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 ♻
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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>
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Please don’t do this.
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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-…
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#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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This is why I love typescript. Literally passed every stage of the build EXCEPT Typescript!
Just saved me from a HUGE mistake that would have been caught in a later stage of the process.
Also my fault for not running one extra build locally after I made a small change!
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Not all blind people use screen readers. Not all screen reader users are blind.
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Look, I'm likely preaching to the choir: but if you haven't already seen #Babylon5 please listen to my full-throated recommendation. This is toe-curlingly excellent storytelling and dizzying in its scope yet somehow grounded and wonderfully human and humane.
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And now I am reading:
smashingmagazine.com/2020/11…
Seems like the answer is to go with try/catch!
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The `Intl` object in JS is so valuable, yet so underutilized
Learn how to generate friendly relative time strings from a given date - like "in 10 minutes" or "last week" or "tomorrow" - with 0 dependencies in my latest blog post: builder.io/blog/relative-tim…
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I am hoping to get a DevRel role this year and I have rebuilt my portfolio for that.
Please check it out and tell me what you think.
tammibriggs-portfolio.com/
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Let's talk about it!
teapaw.org/BHolmesDev/status/1613…
Is frontend web dev a MESS?
The amount of options and best practices are overwhelming... but it's the nature of any growing industry. Here's why 👀
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Benjamin Read retweeted
I saw a few examples of the new "satisfies" operator in typescript but it didn't click for me until I used it like this in my @prisma queries 👇 it's 🔥
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Did @solid_js Start SOLVE routing??
File-based routing only gets you (..)part(..)/ of the way. Let's see how Solid makes hybrid approaches and config-based routing easy 💪
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While I may have been affected by the layoffs @Netlify, I still believe in their motto of “Build a better web”. I am currently looking for my next opportunity to do just that! Here’s what I bring to the table 👇
Resume: tinyurl.com/brittneypostma
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Will the real #serverless please stand up? Serverless unlocks developers! #fakeserverless is diluting it into a marketing term. @NoSQLKnowHow and I present the @momentohq litmus test for serverless 👇
gomomento.co/3Oh4ZtN
Benjamin Read retweeted
there's a faddish strain of thought leadership that treats any client-side javascript as a toxic substance, and it's really quite misguided. as usual, there's nuance: as with accidental vs intrinsic complexity, there's a distinction between excessive and useful JS.
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The Tripitaka Koreana - carved on 81258 woodblocks in the 13th century - is the most successful large data transfer over time yet achieved by humankind. 52 million characters of information, transmitted over nearly 8 centuries with zero data loss - an unequalled achievement. 1/
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To all #typescript gurus out there, is there a way to achieve this? I need return type keys to be generated based on the input string. Thanks!
