As senior developers we need to put things in perspective, particularly in the PHP community right now. Beyond actually coding stuff, the day job, the primary focus of senior developers should be to educate and guide junior developers. This means two things, teach the basics, the real basics, and encourage juniors to learn, to self teach.
I definitely agree with this and I'm not always great at making it the focus myself.
I am a developer with a passion for testing. I've been coding for 14 years and I want to share my experience and learnings with other developers to help them write better software.
I definitely agree with this and I'm not always great at making it the focus myself.
It's hard, a lot of leads and seniors really don't have the time. I spend most of my days in meetings discussing everything but dev.
But to be fair you've built a platform that helps developers every day. You're defo doing your bit and more.