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

@aral it’s amazing how many German folks show up in my mentions to defend what Israel is doing to Palestine.

@aral @cory been a fan of your and @laura work for ages. Frankly, I’m exhausted. It’s feels like we’re “losing” the fight against big tech.

I’ve been feeling increasingly burnt out by tech

@cory Exactly this!

@ollicle @aral that’ll pay fruit in a few years. For now, I’m still in a bad place though.

@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.

@thomasfuchs I really appreciate how consistently anti-Nazi you are, Thomas! Seeing a strange number of folks who are all "never again... except when it's people I don't like."

@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.

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.

/end

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

@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.

@clacke @yogthos that was so fucking infuriating. What we do to homeless people in this country is horrific.

@peterbrown @clacke @yogthos Right? The unhoused can't easily replace shit like that. You've literally destroyed their home.

This is how most cities in the US "deal" with homeless folks. It's horrific and immoral and wrong.

@yogthos I love how volunteers cleared out “trash.”

My dude, that was someone’s home furnishings. Fucking assholes.

@tolmasky @thomasfuchs Segway is actually still very much around and a big player in the electric scooter space

PSA: If you live in America, your insurance company is required to provide covid vaccines through in-network providers for free. If they try to charge you, they're literally breaking the law.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-covid-vaccine-free-with-without-insurance/

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/