There is something inside of me trying to process the parade of resumes I'm seeing that say someone is a "JavaScript Engineer"
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AFAICT this means one of two things: 1.) a career spent (thus far) in a single, preferred backend language 2.) a career spent on the frontend with an increasingly backend-relevant set of skills (hopefully)
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In none of the cases I've encountered thus far does this seem to describe a cross-cutting set of backend or frontend relevant skills. that is, JavaScript seems to be the commonality in something I'm struggling to express kindly. Perhaps this was once PHP's role?
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Replying to @troutgirl
Nah. PHP was the widest road; JS might be that now. I think this is signaling. JS might just say "I'm in the valuable middle"?
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I think it might mean, I make interfaces but CSS is not my strongest suit.
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Replying to @troutgirl
CSS means specialism. It's a unique skill ("I've mind-melded with this constraint solver, fight me!!!!"). JS/PHP aspire to "general computing" as brands. It's fascinating!
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Replying to @troutgirl
Also! there's maybe something quasi-religious in the mind-melding with a constraint solver. Grasping for comprehension at ever-higher orders is predictably polarizing.
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It's a higher level of devotion than just using JavaScript to apply a style :p
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Are...are we calling CSS-in-JS humanising? Acknowledging the death of the gods?pic.twitter.com/DLSlNRH1oT
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