campaign whatsoever, and they have in fact posted all relevant info including address in their ads since. However, I still stand by my rant. If someone is interested in the food and has enough time to stop and post a comment, they sure as fuck have enough time to click one more time to see the address.

Wait, there's more, just found this one as well:

.dark, .transparent {
background-color: $transparent;
}

This is a very basic program, stop being lazy and learn something for yourself. If you’re stuck then head over to https://reddit.com/r/... to ask for help, we’re not here to solve your homework for you.

I'm 27 and already dislike the 9-5 rat race. I'm putting effort into writing my own software products and learning about running my own business, because it's just not fulfilling slugging away working on someone else's dream.

Did you figure out the problem with the demo server? Was the host you used just unreliable and crashed?

The thumbs up and applause emoji for 10 seconds is definitely Zoom lol, they honestly seem like afterthoughts added to the app one summer by an intern to keep them busy.

Maybe a noob question, but why do you require your tests to pass on all 3 platforms?

@MrCSharp Yup, working at a consultancy we are tasked many times to work on an existing code base that is awful and is going to shit. Hiring a cheap dev is great at first, and then down the line all the untested, unstructured, un-automated, unoptimized, insecure code catches up and you have to call an expensive consultancy to have them do it right.

ok boomer

Yo don’t even, JavaScript is tight af fam

It’s bullshit that talking about salary is taboo or even illegal as someone above mentioned (which is, no offence to your legal system, absolutely idiotic). I’m fairly close with a lot of my coworkers and we’ve talked about our salaries a few times now. Not talking about your compensation only benefits your employer, because it discourages you from asking for more money, more vacation, benefits, etc. If you realize someone similarly skilled is getting a better deal than you, you’ll be more likely to ask for something similar for yourself.

Dev.to is full of non-informative posts and garbage like this. I thought it would be a nice site to keep up with dev related stuff but it’s not. Half the articles aren’t even checked for spelling or grammar.

Should have fired him on the spot after the 3rd time he did that. Also that last sentence triggered my imposter syndrome :p

I’ve only once (and never again) set up a WordPress site for a client. I now find it so much easier to build my own CMS and avoid all the bloat and weaving my way around custom plugin code. The client still came to me to update stuff, and they didn’t even include anything like a blog or catalogue in the site, so I don’t know why they were so insistent on using WP. Anyway, since then I’ve learned to be more picky with the tech I use and make sure to get a clear understanding of the client’s goals.

“Fine” and “jQuery” are two words I shouldn’t be seeing in the same sentence.

@C0D4 I agree, my first job I was given a Photoshop file of a modal to create and I created it pretty much pixel-perfect without much stress. You can see with your eyes the relative sizes of things. Besides, these things are iterative, if the designer doesn’t quit like your padding then it takes 2 seconds to update it :’D

As you get more experience creating new projects you’ll realize you shouldn’t have to write comments. If a piece of code is hard to read and you can’t make the code more declarative, that’s when your tests come in as a source of explanation.