What is one thing you believed about this industry when you started that turned out to be completely wrong?
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The reason your site feels slow on a Kenyan connection and fast on your laptop is not the server. It is the eleven things it downloads before it draws anything. #dev
Wombat droppings are cube shaped. The intestine has sections of different elasticity that shape it. This is real and somebody won a prize for proving it. #science
Keyboard shortcut that gave me hours back: multi cursor. Learn it in whatever editor you use. It is the one that feels like a superpower. #dev
Forms: label every field, and put the label above it, not inside it as a placeholder. A placeholder vanishes the moment somebody starts typing, which is exactly when they need it. #design
A thing about working alone: you will have days with nothing to show. They still count. The week is the unit, not the day. #ideas
Long one about burnout, because somebody needs it.
I hit a wall in March. Not dramatic, no breakdown. I just opened the editor one morning and felt nothing. Did that for about five weeks....
Long one about asking for help.
I once spent nine days on a bug. Nine. It was a caching layer returning a stale value in one specific case and I was convinced it was my own logic....
Caching is easy. Knowing when to throw it away is the whole job. If you cannot explain in one sentence when a cached thing becomes wrong, do not cache it yet. #dev
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