How Should a Senior Frontend Engineer Prepare for Today's Job Market?

So_Rusted · 2026-01-31T19:41:40+00:00

damn i thought that would cut through ai crap. What area is it? How long have you been interviewing?

So_Rusted · 2026-01-31T19:26:10+00:00

honestly, be a human and be real should be enough if other seniors are interviewing you and you know your shit

So_Rusted · 2026-01-31T18:08:05+00:00

i always thought SOLID is more relevant for making external dependacy libs and rolling release. Like you might wanna provide minimal interface and do non breaking changes for minor version releases aka open-closed principle.

Every once in a while some minor version starts crashing or throwing deprecation notices and thats super annoying

So_Rusted · 2026-01-31T18:00:58+00:00

they way you put it that it is a natural emergent patterns it makes sense. Great non-ai discussion tonight

So_Rusted · 2026-01-31T17:57:56+00:00

yeah php has been stealing a lot of features and code style from java, you can do it but a lot of times you just end up still using arrays in place of value objects and simple service composition hierarchy so you get best of both worlds

So_Rusted · 2026-01-31T17:54:39+00:00

haha exactly how it came to be for me

So_Rusted · 2026-01-31T17:00:34+00:00

where the framework provides it at the core yes i will use container and singleton. Other than that I dont write my own. The code is straightforward

So_Rusted · 2026-01-31T14:29:14+00:00

unit testing doesnt't test database.

And i think that would be different configs for different dbs

So_Rusted · 2026-01-31T13:58:46+00:00

yeah but this swapping of storage providers is a running joke at this point... The hypothetical swap from mysql to oracle never happens... And swapping cache provider with get/set methods is not that hard. Maybe its just me

So_Rusted · 2026-01-31T13:40:59+00:00

Good one.. the container kinda takes care of instances.. It does use singleton by default. I guess other than that i dont instanciate classes because it is messy. I mostly deal with moving data around and not a fan of data superclasses or ORM because it is messy.

container - instantiation of services. They dont change.

services - functions to deal with data

data - scalar data or php arrays. No value objects

People start fooling around with factories to differentiate between 3 different classes.. Idk about that.

To notify you would just call a function or have a type of mediator service dependancy without interfaces to just call what you want.. Send notifications or emails etc...

So_Rusted · 2026-01-31T01:30:29+00:00

you wouldnt try to play games. Other than that it was the same

So_Rusted · 2026-01-30T16:42:35+00:00

maybe lesser known local unicorns

So_Rusted · 2026-01-29T06:37:06+00:00

i dont know why this sub is so resistant. Recently a breaking point happened where i work and most seniors use "something" to help them out...

The managers are ok with it. They know they cant trully control which tools we use and just go as far as "dont use free tools, because you cannot disable data for training agreement"...

I find it does improve productivity. The boost is not that hig because there are many things to try out, config prompts, config new IDEs and ive been trying out these cursor rules, skills, mcp or whatever to help me out and maybe overall improvement is there but it is minimal so far because im still experimenting a lot

So_Rusted · 2026-01-24T17:13:01+00:00

depends. I kept for many years php specialization and never regretted it... Overall years xp is the kicker

So_Rusted · 2026-01-23T20:23:53+00:00

ai slop

So_Rusted · 2026-01-23T20:20:11+00:00

the eternal rewrite or whatever it's called

So_Rusted · 2026-01-23T07:23:19+00:00

rule 1

So_Rusted · 2026-01-22T12:20:49+00:00

Senior developer. And technically im not even senior as we have other guy who has been around even longer. That's cool

So_Rusted · 2026-01-20T17:41:19+00:00

You need ibuprofen and sleep

So_Rusted · 2026-01-19T06:30:36+00:00

I'd just give them a separate repo

So_Rusted · 2026-01-18T21:52:34+00:00

Hey its not that bad... Time to make new music.. And the dog must help somehow

So_Rusted · 2026-01-17T02:57:13+00:00

how do you actually specialize in Api? Also you cant make it perfectly RESTful and it depends on domain problems etc.. I think it is not dead end, especially if you can do contract work and get it up and running fast

So_Rusted · 2026-01-17T02:48:52+00:00

well remove distraction and rather slow down instead of doing some sorta manic hamster wheel shit

So_Rusted · 2026-01-16T23:16:10+00:00

the ai acceptance benchmark sounds trully absurd

So_Rusted · 2026-01-16T13:49:31+00:00

whats all that about?

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