via @readwise

via @readwise

"do you have a minute?" = that person's taking 5 minutes of your time "do you have a few minutes?" = that's 15 minutes gone "can I grab you for half an hour?" = say goodbye to your morning

This is a sad reality in many companies

We should document our code with comments to make it easier to understand by others. We should also try to avoid noisy comments that don't bring value. 🔥 3 practices to do that: ‣ Use descriptive identifier names ‣ Extract logic in methods ‣ Verify assumptions with asserts

Pro tip: consider reducing the level of nesting in your code to reduce complexity ✨

Dear Developer Managers, After 36 years of writing software, one constant remains unchanged: RAM is still cheaper than additional developers. If you want to improve the productivity of your team, get them computers with a min of 64GB of RAM. Ur Welcome! :)

Dear managers, LoC is a metric to measure the size of a program. It is NOT a metric to measure of developer productivity...EVER.

At every company, there’s always that one person who knows how the whole system works…and they left 4 months ago

~ webdev cheat sheet ~ The plural of "bit" is "bits" The plural of "hit" is "hits" The plural of "git" is "merge conflicts"

"An evolving system increases its complexity unless work is done to reduce it." — Meir Lehman

Don't feel stupid for having to Google the same stuff over and over. As long as you know how to find the answers, you're good. As a programmer, your job is to find solutions, and using resources and tools is a huge part of that

I do not let employers manage my personal devices, full stop. They can either let me self-manage, buy me a separate work device, or can deal with me only doing work things from my work laptop.

5 things I've learned in 10 years as a developer: 1. No one knows exactly what they are doing 2. Anything can be learned with enough dedication 3. Perception > reality 4. Taking on the toughest problems pays dividends 5. People like to make things sound complicated for their ego

"If you're ever worried about losing some data, just put it after a todo comment in a codebase. Those things never get removed." – Ólafur Waage

This is gold.

I have taken 50 interviews in the last 3 months. Most of them gave wrong answers about almost everything in #JavaScript and they gave me the reason that they read on tweets and blogs I am sorry but from today whenever I find a technically wrong tweet on #JS I will call that out.

> lets keep staging as close to prod as we can me:

[ 🔴 BREAKING NEWS] "We now generally consider Moment to be a legacy project in maintenance mode. It is not dead, but it is indeed done." A genuine THANK YOU to the @momentjs team for their hard work and dedication to the JavaScript community 👏👏👏 https://t.co/ebezpw2bX1

“A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen.” - Kent Beck