In practice it is extremely rare to find a pure REST model. It is hard to do properly.

Good for you. You don't necessarily have to leave. Once you have some experience you can find another prospect and then deliver an ultimatum. You want dev work full time or you will quit. And mention that you already have another job lined up.

I hate websites with black backgrounds. It makes my eyes swim. I always turn off colour or just skip them.

Thanks for the input. I personally love it, plus it saves energy!

Once I figured out a good way to let my users change from Night Mode (dark bg) to Day Mode (white bg) without any scripts I plan to implement that as an option.

It's called "training". Teach a man to fish or give a man a fish.

Yes, why not actually train the junior dev?

Do not break the user expectations. When I use the scroll wheel on my mouse the page screws up. As soon as I get close to the bottom it automatically flips back to the top. You may want the user to use your scroll buttons but most people won't because scrolling has been around from the beginning and people already do it a certain way. Expecting them to change for your site will make them leave. You can add your own little nuances like you have but always make sure it meshes with the current way of doing things.

Don't know what you are using but Edge sucks for me. It constantly freezes. It''ll freeze starting up or freeze shutting down. And once that happens the process stays stuck and you can't even kill it so you can't even try again. You just have to restart.

Getting the tools to do the job. Can't use Angular cause its not approved. Can't use REST because it is not approved. Supposed to use STRUTS 2(what a joke).

Damn, beat me to it. I've been thinking about this for a while. I just starting doing something for myself a few months ago. I'll have to try yours out.

More whining by people who would rather lay blame on Tech Companies rather than doing their job and coming up with a solution.

This is a complex existential question that shouldn't be so easily dismissed.

Similarly, should US-based multinational corporations make an effort to keep jobs in the US and pay their employee living wages? Wouldn't it benefit those corporations in the long term to grow the base of consumers that can afford their goods? I don't know about you, but it just seems like the right thing to do.

Tech has the ability to do something about terrorism (and bullying as well), but seems to lack the will. I guess we're all focused on using big data and machine learning to trick people into clicking more ads for viagra.

But then this can quickly snowball into pre-crime discrimination if tech does take a pro-active approach.

So as you can see, it's not really so black and white.

Please switch your colours. Light background and dark text. I cannot even stay on your site to see what it is about.

Many people find light text on dark, as on old CRT displays, to be easier for long-term reading than dark on light.