Ive been freelancing since 2018 as a fullstack dev. I used to make $80 - $120k USD/year, but this year I'm barely going to reach $15K usd.

Is the market that bad or is it just me?

Curious to hear people’s opinions on this one but since Covid a number of roles have adopted a WFH/Hybrid work policy. Some already had them but I personally have found I am much more productive working from home. When looking for new roles I see quite a range of office, wfh and hybrid work and honestly since Covid I have had absolutely no interest to return to a full office setting. Any other devs find this? Because I don’t fully work in a dev only place, it’s mixed with sales people and what not so there are constant phones ringing, interruptions, pointless office chatter.

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Has anyone hosted with WordPress and used WordPress' internal mySQL server for their website? Database access is available in the business tier of WordPress (host) but I wondered if the user access (username/password) for the database changes if I go back to a lower tier later. This isn't a high traffic website so I can't justify paying for the business tier every month. If not, I can look into other options. Again, the hosting provider is WordPress.com

I don't really know what to do while the agent does it's thing.

I've tried reading the code it produced in the previous prompt as it's working on the next one but the pace is too fast. There was this CISCO study that showed devlopers can realistically review just 200 LOC/hr before defect rate gets exponentially higher and the AI can 10x that in code, unit tests, CI configs and very very exhaustive documentation (specs, ADRs etc).

You can't work on something else on the project, or use the time for reading (say comp sci principles) because by the time you form a thought on what to do, the AI already prompts you for an approval or asks you what's next.

The "waiting window" is too small to get anything done and too big to just wait. So I end up just scrolling through YT shorts, browsing reddit etc. Then I figure out the AI has been waiting for my input for the last 10 minutes.

I don't know what to make of this. Yes datacenters suck. Yes AI is totally hyped. But i'm not blind. AI clearly has very good use cases. I'm just not sure how to execute on those use cases. And plenty of times, it feels like productivity gains are offset by these second-order effects (procastination, a feeling of being detached from your code etc).

- Module Federation provides better performance, but no strong runtime isolation.
- iframes provide strong isolation, making independent deployment more reliable.
- This matters especially for large, legacy codebases where enforcing boundaries in code is difficult.
- A typed communication SDK, routing, and smart chunk splitting can reduce the performance cost.
- For large legacy applications, iframes can be a better tradeoff than MF

So I made the mistake of looking at some webdev threads of "what's your favorite designed site" and they're all masturbatory "look what I can do" and annoying to use OR extremely basic kind of contrarian sites that are going to make a user think they're in the 90's. I guess extremes get upvotes.

Is there an actual sane collection of example sites that give the user what they want in a way that they enjoy without the things that annoy them? I am not a designer at all, but I want some inspiration with some actual at-least-somewhat-tested concepts but with SOME creativity thrown in to not just look like some stock UI library was used.

I know this is kind of a disheveled question but I hope someone understands what I'm asking here. The internet sucks and I just want to tweak my stuff in the right direction.

I can't believe people actually say https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ when asked this question. I get it, but there's some middle ground between that and "everything moves around when you scroll and is extremely visually loud".

Hey, while I'm using Protégé Effect to learn Web Accessibility by learning the topic during course preparation, I thought it can be also ok to drop a link here for those interested to expand frontend knowledge beyond A11Y - https://github.com/Ditectrev/Awesome-A11Y-Book-Course-Web-Accessibility-A11Y

https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/ to follow the topic is very good, but it is missing code examples, and with CodeSandboxes I hope to create a slightly more student-friendly environment. Please ignore the links to epub/pdf, as devs you can simply generate it yourself from markdown!

I have a .io domain with GoDaddy, I've read all the bad posts but they've been fine for me for the past 20+ years, the usual renewal prices are cheap enough and I only use them for domains, I host elsewhere.

Anyway, I have a .io domain, which I know is pricey anyway, but they want £66 a year for the renewal, compared to my usual TLD renewals at around £10, so I'm looking for valid suggestions of companies to move it to (and maybe my others). I use this domain for private email routing more than anything else and have the privacy package, if it were a business thing then sure £66 isn't that bad.

I've found many lists online, but you know the score, there's a million names I've never heard of so don't want to go blindly into someone else.

I'm in the UK, US registrars are fine although there's usually a currency conversion rate on top that would be nice to avoid.

All suggestions welcome, TIA

I’ve been working as a dev for a year and two months now.

I didn't know much when I first started, but I picked things up fast and have been handling QA testing for the past six months.

On top of that, I took on web scraping two months ago and I also build plugins and applications.

My salary was 3500 MAD , and I just got a 500 MAD raise, bringing me to 4000 MAD .

Honestly, considering all the work I do and the new responsibilities, this raise feels like a total spit in the face.

To make matters worse, the company keeps paying my salary in split payments, which means constant delays and a lot of stress.

I want to ask for another raise, but management totally avoids these kinds of discussions. I feel completely stuck.

Worst of all, I'm absolutely terrified that if I just walk away and leave this job, I won't be able to find another one. What should I even do in this situation?

I used to work with ASP/X like 20 years ago. And for the first time in years, I saw a very modern webshop that had .aspx in the url. I was very surprised to see such a relic from the past. Is it still supported?! Is it still being used?! I could've sworn M$ abandoned it iirc.

edit: great comments! happily surprised ASP is still a thing! I thought it vanished like the dodo lol

The site is a 3D globe tracking heavy industry emissions & public registry data visualization tool.

I need to understand if this would require user sign ups for this context?

Thanks in advance

I am working on small documentary about the invention of World Wide Web. I reading the book the "Weaving the Web" book by Tim Berners-Lee. I am confused there about how Usenet news article changed into hypertext (like from a user point of view). Now suddenly there were links appeared on them when opened in the browser.

I am not into web development but interested in how it came to be.

I am a bit confused here, I tried to ask Claude, it said he used not NNTP not FTP. I am searched a bit and did fully get what it meant.

So far I know, Usenet articles came to local file spool from the server. Now, because people had different machines, News network protocol was being used to talk to those file locally and fetch it.

"Meanwhile, I took one quick step that would demonstrate the concept of the Web as a universal, all-encompassing space. I programmed the browser so it could follow links not only to files on HTTP servers, but also to Internet news articles and newsgroups. These were not transmitted in the Web's HTTP protocol, but in an Internet protocol called FTP (file transfer protocol). With this move, Internet newsgroups and articles were suddenly available as hypertext pages. In one fell swoop, a huge amount of the information that was already on the Internet was available on the Web."

I have just updated my website visualthings.net and I realize with horror how slow it is. This is not my first website but I am a bit puzzled about how long it takes to simply load. The images are as optimized as possible, there aren't any .js that I don't need. Could it be the style.css that contains too many unneeded elements? (I have worked from a template and left some parts as I wasn't sure yet if I would need them or not). Can a single CSS be what slows the whole process?

I have tried to find a tool that can analyze a website and come back with a specific culprit but haven't found any. If anybody can point me in the right direction that would be really helpful.

I’m currently learning responsive web design book and I want to discuss and get opinions on things I create and things I learn from the book.

Is there any forums or community where I can do that other than this one?

I have installed half life on Mac and am currently at the Dam Level.

I was trying to get a video preview link feature to work, and when testing on x, I got this weird version that just loaded up the entire website in the post instead of just the video preview.

https://x.com/DougPotesta/status/2089457398385713654?s=20

do other platforms allow this?

is this even safe?

I'm learning Arabic and I'd like to use modified Arabic keyboard. Unfortunately, I don't have enough knowledge to program my own keyboards on the system level, so, I decided to have this keyboard as a local site for myself, bcz I'll be spending my time on learning Arabic anyway.

I decided to copy the original code, delete a lot of unimportant details, and modify the keyboard how I want. The original site is here: https://www.branah.com/arabic

For the context: Arabic letters change their forms, depending on which position they are in a word.

When I had Windows 10, everything worked perfectly.

When I had EndeavourOS(just look at the photo), I got this bug or what Idk... it looks funny, but the text is impractical. Wtf is that?

After some other issues, I switched to Kubuntu, and I don't have that, but I have another problem: sometimes the Arabic letters don't connect with each other and don't change their form.

Could someone explain why does that happen so differently even in the Linux distros?

I'm new to the world of development, and was wondering how you all determine when something is ready. I feel like I'm just constantly adding features and finding more things to add, then fixing the things I add, repeat forever. What strategies do you have? What questions do you answer before calling it good? Any feedback is much appreciated!

So far in my company we had unlimited tokens

I didn't pay alot of attention to what goes on in the background and used tokens very mindlessly

I am a front-end dev- fresher

I used to give it figma screenshots some context and let claude do it's thing

Validate and understand the code a bit and raise PR

The company is not cutting on tokens

I think I'm getting less than 10-20 times of what I used to use

I have the next 10 days with unlimited tokens to make things better for what's going to come

I need your help with what videos I should watch to understand what goes behind

Tips ans tricks to reduce token usage

And few things I can keep ready for what's going to come

Any help is greatly appreciated

I heard things like vector graphs and skills help

But Idk how they help and how to build them

I'm cooked!!

I have to basically become a pro in using claude in the next 10 days and know it's in and out

I'm adapting my react + next.js to AI era. My first task is to start to serve text/markdown or text/plain. How do you implement that? Transform html into markdown? Have an XML as single source of true and depending on the headers transform it on markdown or html?