Notes

git checkout becoming git switch & git restore. This makes so much more sense. 👍👍 git checkout has too many responsibilities. It's used for both switching branches, and for restoring individual files to a previous state.So in git 2.23, it's being split into two distinct commands:git switch & git restoreA...

Things were better in 2005. Just ask @TalkScript @JSConfUS and @pottedmeat 🧐😉🧐 React, TypeScript, and Prettier are some of the best things that happened in frontend development in recent years. I cannot imagine going back.— Marius Schulz (@mariusschulz) August 16, 2019

Interesting idea to expose the focus functionality of browsers. Let’s make Browser Focus work for us… Spread the word about the Focus Traversal API Proposal!https://t.co/wqkVUU1PsY#FocusTraversalAPI #JavaScript #Web #JSConfUS— R. I. (@areinet) August 12, 2019

It was cool to see a working prototype of a dynamic braille device. Glad to people working on making technology more accessible. github.com/braillejs twitter.com/sammenza/statu…

I’m excited to join some of my @sitepen coworkers at @JSConfUS 2019!

Ethiopia is doing some pretty amazing work to make the land more drought resistant. Amazing stuff. twitter.com/beza_y/status/…

Do people still click on the “Like” button? There is no need to have Facebook watching every page. Companies using Facebook 'Like' button liable for data: EU court https://t.co/fM3EyrZ6nL pic.twitter.com/bpMEpao6j7— Reuters (@Reuters) July 29, 2019

Thanks for letting me get on my soapbox.

It’s actually nice to not have so many plastic bags and trash. Unfortunately right now reducing our own waste requires questioning a lot of what is suggested in the store.

“…the rising popularity of clamshell containers, for example, means that foods that could have gone to compost or animal feed may instead go to landfill because distributors and retailers would have to pay someone to remove the plastic.”

Also, composting is a great way to reduce trash, separate the smelly stuff, and put nutrients back in the ecosystem. Plastic packaging gets in the way of that.

Can we stop letting retailers convince us to spend more money to potentially save a few cents that actually end up in the trash? “Buying six heads of lettuce from Costco seems like a good deal—until you throw out most of them a few weeks later.”

As consumers we don’t have much influence over a lot of this but we still can encourage a system that extracts more value from what we’ve already harvested.

We often don’t think about it, but food waste exists from collection, to retail, to consumer, to disposal. “From the moment a fisher lands a fish to the moment that fish lands on your plate, 27 percent of it will disappear.” hakaimagazine.com/features/waste…

@DevinCG Also, don’t be afraid to make mistakes. Sometimes a plant will stress out and lose leaves. Sometimes you’ll figure it out in time for it to recover, sometimes not. You still can learn from that.