Bargs

The number of tools has increased, but I think JS development has actually been simplified in some cases. This is largely due to the rise in popularity of rich clients talking to simple backend APIs. In older web projects JS always felt like an afterthought. Dependencies were managed totally by hand and your scripts were scattered throughout the backend templates. If you needed to do anything at all with your front-end code at build time, you had no choice but to glue some hacky solution onto the existing build process. Client and server were all mixed together, and it was painful.

Starting a project today, I can build a client in Javascript, hook it up to an API, and I'm done. NPM and Browserify make dependency management and builds a breeze. There's very little friction in the development workflow because the front-end build process it totally separate from the server. I make a change, save it, reload the page and I see my changes live without even running a server locally. Even PHP's deployment story isn't that simple.

It's true that the initial setup is more complicated than simply downloading jQuery and plopping it into an existing project, but if you have the option of separating your client and server code, it really simplifies things overall.

I've been using Insync as my Google Drive client on linux, and it seems to work ok.

Everyone is guilty of this. You, me, and everyone else on earth. Ignorance of your own ignorance is what buoys overconfidence in the first place.

From the article:

"The American author and aphorist William Feather once wrote that being educated means “being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.” As it turns out, this simple ideal is extremely hard to achieve. Although what we know is often perceptible to us, even the broad outlines of what we don’t know are all too often completely invisible. To a great degree, we fail to recognize the frequency and scope of our ignorance."

Thanks for adding a filter for contract vs full time work. This is a feature I really wish more job sites had.