



Joe’s voice sounds funny, Allen has a theme, and Michael pours one out for Media Play as Michael’s and Allen’s impersonation of Joe is on point (#NailedIt).

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Survey Says

Anonymous Vote Sign in with Wordpress Does having multiple monitors improve your productivity? Absolutely. And on the bright side (pun), I get to work on my tan from all of the extra UV light.

No. But it can be a nice luxury.

It depends on the codebase. The smellier the code, the more monitors I need. That and air fresheners. vote

News

We take a moment to thank everyone that left us a review: iTunes: Detroit++, Joel F, ArdeChris Stitcher: ARHelgens, ThisWouldntFitWithSpaces, Beemo, nekorawesh, jcartee

New Docker and Kubernetes Community Talk now available (YouTube).

Allen will be speaking at Microsoft Ignite, Sept 24-28 in Orlando, FL.

Thunder Talks

JavaScript event loop How JavaScript works: Event loop and the rise of Async programming + 5 ways to better coding with async/await (SessionStack Blog) Philip Roberts: What the heck is the event loop anyway? | JSConf EU (YouTube)

Putting Big-O into perspective of real time. Everything is Fast For Small n (Coding Horror)

async/await in ECMAScript 2017 async/await (JavaScript.info) async function (MDN web docs) How to escape async/await hell (freeCodeCamp)

Trick questions in JavaScript Can (a == 1 && a == 2 && a == 3) equal true? (dev.to)

Staying relevant in a fast paced industry 10 tips for becoming a better programmer (TechRepublic) Keeping up in the JavaScript world (dev.to)

Creating real fake data How our test data generator makes fake data look real (freeCodeCamp) jFairy – Java fake data generator. (GitHub)

How’s your Git game? 11 Painful Git Interview Questions You Will Cry On (dev.to)

Can you recognize an AWS service only by icon? Quiz: AWS has terrible irons (results will be sent to AWS) (Reddit) AWS icon quiz (Google Docs)



Tip of the Week

Design patterns implemented in ECMAScript6 (GitHub)

Layoutit! – A WYSIWYG design tool for Bootstrap.

Oh $#!7, Git! – How to get out of bad Git situations in plain English. And inspired by that, the Internet brings you Oh $#!7, Vim. A VIM cheat sheet.

