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Yeah, we've had it for at least 30 years, probably longer

It won't override global scope, it's just a hint the layout engine that your container's paint and/or size won't change, and thus it can optimise it's performance. Wholly agree wit…

Depends - do you want screen readers to hear something? If so, add a `aria-label="heart"` or similar. If not, add `role="presentation"` to remove it from the accessibility tree alt…

That's absolutely not the case for the most part, depending on the bar and the time. Go out to a city centre on an evening, especially Friday or Saturday. Most bars and pubs will b…

We have layers now: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_... I’d recommend this article on recent CSS developments: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/whats-n…

You're mixing metaphors there! It might be lightweight but it's still a flavour. It's still not part of the common browser API, so yes it's easy to add, but no, it's not vanilla.

"stole a kiss" wtf is this minimising bullshit? According to the article, he forced himself on someone, grabbing them by the throat. They feared for their life. According to the ar…

There are lots of people without your educational background. It's a few years old now, but I remember finding Alice Bartlett's talk on box inaccessability [1] quite instructive. 1…

He'd been a scientologist since the 60s IIRC.

This has been my go-to placeholder site for the best part of a decade. Not because it necessarily works the best, but just because I always remember it.

I think this is really nice and smart. I would suggest left-aligning the text in the edit/view mode for a few reasons: 1) It's a bit easier to read for longer text sources 2) It ma…

As a primarily frontend developer, I've had a couple of good experiences helping some experienced backend developers work through You Don't Know JS[0]. [0] https://github.com/getif…

Elm is lovely, and I'd definitely encourage people to take a look at it from an education point of view at the least. However, I think that's a disingenous comparison. TypeScript i…

I can only assume that you're trying to run before you can walk. Remember that you're just defining a set of layout rules. You're not giving the browser specific instructions to fo…

This Londoner definitely agrees. Their special exhibitions are usually of a very high quality too, worth making the effort in my experience.

They will absolutely merge in fixes, though they may well not be timely if they're not from internal engineers. I've had broken behaviour sit in a PR for over 6 months before.

Or you can use the body: https://codepen.io/jodi/pen/oMvLaN

FlatList was absolutely the way to go here. In fact, we initially built the list in question when ListView was the only option. During development, FlatList was made available as a…

RN isn't a wrapped HTML renderer like Phonegap. It uses bridge code to render native UI powered by JS business logic. You still write in JSX, which makes layout pretty straightforw…

I had a pretty similar experience. It's still a challenging environment - getting performance and memory management nailed across platforms and devices took some very careful engin…

They have! I use a Jetbrains editor daily and I'd never be able to work without it. Look under Edit > Column Selection Mode. I think it's bound to Cmd+Shift+8 by default. If you ha…

I know... it really bothers me how everything becomes a binary evaluation. Something not to your taste isn't objectively terrible, it's just not to your taste. I think it's a sympt…

Tbh not really, I often stop to investigate stuff anyway. I personally prefer to have it at my pace and under my control than listen through someone laboriously explain something I…

I completely understand that it could be more difficult for non-native speakers to understand. It's been sped up to match the cartoon style characters that he uses, and presumably …

Great book. I'd also recommend his free video course on Egghead. It's rather quirky, which is something that I very much enjoyed: https://egghead.io/courses/professor-frisby-introd…