You're Right. It's All Right.

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Hackers: Any time you hear somebody a saying something as if it were gospel, or any time you see a rule, it's not necessarily bad practice. Hacks: Almost always you can find somebody on the flip side of sayingk nows its andi. Understand how this works. All right. I think that's it for our hacks. We have a couple more, and we will save them for a next sode.

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about CSS + JS Hacks that they're ok with using.

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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