Do what every developer does: blame other people

Nick Nisi, Suz Hinton, and Jerod Santo talk about their debugging methods, the cool things that JavaScript can do but isn’t talked about much, and their opinions on Git history.

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Featuring:

• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• visionmedia/debug

Uniquify an array

let foo = [1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5];
foo = [...new Set(foo)];

Destructuring assignment using regular expressions

const [, year, month, day ] = '2018-06-14'.match(/^(\d{1,4})-(\d{1,2})-(\d{1,2})$/)

• How (and why!) to keep your Git commit history clean | GitLab

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