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I've seen visualisations similar to this before, but this one is by far the most beautiful and I could watch it all day. I echo the sentiments on the TfL API, I've built the same T…

Firstly, congratulations on launching - it's uncanny timing and similarity to the project I've been building in my 10% time at work! Here's a screenshot of my own efforts so far: h…

Very cool - reminded me of https://github.com/creationix/dombuilder which I have... memories of. Shout out too to https://microjs.com/ for allowing me to relive some nostalgia.

Agreed! About 5 or 6 years ago I wrote a library to demonstrate to my teams that JSX a) was not magic b) not limited to React. After that was done I became a little obsessed with m…

Take a look on https://gifcities.org/ - I'm sure you'll find what you're looking for!

I work for a large organisation with over 2000 systems spread across serverless functions, virtual machines and PaaS providers and projects are written in Java, Go, Python and Java…

Congrats, this looks really nice! I recently finished a side project using Fastify and the Fastify Swagger plugin (which extends the built-in request and response validation and ca…

I mostly agree - that was the intention of the caveat - although I don't think there would be too much harm done if somebody started with ES5 then layered ES20xx features or new br…

Perhaps look for web development books published around 2010-2012, before the large JS frameworks gained a major foothold. These will be missing some of the very valuable and usefu…

> Webpack's loaders can't really check your types because, without doing a lot of extra magic, they operate on one file at a time. This is the point folks really must understand wh…

Like you I tend to agree that the effort delivering front end projects often seems to outweigh the value added over recent years. I can think of half a dozen projects I've seen ove…

This is how we did it at the FT. We looked at on demand HLS or DASH via our CDN as well but this didn't become a requirement during my time there.

Yes. Prior to my current company I think I'd only met two candidates face-to-face who had sent misleading CVs (one of whom memorably tried to tell me MooTools was a new Linux based…

I work four days in my current role and will continue doing so in my next one. I don't have much choice in the matter so I always raise it at the earliest opportunity and have even…

Tell me about it! "Chickenshit Minimalism - The illusion of simplicity backed by megabytes of cruft." https://medium.com/@mceglowski/chickenshit-minimalism-846fc1... (The article i…

I'm super pleased to see the FT towards the top of the charts. It's a couple of years since I worked on the project[1] to make it faster and it's really great the team have been ab…

Same, although I'd add it wasn't easy (in the UK.) I found most of the companies I spoke to the last time I was on the job market were open to me working 4 days a week. I made sure…

Agreed, and there are some innacuracies that could have been corrected with a little research. For example, the description under the Girl logo states "The company doesn’t only mak…

My experience is similar. I also "burned out" a couple of USB-C hubs (including a very similar Anker branded unit) so eventually upgraded to a decent monitor with integrated USB-C …

Absolutely, we can always try to assume that our predeccesors or past selves had the best of intentions but nothing beats writing down the context and problems at that moment in ti…

I suppose we can only accurately define a problem when there are no big unknowns, so I wouldn't prescribe readme based development in every scenario - a quick and dirty exploration…

> Never start coding (making a solution) unless you fully understand the problem. It’s very normal to spend more time listening and reading than typing code. Understand the domain …

I was a very early adopter of React and I am very grateful for it. It’s now it’s my job to listen carefully to the concerns of my teams and I’ve helped developers of all abilities …

This article helped me a lot, it's still a large amount of information to internalise though: https://medium.com/the-guild/under-the-hood-of-reacts-hooks-...