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- 20+ yrs dev exp, 8 books w/ 100k+ copies sold, 300k+ hours watched of my videos, 4k+ taught in person... And you know what? I still struggle to get my code to work and it's still a tedious slog. And my code still confuses me the next day. You're not alone in these struggles.
- I was rejected for a job by @TwitterEng years ago, even tho I knew several people on the team who liked me & wanted me to join. I was later told by HR that one of the interviewers said I "didn't know JS" very well. That was part of the motivation for @YDKJS. #ShareYourRejections
- "Arrow functions are bound to their parent's context." Nope, inaccurate. Arrow functions do not have a `this`, which means any usage of `this` inside an arrow function is just like any other variable, and is looked up lexically through parent scopes until a `this` is found.
- I had some code implemented and fully tested, almost ready to release. Then I was writing the documentation for it, and I realized the code's behavior is wrong and should be changed. TDD wouldn't have saved me here. Docs are equally as important as tests in designing software.
- So you've never given a conf talk before, because you think you aren't good enough or haven't mastered a topic enough yet? Neither have any of the rest of us. Seriously. The best time to talk is right as you're in the midst of your journey.
- omg we are in the stupidest timeline. fuckborderradius.comcorner-shape: squircle; available in chrome for now used it recently on my site, no more clip-path or svg needed to achieve it
- The saying "Jack of all trades, master of none" is usually used standalone in a sort of slight against generalists as lesser than specialists. But the original full saying is quite enlightening: "Jack of all trades, master of none, oftentimes better than a master of one."
- TC39 advances the ?? nullish-coalescing operator (stage 3). Cool! // this: var x = (foo != null) ? foo : 42; // becomes this: var x = foo ?? 42;
- CSS #protip: The ::before and ::after pseudo-elements don't mean "before the element" and "after the element", they mean "before the element's children" and "after the element's children".
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- Replying to @getifyXOh, and not even 2 months later, the first of several "new twitter" redesigns launched, and they used my LABjs script loader library. That's my favorite part of that story.
