Our values define us Hi Amy! You likely don’t remember me. I met you at a flex conference years ago and followed you on social since. We are hiring a senior React developer for a web app and I was wondering A) if you consider yourself senior at React B)…

In 2020, I had just moved back to my home State of Mississippi, because my mother’s health was declining. I’d just started a new job, I was looking for a house, and my mother needed more and more help each week. Oh, and we were in a pandemic. So, the…

Because you will (that’s what dev tools are for) — Most JavaScript developers that have any kind of seniority have a “bag of tricks” when it comes to finding out what’s going on pages/applications. That’s why there are so many “Chrome Dev Tools Tricks” posts. This is mine. Exploring OPC (Other People’s Code) Using the Console We are really lucky in 2022 that we have sites like CodePen…

But it’s not who you think You’re eight. You’re not supposed to watch violent movies, but Eric’s parents don’t mind. Also sometimes you can’t sleep, so you watch from the darkness of the hall when your parents watch things you’re not allowed to. …

“Should we really be letting a developer who’s new to the team take the lead on this time-critical feature?” …

Several years ago, I gave a talk at a tech conference with the same title as this post, which ended with the depressing conclusions that probably the best most of us could hope for is to be allowed to change how we write our own code, that organizational change is…

See how typeof and keyof work together — TypeScript is easy, they said. All it is is saying what type you intend your variable to be/function to take/etc., they said. But what “they” are ignoring is that we as developers spend more time reading code than writing it, and understanding what type your variable should be to be…