🔥 Learn React in 10 tweets (with hooks) 👇
In software, ‘no’ is temporary, but ‘yes’ is forever.
Would you declare
* {cursor: none;}
No? Then don’t declare
a:focus {outline: none;}
For exactly the same reasons.
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UnPHPular Opinion:
! $variable is wrong 99% of the time.
empty( $variable ) is usually what you want.
! is for Boolean comparisons – true/false
empty() is for checking if a variable is non-empty, non-zero, or is not set.
It’s 2025. Every TV show has their own streaming service which you need to subscribe to.
For some reason, nobody knows why, it’s a complete mystery, totally unexplainable, pirating is taking off again.
SQL tricks: single quote your strings
“I fully expect my personal website to outlive Twitter and as such have decided to take full ownership of the content I’ve posted there. In true #IndieWeb fashion, I’m taking ownership of my data.” ✊👏👏👏 twitter.com/zachleat/status/1173…
CloudFront distributions take a while to update, so take advantage of the time you spend waiting to write your doctoral thesis.
There’s only one place to see every resource in your AWS organization, in every region: the AWS bill.
The AWS Console is clearly built by multiple teams, some of which very obviously despise people.
I’ve hired a few people in my time.
I’ve never been disappointed by hiring someone who is less technical but is a great human who cares for others.
I can teach tech pretty easily.
But boy have I seen people who are strong technical people with toxic attitudes destroy a team.
If the browser sees an HTML element in the <head> that isn’t title, meta, style, script, base or link, it moves them to the <body>. That’s why there will never be a new element that belongs in the head, and we get weird stuff like <link rel=”preconnect”>.
The Lion King, in all its magnificence, was created in, wait for it… 2k.
Each *frame* in 2k took 100 hours to render. In 4K, that would have been 400 hours, and 800 hours (33 days) for a stereo pair of frames.
I hear no one whining that it wasn’t “sharp enough” in the theater
SQL tricks: find duplicates
Can you imagine if one day Microsoft acquired WeWork and named it Microsoft Office?
Seriously fuck you UK plug
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