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    @getifyX
    Jun 24
    there is a large gap from "programming language types with conservative/simple syntax to cover 60-70% common" and "zomg exotic higher order type syntax that's turing complete and I ported Doom to it". why don't devs see the former is useful and the latter is mental illness?
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    Mar 10, 2018
    20+ yrs dev exp, 8 books w/ 100k+ copies sold, 300k+ hours watched of my videos, 4k+ taught in person... And you know what? I still struggle to get my code to work and it's still a tedious slog. And my code still confuses me the next day. You're not alone in these struggles.
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    @getifyX
    Aug 23, 2018
    I was rejected for a job by @TwitterEng years ago, even tho I knew several people on the team who liked me & wanted me to join. I was later told by HR that one of the interviewers said I "didn't know JS" very well. That was part of the motivation for @YDKJS. #ShareYourRejections
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    @getifyX
    Mar 1, 2019
    "Arrow functions are bound to their parent's context." Nope, inaccurate. Arrow functions do not have a `this`, which means any usage of `this` inside an arrow function is just like any other variable, and is looked up lexically through parent scopes until a `this` is found.
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    @getifyX
    Dec 31, 2018
    I had some code implemented and fully tested, almost ready to release. Then I was writing the documentation for it, and I realized the code's behavior is wrong and should be changed. TDD wouldn't have saved me here. Docs are equally as important as tests in designing software.
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    @getifyX
    Dec 11, 2017
    So you've never given a conf talk before, because you think you aren't good enough or haven't mastered a topic enough yet? Neither have any of the rest of us. Seriously. The best time to talk is right as you're in the midst of your journey.
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    @getifyX
    Nov 12, 2025
    omg we are in the stupidest timeline. fuckborderradius.com
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    Nov 12, 2025
    corner-shape: squircle; available in chrome for now used it recently on my site, no more clip-path or svg needed to achieve it
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    @getifyX
    Aug 7, 2020
    (source: reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHu… )
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    @getifyX
    Jun 17, 2020
    The saying "Jack of all trades, master of none" is usually used standalone in a sort of slight against generalists as lesser than specialists. But the original full saying is quite enlightening: "Jack of all trades, master of none, oftentimes better than a master of one."
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    @getifyX
    Jul 24, 2019
    TC39 advances the ?? nullish-coalescing operator (stage 3). Cool! // this: var x = (foo != null) ? foo : 42; // becomes this: var x = foo ?? 42;
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    GitHub - tc39/proposal-nullish-coalescing: Nullish coalescing proposal x ?? y
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    @getifyX
    Jun 18, 2018
    CSS #protip: The ::before and ::after pseudo-elements don't mean "before the element" and "after the element", they mean "before the element's children" and "after the element's children".
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    @getifyX
    Nov 7, 2020
    I use this idiom A LOT
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    Aug 23, 2018
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    Oh, and not even 2 months later, the first of several "new twitter" redesigns launched, and they used my LABjs script loader library. That's my favorite part of that story.
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    @getifyX
    Nov 24, 2020
    Wow, @YDKJS just passed 130k stars on github! That's amazing!
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