Hot tips are spicy lil' nuggets related to web development and tooling that I share on my twitter account. I've logged them here to make them easier to find.
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🔥 Use CSS :where() to select multiple children inside a parent selector.
:where()
Super handy for H1 → H6 and selecting all inputs inside a form.
🔥 Since Arrays are Objects in JavaScript, you can use object destructuring on an array to get values like first, middle and last.
first
middle
last
🔥 Ever try sort a list of strings, but get tripped up by capitals and accented characters?
Use JavaScript’s Collator API!
🔥 3 neat things you can do with Array destructuring in JavaScript
I got banned from LinkedIn for writing JS 😆
🔥 Stop using rm -rf to delete files on your computer.
rm -rf
Use trash instead
trash
🔥 Make a webcam photobooth app in about 15 lines of JavaScript
🔥 Format relative time amounts - like "2 seconds ago" - with the JS Intl.RelativeTimeFormat() API
Intl.RelativeTimeFormat()
🔥 Use TypeScript's never to enforce "one or the other" properties on a type
never
🔥 Emojis like 👨👧👦 and 🎅🏿 are actually made up of multiple emojis and a special character called a “Zero Width Joiner”
Does Code Quality Matter Anymore?
I thought I was done having holy shit AI moments
I had claude convert one of my favourite photoshop actions to a python script
It's even better than using the photoshop action because I can describe "Ah, too much chatter" and it knows which knob to turn