James

🕸 Senior Frontend at @airbnb
🧑‍💻 Helping new devs break into tech with @frontendeval
🛠 Always learning, growing, making

[James @JayrobinDev]

500 followers?! About time for an intro...

About me:
🇬🇧 Brit
🇺🇸 Moved to SF Bay Area/switched to tech in 2014
💻 Senior Frontend Engineer

I'll tweet about:
🤝 Helping people get their first Frontend job
📈 Personal growth/productivity
🔧 Stuff I'm building/I think is cool

[backlit bytes💡 @backlitbytes]

I built a Gameboy with Svelte using HTML, CSS, Javascript 🎮

There’s a few details I’d like to share….

[James @JayrobinDev]

@shashiwhocodes @codeFreedomRitr @genericmikechen I have some time Monday morning PST if a practice Frontend coding interview would be useful. Feel free to DM me!

[James @JayrobinDev]

@allysedotdev @livelaughcode @genericmikechen @shashiwhocodes @DThompsonDev Key question for me is: what stage are you getting rejected at?
Getting hired is a sales funnel (and a numbers game!). You need to identify where the biggest leaks are focus on those. Eg are you getting to/past recruiter/HM screening calls? Are you making it to onsites?

[James @JayrobinDev]

@saraliDev @shashiwhocodes @NoWhiteboardOrg @genericmikechen Hi Sara! 👋
Somewhat similar story to @NoWhiteboardOrg. Work and life got hectic, and I had to cut some time sinks for my mental health.

Might start posting again one day! In the meantime, my DMs are always open if anyone wants SWE career/interview advice, or just to say hi!

[frontendeval @frontendeval]

Looking for a Frontend challenge to start the week?
Try building a counter with a twist...

https://t.co/s3fZQMs4dh

[frontendeval @frontendeval]

ICYMI - Community solutions are available on https://t.co/x3L8A8LXsR 👀

All you need is a Github account to register! Make sure you give feedback to others as well! 📝

[James @JayrobinDev]

💭 Implement memoize in JavaScript
https://t.co/xLghzqLzmp

[James @JayrobinDev]

Thanks to everyone who joined @genericmikechen's stream this morning!

If you're looking for a little extra Frontend practice, here are the challenges he tackled 👇

[James @JayrobinDev]

🏛 Make a 2 column layout as many different ways as possible
https://t.co/hJwnsw8Cup

[TechRally @TheTechRally]

Super proud of the team @genericmikechen & @JayrobinDev for getting this out! We hope this helps the community HELP 👏 EACH 👏 OTHER 👏!

More amazing features to come in the future! 💫📆

[frontendeval @frontendeval]

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT DEVS! 🥳

Our team has been tirelessly working to provide more value to our community! We’ve listened to your feedback and we are proud to announce that you can now sign up and submit solutions! Make sure to leave feedback and share!

https://t.co/gK7fqHizUg

[James @JayrobinDev]

@frontendeval The super fast feedback loop.
Being able to think of an idea and bring it to life.
No longer having to support Internet Explorer.

[frontendeval @frontendeval]

What excites you about frontend? 📝

[Julia Furst Morgado @juliafmorgado]

It's no wonder why people struggle with learning.

It's simple: The system works AGAINST you.

You need to fight.

I'm learning how to code: it's painful, but it's easy if you plan ahead.

Here are 9 secrets on how to learn anything👇

[James @JayrobinDev]

Every time my learning starts to plateau or I'm not sure where to go next, I take the same strategy: learn something deeply, or learn something different.

[James @JayrobinDev]

@axlhmo I should have said console.log doesn't *explicitly* return anything.

Like any function in JS that doesn't return anything, it implicitly returns undefined.

[James @JayrobinDev]

If you ever need to console.log in a one-line JavaScript function and, like me, are too lazy to add curly braces...

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

What many sw engineers don't realize:

The majority of jobs do not hire you to write the highest quality code or produce the cleanest architecture.

They hire you to solve their business problems very efficiently. Sometimes this means high-quality code. Sometimes not at all.