What people think that web developers do vs. what we really do
Friday, May 27th, 2022 at 10:09 amWhat 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