I agree. I'm always really impressed when I see someone giving a talk in a language that's not their own.

It can be difficult at times.

Shoutout to all the speakers I know for whom English is not a first language, but can STILL explain a concept well. It's hard enough to give a good talk in your mother tongue!

Sometimes you have to sacrifice simplicity for power.

I hope one day the propTypes pendulum swings back. Such a simple yet effective API. Was one of my favorite parts of React.

Want to work at Facebook/Google/:BigCompany? Start contributing code long before you ever interview there.

Puppies are the best.

Puppies 101: buy a hamper with a lid on it.

Also trashcans. Learned this the hard way.

The idea of best practices being a negative thing is an interesting concept.

Is there a metric like code coverage, but that shows lines that, if changed (in a syntactically correct way), wouldn’t cause tests to fail?

React came out 'rethinking best practices'. It has since accumulated 'best practices' of its own. Let’s see if we can do better.

Too relatable

I think I realized I like dogs so much because I can really relate to being motivated by snacks

Maybe the real benefit of open source was the friendships we made along the way?

A 7-minute Paul Joseph Watson video being translated and aired by a Russian state TV channel is the most surreal thing I’ve seen in 2018 yet

Talking less about the downsides of OSS and focusing on some of the huge potential upsides for once might just help get more people into it.

This is a great idea.

By the way, if you have a blog post sitting around and want to get some eyes on it, we take guest submissions! That's how I started.

Just DMd you!