@kunashe I don't fix his stuff for him. I just point it out and make him fix it.

Unfortunately, the familiar scenario is that I give him fairly specific guidelines on how to architect the code assigned to him (e.g. "create these three components, which need to provide the functionality described in these user stories and wire frames") , which results in either detailed explanations every 2-3 hours of every problem, solution, and success he encountered so far, or "I couldn't figure out how to do it the way you said, so instead I did {insert unworkable solution}".

I'm getting a real like-hate relationship with NPM.

It can really make life easy, but there's too much temptation to pull in some random unknown library to do trivial tasks.

@philcr part of why I posted this was to see if my expectations are unrealistic. I've got 17 years of web development experience, and yeah, the first 10 (give or take) were... embarrassing in retrospect. True, I didn't have the (dubious) benefit of a degree, but I had my share of sloppy copy-pasta.

So I appreciate you bringing some perspective to this. I'm frustrated with my job in general, and I'm really trying not to be too harsh on the guy (which is hard, because I literally have to spend more time checking his work and holding his hand than I get to spend on actual coding).

Getting a question ban on SO requires more work than just learning how to search.

I like to work on side projects, but I have a variety of hobbies ranging from coding to painting to lapidary.

Should I ignore some hobbies just to pad my resume a bit?

More importantly, I have a wife and 6 year old son. You think side projects take priority over time with them? Think again, and find another candidate.

I'm very grateful to work for a company that puts family first.

@Voxera yeah, I was being facetious with the saving storage space.

Who the hell stores dates as a string? I hate whoever designed this.

@NathanDoesDev I gave up on trying to go 100% ems for layout at my last job due to the problems with the graphic designer.

At my current position, I've just started transitioning to vh and vw for layout. I'm still getting used to it, but I love it so far!

@NathanDoesDev I generally provide a built in font-size scaler on sites, to provide easy resizing.

But its been awhile... does it still override agent font scaling if you derive using rems for all document children?

Bah. Just checked my base stylesheet. Its actually 62.5% as my base font size in the HTML tag styling, as suggested in a guide by Jim Dnook, not Chris Coyier.

Honestly, it's been years since I looked at the templates I was using when I built sites from scratch.

@NathanDoesDev care to explain what's wrong with it? I believe I picked that up as a duggedtion from one of Chris Coyier's guides, but that was quite a few years ago.

@NathanDoesDev typically I use 10px, so all my rems can be expressed as simple decimals. E.g. 1.8rem for what should default to 18px on a user agent with no overrides.

@NathanDoesDev I specify a base font size in the HTML tag, and use rem for all font sizing.

@peach1307 maybe they were trying holding the F10 key and the 2 key at the same time!

Schrodinger and Heisenberg are out for a ride, when they get pulled over by a police officer.

The officer says to Heisenberg (who was driving), "do you know how fast you were going?"

Heisenberg replies "no, but I know exactly where I am!"

Confused, the cop exclaims "you were going 90 miles an hour in a 55 zone!"

"Great," Heisenberg replies, "now I'm lost!"

Pissed off, the officer has them get out of the car so he can search the vehicle. When he gets to the trunk, he says "hey, did you guys know there's a dead cat in your trunk?"

"We do now, asshole!" Schrodinger angrily replied.

@ItsNotMyFault at least!

@g-m-f I did, but now I have to figure out how to break the news to them, since I'm also the PM.

This looks oddly familiar... O_o

Update:

Turning the computer off then on again fixed the problems.

Surprise!

As a dev and PM, I have to say the figures on the right have too much hair. :D

@kanduvisla in a previous job, I reported to a manager who didn't know what a "browser" was, and every attempt to explain it to her failed.

This was in a role as a web developer, mind you....

@samk the tag was deprecated in html4, and I had to dig to find that a unitless size value was even valid.

I'm just glad those days are (mostly) behind us.

And yes, before anyone asks, this website did have some instances of nested tables for formatting (although surprisingly few).

@vortex oh, trust me, I know!

I've worked with some doozies....

This gave me a sad :(

Signed, a PM (and dev).

@samk there's poor, and then there's whatever created this monstrosity.

I'm guessing the editor predates HTML4.