What people think that web developers do vs. what we really do

What people think web developers do:

• Code, deploy and use, with coding being the main task

What web developers really do:

• Coding
• Require random 3rd party framework code
• Updating Node/NPM
• Try the last command again with `sudo`
• Checking on mobile
• Shaking fist towards Cupertino
• Looking things up on the web
• Pasting Stack Overflow solutions
• Resize the browser/use emulation
• Discover that a browser extension was the problem all along
• Explain again that things can’t look the same everywhere
• Add ARIA till everything is fine
• Trace performance issues back to analytics/ad code
• Convert content to usable formats
• Adding/Removing console.log()
• Invalidate caches
• Using
• Summon Imhotep using blood magic to help with a rendering bug

TL;DR: Learning to code isn’t the main skill you need as a developer