If you can find a comfy mid level role or a “real” senior role that is mostly code it’s a very rewarding career. But yeah I’d lose it with day long meetings

Also an easy way to store needed variables between pages. For news sites without a sign up this isn’t necessary but for actual web apps that live across different subdomains it can be a nice to have.

uBlock origin on Firefox blocks almost all tracking sites. You can enable cookies or disable them, it doesn’t matter because they aren’t sent anywhere. Unless the site has some homebrew tracking solution.

I’d… probably use the calculator app before I do all this mental gymnastics