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Believe me or not, but games are super important with distributed teams. We do not meet in person that often. Hence, it's crucial to provide opportunity to socialize. And nothing better for that than playing games together! Here is my subjective list of proven (by me 😜) games that work well through a video conference meeting and are SFW.

Nowadays, for good or for worse, if you google something you end up on Reddit. Wait, wait, stay here. I do not want to talk about how this is bad. I want to discuss a phenomenon you can observe there. Or more precisely: on every platform, people ask for help! (I think it's even one of the issues that people find so annoying about starting out on Stackoverflow.)

We often can provide assets with a URI or a so-called “Data URL” on the web. As they are so straightforward to use, they get pretty often copied (from a tutorial, snippet, or whatnot) without us being able to tell what they do, when to prefer them, or whether you should still be using them altogether. It's one of the lesser-known performance tweaks I will shed some light on in this blog post.

One of my most controversial opinions is that I have a soft spot for Confluence. But wait, let me explain it a bit further. I understand all the pain people have with it. I get it. I'm usually in the same boat. However, I do not think it's Atlassian's fault for providing a better UX. For many things, it is just administrated and used poorly! Or, to put it in simpler terms, Confluence needs to be utilized correctly.

The last few days, I have been pretty busy migrating my domain from “odd.af” to “ungra.dev”. I posted a bit on Social Media about the story, but I wanted to wrap it up in detail in this blog post.

Whether I installed the app image or the Flatpack version of Spotify, I always had issues with the app icon in the window's title bar and the application switch. It fell back to a defaulting x11 icon.

I welcome you to the marvelous world of JavaScript quizzes on Social Media! This very article is part of a series where we deep dive and demystify them. This is a tough one, so this article is a little longer than usual. So let's jump right into the in-depth exploration of constructors in JavaScript!

The Snippet

const c = 'constructor';
c[c][c]('console.log("wth?")')();

Look who managed to head to my blog only to find himself reading an article about a tweeted Javascript quiz. In this series, I try to break such down, and this post features a lesser-known but often useful operator: Nullish Coalescing!

The Snippet

console.log(1 === null ?? 1)

Glad you found this blog series about JavaScript Social Media quizzes! This week is a funny snippet around the loop-manipulating keywords break and continue. Get ready for some serious trickery!

The Snippet

for (var i = 1; i < 10; ++i) {
  if (i % 3) {
    continue;
  }
  if (i == 7) {
    break;
  }
  console.log(i);
}

Welcome to my blog series about demystifying JavaScript quizzes from Social Media! This time is about a rather basic concept. Let's dive right into the beautiful world of logical operators in JavaScript!

The Snippet

let name1 = " ",
  name2 = undefined,
  name3 = "ravin",
  name4 = "rav",
  username = name1 && name2 && name3 && name4;

console.log(username);