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Scott Spence

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@SvelteSociety London events organiser. Svelte ambassador. Engineering Lead @XtendOps I just want to make cool content that helps people!

Kent, UK
Joined February 2016
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1 year
I've updated sveltekit-embed! Embed 3rd party media content in your Svelte projects. Lot's more! It's open source, if you have anything to add PRs are more than welcome! ๐Ÿ˜Š Picked up a few stars too ๐Ÿ™ For a list of supported embeds check out the site ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Okey dokey: Frontend dev: hard Backend dev: hard Writing docs: hard Html/css: hard UI design: hard It's all hard It's also not a competition
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3 years
What type of developer are you?
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2 years
They say "a picture is worth a thousand words" How about using just one word to describe this.
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4 months
Is it just me that straight up prefers raw dogging SQL over using an ORM?
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5 years
So, I've completed a 1000 day streak (nearly three years) of commits to @github . So what? Well I'm now still in the habit of coding on a daily basis, even though I d what I love for a day job too now. #100DaysOfCode * 10
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1 year
Iโ€™ve been coding since 2003 Yes, two thousand and three
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4 years
When you meet a developer and they say they don't use Twitter ๐Ÿ˜‚
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4 years
Shall I leave my @github contributions at leet (1337)?
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3 years
Interviewer: "We use Outlook to share code changes with the rest of the team, are you familiar with this approach?" Me: "Bye"
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7 years
Today marks a #YearOfCommits on my GitHub account! 365 days of contributions to GitHub! ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽŠ #100DaysOfCode helped me so much with forming the habit of coding each day. The community has kept me coming back, so many helpful and supportive people out there. Thank you all ๐Ÿ™
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6 years
I have some awesome news! I have accepted a job offer as a Front End Developer and start next Wednesday (20170307). Thanks to @ossia @freeCodeCamp @ChinguCollabs @wesbos @kentcdodds @mar_biletska @amanhimself and everyone in the #100DaysOfCode community!
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4 years
๐Ÿ‘‹ Hello! Need a frontend dev? ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป We can work together ๐Ÿ‘ โš›๏ธ React, Gatsby, Jamstack, Serverless, JavaScript and many, many more buzzwords and acronyms! Remote! Awww yeah! RTs appreciated โค๏ธ Links ๐Ÿ‘‡
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6 years
Ok, on the 26th of December 2016 was when I thought, "hey I think I should do this #100DaysOfCode thing @ossia is talking about." Today, on the 18th of August 2018 I'm at #100DaysOfCode * 6 ๐Ÿ™ƒ๐ŸŽ‰ Thanks to everyone that's been with me on the ride ๐Ÿ™
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Scott Spence
6 years
All right! 7 * #100DaysOfCode I was mean to tweet this yesterday, but today is just as awesome as I have officially passed my probation at my new role as well!!! Thanks to all the teachers that have inspired me along the way! @avanslaars , @johnlindquist , @kentcdodds , @wesbos
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Scott Spence
2 years
๐Ÿšจ CAREER UPDATE ๐Ÿšจ I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining @storyblok as a developer relations engineer! I start on Monday ๐ŸŽ‰
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Scott Spence
3 years
To all new devs: - Your language of choice is fine. - There is no superior way to format code. - Your IDE is fine. - Your OS is fine. - You do you ๐Ÿ‘
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11 months
Iโ€™m one of the few that have had the privilege to see what @Rich_Harris and the team have been cooking up for Svelte 5. You think Svelte is already awesome? Just wait! Iโ€™m super hyped ๐Ÿคฉ
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6 years
Wheeeeeeeee! 500 days of code! #100DaysOfCode * 5
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4 years
You've installed VS Code on a new machine. What extensions do you install first?
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4 years
Anyone else do DDD? Domain Driven Development Buy the domain, develop around it ๐Ÿคฃ
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Scott Spence
3 years
Here's the changes going from Gatsby to SvelteKit on a project I've been refactoring today! ๐Ÿคฏ Same functionality. I've added more if anything with a theme switch and additional routes!
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Scott Spence
6 years
Got my first paycheck in my new role on Thursday. It's official I'm now a professional front-end web developer! ๐Ÿ‘
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Scott Spence
3 years
To push any commits made locally to GitHub I've started using this. In VS Code I've added this to .vscode/settings.json
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Scott Spence
5 years
Supporting @js_tut being an independent publisher๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘Œ Got me my copy of JavaScript grammar ๐ŸŽ‰
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Scott Spence
1 year
Itโ€™s my birthday, say โ€œhappy birthday Scottโ€ to me It will make me very happy
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5 months
@srsholmes Probably by saying stuff like "I'd like to speak to the manager please!" ๐Ÿ˜‚
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Scott Spence
6 years
These @EffinBirds stickers are a lot larger than I imagined. Also, love the sticker sealing the envelope โค๏ธ๐Ÿ’ฏ
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Scott Spence
4 years
Am I doing this sticker thing right? ๐Ÿ˜‚
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Scott Spence
5 years
It's may birthday, yas!! I'll accept likes, retweets and bitcoin!!
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Scott Spence
1 year
*installs app* *opens app* First screen โ€œRATE THE APP ON THE APPS STOREโ€ *closes app* *uninstalls app* ๐Ÿ˜‚
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Scott Spence
3 years
Real quick! I was discussing this with @catalinmpit and thought I'd share! Same component, does the same thing. First image React the next one is Svelte. This was one of the big "aha!" moments for me coming from React. Take a look at the code in the next tweet!
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Scott Spence
5 months
@ladyofcode I was going through my notifications and was, like "Oh! Awesome, a repones to my issue I logged" No, was a clown expecting real time support tagging in anyone he could find ๐Ÿ˜‚
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Scott Spence
3 years
What are you working on right now? Please drop a link below ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Scott Spence
6 years
2 years of GitHub commits!
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Scott Spence
3 years
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! Super excited to announce that I'm joining the @GraphCMS developer relations team as a Developer Advocate! ๐Ÿ•บ I will be working with the awesome @notrab , @ynnoj and @gunnyganatra Cant wait!!! ๐Ÿฅณ
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Scott Spence
3 years
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Scott Spence
7 years
Day 200! #100DaysOfCode I will admit the last few weeks haven't been the most productive ๐Ÿ™ƒ
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4 years
What OS do you dev in?
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Scott Spence
3 years
New programmers, take note: When you read "simple", "intuitive" or "easy" the author very frequently means "familiar to me"
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Scott Spence
6 years
Just noticed @gatsbyjs has passed 30k โญ's on @github Well done @kylemathews , @jlengstorf , @chrisbiscardi , @SchauDustin and the rest of the team ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘
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11 months
@fuckyouiquit **taps on shoulder** Not having lunch are you? I just wanted to ask you a the quarterly sales figures, letโ€™s have a chat about it now.
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Scott Spence
6 years
#100DaysOfCode fam, please don't be discouraged and feel you need to reset the ๐Ÿ’ฏ days because you missed a day, it's about building the habit, pick up where you left off and carry on. It's tough enough learning all the things, try to be consistent and the results will come.โ™ฅ๏ธ
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Scott Spence
5 years
This is what I want to see, I have gone to a bit of effort to give recruiters what they want so they don't have to waste their time on the phone to me. The CV is basically a faq, here:
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Scott Spence
2 years
I've released sveltekit-embed. Embed 3rd party media content in your Svelte projects. Currently supports: - Twitter tweet - Spotify - YouTube - Anchor - Buzzsprout - Deezer - Simple Cast - Vimeo It's open source, if you have anything to add PRs are more than welcome! ๐Ÿ˜Š
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Scott Spence
4 years
My wife is being made redundant after 15 years of service. ๐Ÿ˜ข If anyone is after an IT Project manager (Prince 2 certified) in the London area with a high level of expertise around POS systems HMU ๐Ÿ™ RTs appreciated too ๐Ÿ‘
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Scott Spence
1 year
When you get that response from the API youโ€™ve been trying to hit all afternoon ๐Ÿ˜Š
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Scott Spence
2 years
PSA: I'm open to work! Need some SvelteKit content? We can work together ๐Ÿ‘ Remote?! Awww yeah! RTs appreciated โค๏ธ DMs are open Links and credentials ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Scott Spence
2 years
The classic using state hook in React and the same using Svelte. Which one do you prefer?
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Scott Spence
4 years
I'm now going to be referring to parenthesis in coding as these now: - Curly Boi's = {} - Round Boi's = () - Square Boi's = [] Thanks to @cassiecodes for gifting this to us all on @LWJShow with @jlengstorf when talking about making interactive SVG animations with Greensock
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Scott Spence
4 years
ITS MY BIRTHDAY!!!!! โœ… Birthday shirt โœ… Beer
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Scott Spence
5 years
I know I've mentioned it but haven't actually asked. Would anyone be interested if I were to make a video series for creating a developer blog with Gatsby MDX, to include syntax highlighting, SEO, XML feed and commenting? It'll be a series, not sure how long.
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Scott Spence
3 years
Today is my first day on the job as a Developer Advocate for @GraphCMS ! Super excited to be working with such an awesome and talented team. ๐Ÿ”ฅ
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Scott Spence
5 years
When is 48 days from now? That will be a 1000 day streak of @github commits from me. I did do this as #100DaysOfCode then just didn't stop committing.
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Scott Spence
3 years
๐ŸšจGiveaway !๐Ÿšจ Ok sweet! I have 10 licenses for the @wesbos Advanced React (NextJS) and GraphQL course to giveaway! I have been waiting for this refresh and it is ๐Ÿ”ฅ Build an online store with Next.js and GraphQL this is a massive course! More details in next tweet ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Scott Spence
1 year
@fireship_dev With WSL, of course
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1 year
Since starting with SvelteKit, almost 2 years ago now. Iโ€™ve progressively gone through the vast majority of the repos on my GitHub and converted them to SvelteKit Iโ€™ve learned so much doing these! ๐Ÿ˜ Hereโ€™s a list of projects you can take a look at if youโ€™re interested ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Scott Spence
3 years
๐Ÿšจ Giveaway! ๐Ÿšจ I am giving away five copies of @traversymedia 's course "Next.js Dev to Deployment"! ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ I'll be picking the winners from the newsletter subscribers list later this evening. New and existing subscribers are in it to win it. More details in the next tweet ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Scott Spence
2 years
Got my kit bundle for starting my new role on Monday with @storyblok ๐Ÿฅณ
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1 year
I know this is just a discord role But this means a lot to me ๐Ÿ˜Š
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Scott Spence
5 years
Ok #100DaysOfCode * 9! The next milestone for me will be Sunday 22 September 2019 for 1k days of GitHub commits. Obligatory mention of all the Twitter influencers thanking them for their content that has helped me along the way to raise the tweet profile, etc. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ
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3 years
Closing 30 browser tabs when you've resolved the issue that's been driving you mad for the last four hours! ๐Ÿ˜‚
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5 years
My wife isn't approving of me getting this card for my brother. He's 48
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3 years
Hi ๐Ÿ‘‹ if you are interested in: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Frontend Development ๐Ÿ’ป Svelte ๐ŸŒฎ Tacos ๐Ÿฅ Stuff I get from the bakers Follow me. โœ” I'm planning on using Twitter to share a lot of content that you won't want to miss. ๐ŸŽ‰
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4 years
Initialising a new project with git? Don't want the default branch to be master? Do this: git init git checkout -b main You're welcome ๐Ÿ‘
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The classic using state hook in React and the same using Svelte. Which one do you prefer?
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Scott Spence
4 years
not bad!
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2 years
I'll be leaving GraphCMS at the end of July. Not my decision - I enjoyed the ride while it lasted. Currently looking for a new role in the dev rel space, working with Svelte. We can work together ๐Ÿ‘ Remote! Awww yeah! RTs appreciated โค๏ธ Links ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Scott Spence
3 years
English is hard! I think a retired English teacher was bored with these! I take no credit for them, there's a lot to go through as well! This must have took a lot of work to put together! Enjoy! ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Scott Spence
3 years
I pick up loads of handy little bits of code from watching other people do their thing. Want to set the node version on your project with nvm? This one is from @jlengstorf and @chrisbiscardi
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Scott Spence
2 years
Little thread about how awesome OBS is. OBS (Open Broadcast Software) is used by lots of content creators for making Twitch, YouTube, Facebook streams and screen recorded videos. There are other tools for recording your screen but none are as versatile as OBS. More ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Me watching @DThompsonDev 's talk at @RenderATL and I paused the video and got strong Bane vibes! ๐Ÿ˜‚ Decided to meme it
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2 years
After nearly 14 as an Android user I'm moving to the dark side, iPhone
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2 years
Wheeeeeeeeeeee!!! I'm at 1k subscribers on YouTube! That's a big milestone ๐Ÿ˜Š yay!
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Scott Spence
1 year
Hello tech friends :)
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Scott Spence
10 months
I'm delighted to announce that I started a new role as an Application Team Lead @xtendops Working with SvelteKit at scale with an awesome team! This is my third week ๐Ÿ˜…
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Scott Spence
6 years
It took me 32 tabs to fix a bug! How many tabs did it take you last time?
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Scott Spence
3 years
Want to get familiar with the framework that took the top spot for most loved framework on the Stack Overflow developer survey in 2021? I made a SvelteKit project with Tailwind CSS and DaisyUI. Covering Svelte directives and endpoints for getting server data. Linky ๐Ÿ‘‡
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5 years
First up I apologise for using Twitter to self promote. Also, if you didn't know already I have made a comprehensive guide on how to building a blog with @gatsbyjs and MDX. I'll link the YouTue playlist, please consider liking and subscribing.
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Scott Spence
4 years
@_marcba If I'm wrong then correct me but I think these are all done by @lynnandtonic Check out her site on a desktop with responsive mode enabled and resize the window ๐Ÿ‘
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7 months
Hey folks! @SvelteSociety London next year is getting off to a great start! 4th January @Cloudflare 18:30-21:00 @Rich_Harris and @evilpingwin will be speaking Link in next post ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Scott Spence
2 years
Add Tailwind CSS to your Svelte projects. The Svelte Add project makes this a literal one line config command. I replace the default styles with Tailwind CSS classes so if you've not worked with Tailwind before it'll give you an idea of how to work with it. Resources/Courses๐Ÿ‘‡
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7 months
Oh lawd he here!! @Rich_Harris is @SvelteSociety London ๐Ÿฅณ
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Scott Spence
9 months
Let's see if this works, Dear X algorithm, it's been a while since I made new connections here, would you please send me people who love- - SvelteKit - Full Stack shenanigans - Engineering management ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ป - D&B ๐ŸŽต - Cats ๐Ÿˆ - JavaScript - Coffee โ˜•
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4 years
Just hit 5k followers Thanks for following y'all โค๏ธ
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2 years
@florinpop1705 How about 8 hours? Yes, Svelte and SvelteKit rules!
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I built this landing page in 8 hours ๐Ÿ‘‡๏ธ With these tools: 1. DaisyUI ๐Ÿ‘‰๏ธ components 2. Hypercolor . dev ๐Ÿ‘‰๏ธ gradients 3. Dribbble ๐Ÿ‘‰๏ธ inspiration 4. @AWSAmplify ๐Ÿ‘‰๏ธ serverless hosting 5. Sveltekit ๐Ÿ‘‰๏ธ html/css 6. Typehero . ai ๐Ÿ‘‰๏ธ content
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4 years
I've been a professional web developer for over two years now, getting a new job is super taxing, especially in COVID times. If you're a new bootcamp grad, share your portfolio below and I'd be happy to take a look and share it out!
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Scott Spence
3 years
Super excited about a post I've got coming up! Make your developer portfolio and blog with @sveltejs , @GraphCMS , @tailwindcss and daisyUI! Over 10k words and 33 sections! ๐Ÿ˜ฌ Complete guide, from hello world to deploying to production! Check the demo ๐Ÿ‘‡ #100DaysOfCode
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Scott Spence
2 years
It's my birthday ๐Ÿฅณ I'll accept: - ice cold beer ๐Ÿบ - pineapple on pizza ๐Ÿ• - bitcoin, in cash Thanks ๐Ÿ˜Š
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If it wasnโ€™t for @ossia and what he created with @freeCodeCamp I donโ€™t think Iโ€™d be where I am today. Immense gratitude for what he and the team have created over the years ๐Ÿ˜
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9 years ago, I sat down at this desk in my closet and built the first version of @freeCodeCamp . Today I'm just one of thousands of developers and teachers contributing to the freeCodeCamp community. It's an honor and a privilege to be among so many thoughtful people. ๐Ÿ•๏ธ
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2 years
In two weeks @SvelteSociety London are being hosted by @MSFTReactor at #ReactorLondon This will be a hybrid event, so, in person and online! @Rich_Harris will be doing a talk on "Mistakes we made building SvelteKit" If you want to attend then check out the Guild link ๐Ÿ‘‡
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3 years
This was an actual question when I was interviewing for a large American bank in 2014. We actually did that as well, I didn't say bye I worked there for just over a year. When I challenged the approach I was told that source control (TFS maybe??) would be too time consuming.๐Ÿ˜‚
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10 months
It's HERE! Go check out the post with a explainer video from @Rich_Harris on Svelte 5 with using runes!
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Scott Spence
3 years
Are you a content creator that wants to share your key strokes when recording code?๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป Checkout the Toggle Screencast Mode on VS @code I've added the toggle to my keybindings so I can quickly toggle it now ๐Ÿ”ฅ There's a load of other settings detailed ๐Ÿ‘‡
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5 years
Ok, how do I set up a MacBook Pro for webdev? I know I need: - Homebrew - Hyper - Node Is there anything I need to do before that?
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Scott Spence
4 years
Programmers Life!
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4 years
My day just got a little bit more awesome! Thanks for following @traversymedia ๐Ÿ™ Thanks for all the awesome content sir ๐Ÿ‘
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