Beware of the tech debt firehose: Often the fastest feature builder. Managers love them, but they slow down the rest of the team with poor planning, inscrutable code, poor test coverage, and no docs.
Numbers every frontend developer should aim for:
16ms: refresh animation frame without jank
100ms: UI updates perceived as instant
1s: App/site load time
3s: Hold attention long enough to prevent Alt-Tabbing to see what’s on Reddit
New @zeithq perk: guided meditation sessions over zoom!
We did a small test run recently, and it was fantastic. A great way to reinvigorate and prioritize our health above all.
💡Do you want to try Playwright for browser automation? If you have tests written in Puppeteer this is so easy!
I wrote a post on how you can migrate your Puppeteer tests to Playwright:
https://t.co/eUZVbLNK4n
Unit Tests for Random Functions - the newest episode of Shotgun with Eric Elliott is here. See how Eric writes tests for functions that generate random output. Yay! https://t.co/y59zXpGrRQ #tdd#JavaScript
1/ Here’s a thread on my current take on the online education market, which per below is absolutely exploding. It’s not as simple as “make an online course” as I’ll explain in a minute. It’s become a competitive market that has to be entered strategically