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I have worked with the web in a professional capacity for nearly a decade. Your comment comes across like someone who has read a lot of HN comments, mixed it w

I have worked with the web in a professional capacity for nearly a decade. Your comment comes across like someone who has read a lot of HN comments, mixed it with an anecdote or two heard from friends at a bar, and is trying to pass it off as industry experience. And yeah, if you believe HN comments, then everyone is making six figures (but somehow also contribute no value), things like docker are easy to learn and require no skill (because folks here learned them easily after having years of software development experience) and npm users pull in packages for string operations (something that was true years ago, is still occasionally true in open source, but is not true in most shops I’ve worked in). Believe it or not, my current client does code reviews, mandates 85% unit test coverage, and tests in all the major browsers. And if anything doesn’t pass muster, even small visual defects, it gets kicked back and is not merged. When I talk to the people I meet at JS meetups, their workplaces are not all the same, but they’re usually similar.

austincheney 5y ago
I have been writing JS fulltime for major corporate employers for 13 years, but have been writing web technologies in some capacity for about 24 years. The friend at the bar anecdotes you are talking about are my own personal observations doing this work. It really doesn't take much in this technology space to be a 10x (or much more) developer. It really boils down to don't do stupid things and don't wait for dependencies to do your job for you.
geodel 5y ago
Seems like it's you who is coming up with anecdotes or indicating personal experience as industry standard. I have seen first hand at multiple places that web dev is extremely fashion driven and half-assed code are passed off as industry best practice. Moreover even without knowing the internals at workplaces, I can see typical websites are slow, buggy, crappy so even if best code, it does not mean much to me as a user.

austincheney 5y ago

I have been writing JS fulltime for major corporate employers for 13 years, but have been writing web technologies in some capacity for about 24 years. The friend at the bar anecdotes you are talking about are my own personal observations doing this work. It really doesn't take much in this technology space to be a 10x (or much more) developer. It really boils down to don't do stupid things and don't wait for dependencies to do your job for you.

geodel 5y ago

Seems like it's you who is coming up with anecdotes or indicating personal experience as industry standard. I have seen first hand at multiple places that web dev is extremely fashion driven and half-assed code are passed off as industry best practice. Moreover even without knowing the internals at workplaces, I can see typical websites are slow, buggy, crappy so even if best code, it does not mean much to me as a user.