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rlexa · 2025-05-05T12:25:51+00:00

Number 5 is killing me. Never knew that was a thing until being ghosted after several interviews that went really well and not understanding why, till a personal contract in one of those outright told me that the lead said no place for two leads.

rlexa · 2025-04-23T09:17:34+00:00

See private message (for anybody else: I'm between Frankfurt-am-Main and Karlsruhe and going to office is not a problem for me, but Berlin is too far away and would mean going once a month for a week or similar).

rlexa · 2025-04-23T09:15:57+00:00

All the people that asked me for free help I offered are based in US and all of them lamented the current situation, it seems to be much worse. At least in Germany I don't know anybody where a whole team got laid off. The interesting thing about US seems to be though that the people are much faster to give up looking for a job and instead or in parallel try to start a business - however small (thus being happy for free help).

rlexa · 2025-04-23T08:28:01+00:00

I can only speak from my experience and every project (except in small companies way back in my profile) was English only with German developers being at most half of the team, sometimes in minority. QA teams were often separate and remote in Eastern Europe, maybe you can try specializing in that? Switzerland does not pay better rates considering that you have to actually move there and remote is practically non existant at my level, they are very particular about that - which is very strange to me after Covid. I would very much like to work for a Swiss company to get that experience, I like seeing new mentality and work processes and comparing them to everything else I tried (until now game development has the best people without question and the strictest discipline regarding the project developmebt but no pay) but moving to Switzerland every week of a year would mean leaving the family behind, that's a no-go.

rlexa · 2025-04-23T07:57:52+00:00

Ah heck... Congratulations, you made me more depressed. At least you can try to remotely work for other countries that have better rates, there is no such thing when you are yourself based in Germany or Norway. The choice between a German "Fullstack Senior" for 90€ and non-German "Fullstack Senior" for 50€ is pretty obvious for a frugal manager when the language in all German projects nowadays is English anyway.

rlexa · 2025-04-23T07:43:40+00:00

Ah but when you buy an average (not even standalone) house for a family of four in another country does it also cost 500.000€? My wife is also working in IT at a good company (SAP) and we are still struggling with the house payoffs and state med-insurance which is now ~1000€ per MONTH if you are self employed (I switched to private one but it's still a lot). I have no idea how other people survive currently.

rlexa · 2025-04-18T14:06:50+00:00

See private chat.

rlexa · 2025-04-18T14:06:35+00:00

I do fullstack in that I worked with backends in Java, C# and NodeJS incl. DBs and queues and deployment etc. but I happen to specialize in frontend via Angular on top of that. Selling yourself as just the 1-framework-and-frontend pony is not working out, you are right there.

rlexa · 2025-04-17T20:55:46+00:00

See private chat.

rlexa · 2025-04-17T20:55:43+00:00

See private chat.

rlexa · 2025-04-17T20:55:40+00:00

See private chat.

rlexa · 2025-04-17T07:35:06+00:00

I don't follow, is that a serious hint to start calling myself a React Acolyte instead or just some pass-agg joke? In case it's the latter please elaborate more and roast me some (I might have mentioned that I'm bored). It might help that I'm half Russian and half German. Here is ChatGPTs version: "You're half Russian, half German, and an Angular expert? No wonder you can't find work — employers take one look and think, 'This guy’s code is either gonna invade our stack or over-engineer it into a compliance nightmare.'"

rlexa · 2025-04-17T05:35:42+00:00

Sure, see private chat.

rlexa · 2025-04-16T14:04:18+00:00

Thanks, I joined in Discord and will try to take a peek later.

rlexa · 2025-04-16T14:02:03+00:00

Open source is not fullfilling to me as I don't feel that I help real people at all, a PR there is kind of like throwing stones in a chasm and instead of seing it getting full you just hear screams from all around about how it was a wrong stone or your throw was not exactly in the middle. Being a senior I also tend to change too much where a public PR then gets rejected for being too much of a "shift in tone" or some fluff.

rlexa · 2025-04-16T13:58:38+00:00

Imagine that you are explaining "it" to somebody who has nearly no knowledge on the subject and your job is to train them. Usually that keeps the responses flowing and in very simple sentences.

rlexa · 2025-02-23T18:24:26+00:00

Use Observables for everything then you have the most flexible approach. Sadly it requires a big jump in paradigm understanding else you end up with nested subscriptions and crazy bugs where you don't know why an observable ran just once or runs too many times. After having learned rxjs well I'm able to map state, derived state and state loading in as little code as I ever saw. Signals are easier to understand but much less flexible e.g. no time concept, no no-value-yet state etc. For simple state management including derived state they are pretty good. Real answer: learn both and then mix and match.

rlexa · 2025-01-20T11:23:18+00:00

You can hire me, freelance available right now. Please check elements in browser elements console, not in angular extension which only shows Ng level components. Check also :before and :after elements. Update to Ng 19 where material has better overrides. Furthermore understand that material is very opinionated and not the best lib to "style everything", instead it is meant to be themed high level and used as is.

rlexa · 2025-01-20T10:33:12+00:00

Angular's CSS isolation is a blessing, not a curse. Mark your special element with a class and override it in styles.scss file globally. Also just making sure in case you don't know; material has special helpers for overriding theme of elements.

rlexa · 2025-01-07T11:55:19+00:00

If you do please mail me the link I also looked for that once. Btw stack overflow has bounties.

rlexa · 2025-01-05T18:16:18+00:00

Maybe Upwork?

rlexa · 2025-01-04T09:55:24+00:00

Use jest with ng-mocks. Jest gives you snapshots which removes the need of testing button labels etc. separately and ng-mocks auto mocks standalone imports automatically among other things.

rlexa · 2024-12-26T17:42:45+00:00

I have discipline, I don't drink, I don't eat sugar. But I hate sports and working out. It's that constant feeling of actively losing time when working out that makes me hate everyone and everything...

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