If you work on a large React application, it's probably worth turning on "Highlight updates" in the react chrome extension every once in a while and start clicking around to see how much you are re-rendering... then you have the fun task of figuring out why 🤔

I think it’s raining y’all 🤔🌧🌧🌧

Finished off the year hosting a trivia session featuring the best of REAs UI developers! The questions were equally brutal and cheeky but the team was up to it 💪👑🏆🥇congrats to the winners

Just when you think CSS is your friend and you’re getting along, it goes and throws you a curve ball 😡

How I order my CSS properties .something { position: relative; color: crimson; others: literally changes day to day with very little consistency or sense; z-index: 1000000; } And for some reason padding has to come before margin 🤔 I am a sinner #csscrimes

New year, new video 🎉! Start your year right, with some CSS misery starring Aaron Vanston and James Formica youtu.be/Q7Tbgh-XShY

#ReHash of last weeks #CodeAndTell Thanks again to our amazing speakers: Aaron Job, Selena Small @DDDmelb 🇦🇺 and Amir Moghimi Thanks Michael Milewski for the photos 📸 Most importantly, our JuniorDevs for making this such an awesome meetup to be a part of! 🤩 medium.com/juniordev/code…

We need to talk about React Hooks! Discovering each of them was one of the most satisfying coding sessions I've had in a long time! In love! To play with hooks, I built this to decide whether you would have survived Thanos' finger snap👌 Check it: jamesformica.me/thanos-fate/

I get asked a lot of questions, specifically, FEQs (front-end questions) so I'm trying something new and putting up some videos in hope of answering those questions... First cab off the rank is the timeless question: Where do I start? youtu.be/4UeCA_G4C1k

I've always wanted to build a visualiser for Spotify but didn't want to go down the typical route... Introducing, the Turntable for Spotify. See you current songs as a record on a turntable, super proud of this one! jamesformica.github.io/spotify-turnta…

README files are the perfect place to brain dump your decisions, assumptions, and questions but are often under utilised. If you're working on an interview submission don't forget this step! youtu.be/b53ZuW3NIzs

The age old classic question of "What if I don't know the answer to a question in an interview?" with a classic example of what not to do from yours truly: youtu.be/d8sQPsbYeBI

By far the coolest geeky gift I have ever received, thanks to my equally badass mentee

Get excited #melbourne Junior Devs! We're stoked to have taliii presenting at JuniorDev Social about using AWS for side projects! Join us on May 14th for drinks, nibbles and networking! RSVP: meetu.ps/e/GGZHr/qcC7M/f See you all there! 🥳

Less than a week until the next JuniorDev Social in #melbourne at Kicks bar. Our third 3️⃣and final talk will be from James Formica about the struggles of creativity in the tech industry 😱 Can't wait to see you all there! RSVP: meetu.ps/e/GGZHr/qcC7M/f

🙌👩‍💻👨‍💻📣TONIGHT - JuniorDev Social 6PM @ Kicks Bar - RSVP here if you havent already: meetu.ps/e/GGZHr/qcC7M/f 💯✨🍻🤯

Receiving feedback (especially on code we wrote) can be a challenging experience at first. I certainly could have handled it better 😰, here's my story: youtu.be/r9aFtRz6CuY

Hey Melbourne junior devs !! Our friends at DDD Melbourne (dddmelbourne.bsky.social) have given us special discounts 🎉 for DDD Melbourne 2019 on August 10th. Please DM Pranati Vyas or Josh Parnham to get your discount codes. We have a dedicated junior dev track! You don't want to miss this one!!

Sometimes the inbetween parts of a conference can be some of the best parts. Up on the Junior Dev 🌈 level with my faves @daviddeejjames & James Formica 💙💙🧡 #DDDMelb2019

Check out the rest of the spooky sites from Junior Dev 🌈's #hacktoberfest2019 👻🕷☠️🧟‍♀️ juniordevio.github.io/hacktoberfest-… 🧟‍♂️🦇🎃💀 Thank you to everyone for contributing!