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Benjamin Read @muzzlehatch_

Hi 👋 I’m Ben and I don’t know enough about anything. Software Engineer & DevRel. Teaching kids to code 🙇 Not here often, subscribe to my RSS feed instead ♻

Joined December 2010
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Homeschooling and remote work means I get to have lunch with my kids every day. I can't imagine not having that.
Kent C. Dodds 🏹
@kentcdodds
11 Sep 2023
homeschool is great. I was homeschooled in the 5th grade, and it completely changed my work ethic. I would wake up at 5am and get all my schoolwork finished by 9 so I could do whatever I wanted all day every day. I discovered the freedom of just getting stuff done that year.
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Typescript is fine. JavaScript is fine. But whichever way, if someone else is going to use your code it's probably best to have some form of contract.
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Emma Dawson@EmmaDawsonDev
5 Sep 2023
Last night I was watching a conference talk called how to make accessible react components and the first piece of advice was to use aria roles like this <div role=button>click</div> 😭 Please don’t do this.
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Deeply saddened by this news, Molly was a real groundbreaker. Someone who saw opportunities for friendship where others only saw rivalry.
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Load up your reading list with these if you're just getting into this web thing: esif.dev/

Educational Sensational Inspirational Foundational

A historical record of foundational web development blog posts.

esif.dev
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Just saw The Road Home and loved it, laughed out loud and I don't mind admitting I shed a few tears. If you're new to Babylon 5, there's plenty for you, but it satisfied me as a long time fan as well. Great job to everyone, and as always awesome writing from @straczynski
Warner Bros. Entertainment
@WBHomeEnt
14 Aug 2023
An epic past, an exciting future - brush up on BABYLON 5 in 90 seconds before watching #B5AnimatedMovie tomorrow!
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(Although for a minute there I was afraid it was going to be about reuniting Sheridan with his blue socks)
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Babylon 5: Sockmageddon
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Oh look. More rain.
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Yikes.
shadcn
@shadcn
25 Jun 2023
One more thing... 🤯
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With great difficulty.
Yoav Ganbar
@HamatoYogi
21 Jun 2023
Question for y'all veteran CSS folks: How would you build this layout back in the day (before flex and grid)?
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I'm finding VSCode's support for JSDoc sadly lacking. Loads of errors reported by a colleague who's using WebStorm, and I cannot find a way to configure VSCode to show them up.
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Update on this: I just used WebStorm and it missed some things. Use TypeScript where you can people, it's a jungle out here.
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Dull Lass On The Train@AmandaJDee
15 Jun 2023
The trailer for the animated Babylon 5 movie is up on Amazon. It's a good sci fi day today amazon.co.uk/Babylon-5-Road-…

Babylon 5: The Road Home

The Babylon 5 saga continues! Travel the galaxy with John Sheridan who finds himself transported through multiple timelines and alternate realities in a quest to return home.

amazon.co.uk
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J. Michael Straczynski@straczynski
14 Jun 2023
#BABYON5 folks! RETWEET! SPREAD THE WORD! Tomorrow, 6/15, Warner Bros. Animation and WB Home Ent. will release all the information about the coming #B5AnimatedMovie including release date, rating, extras, how to get it and THE FULL LENGTH TRAILER 👀👀! Here's a sneak peek....
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❓Is javascript-native JSDoc better than TypeScript? I've been using it for a few months, and here's what I've found. deliciousreverie.co.uk/posts… #javascript #typescript #jsdoc

Is JSDoc Better Than TypeScript? A Real World Example - Delicious Reverie

Benjamin Read's code garden.

deliciousreverie.co.uk
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Ha. I just spent all my spare time over the past week or so configuring a plugin for @Netlify to skip builds on my @NxDevTools monorepo, only to realise I can't use it because it doesn't know if the content on my CMS for that project has changed or not. 🤦‍♂️
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Whilst I'm at it, @Netlify is there any way to update this blog post? It's got great info but is a little out of date and a bit confusing when it goes off on a slight tangeant towards the end. levelup-styleguide.netlify.a…
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As someone who likes both software and literature please can we stop naming software after literature, I’m getting so confused.
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More does not equal more. I’ve seen this effect before where a company had 3 products but hundreds of pages explaining it in every detail. The complexity was drowning the product.
Bryan Casey
@bryanfcasey
20 May 2023
Over the last 9 months we’ve deleted close to 80% of the marketing footprint off ibm.com. Tens of thousands of pages. The result is that traffic, conversion and all our experience and NPS metrics are up. It was a gross project but I’ll tell you about it.
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