What I do: Hunch over a computer and type

What does the K9 person do: I FEED BAD GUYS TO MY DOG ALL DAY AND JUMP OUT OF PLANES! OOHHHH YEEEAAAHHHHH!

This morning I’m at a Baltimore High School talking about being a web developer for career day. Other people here include an entrepreneur, a lawyer, nurses, physical therapist, and even an explosive-detection K9 dog.

Pretty hard to compete with a K9 dog.

“Preloading Fonts and the Puzzle of Priorities”

I’ve spent way too long looking at how <link rel=preload behaves, here’s some notes on what I found and some further areas for research too.

andydavies.me/blog/2019/02/12/pr…

WordPress 5.1 “Betty” wordpress.org/news/2019/02/betty…

And when I have to write complicated YAML I need to do this…

(via reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/com…)

Seems to make sense that JSON prevailed as JavaScript has taken over so much software development. And JSON is native to JavaScript where XML is not.

See twobithistory.org/2017/09/21/the… twitter.com/brunoborges/status/1…

I’m a kickass UX Developer with over 20 years experience designing and building for the web. I’m looking for a remote contract or full time gig. DM me if your company or project is helping make peoples lives better. juliepixels.com

@10up is looking for a (preferably Senior) JavaScript/React Engineer. Anyone know anyone who is interested? 10up.com/careers/javascript-reac… #javascript #React

I moved my Flickr photos to WordPress and built a tool to help others do the same. chrishardie.com/2019/02/moving-p…

One more reason to avoid Medium as a writer and reader.

If you publish on Medium you are choosing to put your content in a walled garden and out of your own control, and out of reach of readers.

Medium is not the open web and not a replacement for your own blog or site. twitter.com/marcthiele/status/10…

Hey twitter fam, bummer news. I was laid off from Eventbrite last week after a good 2 year run. I’m seeing this is as a silver lining that I can refocus and keep moving forward. If any of you think of great brand design positions I’m all 👂’s – let’s work together again!

Tap, tap. Is this thing on?

I’ve signed on as Creative Director of a Special Projects team at @automattic that helps showcase @WordPress at its best.

I’ll share first impressions soon. Currently I’m too busy learning.

$ create-react-app my-react-app
$ cd my-react-app
$ cloc .

Before you even open a text editor, your project contains 1.5 million lines of code. Most of it contributed by volunteers and enthusiasts. No formal review or release process.

This is ‘normal’ in modern web development. t.co/VMl7IZuWFu

Slides from my talk kingkool68.com/circleci-aws/ twitter.com/thorntech/status/109…

Regarding static vs dynamic typed programming languages:

“The real world is dynamic. It is full of mistakes. Dynamic typing recognizes this, much more so than static typing. It adapts to this much better than the academic purity of static typing.”

smashcompany.com/technology/why-…

It’s so weird when your MacBook Pro trackpad stops working and you realize its not something that physically clicks. Just an aluminum square there with software that tricks you into thinking it is a mechanical piece.

You probably don’t need a single-page application.

journal.plausible.io/you-probabl…

This is like the <font> tag but for grids. twitter.com/rsms/status/10969265…

Understand JavaScript’s async/await in 7 seconds by @manekinekko: async-await.xyz/

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