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I feel like I can tell I'm becoming a grumpy old developer because anytime a designer argues for a change by calling it "surprise and delight" I'm like "can we get it with less surprise though"  @hbuchel And I would lean in pretty hard to question their competence at delivering delight. Here is my (slightly less unhinged than I expected) musings on the current state of designing for the web. Generally, I think we lost something when we stopped calling people web designers and forced people to pick a side. https://heather-buchel.com/blog/2023/10/why-your-web-design-sucks/ BlueSky seems to be melting right now (I mean, it has kind of been on this trajectory) and I just really wish people would give Mastodon another chance. Not gonna lie, I was really hoping BlueSky would be ok. I missed a lot of people from Twitter. But it was almost immediately clear it was not. Starting with the benefiting from Black people doing the work to bring communities on board with pretty much no acknowledgement of that work from leadership, to having a wildly inaccessible web app, it's just really not a surprise what's happening right now. 'Those who dared speak up were branded "negative" and "haters", no matter how much data they lugged in tow.' We were also just told we didn't know what we were talking about or didn't know how to write JS enough OR that we didn't work on complex enough applications that warranted needing CSS-IN-JS solutions or going all in on frameworks :) :) :)
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@hbuchel @baldur when it comes to js frameworks I am in fact negative and a hater but that probably has a heck of a lot to do with the dynamics you've just described. Tech went out of its way to paint the front end as inferior, not really programming, just markup, and every other dog whistle for "for girls," and then needed to masculinize it with a frathouse atmosphere and layers of needless complexity in order to justify higher comp for men. Same old song, different key.  @hbuchel :) = 🫠, just me wanting to melt away when experiencing those discussions. everything you say is so true. Thank you for laying it all out in the open here. |
@hbuchel You could consider applying at Mozilla, they are hiring front-end devs remotely.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/
@hbuchel We are hiring! https://mastodon.devua.club/@zemlanin/113155013774443578
@hbuchel Good luck, hope you find an awesome role quickly!