Mengqi Zhu @treeforever7

Web developer Toronto, Ontario Joined August 2013

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Mengqi Zhu @treeforever7

5 years ago

Just opened up an old project. It is too cute

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Got really nostalgia for the time I spent on Curriculum Associates project. I poured my heart in the code...but funny that I forgot all of it until I opened that project and saw my commits, notes and other authors' names that just remind me we don't work together any more. So sad

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Mengqi Zhu @treeforever7

5 years ago

Wow this is probably my best result so far on Leetcode. Medium difficulty. Didn't need to think too long for this solution. This is rare for me:

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Mengqi Zhu @treeforever7

5 years ago

I really like how Stephen Grider (a software development instructor on Udemy) draws so many diagram just to preemptively answer any question that an online student may have. So thoughtful!🙏

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Mengqi Zhu @treeforever7

5 years ago

Learnt a few things from best practices on css architecture. 1. Better use classes than ids, since there's always going to be duplicate of that component without you realizing it. 2. Maintain a strict mapping between namespaces and file names so finding a file is easy.

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Mengqi Zhu @treeforever7

5 years ago

Very reliable tutorial to set up postgresSQL with Node.js using CLI pg blog.logrocket.com/setting-up-a-r…

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Mengqi Zhu @treeforever7

5 years ago

Heard a phrase today: good developers are always lazy. Meaning that they will automate everything that they could. Never repeat a thing or do something unnecessary. 😉

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Mengqi Zhu @treeforever7

5 years ago

Learning of the day: measuring and changing size/position of elements cause dom reflow and then repaint, therefore they are costly. It's called layout thrashing. From Frontend master: Javascript Performance course

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Yehuda Katz @wycats

8 years ago

Front end software development is: - real-time (instant load, 60fps) - distributed, incremental (synchronize remote data as needed) - asynchronous - reactive (react to user actions in realtime) Front end is the hardest kind of dev I do. The folks who do it every day are heroes.

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Mengqi Zhu @treeforever7

5 years ago

Chrome is turning into the new Internet Explorer 6 bit.ly/2z6XW4P If we only develop, test apps on Chrome, we are doing injustice to users who use other browsers. At the same time, we are complices to close the web.

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Mengqi Zhu @treeforever7

5 years ago

Is there any value in people who cannot write JavaScript? by @Mandy_Kerr link.medium.com/GfDKKHeM46 I imagine there should be something out there says: yeah what you know and want to know is enough. Just keep digging things you like, don't worry about having to be fullstack.

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Mengqi Zhu @treeforever7

5 years ago

Nowadays, I frequently ask myself: can I explain xxxx concept in layman terms? Then I often find my own understanding vague and having blind spots. For example: what is npm?

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Mengqi Zhu @treeforever7

5 years ago

Always spent some time researching how to center a div horizontally/vertically. This article compiles a list of tricks. A few of them I've never used: tipue.com/blog/center-a-…

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Mengqi Zhu @treeforever7

5 years ago

Wow this is the correct use of the web! Visually and audibly presented: music history pudding.cool/projects/music…

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Mengqi Zhu @treeforever7

5 years ago

Just found out Pudding website, which always talk about interesting topics with visuals. That means a lot of Javascript-enabled interactivity and D3 usage! What Does the Path to Fame Look Like? pudding.cool/2018/10/wiki-b…

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Mengqi Zhu @treeforever7

5 years ago

(following my last post...) Promise.all is equally good. Source @udemy course: The Advanced Web Developer Bootcamp 👍

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Mengqi Zhu @treeforever7

5 years ago

Wow I just learnt a great trick about async/await in Javascript: instead of having "await" right away on multiple async calls, call them in parallel first and "await" on their results later. Better than "first call -> await first answer -> second call -> await second answer"!😛