I've been working as a frontend developer since 2007, where I started as a web designer, but my true call was always the code. Concise code, well thought and "hand made", always trying to keep web standards, semantics and accessibility in their places, according to the terms and scope of the projects, of course.
I'm not a frontender because I dont have another choice, I'm a frontender because I love to make the difference between the user and the backend.
I don't believe that frontenders should be just javascript ninjas as it's fashionable nowadays, instead I believe that the secret is knowing when and how to use the diverse/huge stack of technologies, whatever they may be. Also, I ...