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wilsonrocks

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Math teacher and union offical turned web developer.

Blog at https://jameswilson.codes

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I'm all in on prettifying... If it's done automatically. I find it such a good tradeoff to not have to think about it that I'm happy to accept the times when I think my discretion would do it better.

That said, I've started to develop strong views on some eslint rules. Usually around things being errors that should be warnings in development, like logging messages or debugger or unused variables. I like to run in CI with max warnings being zero to catch them then.

Learn CSS 5 years ago

I've listened to some of the podcast and it is really good, even in the car where you're highly unlikely to have devtools open.

I've often thought that instead of an expensive coffee machine, ping pong table or playstation, I'd like a tea lady (or tea person as they would/should be called now)

Tea and coffee ought to be a baseline in any office environment imo. I think it'd be worth it for companies to just pay for it, otherwise employees set up a tea club, spend work time doing it and fall out over it.

I used to work with someone who had been a manager in 80s Britain (high unemployment) and he said they threw any applicable in a brown envelope in the bin.

It wasn't about skills or experience or culture fit, but about getting the hiring done in a sane amount of time.

I'm glad you got out!

I find that CEO level bosses (I used to be a teacher so am including heads/principals here) love to pontificate about stuff not related to the job. I've often wondered why. It's sometimes harmless, and clearly,as in your case, sometimes harmful. I do wonder what causes it though.

It sounds a bit like the no-cors request that lets you see if the resource was available but won't let you see anything?

I nearly tried to use it once to try and see if a react app was on an intranet or not, but the client decided they didn't want it.

I am British and really don't like the monarchy, so I disapprove in general.

But if you're going to make a (largely symbolic) gesture like this, it's inexcusable to abandon accessibility.

This isn't even the case. Last season in my country fruits were rotting in the fields cause nobody was there to pick them up. Did farmers increase salaries in order to get more fruit pickers? No.

Sad that this is one of the plot points of The Grapes Of Wrath and is still happening today.