Top 5 DEV Comments from the Past Week

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Replying to What is key to a great home office setup?, @artemis talks about the value in creating separate "spaces" between home and work:

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@mohanarpit talks through their very honest steps to debugging in the What is your debugging approach? thread:

Arpit Mohan • Oct 8 '19

Grep through the logs for any obvious issues or errors. With decent logging, 50% RCA happens here.
Try to replicate the scenario in local environments and see the bug in action.
Keep adding printf statements after each line of execution. Occasionally use the debugger as well on local to triage the issue.
Forget to remove printf statements when committing fix.
Create hotfix commit to remove debug logs 😄
Actually deploy fix to production.

@citizen428 shares a handy alias in response to How to keep your forked repository current:

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Replying to a comment in their own Possibly the Most Useful CSS Trick thread, @xtrp shows a live example with a GIF to highlight the effect:

Gabe Romualdo • Oct 2 '19 • Edited

The "display: none;" style on the button is just a possibility: it may have been better to simply make the button slightly transparent initially, and have it be opaque when the user has typed something, but of course, there are so many ways to implement this.

For example, I am currently building a password manager, which uses the placeholder-shown trick to display an arrow icon for entering the password-vault when the user has typed content into the password field.