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    Underpaid, overworked, should I just quit? web developers

    October 05, 2021

    Underpaid, overworked, should I just quit? web developers

    Underpaid, overworked, should I just quit?

    Posted: 05 Oct 2021 08:35 AM PDT

    I'm a full stack dev for small company (20 employees) and I have developed from scratch a CRM and Quote management SPA over the past 8 months for them. It uses React, Node, Express, a mssql database and some other tools. I also handle devops. I am the only one working on this project.

    My employer has overloaded me the entire time even after talking to them about. They don't understand feature creep, every week it's more requests for features, half way through development I had to make it live for the reps to start using.

    He has even started tempting me with "bonuses" if I can get more work done than usual. These bonuses are only about 100 dollars, to quote "challenge me" and "reward me". I know this is bullshit into trying to make me work more than my 40 hours a week.

    My typical week looks like this:

    Develop a tool to view all quotes and contacts on them. We need a new table for the contacts. Allow a user to add a new contact if they don't exist in any quotes, if they do make it so they can on click add the contact. Also they need to be able edit the contacts. Make it so you can click anywhere on the software to pull up this tool on a company name. Make it so you can click a button to select all the contact and edit their company.

    That is a copy paste from the request I got from my boss.

    Here's the kicker. I make 40k a year. 20 an hour, 5 more than a McDonald's employee.

    Im burnt out, I'm stressed, it's making me hate coding. Tell me why I shouldn't just walk out?

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    How to write a product requirements document (PRD), with examples

    Posted: 05 Oct 2021 12:11 AM PDT

    Conditional Border Radius In CSS

    Posted: 05 Oct 2021 05:27 AM PDT

    It's my first time interviewing web developers, what should I ask?

    Posted: 05 Oct 2021 07:56 AM PDT

    Hi,
    It's that point in my career when I've got to handle the expansion of the team, and its structure. I want to be fair, and try to skip on all the cliche interview question, and ask some questions that can shed some light on whether the applicant actually likes what they do, and whether they're any good at it.

    I will base my decision more on their portfolio than their CV or coding exercise results, however it would be great help if you can some smart questions that can help me understand the applicant better.

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    13 tiny and terrific web games from the js13kGames competition | The GitHub Blog

    Posted: 05 Oct 2021 12:40 PM PDT

    imgproxy announces ML features in the upcoming v3

    Posted: 05 Oct 2021 06:11 AM PDT

    Google Domains won't let me set CNAME for SendGrid - conflicted

    Posted: 05 Oct 2021 12:58 PM PDT

    I have custom nameservers pointing to Netlify. No problems there.

    I'm trying to set up CNAME to point to SendGrid.

    After setting up and saving the CNAME records, it shows this at the top of the page https://i.imgur.com/RyRUKsW.png

    If I click on "Switch to these settings", it then disables my custom nameservers that I set up for Netlify.

    Am I doing this wrong?

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    Partytown is a lazy-loaded 6kb library to help relocate resource intensive scripts into a web worker, and off of the main thread. Its goal is to help speed up sites by dedicating the main thread to your code, and offloading third-party scripts to a web worker.

    Posted: 05 Oct 2021 05:36 AM PDT

    LittleJS �� The Tiny JavaScript Game Engine That Can!

    Posted: 05 Oct 2021 01:19 AM PDT

    Question about the FB outage and DNS caching

    Posted: 05 Oct 2021 05:46 PM PDT

    I recently read this article explaining what happened. One of the things it talks about is how the FB nameservers went down, preventing DNS queries from resolving. I understand that the IPs were not available anyway (since Facebook's AS was not advertising it's routes via BGP). But wouldn't most of the DNS queries still resolve because of caching?

    Perhaps the initial queries were resolved, but when the IP didn't respond the client sends a new query with a request to bypass the cache?

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    Latest OWASP Top 10 Surfaces Web Development Security Bugs

    Posted: 05 Oct 2021 10:52 AM PDT

    How is Shopify effecting your business these days? Is it hard to complete with since most potential customers see it as a much cheaper option than building a site with a dev?

    Posted: 04 Oct 2021 07:45 PM PDT

    It feels like people these days are brainwashed into using all these remade website builders. How can they be convinced to pay $5,000 for a ecommerce website when they can get one for $29.99 a month with all the bells and whistles. Or even the upgraded package, which is $79, and yes they charge transaction fees as well.. but still its an easier sell than coughing up 3-5k for a new site. They also offer POS migration of inventory. So how are these things effecting your business?

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    Cube Cloud: Managed platform for an open-source API layer for data apps (it's A in Jamstack)

    Posted: 05 Oct 2021 07:07 AM PDT

    To those with a programming careers, how difficult was it to get your first job? Did you have to relocate? Could you do it with an Associates in CS knowing only C++, Java and Visual Basic?

    Posted: 05 Oct 2021 03:58 AM PDT

    Tab Unloading in Firefox 93

    Posted: 05 Oct 2021 10:01 AM PDT

    How I Learnt To Stop Worrying And Love Animating The Box Model

    Posted: 05 Oct 2021 05:28 AM PDT

    Questions for pricing your dev work

    Posted: 05 Oct 2021 11:33 AM PDT

    1/ What's your website do today?

    Encourage them to complain about what's frustrating them. Learn their true problems.

    Once done, repeat their problems back to them.

    2/ What does your ideal website accomplish?

    Wrong Answer: "It gets more customers."
    Right Answer: "It enables us to sell our products to people who live far from our store location."

    Learn their ideal end-state. Repeat it back to them. They'll love hearing you understand.

    3/ Can you tell me more about X?

    Keep them talking with phrases like:

    What do you mean?
    Why is it done that way?
    How do you like that?

    Extract as much as possible about their pains, needs, and use-cases.

    4/ Who's responsible for design?

    Clarify that design is separate from development.

    Are you responsible for design? Do you have to find the person? Are they giving you a design?

    5/ How many different component & page layouts?

    Devs are infamously optimistic.

    Use the number of layouts to help estimate your project timeline.

    You should overestimate the time you think it'll take on every project — even double it! You may still be under.

    6/ Who's responsible for content?

    Content is a beast of its own. Make sure it's crystal clear exactly who owns content creation. Add that to your estimates.

    7/ What 3rd party services will we use?

    It's likely they won't have an exact answer.

    Audit their existing site, propose services based on their needs, and recommend tech based on what their in-house teams may be using.

    8/ How will we communicate during the project?

    Check-in consistently — even if you don't have an update.

    Simply message them, "No new updates since we chatted last." They will appreciate it and you may get new info from them.

    9/ Offer multiple tiers.

    Offer 3 tiers of solutions from "everything and more" to "just the basics."

    Let them move items around and customize their own tier. This will help you land more deals because you give the client flexibility.

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    Okay, I see now why grid isn't just used everywhere lol. Centering the right side would be quick and easy with flex, but with grid I have no idea wtf is going on here.

    Posted: 05 Oct 2021 01:02 AM PDT

    My career journey so far

    Posted: 05 Oct 2021 03:41 PM PDT

    • dropped out of college
    • learned SEO and WordPress to become a marketer
    • did various digital marketing jobs
    • realized I was good at paid advertising so I did that for 3 years
    • Found out how soul sucking the whole marketing industry is
    • Took a long break from work
    • found a paid advertising role where I got paid $100K/year
    • still was extremely dissatisfied
    • my friend and I started doing CS50 Harvard for fun and I loved it and had fun for first time in a while.
    • learned JavaScript/React/Node and I was hooked.
    • prematurely quit my job
    • currently studying for an interview as React/Node dev to make potentially $45-$55k/year

    Hope the grass is greener on the other side. Please share your journey so far.

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    Udemy files for U.S. IPO as remote learning shift drives revenue surge

    Posted: 05 Oct 2021 10:08 AM PDT

    Debug information on the front end and this reply from a fellow “professional”

    Posted: 05 Oct 2021 05:28 AM PDT

    A client of ours had their website built by another agency, they also maintain it. We were hired to audit it as part of doing their digital marketing.

    I'm not going to go into the horrors of what I found, but I want to share this bit: they were displaying debug messages in the front end, in production, in a little box at the bottom of the site, looks like a WP plugin functionality.

    During the report we recommended to disable this as it's bad practice and a potential security vector. This is the reply we got from the other agency:

    I had an email from … at … saying that your team had found some sensitive debug information being displayed on the front end of the site.

    I checked the screenshot sent and there is nothing sensitive or dangerous in the information displayed, just a developers console info url which is normal.

    Maybe the wrong screenshot was sent by mistake or there is something missing from it but we have checked and there is no sensitive information being displayed which could be used to gain access to anything.

    I just couldn't believe that in 2021 I had to justify this recommendation. Some days impostor syndrome kicks in and I feel like I don't know what I'm doing, then there's days like this, where I realize I could be worse.

    I stopped for a second to ask myself if I'm in the wrong here but I don't think there's a situation other than being in development where this is acceptable.

    It's like leaving your keys on the sidewalk while saying "it's a safe neighborhood".

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    Anyone have any idea on how to achieve the background of this webpage?

    Posted: 05 Oct 2021 06:14 PM PDT

    Creating Generative Art with PHP

    Posted: 05 Oct 2021 01:22 AM PDT

    Which are the best websites to look for icons ?

    Posted: 05 Oct 2021 12:07 PM PDT

    Icons for a web page*

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