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Yehuda Katz

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Yehuda Katz

@wycats

@[email protected] OSS enthusiast and @wykittens's parent. Heroku. Co-author of Extensible Web Manifesto. Front-end developer. @wifelette's husband. he/him

Portland, OR

Joined August 2007

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Yehuda Katz
@wycats
Dec 12, 2015
As a tech community, we must treat documentation, marketing, logistics, infrastructure, art, etc. work with as much respect as engineering
Yehuda Katz
@wycats
Nov 14, 2017
Front end software development is: - real-time (instant load, 60fps) - distributed, incremental (synchronize remote data as needed) - asynchronous - reactive (react to user actions in realtime) Front end is the hardest kind of dev I do. The folks who do it every day are heroes.
Yehuda Katz
@wycats
Dec 19, 2017
JavaScript code is much more expensive, byte for byte, than an image, because of the time spent parsing and compiling it. It's possible to parse and compile wasm as fast as it comes over the network, which makes it much more like an image than JavaScript code. Game changer!
Yehuda Katz
@wycats
May 22, 2019
Before creating Handlebars I knew next to nothing about parsers. Same deal. Let your ambitions, not your existing skills, be your guide.
Nicholas C. Zakas
@slicknet
May 20, 2019
Before creating ESLint I knew next to nothing about parsers. Today, I know slightly more than that. Don’t let what you don’t know stop you from trying.
Yehuda Katz
@wycats
Sep 3, 2019
The most important thing in software is having fun. It sounds indulgent, but it supports a sustainable career *and* creates an environment that's accessible to beginners over time. Fun. Savor it. Prioritize it. Your software will be better for it.
Yehuda Katz
@wycats
Dec 25, 2020
The thing I find frustrating about the idea that frontend dev is "for juniors" is that nobody would say it about other specializations. Someone might say that it's *better* if a compiler author worked in a more full stack role. They *wouldn't* say "compiler writing is for jrs"
Yehuda Katz
@wycats
Jul 27, 2021
It feels like StackOverflow has developed a fatal flaw with regard to web content. Almost every popular question has a top-voted and approved answer that is out of date. In most cases, the answer is totally wrong and no decent developer would recommend it anymore.
Yehuda Katz
@wycats
Feb 15, 2018
We're all learning, all the time. How can you be proud to say that someone doesn't belong simply because they don't yet have a particular piece of knowledge? My pride comes from opening up our craft to anyone who wants to hone it. Exclude people at your peril.
ppk.css 🇪🇺
@ppk
Feb 14, 2018
If people who don't know you can use a <link> tag can call themselves front-end developers nowadays I'm proud of saying they don't belong in our craft.
Yehuda Katz
@wycats
May 11, 2021
People don't really understand the effort that goes into maintaining an open-source project. But *nobody* understands the effort that goes into *leading* a successful open source project. It's mostly not about committing code. It's mostly about chaos management.
Yehuda Katz
@wycats
Nov 29, 2017
After playing a little bit with QBasic when I was a kid, I was given a K&R C book. My takeaway: programming is not for me. I didn't look at programming seriously again until I was 23. This article is terrible advice. zeroequalsfalse.press/2017/11/29/c/
Yehuda Katz
@wycats
Dec 24, 2017
New Years Resolution: when I talk about technologies, I will avoid demeaning the users of those technologies. I will also avoid calling technologies "dead", "dying" or other words meant purely to demoralize users of the technology.
Yehuda Katz
@wycats
Jul 28, 2021
How to center content in a div. One way. div { display: flex; /* vertical */ align-items: center; /* horizontal */ justify-content: center; } That's it. The other 10 ways don't matter in 2021. We solved the problem. We're done.
Yehuda Katz
@wycats
Sep 5, 2021
A ton of working software developers are not highly paid.
Yehuda Katz
@wycats
Nov 13, 2019
PSA: There are a bunch of developers like me and you having a hard day today as Disney+ is launching. I don't know any of them, but I imagine that seeing internet colleagues gleefully passing around articles dunking on them isn't making their day better.