Notices by Chris Ferdinandi ⚓️ (cferdinandi@mastodon.social), page 2

@SamStrong @aral Funny thing is, I also see vanilla tech GROWING in popularity, which makes it all the more shocking to me. Everywhere I look, I see a renewed interest in vanilla CSS, and tools that send plain old HTML instead of the JS rendered stuff.

@aral Thanks Aral! I've had a shocking number of folks tell me "maybe you should teach folks how to use AI to learn code?"

That's antithetical to everything I believe. These tools are a scourge.

Y'all... I'm struggling.

Over 8 years or so, I grew a handful of tutorials around vanilla JS into a series of courses and workshops that actually brought in enough money to be a full time business for me.

Then last year, sales took a nose dive... 🧵 /1

But because I have ADHD, still don't really know what's caused this, and depend on my business to keep a house over my head and food on plates, I'm stuck in analysis paralysis mode.

I simply don't know what to do next.

Working in web dev has been such a massive blessing for me. It's where I feel at home. And watching my students thrive has been the most fulfilling thing I've done in my career.

This sucks.

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@Infrogmation @aral the choices are “bad” or “worse”

@aral and this is during an election year. This asshole is going to get trump re-elected.

It's Saturday, February 10, 2024, and Israel is still doing genocide.

@nixCraft Edge. I realize calling all of the Chromium forks “Chrome” is supposed to be a shaming technique, but wow is it lazy and reductive.

@nixCraft Chromium is more than just Chrome, though. Google doesn't control all chromium browsers.

Don't disable buttons https://gomakethings.com/dont-disable-buttons/ #WebDev #FrontEndDeveloper #100DaysOfCode #CodeNewbie

@VeroniqueB99 @aral What I absolutely hate about fireworks is that we MAKE them loud. They don't have to be. https://soundproofpanda.com/silent-fireworks/

@VeroniqueB99 @aral I have a jackass neighbor that sets them off all summer. In the street. In front of our house.

They’re not even legal here. Such an asshole.

Bit of a long shot, but... anyone here looking for a seasoned JavaScript developer?

I'm looking for my next thing.

Specialities include web performance, accessibility, scalability, and resilient maintainable code. Full resume here: https://gomakethings.com/resume/

@aral after hearing about your whole mortgage saga, I think you may have gotten hit worse than me. But I’m just so utterly sick of this system.

Anybody else feeling completely beaten down by the relentless soul sucking crush of capitalism today, or is it just me?

@aral right!? Absurd

@hbuchel Literally got an email from someone yesterday raving about how my education business must be in a slump because "people can just learn from AI now."

"AI, it's like StackOverflow, but you get wrong answers faster! ™"

@writerethink @timnitGebru Brigham and Women’s goes a step further. Masks not require but if YOU choose to wear one you have to put on one of their shitty surgicals.

@westerling @writerethink @timnitGebru I refused to do so. I have a large face and don't want to compromise the seal of my mask.

I was refused service as a result. Currently looking for a new doctor.

@aral I know in the US self-employed folks sometimes run into this, but... "you run a nonprofit so fuck off" is a new level of capitalist fuckery to me!