Many of the client #devs would be better analysts/designers/testers/sysadmins than "devs", but clout on here only goes to devs, so we're ending up with a gazillion half-finished, buggy projects nobody uses, and that get quickly abandoned, and the better stuff doesn't get enough traffic because everyone who could provide actionable feedback is off tinkering. There's almost nobody to do the technical stuff that isn't as glamorous but is the difference between being permanently stuck in scriptkiddie hell or having production-ready systems.

More appreciation for non-dev roles, please. For starters, stop asking people "... and what did you build?", like nobody has a right to speak on development topics unless they've hacked together some bullshit microblogger nobody will ever use. That isn't even proof that they could pass CompSci 101, ffs.

/rant