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homeonthemtntoday at 7:03 PM1 replyview on HN

If you have been coding for 8 years and don't have marketable skills you are either naive/insecure or doing something very very wrong.

In either case, this job is clearly not healthy for you in several different ways


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Induanetoday at 7:41 PM

I've been doing full-stack Dev (mostly Django though I foolishly had a brief moment where I kinda thought Flask was okay then fell for the same dumb thing briefly with FastAPI) for 20+ years and don't feel marketable.

I went from jQuery to a brief dalliance with Angular to HTMX+_HyperScript. Everyone wants full stack Devs to use react and struggle eternally with insane dependency trees and challenging client side state management.

I like to build things that can be maintained in perpetuity by small teams.

So I'm not very marketable.

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