Jayne Mast, she/her @jayne_mast Engineering manager @ noti.st/jayne

jQuery is not dead, and that’s ne fi @jayne_mast - noti.st/jayne

“You shouldn’t be using jQuery, it’s too slow” “Why are you using jQuery instead of React?” “jQuery is way too big to use in production!”

[…] If you are loading a 97k(pre-gzip) library into your page to “select some elements and toggle a class on click”, you are probably doing it wrong, and should stop. […] https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-stop-using-jQuery

https://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/jQuery

Privilege

$(‘.button’).click(function() { $(‘.container’).fadeOut() })

Gatekeeping who does or does not have access to something

Gatekeeping “Real developers use Ubuntu” “How can you be a designer and not use a Mac?” “Stop calling HTML a programming language”

Gatekeeping “Front-end development is for interns” – Jayne’s former boss

Gatekeeping “I’m not a real developer” – Jayne’s inner saboteur

Gatekeeping Gatekeeping can be intentional

Gatekeeping Agriculture: ~8 000 BCE Architecture: ~10 000 BCE Medicine: ~2 000 BCE

Don’t gatekeep learning

Don’t gatekeep learning Think about how you would learn today

Don’t gatekeep learning Why don’t you just do it like us?

Teach, don’t preach

Teach, don’t preach

Teach, don’t preach https://xkcd.com/1053/

Teach, don’t preach Think of how you started, not where you are now

Teach, don’t preach TIL – Today I learned https://www.stefanjudis.com/ today-i-learned/ @stefanjudis

Company culture

Company culture Jargon and abbreviations A11y = accessibility ARR = annual recurring revenue B2B = Business to business

Company culture Idioms and proverbs “Flotsam as possible”

Company culture Assumptions about life

Company culture Ruby A dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write.

Company culture Fluent doesn’t mean native

Company culture “Semantic HTML”

Company culture yield

Be humble

Be humble Show your mistakes

Be humble Be kind

Be humble Be kind to yourself

“[The web] is for everyone” - Tim Berners-Lee @jayne_mast - noti.st/jayne

Jayne Mast, she/her @jayne_mast Engineering manager @ noti.st/jayne