CSS + JS Hacks We’re Fine With

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

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🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about CSS + JS Hacks that they're ok with using. Sponsor - Freshbooks Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the "How did you hear about us?" section. Sponsor - Sentry If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Show Notes 00:53 What are the things in web dev, that feel wrong or hacky when starting out, but are actually totally accepted to do? 02:09 Sponsor: Sentry 03:12 Sponsor: Freshbooks 05:32 Negative margins in CSS 07:53 Not Passing a radix to parseInt() 10:17 -50% translation 50% direction 11:27 Overwriting Arguments in a function 13:20 non-standard-element 17:26 Button must have a type 18:56 Triangles out of borders 20:40 Overflow:hidden to clear a float 20:55 Always pass noopener to links! 22:16 Inline styles Tweet us your tasty treats Scott's Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes' Instagram Wes' Twitter Wes' Facebook Scott's Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	Monday! Monday! Monday! Open wide dev fans! Get ready! To stuff your face with
0:07.0	JavaScript CSS! Node modules! Barbecue tips! Get workflow! Break dancing! Soft skills!
0:12.0	Web development! The hastiest! The Carrazius! The tastiest! Web development
0:17.0	treats! Coming in hot! Here is Wes! Barakuda! Boss! And Scott El Torro Lugo!
0:24.0	Tolinsky!
0:27.0	Welcome to syntax in this Monday hasty treat. I should say Monday hacky treat.
0:33.0	We're going to be talking about CSS JavaScript and HTML hacks were both
0:38.0	fine with and not fine with to some degree. My name is Scott Tolinsky. I'm a developer
0:43.0	from Denver, Colorado. And with me, as always, is Wes Boss.
0:47.0	Hey, I'm excited about this one. We specifically had somebody send
0:52.0	in a question to our potlock, being like, maybe I should just read it really
0:57.0	quickly before we get into sponsors, because I think it gives some context.
1:00.0	What are things in Web dev that you feel are wrong or hacky when starting out,
1:05.0	but are actually totally accepted to do, i.e. negative margins in CSS.
1:09.0	And I'm sure there are better examples. So Toby from Switzerland sent that one in
1:13.0	I thought that would be a fun episode, because there certainly are, as I become
1:18.0	a better developer, and as you see other devs become more comfortable in their skill
1:23.0	set, there's a lot of times you see whether it's ESLint rules or just like,
1:27.0	like sort of this gospel that you used to believe, you get a battery like, eh, it's fine.
1:33.0	It's fine. Yeah, I know there's definitely some of these things.
1:37.0	Like I said, I'm okay with them to some degree and to not degree others,
1:42.0	but there's a lot of these things that maybe we can have several episodes
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