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5 years

Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on this flight? Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you Me: Not now Dad Dad: Not asking for a JavaScript developer to help, are they? Me: Dad, plz Dad: Go and see if console.log helps

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One of my favorite tiny helpers is this "wait" function that allows you to use setTimeout with promises or async/await for cleaner, more readable code.

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M1 MacBook Air update, battery life edition 🔋 Monday: Used for 8+ hours, streaming music most of that time. At the end of the day, I was at 72% Today: Used for 6 hours so far, 5h of coding and 30m of Zoom meetings. Currently at 92% 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

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What's up Twitter? Ya boy got married last week 🙌

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2 years

You're mad because no one can figure out useEffect useCallback and useEvent. I'm mad because I have to call .value on a ref (in Vue) We are not the same.

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4 years

When GitHub goes down, devs be like...

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I'm calling it: this is the most helpful website on the internet: Thank you @sarah_edo , you're a legend 🙌

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3 years

A lesson I'll never learn: If you're feeling bad and don't know why, DRINK WATER.

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4 years

Y'all, even Apple doesn't implement a custom <select> menu. You probably shouldn't either... 🤷‍♂️ #usetheplatform #butactuallythisonce

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3 years

Just billed for my first project as a freelancer, and it felt AWESOME 🙌

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4 years

🔥 Hot @tailwindcss tip: use this code snippet to add a default duration to your transition classes, so you don't always have to add a duration-x class! Gist for a11y:

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5 years

Pro tip: when you're working with busy people, it's *not* bad or annoying to follow up, even multiple times. If you're offering something of value, or you're already working with them, they're most likely not ignoring you they're just swamped.

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5 years

🔥 @tailwindcss tip: Add custom screen breakpoints to your tailwind configuration, allowing you do max-width (desktop first) transformations, or to apply a class at *only* a single breakpoint (and not larger/smaller). #tailwind #css #codeshowcase

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2 years

For every example of Bad Tailwind™ I could find and provide 10 examples of bad CSS/SASS that are actually worse. The problems that Bad Tailwind provides are FAR less impactful to productivity than bad CSS.

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3 years

@owltastic @bootsified Tailwind squad, can I PLEASE PLEASE ask you NOT to descend on Megan for this *opinion*? It’s perfectly fine for someone to not like a tech that you like. She didn’t say anything except she personally hates it, which is totally fair (even tho I feel differently) 🤷‍♂️

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4 years

🎉 Tiny announcement: I launched my new website this morning! It's super bare-bones for now, but expect some awesome things coming to you ASAP.

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6 years

You could say I'm a bit of a performance expert...

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6 years

I published an article this morning on how to use @tailwindcss with @gatsbyjs ! If you're interested, check it out:

Using Tailwind with Gatsby JS

The Definitive Guide™ for how to set up Tailwind with Gatsby JS

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5 months

@jamesqquick I've been a dev for 16 years, professionally for 8, engineering manager for 2, and I have no idea what a linked list is

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3 years

Couldn’t be me 😂

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5 years

🔥 @tailwindcss Hot Tip! You can use config within a media query declaration to access your screen sizes! This is particularly helpful when you want to create a media query that is "desktop first" instead of "mobile first" like using @screens wants them to be.

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3 years

The new M1 MacBook Air has been ⚡️ lightning ⚡️ fast so far, but I'm currently downloading both Slack and Docker. We'll see if it can handle Docker + a couple Electron apps 😬

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5 years

🔥 @CraftCMS Pro-tip: The object-position CSS property allows you to make use of the focal point set on your image! This, paired with object-fit allows you to imitate background-size/position but with an <img> element, which works better with lazy-loading 😄

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4 years

Evan You talking about the new SSR and client hydration models! He shouted out @gridsome @nuxt_js and @vuepress 👏

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4 years

🎉🎉 Official release: vue-accessible-tabs 1.0! Try it out, try to break it, open issues, open PRs!

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4 years

The fabulous @EmmaBostian is killing it presenting on Micro-interactions to this amazing crowd here at @Frontend_Love ! Very excited to present to this crowd on Friday.

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I am SOO pumped to be speaking at Vue Toronto this year! I hope to see you there!

VueConf Toronto 2024 - Nov 18-20

@VueToronto

5 years

Introducing another great speaker for #VueConfTO ! 📢 We are so happy to welcome @JakeDohm with a great talk on "Building Blazing Fast Sites with Gridsome" Get your tickets at #VueConfTO #VueToronto #VueJs

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Office raid! Take a picture of your desk as-is, no cleaning!! I’m rocking the 2 device, 2 cup, one box of tissue aesthetic this week 😂

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6 years

I figured out where @ken_wheeler is working, and why he can’t bring himself to tell us...

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5 years

Inspired by @stolinski , I refactored my forms in @vuejs , and it saved me 30+ lines of code in just this one instance! Check out this super-clean API inspired by Formol, a React form library:

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Really excited to announce that after 6+ months at @simplygoodwork , I've been given the job title that I've always wanted ✨ #fullDisadulation #office

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6 years

Just found this comment (probably written by me) in a codebase I'm working in 😂 #webdev #codecomments

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5 years

🔥 Craft CMS Tip: Use the new map, filter, and reduce filters to clean up your code! These functional array methods are one of the things I missed most (from JS) when working in Twig, but no longer!

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6 years

Its official! I can’t wait to get to work with my new team this upcoming week 😁

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6 years

Welcoming @jakedohm , inventor of Jake-TML and overall cool guy to the Good Work team!

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3 years

Some news! Today is my last day at @simplygoodwork . It’s been an amazing 2.5 years and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. Starting tomorrow I’ll be splitting my time between web freelancing and founding a startup with my friend @ColtonNeifert . More info to come on this! 😁

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2 years

I woke up at 4:30am today, on my birthday, to make sure I got a workout in before my day got crazy. 💁‍♂️🦋 Is this, adulthood?

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2 years

If you have a friend speaking: one of the best things you can do is sit where they can see you and nod your head. It gives the speaker so much confidence knowing that someone is listening and comprehending! ps: don't get on your phone or laptop 🚩🚩

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2 years

@JakeDohm @JennyMaMTL @DotAllConf Yes, getting a "lifeline" Jake in the front row is a very good recommendation for a first-time speaker 🙏

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4 years

Anyone who writes CSS as Css is a cop.

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3 years

@remix_run People are gonna think this is spicy, but it's not wrong to think you have better tradeoffs/opinions. If you didn't think your approach was much better, then you wouldn't have built Remix at all...

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3 years

Spot the bug 🐛🐛🐛

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5 years

Vanilla JS Protip: Define $ and $$ as aliases for querySelector and querySelectorAll to create a jQuery like DOM selection interface in only 2 lines of code! Gist:

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4 years

Weekend work on the new office!

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4 years

Gonna attempt to check “build a CMS” off of my “things all devs do” bucket list soon 😆 Drop any advice/tips/encouragement you have in the comments, please ❤️ PS: please don’t say “don’t do it”

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5 years

🔥 @vuejs tip! Vue 2.6 exposes the Vue reactivity system so you can now more easily create a very basic global store! This is a handy pattern for when you need a few pieces of global state, but Vuex seems a bit too much 😄

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4 years

@chriscoyier My favorite concept within DX is "making the right thing easy". Make the defaults accessible. Make the default config performant. Use defaults with good UX.

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I built my first web app using @remix_run with a Node backend and it was such a nice experience as a developer and helped me produce a fantastic UX. I'm a Vue guy through and through, but Remix makes React look good! Sneak peek coming soon, public release tbd.

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4 years

I think @adamwathan and @steveschoger should allow people to buy a lifetime license to anything they create. I honestly can't imagine them making something that I didn't want to buy. Between Tailwind, Tailwind UI, Refactoring UI, Advanced Vue, they are absolutely killing it! ❤

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3 years

I'm gonna call it: The anti-Tailwind community is behaving with far more toxicity than the Tailwind community 🤷‍♂️

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5 years

#CodeShowcase 4⃣: One thing I love to refactor are functions with a bunch of "if statements". If you're checking a string to return a value, you can refactor this into directly returning the key's value from an object for cleaner, more declarative code!

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3 years

📅 Mark your calendars: tomorrow I'm going to learn XState with @DavidKPiano and we're going to stream it. Come tune in to learn it with me 🙌 We'll go live at 12pm EST on Thursday (Aug. 19)

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3 years

If a genie popped up and gave me one wish, I swear to Bob I would use it to convert the entire JS ecosystem to ES Modules 😐 I'm so done with CommonJS.

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3 years

I just got my own place 😱 and I’m learning to cook for the first time 🙈 Hit me with your favorite recipes, tips, or places to find inspiration!

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4 years

@dabit3 If by partner you mean spouse, then we’d have 100k together because we’ll share finances. And we’d probably decide together to spend 5-10k of it together and individually and then invest the rest 😁

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3 years

@dan_abramov No that's not right 😂 If that's right, then I want to be wrong. Pure doesn't mean it returns the same reference in memory, it means it returns an identical value every time. If it *did* mean that, it would be a worthless definition for practical application

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3 years

Well, seems like a good time to announce that I've recently joined Facebook! 🎉 Not the company, just the app... and yeah I don't like it that much. But still cool!

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9 months

@peterpme This sounds super creepy unless you can see the code example 😂

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3 years

Well, I'm either really good or really bad at freelancing. Today I start my new role as Dev Lead @SteadfastTeam 🎉 I'm super excited to work with such a talented team, and see what we can achieve together!

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5 years

I’m VERY excited to be speaking at Vue Amsterdam about @gridsome ! If you haven’t signed up yet, now’s the time! If you have, see you soon 😁

Vuejs Amsterdam

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5 years

🎉Super excited to add a @gridsome talk by @JakeDohm - Building Blazing 🔥 Fast Sites with #Gridsome A framework built on top of #Vue , that provides you features like pre-rendering, centralized #GraphQL data store, and a plethora of performance and more

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3 years

@adamwathan @saronyitbarek @tailwindcss Tailwind squad, take note: this is the Correct Response™️

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4 years

I've been trying something new where I don't code after dinner 🌯. To achieve this, I get up early (6:30am) and work on side-projects for a couple hours before starting *real* work around 9am. It's been awesome, but I have so many ideas I'm tempted to break my rule tonight 👀

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3 years

Not bought into the Composition API in Vue 3 yet? Not a problem! You can use the Options API for 90% of your component code, and only use the setup() function for custom or 3rd party composables. Tweet inspired by @MichaelThiessen the Vue Wizard.

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@EmmaWedekind The audience isn't waiting for you to fail, they're actually rooting for you, and hoping you succeed! Figuring this out, and reminding myself of it has helped me as a speaker 😄

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4 years

I just said out loud: “just because I’m a web developer doesn’t mean I can ‘fix’ the terrible WiFi”

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9 months

@isaacfink123 @adamwathan No it’s proving that for $84 a month you can ignore the complexity of serverless and make enough money to fund a small company

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4 years

I! Am! Pumped!!

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4 years

Just recorded 30 minutes of a screencast without any audio, AMA 🙈

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6 years

I cannot agree with this enough. In tech, the only thing that spreads faster than a good reputation is a bad reputation. *The* way to set yourself apart as a web developer, is to be thoughtful and kind in your interactions with people.

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It's a small world, be nice to people

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Popular opinion*: @ASpittel is a fantastic person, an incredible dev, and an amazing teacher. I’m so thankful to have you in our community, Ali, you’re the best. *among reasonable people

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4 years

🔥 @vuejs tip: for String props, you can create a one-line validator using an array of values and the includes array method! Gist:

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4 years

Happy Easter, friends! Christ is risen!

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5 years

@rickhanlonii LOL I love how literally no-one is actually reading the tweet 😂

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4 years

I just released my first screencast! 🥳 We'll be putting out videos on @vuejs , @CraftCMS , JavaScript, @tailwindcss , and more, every week! Check out the first one here:

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4 years

My enthusiasm greatly exceeds my talent

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4 years

Just build a website with no build process and a single index.html file. Felt weird. 10/10 would recommend.

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4 years

🥁 Working on this new Vue <Tabs> library. Expect an alpha-release by Monday night. Features will include: ✨ Clean and flexible API ♿️ Full ARIA compliance, so fully accessible 💅 No styling opinions, so you can use it with any CSS framework or library

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4 years

@swilliams GraphQL be like

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4 years

📣 I'm trying to follow more people in the #vuejs community. Who should I follow? Tag someone!

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you should refactor tech debt as you work on features a lot of teams try to "prioritize" reducing tech debt in dedicated sprints, but it rarely happens (as it's hard to describe the value) instead, make it the norm to refactor as you go in crunch time, you can make exceptions

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4 years

There’s been a lot of talk about what “frontend” means these days. I really recommend @chriscoyier ’s talk on this subject that I think is really helpful:

Oops–I guess we're full-stack developers now with Chris Coyier

A few years ago we were front-end developers. These days, as the tools we use to build the web are getting better, easier, and more powerful, we've suddenly…

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6 years

I really love the @code feature that grays out unused variables. It's especially handy when refactoring code to remove a variable. If the variable is gray, you've removed all instances of it's use 👌

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4 years

@EmmaBostian Mac app that doesn't crash 24/7 👀

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3 years

@jensimmons For all of those following along at home: 1) in my experience, almost no one using Tailwind is shipping 12mb of CSS, and Tailwind explicitly warns against using the full build 2) Utility classes are NOT the same as inline styles. There are many many differences (will write more)

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4 years

@chantastic Come hang out in Vue land 😂 _ducks_

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9 months

The hardest part of being a developer is decision making. Making good decisions quickly will make you a 10x developer.

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5 years

For the record this is a new meme format that I stole not an actual convo 😂

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1 year

PLEASE don't put this type of response on your resume. It's never true, and definitely doesn't give me a good impression of your humility and personality.

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4 years

Just created an pre-RFC issue for @vuejs to recommend adding @click .outside. If this is something you'd like to see, go give the issue a 👍

@click.outside to handle clicks outside an element · Issue #167 · vuejs/rfcs

Proposal I would love to be able to write either @click.outside to handle any click outside of an element. This is a common use-case for things like modals or dropdowns that should close when you c...

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8 years

I’m considering heading down to Charlotte tonight to hear @NEEDTOBREATHE again, because the Raleigh concert was so lit. #tourdecompadres2016

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1 year

Just me doing fitness things in @remix_run swag!

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4 years

📦 Whipped up a small composition function in @vuejs to allow me to store a reactive value in localStorage. It works just like `ref()`, except that it persists the value! Code:

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5 years

"Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things." - Steve Jobs

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2 years

@FactsARfacts @ASpittel This tweet is neither knowledgable or a fact. Try again!

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3 years

When creating a Composition Function with @vuejs , it is dangerous to directly return an object created with reactive(), because if users destructure a value, it will lose reactivity. To prevent this, Vue has a toRefs() method which will create an object of refs()

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5 years

@paulaskaggs @cdvillard Mistakenly, don’t you mean acciDENTALly?

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6 years

Oh, hey, my PR adding documentation on how to use @tailwindcss with @gatsbyjs has landed and is in the official Gatsby docs! 🎉 And, by popular request, it covers how to use it with PostCSS *and* CSS-in-JS 😁

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4 years

Welcome, fellow remote workers, to remote-conference-call attire 😂😂🙈

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4 years

#NewProfilePic ! Thanks @MayaShavin for the awesome pic! Reppin’ Vue and @vuejsamsterdam for LYFE. Also isn’t that @cloudinary Vuenicorn the BEST?!

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3 years

Scheduled messages in Slack are my best friend as a manager. When I’m working late, which happens a lot, I’ll schedule messages for the next day so no one’s off-hours are interrupted!

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3 years

Just got @PrettierCode working on a project for the first time in a while and I forgot how much better it makes my life. Not thinking about quotes, semicolons, or whitespace makes my life so happy

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