Modern web development is just naming things

Modern web development is just naming things. Then naming them again. Then naming them some more. Using different letter case and hyphenation in each case. Also, more than one way to signal whether a name could be valueless. 🤷‍♂️ import type { NameA } from 'schema.ts'; export default NameA() { const

Weekend Reading — “There's power in the unknown”

This week we spend 3 hours chasing a typo, find the answer to a simple yes/no question, name 3 concrete example, and dig into 👁👄👁.

Weekend Reading — 📽️ Unsubscribe is sold out

This week please wear a mask! Also we play a demo in reverse, learn about stock market addiction, direct action works, and top grossing movie for $0.

Weekend Reading — 🦕 Engineers over 35

This week we install more fonts, printf a tic-tac-toe, join the Planning Commission meeting, and use our lawn as a green screen.

Weekend Reading — #BlackLivesMatter

Clint Smith: Yesterday, my 14-year-old cousin said, “We’re living through a social studies chapter” and I can’t stop thinking about that, about him, about how young people are processing this moment. You all know what’s going on in the US right now. In the 52 years since

Weekend Reading — ⏲️ Five more minutes …

This week we get in the flow, redesign computers, invert a binary tree, and build an obstacle for squirrels.

Weekend Reading - 🅿️ Park downhill

This week we look at FB's telework policy, declare 2020 the year of Linux on the desktop, watch for cows, and pay George Clooney a visit.

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What do you think of TailwindCSS?

The ease of inline CSS with a nicer syntax and breakpoints. A great choice for a small app, when you just want to get it out fast. Give it a try. The docs are really good, expect to spend many an hour getting familiar with just enough TailwindCSS to get that Aha moment.