you can still send a body with a get, it's just up to the server to accept and parse it.

I suppose you could use a proxy like nginx or apache and rewrite the body to params, but that's not really what GETs are for.

Why not just allow GETs to include a body though?

I'm glad this is picking up more steam.

Next up the triptych proposals: https://alexanderpetros.com/triptych/

Wow you got a downvote in 17 minutes, let's pop that back up to 1 at least!

Creativity is nice.

I am employed, but it's a small agency. I've tried to push for more design work, but my direct boss is a designer and pretty protective of his role so no chance there.

I'm working alongside work at the moment 😅 which reduces time and energy available for studying, but I always try to expand my role in my freelance so I think that's probably the way forward! Good suggestion, thank you ✌️

Oh awesome, thank you for breaking down my post like that! Really helpful insights, I appreciate it ✌️

Haha, yeah I feel you here. I've taken up miniature painting in the last year or so and it's been a nice, quiet, screenless break 😂

Interesting. I'm currently building something in a new stack from scratch, which has been fun so far, but a book to help get some knowledge in a different area is a great idea! Thanks.

As a quick rundown:

1. I quit school in 2014 after taking GCSEs (rather than doing A-Levels and Uni)
2. I took an apprenticeship in "IT & Computing" which was very general, mostly covered helpdesk and basic technician stuff but had one short module on web development. The whole curriculum was shit and the course was a bit of a mess, so I quit before completing it, but the work experience it gave me helped me get a foot in the door of IT as a career. (Very broadly)
3. Took a job as a technician full time. Started work in the warehouse helping set up their servers and network, and provide general tech support for the office staff as well as helping build hardware/carry out general warehouse work. This company was dodgy as fuck but work is work on the CV. Critical to mention, I think I got this job because of largely non-technical reasons; soft skills in interview against a shortlist of very introverted people, and I got on with the boss who was making the decision very easily, we bonded over quitting school and wanting to prove our ability to work instead of getting certificates. I also took this job at a very low wage. It was a tough year, but it was a full-time job that allowed me to move into my own place away from my parents.
4. Moved from the warehouse to the (for my eternal sins) marketing department. This moved my role from technician/desk support to web developer.
5. Quit, moved to a web agency as a web developer.

And then stayed as a web developer, changing employers around once every two years (in an effort to "quickly" inflate my salary). I've worked in-house, at agencies. I freelance, too. Have done on and off for years, as a writer, designer, or developer, depending on what I fancy doing or what I can get (or how desperate I am for cash).

Mostly worked with WordPress, but have had the opportunity to work with all kinds of systems. Designing too, SEO stuff, just things you pick up that makes your life, your project managers' lives, and your colleagues' lives easier.

I've been very lucky. I don't know how AI/economy will affect that career path I had. I've undoubtedly been fortunate with my opportunities!

But that's how I got to here, if you were genuinely curious ✌️

You could use your CRUD experience to find a similar role writing desktop or server apps in Go, C#, or Java. A book on data structures and algorithms is a good place to start. It would be a step closer to making software in more interesting fields, games, building your own product, or just writing code only for your business to help sell something else.

There is also the database path (for example, TPS reports), but it's another environment where you're at the whim of a giant monolithic mystery machine. I've found there are no limits to depths of business logic that someone can invent for you to implement, just to save them a dollar.

I have done videogame dev&design, industry dev, scientific dev, scrum master, manager and team lead just to name a few.

At the moment I'm learning how to oil paint.

Good luck!

Figuring out client requirements: on the product owner track

Designing and pitching something: product owner track

.. that makes their requirements make logical sense, then building it: software lead track

I think the answer is you accumulate the time doing these things and use them towards your end goal.

Both skillsets together work towards a more “senior” developer role.

I can't say I've made such a jump because I wasn't in such a (prolonged) situation.

My suggestions would be

Are you employed? Can you change projects/teams/work/customers within your company? If not, look for other opportunities. If that's all you get at your current workplace, and you want change, switch to somewhere else.

You have success stories of delivering. Even if tech and experience doesn't fully fit with other employers, they will value the experience you have.

Studying, possibly alongside work, is also possible, and not uncommon. That way you could widen your technical expertise without having a new employer already, possibly opening other opportunities.

I want to know where to being getting to where you are. One man's trash, I guess.

OKLCH is the absolute best color system, and I will physically fight anyone who disagrees.

That's a very nice feature for CSS !!

Mh I get this, yes you pay more on outsourcing but usually you also get a service and an easier time, I would like to understand how much does it actually change..

Surely I'd have to understand how much it's economically worth it. On super basic plans I remember even seeing something like "40€ for 1 year website CMS hosting" (on the cheaper side). Which is the cost of a basic VPS on which you can probably run 100 sites on low traffic... And charge each client 80€ for hosting + maintainance, it's an easy great gain you're getting per site. And maybe add something if they want also email. Great passive income in this case.

But on bigger plans tailored to devs more than to direct clients does it keep being worth it? How much would I spend to host 100 WordPress websites + email on something like Hostinger VS self hosting them all on my VPS?

I guess it also depends on your experience with self hosting, at first I was messing up when doing it, now I understood that most apps really just need mostly the same stuff, and it's mostly all easy set and go. Unless I get hacked or get above some of my VPS limits I don't see big issues coming if I'm hosting 4/5 services for my clients.

I already self host some stuff on my own and rarely have to touch it unless I wanna add features or something like that. I guess with more clients you'll have to factor in scalability and/or managing multiple servers: all great stuff to learn but also yeah def more complex than doing a login and have a nice dashboard with all the services there ready for you..

I run a "self hosting" business. My job is to solve said problems. What I am learning from my developing customer base is this, they would rather I be on the hook than them, they would rather I press the buttons that them, and so on. You get the gist of it. Where I host said services is up to me, provided it does not fail, is secure and they have root access when they need it.

If I get tired of this business, I will find a buyer and sell it and move on. Yes, it is a worthwhile venture. Horror stories though, it seemed easy to get into, till I had to get my first customer.

It's all about responsibility or time in my eyes.

Let's say you can pay $100/month for forums and it's maintained by someone else. They do updates, manage storage, etc, etc. If something goes down they fix it.

Or, you can self host it for $10/month on a VPS. Are you really saving $90 a month when you're on the hook for everything? If it goes down, will you have time to fix it or is your time better spent working with a customer to get income?

Now consider this for all the services you need. Which ones are actually worth running yourself?

Actually, avoid using PNGs at all if you can.

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I'd argue Svelte's main differentiator is its simplicity compared to many frameworks. The syntax is essentially just an html page, with tags for reactive code and normal HTML markup with additions like {#if} or {#each}.

As for debugging, a typical Svelte project ran with Vite will have debug mappings that makes the console debug window look very close to your actual code.

Too many modern websites have forgotten this.

Just wait until you come across an open source website you get excited about and then dig into their code and figure out how they did things. Don't look at weird abstract specs of frameworks, look at the things people make with them!

I recently got very excited about revanced.app

Firefox 91.0 (August 2021) set HTTPS as default for private tabs. Firefox 129.0 (August 2024) did it for general tabs.

I'm very experienced with Rust and yea there's quite a few web server frameworks available actually. Axum is the prime choice.