JL Sorak

Principal Software engineer @BBC. Building web apps with JS & React. Passionate about #A11Y and advocating #Neurodiversity.

[JL Sorak @JLSorak]

Thank you to all the great #A11yLondon community for such a positive response to my Neurodiversity in Tech talk, you're the best! 🧠

Here's some handy links:
Neurodivergence test:https://t.co/H3XlNdq4HV
Slides: https://t.co/dOIX1gucNr
Statistics sources: https://t.co/igYW6ZEs7u

[JL Sorak @JLSorak]

Join us at BrainStation’s campus on 13th July. RSVP here: https://t.co/y8nRJGfdp6

[JL Sorak @JLSorak]

It’s vital we invest in the next generation of Software Engineers ⚡️

I’m looking forward to joining this panel on Thursday to share career advice with a community of aspiring Software Engineers in London.

#BeFutureProof #SoftwareEngineering

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

As a tech lead or eng manager, you so frequently get request from above or from other teams to drop what you are doing and work on this thing they need, *now*.

During my 4 years at Uber after asking these questions, 9 out of 10 times it turned out it wasn't really urgent:

[The Barn TWells @TheBarnTWells]

Having raised thousands for the @RNLI over the past 30 years, boss and son were given special access in to the RNLI’s Gold medal winning #RHSChelsea garden!

[Kolby Hatch @HatchKolby]

Chrome is used by 2.65 BILLION people.

That's ~56% of all internet users. You're probably one of them.

95% of my job is done inside Chrome. So a few years back, I learned 6 hotkeys to use Chrome FASTER.

Here they are 👇

[Michael Lambert @MichaelLamberta]

Anyone know at what time the pandemic is ending on Monday?

[React @reactjs]

Our next major release is React 18. It will include out-of-the-box improvements like automatic batching, new APIs like startTransition, and a new streaming server renderer with built-in support for React.lazy.

https://t.co/OGexpoM6GE

[Adam Wathan @adamwathan]

Proud for Tailwind CSS to be a part of such a historic event 😄

[woo woo woo @McgarrDana]

Accessibility isn’t more work, you were just cutting corners before. The work was incomplete.

[Joseph 💻 @frontenddude]

Where do JavaScript developers wash their hands?

In async...

[Sarah L. Fossheim (they/them) @SarahFossheim]

found in prod: div > div > div > div > div > div > a.btn
but sure code reviews are a waste of time 🙃

[JL Sorak @JLSorak]

@jodiedoubleday He is indeed, we finally took the plunge! He says hi to Marlowe and Matilda! 👋😄

[JL Sorak @JLSorak]

HBD Eric 🥳 #SpoiltPupAlert

[Cassie Evans @cassiecodes]

Is there a market for holographic stickers with terrible SVG puns on?

Probably not.

Will I make them anyway so I can have them.

Yes.

[Amelia Wattenberger 🪷 @Wattenberger]

new vscode extension!

🦶👣 Footsteps 🐾🦶

I'm always jumping between a few sections of code, and wanted to make that navigation seamless - Footsteps tracks your recently edits and highlights them. Those fade as you edit other lines, like prints in sand.

https://t.co/LKTkHijNen

[Jonny Burger @JNYBGR]

🎥 Announcing Remotion - a framework for making videos in React!

The video below was written entirely in React, here is the source code! https://t.co/gOgI6X1ITA

📒 Docs: https://t.co/sBJB1rcCNB
⚛️ Github: https://t.co/A8SiAAZ3PI

💻 Quickstart: yarn create video

[Steve Schoger @steveschoger]

How to make a “Question Mark” icon in @figmadesign.

🧵 thread 👇

[Steve Schoger @steveschoger]

Beautiful icons and beautiful website by the @yummygum team 😍

Really useful open-source project because it's so hard to find great looking flag icons like this.

https://t.co/WcHTggh8Ss

[Jani Eväkallio @jevakallio]

GraphQL is great because instead of writing boring APIs I can just mess about doing clever schema introspection metaprogramming all day long and get paid twice what a normal API programmer does because nobody else understands what is going on