Nick Ballenger

Coder, dreamer, insomniac, and nerd extraordinaire

[Nick Ballenger @theblorble]

@SenatorLujan @SenateBudget Are you playing legislative hardball?

Blanket opposition.

Calls for quorum.

Block unanimous consent.

Make their life boring, make it difficult, grind things to a halt until midterms!

[Nick Ballenger @theblorble]

@RoswellIndivis DMs aren’t working when I try and pull up the group. Could I get more info on the meetup?

[Nick Ballenger @theblorble]

Plz, Plz, Can you accept my invitation so that I can get free cash?
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[Nick Ballenger @theblorble]

Plz, Plz, Can you accept my invitation so that I can get free cash?
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[Nick Ballenger @theblorble]

@shanselman Do you need type coercion, because to me that seems like an exact match.

[Nick Ballenger @theblorble]

Top 3 things I’ve said/thought since becoming a dad that 20’s me would have been mortified by:

1. “That is cutest tiny little wiener!”
2. “Quick, cup your hands to catch his vomit!“
3. “What’s the optimal wiping pattern I should use clean out this tiny butthole?”

[Nick Ballenger @theblorble]

Six years of eating time, and pretending that I’m really “networking”! Here’s to six more!

[Nick Ballenger @theblorble]

@JavaScriptCoff1 Git commit -m “feature finished!”
Git commit -m “pre push pull”
Git commit -m “merge conflict”
Git commit - “Feature finished for real this time”

[Nick Ballenger @theblorble]

@JavaScriptCoff1 Twilit and Stripe both have rock solid documentation

[Nick Ballenger @theblorble]

Today I learned that rfid security card readers trigger Apple Pay. Put my card inside my phone case, tried to get in my building, and boop phone asks if I’d like to pay the door.

[Nick Ballenger @theblorble]

@benbarbersmith Thanks to working in education (with just soooo much legacy code), I’ve had to go back to raw sql again. It’s opened up a whole new world of stored procedures and triggers!

[Nick Ballenger @theblorble]

@billionaireblf @WellPaidGeek As soon as somebody pays you for code you’re ready!

[Nick Ballenger @theblorble]

Technically you just need JavaScript to never go hungry...
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Because JavaScript lets you make cookies!

[Well Paid Geek 🚀💻 JavaScript @WellPaidGeek]

* HTML
* CSS
* JavaScript

If you have these skills you’re never going hungry!

[Nick Ballenger @theblorble]

@WellPaidGeek Display flex, center, center on ALL the divs!!!!

[Nick Ballenger @theblorble]

Me to our team, “We really should start writing and using more tests, it would save so much time!”.

My brain, “Wouldn’t it be way more fun to make a new feature that will unexpectedly break the whole app?”.
#ProgrammingLife

[Nick Ballenger @theblorble]

@tucker_dev I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a more truer true than this.

[Nick Ballenger @theblorble]

@JavaScriptCoff1 That looks like it is super in depth!
If you already have it semi setup you could always make a few new baby functional components using hooks and bring em into app.js . Then you can play with the new syntax without having to refactor yet.

[Nick Ballenger @theblorble]

@WellPaidGeek Dream about giving up instead.

[Nick Ballenger @theblorble]

@JavaScriptCoff1 What kind of app are you trying to build for the project?

[Nick Ballenger @theblorble]

@JavaScriptCoff1 Bright side, using hooks is actually a whooole lot easier! I learned class based components first and just kinda bumbled my way through until it worked, but once I switched to hooks React started to really “click” for me.