Incredibly unmotivated despite being in a great position web developers |
- Incredibly unmotivated despite being in a great position
- I want to be a freelance webdev, and understand that it takes a lot of practice, and real-world "doing" experience, but my parents don't understand that college is not going to help me with tha (especially since I don't have the option to go to MIT, or afford 4 years full time BSc). What could I do?
- Why is Chrome on Android displaying the contact form poorly?
- Which tech stack to master in 2021 for freelancing opportunities
- CSS panic
- Junior Web Dev Job Ads
- Sanity-check for project direction
- I have a friend who needs to get subtitles for his videos! Are there any good no-code solutions?
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| Incredibly unmotivated despite being in a great position Posted: 24 Nov 2021 12:11 AM PST I've been working as a back-end (mostly) web dev for a Japanese company for more than three years now. It's the first time in my life I've ever held any kind of job for longer than one year, it's the highest paying job (while still not all that high), and it's the only 'skill' or 'window' I have into potentially having a high-paying job that I don't absolutely hate. However, I'm incredibly unmotivated, I don't like most aspects of the job, and I feel terrible about that as I remember a time where I was self-studying web dev and got this position out of thin air. I should be more grateful to be in this position. I can work from home 4 out of 5 days a week, my manager is mostly lax with how shit I am, and there's plenty of time to apply myself and actually become a better developer in case I plan on moving back to the States (which I currently do) and get paid more. But I am just so. damn. unmotivated. I procrastinate often and get nothing done, though this permeates into every aspect of my life, not just work (hell am I just depressed?) I don't want to go back to being an English teacher. Being a JP <-> EN translator is shit pay for high stress work. Programming definitely pays the most and affords so much flexibility, and I have no other real skills to fall back on so I _need_ to keep up with this, as my future is bleak as hell as a 29 year old starting from zero _again_. I don't know where I'm going with this post. I think I'm just ranting and needed to get this out, but I also want to hear any advice/tips/stories from anyone who is or was in my situation. It's incredibly frustrating knowing that the only thing stopping me from taking this resumé with three years experience working for a top Japanese company further beyond is just... drive. I'm sabotaging my future self and hate myself for it. /rant [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 24 Nov 2021 03:54 AM PST Maybe there's some good short university course offer that isn't a udemy course. I would simply regret wasting all that time, but I don't know what else I could pitch to my parents. I could try actually do some shorter course I want to do personally (unrelated to webdev), which would get me more cool friends, but it wouldn't get me any coding experience since I would spend most of the time in the university, commuting, etc. How the fuck am I supposed to go do a 4 year degree when it's absolutely useless to me, my future, and as a bonus makes a stupendously big dent on my parent's bank accounts? Not US citizen, live in EU, though not an EU citizen, and don't have any remotely sensible, or real world relevant education in our country. [link] [comments] | ||
| Why is Chrome on Android displaying the contact form poorly? Posted: 24 Nov 2021 01:33 AM PST Hey everyone, so I hope I'm able to provide a sufficient amount of context for this problem I'm having with a website I'm working on. Specifically on Chrome Android. All other browsers, including oddballs like Safari get the contact form right, but on Android it expands beyond the width of the page, even though I'm mostly leveraging flex with minimum widths wherever necessary. I hope someone can give the page source a look and help me find the problem! The deploy preview on Netlify is hosted here (https://deploy-preview-3--happy-wilson-7b5f53.netlify.app/), so you should be able to view it on mobile devices. Unfortunately I can't share the entire codebase raw just yet. But I'm using SvelteKit and TailwindCSS for reference. [link] [comments] | ||
| Which tech stack to master in 2021 for freelancing opportunities Posted: 24 Nov 2021 12:58 AM PST Hello, So I have very limited knowledge when it comes to web development. I am currently employed but my daily job doesn't involve web development. I want to learn something from scratch which has (or will have) the highest demand. By demand I mean - lots of freelancing opportunities and also most companies use it (which will be helpful if I switch jobs in future). My current skills: (0 - Never written a single line of code and 10 - Can code without google search)
I have tried little bit of django but that's mostly because I have some knowledge about python. But this was many years ago, so the knowledge is really rusty right now. Please help me choose a tech stack! [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 24 Nov 2021 12:20 AM PST I know this is rather a psychology-related question and probably doesn't belong here, but it is still too specific for a psychology-related subreddit so I thought I'd post here. I'm curious if anyone else struggles with CSS like I do, and they get irrationally angry or frightened if something in their CSS doesn't go as planned. I've been coding for 7 months but no other thing has ever been able to create the same reaction in me as CSS does. I understand JavaScript WAAAAAY less than I do CSS, but still I don't get so panicky when something in JavaScript doesn't work. It's hard to explain, it's like CSS overwhelms me. For instance yesterday I was working on a big project and because I didn't organize the structure properly, I ended up overwriting properties, creating duplicates and breaking some of my code on certain pages and that scared me so much I literally had a panic attack and ended up crying the rest of the day (most of it). Again, not even the terrible monster which is JavaScript cannot overwhelm me the way CSS does. When something doesn't go according to plan, it scares me so much that I literally forget how to read CSS code. Yesterday, for instance, I literally couldn't read CSS anymore. I knew I understood CSS but for some reason my brain just wasn't processing it anymore, it's like I was seeing CSS for the first time in my life. Does anyone feel the same way? [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 24 Nov 2021 12:35 AM PST Sorry if this has been asked before but why are so many adverts for Junior positions asking for things like 'Leading a team' and 'Supervision/ training and code review of junior staff'. Is that not the role of someone more senior? If Im a Junior and learning the job, how am I meant to be leading a team or code reviewing another junior? [link] [comments] | ||
| Sanity-check for project direction Posted: 24 Nov 2021 12:22 AM PST I'm helping a client migrate their site away from a creaky old monolithic platform that's horrifically expensive to maintain, and into a new decentralised setup that will give them better services for less. It includes:
And now I need to figure out the presentation layer that ties it all together. I'm more of a front-end guy HTML, (S)CSS, and enough PHP to work in existing platforms, but not good enough to build my own. I'd originally been developing it in a little-known JIT frontend framework which has served me well previously, but has wound up being problematic enough for this use-case that it's not viable. As a result, I need to hire someone to help me with the frontend development pieces, and am trying to figure out what that should look like. My initial instinct was to go for Laravel because:
But I also don't know what I don't know. I only just discovered it has it's own auth flow, for example. We'll be building out more features later, which will require more data being stored against the user, so maybe that's another point in its favour. Others are saying 'Go React', 'Go Nuxt', 'Go Gatsby', 'Go.. insert framework here' - and those I don't know at all, and I don't have the skillset to properly evaluate them. Performance, security and reliability are all important in this particular project. I'm quite keen to hear from the community what they would do if they were in my position and was hiring externally to help get it done. What tech stack, and why - and really, why not Laravel? What am I missing? [link] [comments] | ||
| I have a friend who needs to get subtitles for his videos! Are there any good no-code solutions? Posted: 23 Nov 2021 11:24 PM PST I told him that I could set up gcp for him, but "he doesn't understand code" so he wouldn't go for it. I don't want him to use a service where they charge by the minute cuz he has like 120 hours of content. So, what do I do? I would also be okay just setting up something that would be like a one time thing. and they he can just easily use it! EDIT : They want to sell these videos as educational lectures, so can't really host them on youtube [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 23 Nov 2021 10:27 PM PST
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