Conspiracy theorists should be forced to manage a project with lots of people for a short while. That'll give them a sense of how adorable their claims of efficiency and secrecy are.
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@code
1.6.0 now has built-in, fast bracket colourisation. You can turn it on with "editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": true. This works around the performance problems of the highly used "Bracket Pair Colorizer" extension, so you can uninstall that and free some RAM.
🤯 OK, do you want to have your mind blown?
Go to any GitHub repo, and press the . key on your keyboard. You'll get
@code
in the browser to edit the repo. You can edit, search, install (some) extensions and use commit back to the repo. We live in amazing times.
It never felt right to me to manipulate style settings in JavaScript when CSS is the right tool for the job. With CSS custom properties we can send to CSS what needs to come from JavaScript. For example, mouse position.
💡Quick tip, you can use fetch() with HEAD to check if a certain resource on the web exists. This will not load the resource, just determine its availability:
"It’s 2018: You shouldn’t be writing vanilla CSS"
It's 2018 - can we stop with the horseshit flamebait articles? Write what the fuck makes you most effective and stop trying to change people who care deeply about things.
Happy to announce that as of today I have a new title. I got promoted to "Principal Software Development Engineer". I wonder what my family will make of it. When I became "senior program manager", my mother thought I create outreach programs for senior citizens.
Don't let "but I'm not an expert" stop you from publishing and presenting. Sharing and sparking excitement is as - if not more - important than pure facts. Experts can share biases along with their facts and that stifles innovation. Help diversify. We need your voice.
Job interview tip: if they have a water bottle there and glasses, fill yours till it overflows a bit. Then look them straight in the eye and say "I always give 110%".