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Thoughts lately

What does it mean to manage a product?

aka. How to evaluate the value that is present in an existing product

Ask yourself:

What have we built from a deconstruction and page type perspective?

• list page

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As an app owner/maintainer how do I know that the user is not a bot?

5 senses

1. see

   • organizer takes a video of checkpoint and then user takes a video of
   • participant takes a video of same checkpoint (video has to be different but still valid)

2. smell

3. hear

4. touch

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https://github.com/dustinspecker/awesome-eslint?tab=readme-ov-file#configs-by-well-known-companiesorganizations

Javascript React Project

Typescript React Project

Diff the configs:

npm init

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Boolean() or !! (double bang, double negation)?

What's the best way to answer the question "true or false?" in JavaScript

JavaScript does not bother you too much with types (at first), which is both a blessing and a cure. But we all know the Boolean type. Boolean variables can either be true or false. Yes or no.

Every value in JavaScript can be translated into a boolean, true or false. Values that translate to true are truthy, values that translate to false are falsy. Simple.

This is about two ways to make that translation.

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Filling some Typescript gaps:

The longer you have been around, the more the landscape shifts.
We often learn just enough to move forward.
You might even study intently.
But then, you may have studied and learned a feature set that has since had more features published/released.

Looking at some tan-stack table code today ran into some typescript that was foreign to myself: link.

According to the typescript docs this is called optional-element-access, which lets you access both objects and arrays with strings and/or numbers.

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Had a fun thought today around teaching others.

Curious to see if anyone violently disagrees. 🙂
Or violently agrees. Or has a more tempered reaction or adjacent take.
Feel free to post in the comments.

My hot take on learning/teaching things to set people up for success:

The key thing for you with learning typescript is to keep it as simple as possible.

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Your challenge, If you choose to accept...
(mission impossible music)

This is going to be a weird assignment. For now a week long effort and we re-evaluate at the end of the week.

If you accomplishing one thing would be huge. I am just going to throw a ton of stuff at you and see where we end up. I will also probably be involved at some points working on stuff.

Terms

1. pick up time around 7am? (negotiable, also I might oversleep 😅)
2. we work from the home office (I will have it all clean)
3. when we go out for coffee or lunch I can buy.
4. end the day

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Ruby Journey

A quick ruby journey on a saturday

Commands:

brew install rbenv
brew upgrade ruby-build
rbenv install 3.4.1
rbenv global 3.4.1

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Extensible Markup Language is a strict serialization of the Document Object Model:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XML

Using this browser api DOMParser() you can parsing xml uses a node system that is similar to parsing html:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLDocument
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/DOMParser

Google: domparser example xml
https://stackoverflow.com/a/58279236/5283424

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In the immortal words of Rick and Morty:

Don't ... mess ... with ... time!!

Response: I will mess with time!, I will mess with time.

Disclaimer, all dates were run in macOs Chrome browser console. Your mileage may vary.

It started with a simple question I asked myself around dates.