Alex

Ah man. Every Layout was a transformational resource for me entering the industry 5 years ago. Just spent some learning budget on Complete CSS, I'm sure it'll be a banger

So useful and so impossible to remember the syntax for. Have to look it up. Every. Single. Time 😭

Took just over 50% pay cut when switching from product management to engineering. Funded it through savings

Was absolutely the right choice for me and my satisfaction increased enormously. And the salary did make it back up in around 3yrs

Yeah it's those 10s refactors for me. Even without any other benefits, that alone would be worth it

I'm completely stuck on this. I brute forced it, but it took 2 minutes to find the solution. I just can't think of a better way.

Both of today's problems were there first where efficiency seemed to be a real limiting factor

Ah this is so cool. Right now I'm spawning proxy servers on every test to inject msw mocks for server side requests. This will let me remove so much hacky code 🙏

Isomorphic SSR. Some routes purely CSR due to inconvenience of getServersideProps

Got caught out in React for the first time in a while. React events bubble up through the component tree, *not* the DOM tree. An important difference when working with portals

Caused an embarrassing bug by assuming the latter and not having tests to cover the expected behaviour

Heard your relatively recent episode on @syntax.fm. I'd been aware of atomic design at a high level prior but hadn't connected the dots

I'm curious how you'd go about building a culture of betterment somewhere that doesn't currently practice it. Or where only a small number of individuals do.

How does this become a whole-team activity?

Calico cat lying on a rug, shallow depth of field

Picked up a new lens for a weekend in Tallinn, but first gotta try it out on a princess

The Shard in late afternoon light taken from the narrow, cobbled Lovat Lane

Autumn afternoon out in the city with the camera.

How bad is image compression on here?