Dan Spratling
danspratling.dev
Dan Spratling
@danspratling.dev
Founder of Skyward Digital • Technical Lead • Frontend Engineer • User Experience • Jamstack Nerd • NextJS/React/Astro/Figma • Building in Public 💜
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June 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Had one of these. Didn’t complete it (ran out of time because I had to solve the wrong thing). Ended up dropping the role because of the test which really confused the recruiter - but you should be tested on tubes relevant to the role right? Don’t waste our time
March 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Vue's great but has some odd magical things or opinionated approaches that feel weird to me too.

One thing I never got on with was passing objects to props. It's been a while, but I remember lots of Object.keys/entries conversions 😂
March 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Congratulations! I'm glad you were able to finally find something (hopefully something great!)
March 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This is so cool! Any chance you could share the css snippet?
February 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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February 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Don’t worry it's not you. I'm in the same boat. A good 1/2 of the companies completely ghosted me, the rest I didn't get through to the interview stage.

I did end up getting one interview for a local company (vs places where you may know the name) so that may be a better market to look at
February 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I'm looking for work right now and most of the companies hiring are hiring backend exclusive roles, and full stack roles, but very few frontend exclusive roles and many listed as frontend exclusive still require some backend knowledge (python, laravel, etc)
January 15, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I have a feeling that this is the reason that many orgs put more weight on backend work than frontend, when typically the roles are equally important (just in different ways).
January 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM
This is going to be super helpful! Thanks 👀
January 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
So if like me you're looking for work right now, remember it takes time, to keep tweaking things, and don't let it demotivate you!
January 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Nice! I've heard great things about the nuphy keyboards but haven't ever tried one myself.

I also got a similar upgrade for the new year
January 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
👏 - Now I'd love to see what your CV looks like now and how it's changed since your first!

(even if you're too good at networking to need one these days 😉)
January 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM