Larry Botha

Directs and frontend devs at Talks with awesome people on @fixateoncode on how to become a better dev.

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Migrating @htmx_org's HTMX from v1.x to v2 is critical if you care at all about the importance of upgrade music

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The Javascript Promise visualisations video and article by @lydiahallie is excellent!

https://t.co/rr7t7o1Vul

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@browsercompany but what does it MEEEEEEAN?!?!

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holy crap, Rust even suggests using VecDeque::pop_front if you're using Vec::remove and you don't realise that it's an O(n) operation!

O.o

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Holy crap... Vimium C allows for copying / yanking a URL!

https://t.co/yv6HGAgsik

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Learning how to use WITH when writing SQL is a game-changer O.o

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@OCamlAndrea @JLarky I've been using Alacritty for the past few years and I won't look back... it's incredibly fast

A major caveat is that it doesn't support tabs, but I use tmux, so that doesn't bother me

And then you have to get tmux to play nicely with vim... it's turtles all the way down :D

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The new vertical tabs feature on @brave is great, and paired with Vimium-C for navigation is next-level good O.o

- https://t.co/BNF9S4adT8
- https://t.co/yVfiXKv4bg

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*ring ring, ring ring*

A: "oh hi, who's this?"

B: "hi there, my name is 2019; I'm calling you to let you know that React is bloated and unnecessarily complex"

A: "oh, right. What would you recommend?"

B: "well, Vue is pretty rad, but Svelte will blow your socks off"

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@sulamitaivanov - build utility mixins (Sass, PostCSS, etc.)
- create utility classes from the mixins
- 3 or more utilities => a new CSS class, composed of the mixins

The utilities then serve 2 purposes:

- utilities in HTML
- building blocks for complex components

Descriptive, and flexible!

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@sulamitaivanov Some of Tailwind's approach is good, but it's a repackaging of the same approach SUIT, Tachyons, Atomic CSS, etc. have suggested years before.

It's only a matter of time before someone creates a new tool that offers a similar approach.

The underlying concept, however...

1/2

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@Odiidanny @rauchg I'd highly recommend going through https://t.co/f0f7Dvuu7J - it'll change how you think about transforming data in any language, and will give you JS superpowers

I learnt JS before Python - this style of programming is not elegant in Python, but it fits JS like a glove

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@rikuthinks @GuiBibeau @rauchg damn... and it's got a nice GoodReads rating O.o

https://t.co/xUAJwmCasT

It even covers integration testing and CI/CD - this looks great!

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holy crap - Rust _suggests_ using .for_each(drop) if you're throwing away the result of using .collect on an iterator!

O.o

That's some tasty DX

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Great talk by @raymondh on idiomatic Python:

https://t.co/n0MSIkaiau

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whoops, that's at /learn

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@eggheadio hey folks, heads up on a typo on the home page when auth'd:

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@danielwithmusic haha sure, go ahead :)

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@danielwithmusic thanks for your article on Packer, Ansible, and SSH: https://t.co/EppazBZLGu

It looks like the 127.0.0.1 comes from the ansible provisioner configs - use_proxy is the culprit: https://t.co/nG12xsuSYm

and the source of my SSH frustrations

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damn O.o

the kudos in this thread...
the skills in this thread...
the compassion in this thread...

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I am officially no longer the Engineering Manager for the Accessibility Experience Team at Twitter. I have words. 🧵