@chance.dev 🦋
@chancethedev
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Do not write software with bugs. Instead, write software without bugs. That way your software will have no bugs!.
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Life hack for when you’ve got too many docker containers running
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I have the hardest time quitting work for day if I’m working something tough and haven’t solved it yet. But if I write code after 6ish I can’t sleep because I’ll replay the problem in my brain all night. Is this a common phenomenon in our field or am I just losing it?.
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Did you know about the CSS image-set function? Let the user's device/browser choose the best image for them, similar to srcset for <img>!
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I’m real close to quitting web tech and launching a new stud-finder startup, because there is absolutely no way this is the best we can do here.
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I just realized I probably have to learn how to reverse a linked list now NOOO.
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Million dollar idea: a recipe website that isn’t a huge pain in the ass to use.
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As 2020 comes to an end we wanted to share a special Holiday Update on our research into zero-bundle-size React Server Components. The demo is available now whether you want to play with it during the holiday, or when work picks back up in the new year.
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Possibly hot take: feels like a lot of JS devs just like TypeScript for the intellisense but treat proper type guards as a burden.
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I’ve learned a lot from @cassidoo but by far my favorite is this terrifying emoji sequence . 👁👄👁.
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So all 4 members of my family who confirmed positive for the 'rona have recovered and are feeling good. We'll take the small win.
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Announcement time! And I am *stoked* for this one. Working on @remix_run has taught me that there's a lot that happens on the back end of the stack that frontend devs should probably understand a bit better. I'm building a course to help you get there.
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Gotta update my resume to add "2 years of experience building a custom select".
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If you are:. - comfortable writing TypeScript/React.- care about accessibility.- want to contribute to open source but don't know where to start or what to do. I marked some Reach UI issues as "Help Wanted" yesterday and would love to squash some bugs!
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So this isn't a secret but I've never been 100% comfortable taking about it in public, either. Still not. But if you didn't know, hi 👋 I'm bi. And now you know. #BiPrideMonth.
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@patrickdebois It’s only a distinguished engineer if it’s from the distinguished region of France. Otherwise it’s just a sparkling developer.
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Have I mentioned lately how CSS custom properties are the best?
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@ryanflorence @ReactTraining @bradwestfall @cassidoo Sad indeed, but it wasn’t the worst day of mine. You and @mjackson were model bosses and it was a great pleasure to be along for the ride. Thank you both for the trust, awesome job, and continued support.
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Achievement unlocked: a single dangling cable behind the desk
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If the CSS purists would admit (like I do) that they just enjoy writing the actual CSS instead of utility classes, this mindless debate could actually, finally die.
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:where() is a CSS super power for building reusable components. Pretty much any selector at any level of complexity can be built with 0-1-0 specificity, meaning users can override them with just a class selector. Highly underused.
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🔥 TypeScript tip: Frustrated to see type errors when using CSS custom properties in a React component's 'style' prop? Solve this problem once and for all with module augmentation. Peep the docs to understand how this works:
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Weird that folks blame GDPR for this rather than the companies that absolutely refuse to stop tracking our every move.
GDPR made the internet significantly worse. We can admit this now, right?.
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I honestly hate to even share this, but those is such an exhausting take. Not only is it wrong, it's a blazing red flag that you're working with a lazy designer. "In general, the more accessible an interface is, the less aesthetic appeal it has.". NO.
🔥 New article live!. The Aesthetic-Accessibility Paradox.
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I keep Facebook around for the sole purpose of checking out UI changes + see real-life implementation of new React features. Why on earth does it take almost a second to close a photo modal? Does it tear down and rebuild all underlying DOM between state changes? If so. why??.
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Can't believe I didn't know about #CSS feature queries until now. What an incredible way to use the good ol' cascade in your favor to use bleeding edge CSS features today. Shoutout to @jensimmons for her amazing tutorial series at #webdev
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Oh hey, my new @eggheadio course dropped, and as an added lil christmas treat it's completely FREE! 💸. Wanna learn how to refactor an existing React application to TypeScript (or just play around with my Minesweeper app 💣)? I gotchu:
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Normalize starting your own business just to avoid someone else's lint rules.
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Stuff like this reinforces my view that the idea of readability is entirely subjective and not worth discussing in most cases. I'd 100% write it the first way but I wouldn't suggest it in a code review if someone opted for the second.
The most common needless use of `let` I see:. Setting an initial value, followed by mutations. This is hard to read because it requires the reader to hold the initial value in their head while reading, and monitor any mutations along the way. Solution: Call a function instead.
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@K1ngHandy It doesn’t append, 0.5 is interpreted as a string and becomes an object property.
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I've got 99 problems and literally all of them are because of Jest.
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In my humble opinion, Listbox is the best UI component I've written. Super proud of this one even though I know it can still be better. If you absolutely need a custom select (you should usually default to HTML if possible), I'd appreciate feedback!.
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Cleaning up some old codesandboxes this morning and here it is, the dumbest thing I've ever written
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I will not step foot in a self-driving car until someone can show me a stud-finder that works even 60% of the time.
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Pssst, did you know that you can use CSS custom properties in your color functions?
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tfw it makes perfect sense but you hate it all the same.
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You write tests, I don’t write bugs. We are not the same.
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All good things come to an end, and few things in my career have been as good and rewarding as my time on the @remix_run team. I close out this chapter with a heavy heart and tremendous pride in what we've built.
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@Cubano_Boxing "'He assaulted (Roof) for no reason,' Cannon said.". I think it's probably safe to say this is not accurate.
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The hardest part of using tailwind for me is making sense of the sometimes mile-long string of classnames. Simply concatenating from an array makes this 5 billion times nicer.
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I love that I get to work on open source for a living because god knows I have absolutely no energy to do so after work hours. No idea how y’all do it but good on you.
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Working on a high-profile open source project means someone will see every mistake you make, and they will call you out on it in like 5 minutes max.
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I've been teaching workshops on React for a few months now, and one thing almost every team asks about at some point is folder structure and "best practices".
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It’s become popular to shit on hooks and long for the days of simpler lifecycle methods. I know closures can be a footgun, but almost every time I refactor a relatively complex class component to a function I find subtle bugs. I’m still quite happy with the change.
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hot take maybe but code readability is always subjective and people should just adapt to read whatever code style the team adopts and shut up about readability.
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Wanna make a billion dollars? Quit making CSS-in-JS libs and do some housework one weekend, this shit is trapped in the 1980’s!.
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My girlfriend leaves me notes in the morning when she wants me to do some chore around the house, but she makes sure to lay it on thick before the ask.
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oh no please don’t follow me because of this tweet, you’ll be very disappointed.
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Trying to get a head start on the post-pandemic renaissance by making very important things
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@Betraydan Perhaps, but consider how many of us started learning about design by tweaking our start menus, desktop icons and winamp skins! I’m pretty excited that people get this opportunity again on a whole new medium.
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Super tired of these all white, all male tech panels. Especially when the conference is remote and the barrier to entry is as low as it possibly could be. Monoculture Is poison to community—and it's just plain boring.
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A friend just sent me this face mashup of Jesse Pinkman and Walter White and it’s literally just me, wtf
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@WesleydeSouza @BenLesh JS and CSS newly being of drinking age explains a lot over the past few years.
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My career has taken some twists and turns these past few years, but if I’ve learned anything it’s that I do best by keeping an open mind for the right opportunities. In one month I’ll be twisting and turning yet again, but I’m stoked to help build the web with @remix_run!.
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Hard to overstate the impact that @markdalgleish has made in a very short amount of time on the @remix_run team. Pretty soon we'll support your favorite CSS tooling out-of-the-box (if we don't already, thanks to his features shipped over the past 2 weeks!) 🧁.
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Not sure what all the fuss is about, web components are pretty cool
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It feels very good to work on a product that I also enjoy as a user. @remix_run, free and OSS, coming at you next week!.
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I’m so 35 that soft-close drawers are legitimately sexy to me.
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The `asChild` API in Radix seemed like a great idea at the time but after being on the other side as a user, I think it's just way too big a footgun.
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Very excited to announce that I am going to use this time between jobs to become funny on Twitter.
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I bet someone at Google wrote a dissertation on why this is actually correct.
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@kvlly 4. If an engagement feels too friendly to need a signed contract, you DEFINITELY need a signed contract.
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Love being 35, waking up every other morning with a new pain wondering if this is the one that finally kills me.
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@microchipgnu @onirenaud “Promotes harmonious human-machine relations” is a great linkedin bio.
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Building my own lil storybook clone with Vite and the new React Router data APIs. Super fun and no more wild dependency mess!.
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Playing with some API abstractions for protected routes in React Router 6. Kind of digging this
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It's extremely difficult if not impossible to do better than this. Zion National Park, UT
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It's ya boi's first React Router release 🥳.
📣 Just released React Router v6.0.0-beta.1 🥳🥳 . • Squashed some nasty bugs 🐛.• TypeScript improvements 🤓.• And more goodies! 🍬. Full release notes: Huge thanks to all of our amazing contributors! 🤝.
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I understand the appeal of libraries like tailwind-merge but folks should really re-think the runtime overhead they introduce in the name of developer convenience.
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My elementary-teacher girlfriend is clearly bored and missing her classroom, which has resulted in some interesting art around our place. In other news: I’m joining the UI team at @Modulz in a couple of weeks!
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I think @remix_run will be my last start-up before I pursue something with big tech. That said, I very much hope Remix *will be* the big tech, and my pursuit a more formal, senior-level (executive?) role. We’ve got the solid foundation and a good scrappy team to get it done.
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I really, really hope forwardRef is baked in to function components in the next major React release. Typing generic components around that API is going to be the death of me.
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It's 2019 and deleting node_modules before npm install still solves like 90% of my build problems.
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New office is set up. Needs a coat of paint and a plant or two, but feeling freeeeesh
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