Monthly Archives: October 2018

Many people have messaged me, confused about where to get started with testing. Just like everything else in software, we work hard to build abstractions to make our jobs easier. But that amount of abstraction evolves over time, until the only ones who really understand it are the ones who built the abstraction in the first place. Everyone else is left with taking the terms, APIs, and tools at face value and struggling to make things work.

One thing I …

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Charts! My least favorite subject besides Social Studies. But you just won’t get very far in this industry before someone wants you to make a chart. I don’t know what it is with people and charts, but apparently we can’t have a civilization without a bar chart showing Maggie’s sales for last month so by ALL MEANS — let’s make a chart.

Yes, I know this is not how you would display this data. I’m trying to make a point…

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Whenever I see someone really effectively debug JavaScript in the browser, they use the DevTools tooling to do it. Setting breakpoints and hopping over them and such. That, as opposed to sprinkling console.log() (and friends) statements all around your code.

Parag Zaveri wrote about the transition and it has clearly resonated with lots of folks! (7.5k claps on Medium as I write).

I know I have hangups about it…

• Part of debugging is not just inspecting code once as-is;

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I remember when I first started to work with flexbox that the world looked like flexible boxes to me. It’s not that I forgot how floats, inline-block, or any other layout mechanisms work, I just found myself reaching for flexbox by default.

Now that grid is here and I find myself working on projects where I can use it freely, I find myself reaching for grid by default for the most part. But it’s not that I forgot how flexbox …

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