rayquetzalcoatl

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[–] rayquetzalcoatl@feddit.uk 4 points 2 weeks ago

Haha, awesome. At least people won't need to buy as much toilet paper when the next pandemic hits.

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@feddit.uk 1 points 4 weeks ago

What do you mean?

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Thank you for the breakdown, I appreciate your time on this! How do you find Drupal to work with? There was a time I was tempted to go into Drupal, and then Laravel or Symfony; I think they have generally decent salaries associated because of their relatively niche nature.

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A mix of support and project work. At the moment, I'm building a custom Shopify theme for a client using Liquid, but I'm also helping to manage the scoping and planning for an upcoming WordPress rebuild for one of our other clients, which have some quite niche requirements that will necessitate some custom plugin development on top of custom theme development. That will land soon, and my time will be split between Shopify/WordPress development.

I'm only specifying "custom" here to differentiate the coding "from scratch" style work I'm doing from WYSIWYG/Site builder style work that I know comes with the WP/Shopify territory.

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

I'll take another look at in-house roles. Thank you!

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

When you say client side, what do you mean? I've worked in-house and for agencies, and the in-house pay was fine but not markedly more or less than agencies for similar roles (although it was less stressful).

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm not, I'm in the UK -- I just gave the figure in $ cos I assumed it'd make more sense to people! It's a pretty decent wage for UK devs, for what I do. Would it make sense to work for a US company?

 

Hey all, I've been working in web agencies for years now. Not using site builders (obviously I've had to use them at times but I don't love it), building custom themes from scratch with PHP/HTML/JS etc., custom plugins, interesting client needs, some Shopify development, design work, all the standard digital agency drudgery.

I'm starting to get pretty disillusioned and would like a new challenge (and a salary increase). I'm currently in a pretty well-paid agency, earning around $70,000 a year.

I've worked briefly with React, Angular, GraphQL, Vue, but not in a full-time capacity. Is React/Node the path I should be looking towards if I want to make more cash and have a bit more security? I'm safe in my current role, but I'm bored and frustrated.

Also.. is there any way to be in this industry and not be constantly pestered about AI? I'm honestly sick to death of hearing about ChatGPT or Claude, lol

Thanks!

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

oh cool so let's just give up then

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's been tough. I nearly failed to pay rent, and had to borrow money from a friend to afford it. My finances have been an absolute bloodbath for nearly a decade, and I'm finally gearing up to go sober and really confront how much debt I have. It's going to be a tough year. But, on the whole, the week could have been worse! And, thankfully, a calm but enjoyable Sunday.

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@feddit.uk 40 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's creepy that they're doing some weird religious gesture, but I think it's a lovely sign of the times that one of the freaks on the left (as we're looking at it) just has to record this emotional and reflective moment for their socials lol

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@feddit.uk 18 points 3 months ago

Oh for fucks sake

 

Hey guys! Sorry if this isn't the best place for this but I couldn't really find anywhere else.

I've been working for 6/7 years as a web developer full-time now, and I'm still plagued by one mega frustrating habit. When I'm working on something complex on one page, and it gets completed, I'll fairly often get notified either by the client or my boss a day or two later while they're testing the whole site that there's something broken on another page.

Almost always, it'll be down to the fix I've recently made.

Is there a way to avoid this kind of tunnel vision? I try to keep my code localised as much as possible, avoiding interacting with global scope and, if it's really for one specific thing, tying it down to that page in particular, but short of testing the entire site every time I make any change... is there anything else I can do?

Thanks!

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