608: Can WordPress Kill Your Resume, Fav Parts of Web Dev, Exploring HTMX, and more!

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4.8 • 625 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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0:00.0	Hey, there's up and me,
0:05.0	Hey there's up and makes. You're listening to another hard stop edition of the shop talk show. I'm Dave in the shed.
0:26.8	Rupert with me is Chris in the office square. Hey, Chris, how are you doing today? I'm doing fantastic.
0:31.6	Thanks, Dave. Happy and healthy.
0:35.7	2024. Another day in the office.
0:38.6	Yeah.
0:40.2	Mid-March here, waiting for it to warm up and stuff.
0:42.9	You know, we thought we'd just do a bunch of questions because they do, they build up over a while and I really appreciate everybody that sends them in.
0:51.7	And we pick out some of our favorites that are applicable to things
0:56.3	going on and we're just going to do it. So I'll read the first one and you can read the next one and
1:01.7	there we go. Chris Colvin writes in, hey dudes. We are dudes. Thanks Chris. I recently asked a question
1:10.5	on our front end subreddit, which I recently learned has a discord too.
1:17.2	That's interesting that popular subreddits have discords, or at least web dev does, our web dev.
1:23.6	About a WordPress developer position I'm interviewing for, and I was surprised how vehemently people there seemed to argue against taking a WordPress-centered position, someone so far to say that including WordPress on your resume as a front end is a career killer.
1:40.3	I was surprised by this with the prevalence of WordPress on the internet and wondered, is there some truth to this?
1:45.3	Or is just a few slightly elitist framework fans on Reddit?
1:49.7	Reddit, thanks.
1:50.7	Yeah, I don't know that Reddit is like emblematic of the entire industry.
1:55.4	People just tend to have some opinions on that their website, just like the old hacker news and stuff.
2:01.9	I would agree that WordPress is real polarizing sometimes.
2:07.3	And I would not be surprised if there was somebody in a hiring position who's just, you know,
2:12.8	had this career.
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