Frameworks are great for learning, but there's so many modern tools for writing css now that make it so fast to just roll your own grid system and go from there. Wayyyy less bloated that way too.

My PMs tell me to slow down because QA finds a few bugs. The next day they turn around and question why all of the projects aren't going to hit their insane deadlines.

@chrisrhymes tons of them. The cli version even comes with a few visual tools that offer a gui.

CLI because it's faster for my workflow. GUIs just get in the way.

Every. Fucking. Time.

Wouldn't be a day on dev rant without the obligatory "Wordpress sucks" post.

At my current job, I start every morning with a cup of tea and a nice long sigh of existential dread. Seems about right.

"You made my code better and more performant! You're the worst!"

But really, if your boss cares so much about implementation, tell them to write it themselves.

@runfrodorun I would, but it is frowned upon for whatever reason.

I'll just leave this here: http://youmightnotneedjquery.com

Jquery kind of is crap though. It was great a few years ago, but not really necessary for much nowadays if you know JavaScript well enough.

A coworker was bragging to me about pirating tons of audio software and then was baffled when I said I only used free software for my music hobby.

Now that I am a developer, pirating just feels wrong. Well, more wrong than it already is.

That is a completely normal feeling with coding. Even after 3 years as a dev, I still get severe imposter syndrome from time to time.

The only cure is to keep coding and creating. There are tons of communities for web devs that can help you get better. Just gotta look out for some of the elitists that seem to permeate the field and like to put people down.

Had a calculus teacher in high school who indirectly taught our class how to use Google. "Oh you don't understand this concept? Google it."

He was the most hated teacher, because he never actually taught. Probably the most useful info I ever learned in a class though. Lol

I know dem feels man. Launching a new site today despite telling the PM several times that this is a horrible idea.

I quite like cat ipsum personally. Or one of the hundreds of movie quote ipsum generators.

Lucky for those people. Currently giving up coffee and hating life.

Once you get a workflow down, it makes your life so much easier. Maybe try using a visual version, like SourceTree at first to get used to the flow? I used to use the gitk command all the time when I first had to work with many branches.

This is my company in a nut shell. They always say we are agile, but then they ask for estimates for hard deadlines. And when I say something is too hard to estimate, they press me to estimate it and then get mad when we aren't able to launch on time. "We are agile in the sense that we are fast" even though that's not what agile means at all.

"It's 4 o'clock on a Friday and this page is still being designed. Can you have it ready in an hour?" - The PMs at my job.

I'm new to Linux and use Linux Mint. Haven't had any major issues yet and it is fairly straightforward.

Anything but dreamweaver. Personally I use Atom, but I've heard some good stuff about Brackets if you're main focus is web dev.

Feeling the same thing right now. I work on shit I hate 40 hours a week and then I'm barely motivated to do my freelance projects in my spare time. Doing small fun projects helps a bit as well as just taking a break from dev work to improve a different skill.

@Letmecode lol you're right. I should just refuse to do it and get fired.

@Letmecode. It's a third party platform that I in no way worked on at all. I only provide solutions to get around how bad of a tool it is. Seems pretty different to me.

Eh I feel like if you're a coder and you don't enjoy coding at least something in your free time, you probably choose the wrong field. I do web dev for a living, but I use code in my art and music, which is what got me to enjoy coding so much in the first place. It isn't for my career, but it still conveys to an employer that I put in work to learn whatever I need to learn.

I get one of these every day.

"Hey a page is broken."

"What page and what's wrong?"

"Describes the page or gives it a random name. We think it's because of reason A."

"That has nothing to do with that page. It is functioning fine. Try actually testing before you assume you know the problem."

All of this usually in some condescending tone because devs never work fast enough.

Pretty much every PM at my job. "That'll only take like an hour right?"

"Umm. It's an entire wordpress theme, so no?"

Any time I watch a non-dev/computer person type, I love to see what new cringe-worthy ways they press keyboard shortcuts with.

Usually disappointed when I realize they actually click copy and paste in context menus or right clicking.