Josh CollinsworthMar 7, 2024

New post, kind of weirdly personal-feeling one. I don't know if it'll land with you, but I hope it at least gives you something to consider.

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/devaluing-frontend

The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend

I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals, and executive assistants. Our work is seen as important, certainly, but just not the same as, or as important as, the “real” work.

Josh Collinsworth
Show threadAmber WeinbergMar 7, 2024
@collinsworth ah this has been going on for decades, it's not new unfortunately. It probs started around the first "front end" js frameworks
Show threadAlan NorbauerMar 7, 2024
@amber @collinsworth Totally, that’s exactly when it started for ”front-end developers” but “designers” (people who just did html/css but not backend php-or-whatever) were suffering from this before that.
Show threadAmber Weinberg
@alannorbauer @collinsworth Ah it's a matter of definitions I guess. To me front-end devs *are* those that do html/css/js, and designers don't touch code at all.I've always been the former and never the later (I hate designing, tho i went to school for it)
Mar 7, 2024 at 7:35pmWeb