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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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This post is a collaboration between myself and my awesome coworker, Maxime Rouiller.

Durable Functions? Wat. If you’re new to Durable, I suggest you start here with this post that covers all the essentials so that you can properly dive in. In this post, we’re going to dive into one particular use case so that you can see a Durable Function pattern at work!

Today, let’s talk about the Fan Out, Fan In pattern. We’ll do so by retrieving …

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Ire Aderinokun:

Within a grid container, there are grid cells. Any cell positioned and sized using the grid-template-* properties forms part of the explicit grid. Any grid cell that is not positioned/sized using this property forms part of the implicit grid instead.

Understanding explicit grids and implicit grids is powerful. This is my quicky take:

• Explicit: you define a grid and place items exactly where you want them to go.
• Implicit: you define a grid and let items fall

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