jen chan

New media artist turned Software Developer 👻 Organizer at Toronto JS

Toronto, ON Joined on May 31, 2017 http://jenchan.biz

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jen chan

Mar 6

On Levelling Up

#shecoded #career #intermediate #senior

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On Levelling Up

I could definitely see situations where others in the same po...

Mar 12

On Levelling Up

"Downleveling" in gaming, I suppose

Mar 12

On Levelling Up

Absolutely... people can have depth of knowledge in multiple ...

Mar 9

5 years in tech, and she's still coding

So many points here I could relate to! And so glad there were...

Mar 9

What is meant by a "shape" in programming

Maybe it's to do with the structure of data, like how deeply ...

Mar 8

On Levelling Up

I think the term is "underlevelling"...

Mar 7

On Levelling Up

Things are going to be alright. I did get an offer for a seni...

Mar 7

Tell me you're web developer without telling me you're a web developer.

"It works on my machine"

Feb 20

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jen chan

Oct 30 '21

Git Rebase for Preventing Merge Commits

#showdev #git #productivity

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jen chan

Sep 20 '21

Storybook and Chromatic for Visual Regression Testing

#showdev #react #testing #storybook

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jen chan

Sep 3 '21

Unit Testing Components in Storybook

#showdev #frontend #react #testing

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jen chan

Mar 5 '21

"How good am I?" Reflections on 5th year designer-developer doldrums

#shecoded #career

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jen chan

Jul 21 '20

Differential Loading for Legacy Browser Support in Angular 9

#typescript #javascript #angular #webperf

3 min read

jen chan

Jun 29 '20

A Stab at Performance Testing with Intersection Observer and Scroll events

#testing #beginners #webperf #javascript

5 min read

jen chan

Jun 7 '20

How to be anti-racist , according to Black folks who work in tech

#blacklivesmatter #shecoded

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jen chan

May 9 '20

On Being Wrong

#career #productivity

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jen chan

May 6 '20

Running IE 11 with VirtualBox on Mac

#testing #virtualmachine

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jen chan

Apr 28 '20

Challenge: Cross-browser testing for IE11 and IE Edge on Mac for free

#showdev #webdev #devops #aws

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jen chan

Mar 8 '20

What is helpful, if you want to help

#shecoded #shecodedally

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jen chan

Feb 10 '20

How To Plan Scalable CSS for Large Projects?

#discuss #css #productivity

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jen chan

Feb 4 '20

What are you going to do if/when your position gets automated?

#discuss #career

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jen chan

Feb 2 '20

Discuss: When Is It Ok To Mutate?

#discuss #javascript #react #angular

3 min read

jen chan

Dec 17 '19

First Impressions: learning Angular after React/Redux

#react #angular #beginners

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jen chan

Dec 7 '19

JS Array Manipulation Quirks

#javascript #beginners

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jen chan

Nov 30 '19

How I Approach Whiteboard Interviews

#showdev #beginners #career

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jen chan

Nov 15 '19

Discuss: React Hooks and Life After the Container-Component Pattern

#discuss #react #beginners #javascript

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jen chan

Aug 20 '19

On Being Fired

#career #beginners #failure

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jen chan

Aug 14 '19

Approachable Post-Termination Mindsets

#career #failure #beginners

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jen chan

May 2 '19

A laundry list of things I never heard of from bootcamp

#discuss #beginners #career

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jen chan

Mar 18 '19

What's a song that illustrates your coding journey?

#discuss #random

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jen chan

Mar 11 '19

I'm jen chan, and I support people who don't have my opportunities.

#shecodedally #a11y

1 min read

jen chan

Mar 9 '19

Watching the future of coding accelerate into a simulated black hole

#shecoded #career #oped #webdev

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jen chan

Mar 2 '19

Hack or maybe not: "Deleting" master when it gets too big

#todayilearned #git #discuss #productivity

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jen chan

Feb 26 '19

What I Learned From Trying To Be a Team Player For 2 Years

#career #webdev #beginners #wishiknew

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jen chan

Feb 21 '19

Removing Accidentally Committed Files From Remote History

#showdev #git #beginners #learningmoment

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jen chan

Feb 13 '19

Imposter Syndrome in Diagrams

#beginners #impostersyndrome

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jen chan

Feb 8 '19

Slid on ice, body-slammed my new Macbook Air. What should I check for?

#help #discuss #hardware #mac

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jen chan

Jan 18 '19

Sh*tpost: can we stop saying "syntactic sugar"?

#discuss #beginners #javascript #unpopularopinion

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jen chan

Jan 10 '19

What should production CSS look like? Share your layout-to-web workflow

#discuss #beginners #css #sass

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jen chan

Oct 17 '18

Hastily Deploying a Node App on NearlyFreeSpeech.net (Mac OS)

#showdev #deploy #beginners #webdev

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jen chan

Oct 1 '18

Dumb Breakthrough moment: JSON Object Array Access

#beginners #javascript #json

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jen chan

Sep 22 '18

How to start contributing to open source as a junior or newbie?

#discuss #beginners

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jen chan

Apr 9 '18

What I learned from only using Select in PostgreSQL

#beginners #debugging #sql #productivity

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4 min read

jen chan

Apr 5 '18

When you realize you’re at the bottom of a very steep gradient.

#career #beginners #dev

2 min read

jen chan

Mar 2 '18

Well hey, I'm still coding.

#shecoded

1 min read

jen chan

Dec 28 '17

5 Unusual Test Questions I Got While Interviewing for Web Dev Roles

#softwaredev #javascript #beginners #career

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jen chan

Dec 12 '17

What I Learned From Not Planning A Web App (from start to finish)

#node #heroku #productivity #javascript

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5 min read

jen chan

May 31 '17

Hi, I'm jen chan

#introductions

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