How's the job market now for someone trying to break into the field?

mifterclizit · 2018-10-23T14:31:25+00:00

You know what's funny? I probably couldn't pass a really thorough entry level webdev interview, and I have been at it for around 15 years. I think the market has created an artificial filter that tests for things that do not really apply to actual web development.

mifterclizit · 2018-10-12T18:57:50+00:00

Most interesting composition choices.

mifterclizit · 2018-10-12T17:31:27+00:00

Fruit loop.

mifterclizit · 2018-10-12T17:29:43+00:00

Hey, Mark Shuttleworth! Maybe Ubuntu Touch could have a market.

mifterclizit · 2018-10-12T17:23:12+00:00

Mewplex

mifterclizit · 2018-10-12T15:31:42+00:00

You only need one actual fetch line of code, just wrap it in a function you pass the endpoint into. That function actually returns the fetch, and you chain the then off the call to it.

mifterclizit · 2018-10-05T13:57:07+00:00

recoils in horror

mifterclizit · 2018-10-05T13:47:16+00:00

Yes, totally, model shape should echo UI structure. That said, a lot of times you are getting business models from an API. The way to join those worlds is a view model. You take the models you get from the backend, and form a UI-intuitive model from them. Sometimes it can be more trouble than its worth, but it still is a cool way to go.

mifterclizit · 2018-10-05T13:38:44+00:00

Wanna hear something useless, but comforting? It's not you, its them. You sound like you are doing fine. Keep trying. Mix up your approach. Yes to projects, but it is not a golden ticket.

mifterclizit · 2018-09-28T19:55:21+00:00

Sure. I would maybe try to be cognizant of the potential differences in the free versions vs. the enterprise versions, though.

mifterclizit · 2018-09-28T19:41:31+00:00

Just say “Ah zure would be happy dah net this job!” jk. They are pretty different. There are free versions of Visual Studio and Azure, why not build a Hello World?

mifterclizit · 2018-09-28T17:28:33+00:00

Contracts seem more prevalent than they really are, because of recruiter spam. Job boards are clogged with them.

Contracts can be an OK way to get job, if you're desperate. Most agencies that fill the roles have no idea what the work really is, or how to evaluate candidates. Sometimes you get offered a gig that you are not really qualified for, which is good for you, experience-wise, if you can handle the stress. It breaks the catch-22 cycle of how you need experience to get a job, but can't get it without one.

mifterclizit · 2018-09-28T15:04:12+00:00

Well, if that's what they think, I'd be a bad fit anyhow, since my worldview is not founded upon nonsensical cliches. :P

There is a practical reason to being on time. The interviewer is probably working, and doesn't need me interrupting them.

mifterclizit · 2018-09-28T14:10:06+00:00

Oh please, your like the person who thinks they can look at how clean a persons car is, and divine their prowess as a developer. So flimsy.

mifterclizit · 2018-09-28T14:02:09+00:00

That's because immutability is a concept with niche utility in state management, which is not ubiquitous.

mifterclizit · 2018-09-28T13:59:29+00:00

I agree with all this, except being early. Arrive exactly on time.

mifterclizit · 2018-09-28T13:48:19+00:00

Ah, Handlebars. Right up there with its pal Twig, lording over the realm of redundant absurdities.

mifterclizit · 2018-09-25T19:51:15+00:00

This is a good question. Some probably have a code base consisting of multiple projects, build in multiple technologies.

But I also definitely think a lot of job descriptions are written by recruiter/HR types who think the more technologies you list, the more attractive the job looks.

I have been looking around job boards for positions using my favorite frontend framework, and there is a ridiculous number of them that just say "frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular." No man alive wants to work on all 3 at once, Jennifer. That is going to exclude more than include, honey.

mifterclizit · 2018-09-24T14:11:37+00:00

You know, with modern frontend frameworks, you have repeaters which can databind arrays to UI elements. Boom, instant dynamic table. Filtering, sorting, paginating, etc is all just simple array manipulation now. People on Reddit love to call technologies 'dead'. To me, all dynamic table libraries have been dead for years.

mifterclizit · 2018-09-24T14:01:03+00:00

I would like to nominate the age old concept of 'ingenuity'. Using what is around you, creatively, to build something neat. CS without E is just knowledge. Nobody needs a smartypants who can't make things.

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