This is so great. Remember those extremely real Amazon workers who were tweeting nice things about working there? Well Leo is now Ciera, Michelle is now Sarah, Rick is now James, etc.

"(fetch.then) is an extremely common pattern taught in all introductions. This is fine for demo apps, however in the real world users often run into many edge cases this pattern conveniently forgets to account for." freecodecamp.org/news/naked-pro… by swyx

Fun talk by swyx! In this talk, we’ll reintroduce closures by building a tiny clone of React! This will serve two purposes – to demonstrate the effective use of closures, and to show how you can build a Hooks clone in just 29 lines of readable JS. youtube.com/watch?v=KJP1E-…

This still gives me chills. Carl Sagan demonstrates how the Greeks figured out the Earth was round and correctly calculated its circumference — 2,000 years ago:

really interesting that so many people have intense views about things that would make you no money

First thought when I saw x.com/UltraLinx/stat… was 'I wonder if this can be done in CSS' — apparently arggh's first thought was 'I'm going to do this in CSS': codepen.io/arggh/pen/OJJG…

How do people deal with style encapsulation without using shadowDOM? It seems that there are a multiple options, but no "best" way.

One thing that's becoming clear to me is we need more public examples of people using Roam. Roam users - what are your favorite use cases?

@roheatdotcom dan_abramov That's been put to rest: using spaces is not accessible to people with low vision. Tabs is better for screens with large magnification/font size, because you can set them to not take up half the screen. So if you want to be inclusive to all coders, choose tabs.

#popcorn

Consider: millions of years ago our antecedents gave a massive sacrifice of their left hemisphere. We lost a tremendous amount of short term memory and replaced it with Broca’s, Wernicke & the phonological loop. But why? So we can—talk. Thus chimpanzees can do this—we can’t:

We're excited to release the highly-anticipated support for @Firefox and the new Microsoft Edge browsers in Cypress 4.0 🎉 bit.ly/39izARZ

setInterval() should be renamed DANGER_imAbsolutelyCertainThatIWantThisCodeToRunOverAndOverAgainAndYesIveConsideredChangingHowMyAppWorksToAvoidThis().

This is great, just got my own bye.fyi email, the worst email service by Thinko, and they're donating the profits. Get yours at BYE.FYI bye.fyi

Sean Rose "Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan" -- John F. Kennedy

this is a wonderful idea, and the desktop app is beautifully built (with Svelte!). really interested to see where this goes

🎥 For the past year or so I've been working hard on modernizing the DevTools codebase along with Tim van der Lippe, Jack Franklin, and the other incredible folks on our team. We turned our experiences into a Chrome Dev Summit video for you! 👍🏻 youtu.be/BHogHiiyuQk

Wow this is pretty damning too: "Google also [redacted] of non-AMP ads by giving them artificial one second delays in order to give Google AMP a [redacted] [redacted] slows down header bidding, which Google uses to turn around and denigrate header bidding for being too slow."

Nice Wordle 226 2/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩