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The Front-End Developer

Group Therapy Session

Trevor KjorlienFront-End Developer

Floe design + technologies

Montréal

5 Years

Changed a Lot

Responsive Design

2010

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

FTP

Now

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

FTPSass

Node

Ruby

Bower

Git

Terminal Grunt

Gulp

DrupalCon Austin 2014

“My Brain is Full”

Frank Chimero“Two Sentences About

Getting Older and Working on the Web”

It is time to come clean:

Github is confusing, Git is confusinger, pretty much everything in a modern web stack no longer

makes sense to me,

and no one explains it well, because they assume I know some fundamental piece of information that

everyone takes for granted and no one documented,

almost as if it were a secret that spread around to most everyone some time in 2012,

yet I some how missed,

because—you know—life was happening to me,

so I’ve given up on trying to understand,

even the parts where I try to comprehend what everyone else is working on that warrants that

kind of complexity, and now I fear that this makes me irrelevant,

so I nestle close to my story that my value is my “ideas” and capability to “make sense of things,”

even though I can’t make sense of any of the above—but really, maybe I’m doing okay, since it’s

all too much to know.

Let the kids have it.

Anybody else?

A Few Questions

Has everybody’s job gotten as hard as ours?

Is Trevor just whining?

What have you found doesn’t work anymore

which did 5 years ago?Mockups

How does Drupal help or get in the way of our job?

How will Drupal 8 help us?

Twig

Thanks!