krasotkin

I share personal details below if you want to help me in particular, but your personal story or general advice is of course very welcome. I imagine many of us are looking to do something at least a little different.

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My resume doesn't scream competency with any particular technologies. I've just been "the web guy" for marketing teams. I enjoy being a generalist but it seems to be backfiring on me now. I probably couldn't swing it in a front-end role or a back-end role. I've gotten by, by writing mostly HTML and CSS with some snippets of PHP and Bash. Roles tend to be looking for a React specialist or a Laravel expert. When years of experience with a technology come up, the best I can usually say is: "I used that for a thing once."

I'm contemplating taking a break from tech altogether and doing--something with plants? Recently, it occurred to me that technical writing is a possibility. I might be able to stay proximate to my old roles but still do something different for a while. Honestly, getting into an "actual" developer role feels as daunting today as it did when I had no work experience. Is this just a confidence thing? I've enjoyed playing with computers since I was a child, but still the idea that I could even be a developer feels like a delusion. As a kid, I wanted to cobble together a website, not become a PHP dev, so, I learned enough to make my toy projects. Now, I'm 26 and after some professional experience, I feel semi-capable at a lot of things, but I don't think that's what most roles are looking for and I can't blame them.

Hi. If you lovely folks have any solutions to the issue of sharing logins securely across a distributed team, I'd love, love, love to hear them.

I hope all my fellow hackers are staying healthy and happy. Cheers!

Howdy!

I'm in way over my head on this project!

I've got ~500 Wordpress sites I'm managing and I need a reliable way to backup sites. This would be for both security and development purposes.

I know there's a lot of redundant files across sites, so I think I should approach it in two ways. I should have a system to backup the MySQL databases and then another way to backup critical files from /wp-content and other folders.

As I mentioned before, I'm in way over my head with this! I'd greatly appreciate any tips or advice.

Cheers!

I'm a vagabond right now, and I got introduced to the idea of free schools in the punk house scene of Washington state. I'm now in Portland, and I'm wondering if anything like that exists in the techy world? Do any collaborative, community spaces exist for programmers to live in and share together while learning and working on projects?

Hi everybody! I'm an autodidact interested in web design and programming. I've learned enough to make a few sites using html with bootstrap, and I can do some simple backend stuff using PHP. So what should I learn next?

I'd like to get to the point where I can do some freelance web design, but I'm not entirely sure what I'll need to know to be a competitive candidate. Suggestions on material, and places to learn it would be greatly appreciated!