• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I worked with some pretty dumb people who mocked me for years as the guy who couldn’t design a UI to save my life because the product I inherited was designed by someone in the 1990s. it wasn’t pretty but it was functional.

    any time a UI request came in for the new product and I would try to take it, the PM would pull it and give it to someone else. “oh, their skillset is better suited for UI/UX.” I was told.

    I got fed up with it and designed my online portfolio. used it to showcase my work and skills even documented my process from mockups to design iteration and final products.

    I then posted on linkedin my new portfolio and listed myself as open to connect. within a day the PM made a point to pull up my portfolio on standup and asked me where I got the template. told them, “no template. as you can see in the documentation I designed it from scratch using HTML5 CSS3 and JavaScript. I also included the js packages I used.”

    they were stunned and immediately started to shuffle some UI tickets my way. I just said, “sorry, my skillset is better served for backend requests.”

    I quit two months later after a few interviews that seemed to go well. I hated that shithole.

    moral of the story? don’t discourage people from taking on tasks they aren’t obviously suited for. they might just surprise you.

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      I agree with your final take, but why would you want to take frontend tickets if you can also do backend work?

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        Raw spite. If you’re upset enough to build a whole LinkedIn profile, you’ve already mentally moved on to the next company.

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        change of pace, mostly. I also like the challenge. when I’m not challenged at work I lose interest easily and can spiral into not doing my job. so it’s nice to break up a long running project with some new bugs or tasks that are unrelated.

      • LeGrognardOfLove@lemmygrad.ml
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        Why not? Both needs skills to accomplish very well.

        I’m not a frontend guy, but I like to mess with frontend stuff once in a while!

        Flex is so fun!

        Managing css masterfully is a skill in itself!

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      9 months ago

      Ugh, i’ve had to write some Selenium tests where I had to come up with weird ass Xpaths because not a single fucking element had an ID and over half would spawn something in a different div

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      TBF to regex, it’s completely unreadable. I love the magic that can be done with it, but by God, it needs syntax highlighting. Something may do this, but I’ve never seen anything that does.

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        You get used to it sooner than you’d think. There are libraries to convert between regex and English. Maybe it deserves a Unicode code block like APL?

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    9 months ago

    OP, I don’t think you’ve correctly linked to the post (when I visit the linked webpage, the browser tries to download an ActivityPub activity instead of showing the post in the Mastodon web UI). Please replace the link with this one.

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      9 months ago

      On mobile the header has overlapping content- not the worst but shows very little attention to detail for a CSS toolkit :(