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The last programming book you'll ever need
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She runs C shells by the seashore
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Microservice architecture visualized
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No book or teacher can beat good old fashion poking around.
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Cards Against Developers
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git reset --hard 2015
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The spec was vague
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I'm not saying you didn't learn anything, but...
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Things are mostly fine
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Exploring someone else's code
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Chapter 1: Databases with cool-sounding names
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Fixing a bug in production http://t.co/saD82hLacz
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Current status
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I know Git, depending on what you mean by "know".
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As a programmer, it can be hard to explain what exactly you did all day.
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Remember that hardware project you were so excited about?
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When all else fails (and it will fail)
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margin-right: -100px !important;
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Nothing says lazy Sunday like combing through stack traces
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If you're ever feeling unqualified or overwhelmed in your technical role, just remember that Rudy Giuliani is in charge of cybersecurity.
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vertical-align in CSS
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‌‌  try { ❤️ } catch (e) { 🍺 } // #valentines ‌‌
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/^\🙏.*$/g
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The popular approach
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Infinite recursion
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The only correct way to write JavaScript is whatever you were not doing last week.
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How JavaScript frameworks are born
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Software development
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irl code comments
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Debugging in production
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Maslow's hierarchy of dev needs
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1 + 2 👉 3 1 + "2" 👉 "12" 1 - "2" 👉 -1 1 + 2 + "3" 👉 "33" "1" + 2 - "3" 👉 9 1 - 2 + "3" 👉 "-13" 1 - 2 - "3" 👉 -4 JavaScript
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When your custom fonts are blocked by the browser
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Can you even call yourself a software developer anymore?
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The authoritative industry survival guide
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Sorry I missed your comment, I was busy building software
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"As you can see, our open-office floor plan really helps with developer productivity"
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Tabs vs spaces
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You can't have production errors if you never ship
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How did we meet our deadline? Do you really want to know?
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A true JavaScript expert
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Explain Kubernetes to me like I'm Five Thread:
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Amazon right now
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This wasn't in the brochure
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If regular architecture was like software architecture
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The ten stages of programming language adoption
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Honest dev job description
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1. forEach() 2. includes() 3. filter() 4. map() 5. reduce() 6. some() 7. every() 8. sort() 9. Array.from() 10. Array.of() { author: @FrugenceFidel }
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Squad Goals
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Who has time for disciplined CSS?
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Opening your code editor on Monday morning
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git reset --hard 2015
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Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me "old," when I would NEVER call him "short and fat?" Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend - and maybe someday that will happen!
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When you roll back a bad build as soon as possible but the defect already affected about 300 million users
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There appears to be an inverse correlation between experience and certainty
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I made a gingerbread git tree ☃️
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Bonus points if you can't even read it yourself
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When you leave a project and pass the codebase off to the next dev
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Are you still wasting time on pesky bug fixes?
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Coming soon to a terminal near you: Stories!
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When you drop the polyfill and go with the fully native API
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"The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough."
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I'm sorry I messed up your beautiful design by trying to put it to actual use.
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How to make the hiring process as arbitrary and subject to bias as possible.
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I haven't written a bug all year
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Feels so good...
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Who the hell wrote this? It's brutal! git blame... Oh, I wrote this. 😐 I guess it's not so bad.
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It's basically a rite of passage
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"Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it." - Patrick McKenzie
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"I wouldn't touch that part of the code" "But I just need to update the footer to say 2017" "Yeah, seems risky" 😬
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The floor is Java
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git merge
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The most essential Atom package: "Activate Power Mode"
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<html> <head> <title>The News</title> </head> <body> <p> 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩 </p> </body> </html>
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When you had a lot of great ideas but never ship the app
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When you work remote, nobody knows you're a cat.
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"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." - Martin Fowler
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"Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it." - Patrick McKenzie
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Credit where credit is due 🎓
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When the junior dev is showing potential
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Tracking down a bug in production
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I made a venn diagram to describe conference talks
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The book that undefined the genre
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When I hear about an exciting new JavaScript build tool
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We love what we do, even if we spend half our time scattering print statements across our code and hitting refresh
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Useful tricks you might not know about Git stash 1. Git stash save 2. Git stash list 3. Git stash apply 4. Git stash pop 5. Git stash show 6. Git stash branch 7. Git stash clear 8. Git stash drop
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This one hits way too close to home
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