Matthew Lein

Welp *slaps knee* better get on my way now. 🦋 really hit a critical mass recently, come join us, it's really nice! bsky.app/profile/matthewlein…

After months of training, Copilot finally understands how I write classes.

I’m discussing code changes in my pull request with a robot. I love 2023

Wow, ChatGPT makes hiring much much more difficult and time consuming.

TIL safari does not like top: -99999% in some weird cases It’s ok with -59999% though so we’re cool

My vote for most absurd JS method name: atob() Close second for btoa() developer.mozilla.org/en-US/…

TIL js has or equals (||=) and nullish equals (??=) operators. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/…

Around this time, 20 years ago, I published my first website—a band page on a free cjb.net subdomain, awful flash animation and all.

YIL: On m1 macs, you need to install older versions of node (<15) using shell sessions(?) that are launched in rosetta, or they will be crazy slow. Here's helped me: jurnalanas.com/node-js-mac-m…

And now reflecting on how dev has changed in 10 years...its so good now! Sure I have issues like everyone, but overall its amazing. All the browsers are evergreen. I barely ever have to check cross browser issues. CSS layout is so so much better. So good.

10 years ago today, I opened my first PR on a public open source library (adding touch events to a jQuery plugin). Sadly, it sat without author comment for all 10 years of its life. I did help at least 1 person, so I guess it was mission accomplished.