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I love her attitude, and I think mine's similar. Main difference being that I usually enjoy the learning experience; don't find it frustrating. I kinda love that beginner feeling and knowing there's lots to explore. Even if I end up disliking what I'm trying, I usually manage to find things I learned from it; so it's still good!

Edit: To anyone wondering about the comments, I initially assumed the author was a guy! My deepest apologies to the author! I thought the commenter "Lucas ..." was the Author's name... I'm so dum; sorry!

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Definitely can agree with the sentiment. I've done frontend dev since '97 and have multiple times skipped a year or two without staying up-to-date with the current browser/development trends without issue.

It's generally pretty trivial to keep up and maintain usefulness by focusing on the fundamentals (I completely skipped the DHTML fad for example -- lots of widgets you could throw into your page that animated around) and instead picked up JS DOM API and CSS once browser support stabilized a bit.

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Just a note, when I visited the page there's a small bio intro on the post that introduces Rach as a woman.

Ah, thank you for pointing it out. I had a brain fart. I edited and explained in the comment.

> this guy

The author isn’t a guy! I agree otherwise, it’s refreshing perspective.

I spent a few years fairly deep in backend work and worried quite a bit about going back to the front. Ultimately it ended up being a valuable break and pretty much all of the important things I’d learned before were still totally transferable. I think as long as you’re learning something, regardless of the discipline, your brain will be happy and you’ll find ways to apply what you’ve learned in all kinds of places.

Sometimes the most valuable skills are fundamental in just about any discipline. Having patience to solve problems, or perseverance are huge. Finding meaning in what you do. Maintaining good work life balance. This stuff, in the long view, ends up mattering way more than what a popular API looks like right now.

Hi! Thank you so much for pointing out it's not a man! I thought it was "Lucas", because of the comment . I've updated my comment to reflect that.

I also completely agree that it's a much bigger picture and that life situation plays a giant role in it.

> The author isn’t a guy!

Says who?

> Hi I'm Rach. I'm a developer building software for CodePen, wife, mother of two [...]

I inferred it from their blog but happy to retract that if there’s evidence they identify as a guy.

Yo, she's a woman.

Hello! Thank you for pointing that out! I was a bit silly and somehow came to the (wrong) conclusion that "Lucas" (the first commenter) was the name of the author... I don't even know what to say lol. I just went a bit derp there.

Stop assuming that names are indicative of gender, dude.

They more often are than aren't. If that's not the case, that would be surprising to me.

Sorry dude

I can’t tell if this is a mockery or not

You don't know that.

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