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Madza
Madza

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What's something you always have to Google?

I always have to look up JS array methods 'slice' and 'splice' and regex.

What about you - is there something you need to Google again and again despite of using it multiple times before?

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amt8u

flexbox properties. But I find this article really helpful.

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JoelBonetR 🥇

Spam time :D
Flex layout
CSS Guide

Hope it helps on any way :)

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Corentin Bettiol

We all have this article in our bookmarks :D

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Madza • Edited

I love css-tricks, lots of high quality articles there 🔥❤

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

grid, in my case; but css properties' naming is very confusing.

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Madza

Same here 😃😃

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Duc Nguyen

Well, how to generate an SSH key

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Chris Bongers

"remove children from parent"

Getting really weird results some how.. 🤷‍♂️

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Madza

Haha, lol 😃😃 Google takes everything directly and not cares what background are you in 😃😃

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Chris Bongers

Seeing they track about everything I'm just surprised haha 😂

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Mat Borowiak

'css how to' + anything

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JoelBonetR 🥇

Bookmark this and let me know if I missed something 😆 😆

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Madza • Edited

'center an element in a div' is a great starting point 😂😂
recently I use place-items: center, tho 😉

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Ezemmouka Franklin

Lol...

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Sean Antony Brunton

I keep forgetting some commands.. So askUbuntu.. Hahaha! I must have ten billion bookmarks on commands. Lol its easier to use Google than to go through all my saved bookmarks.. That's actually funny 😂

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Arturs Smirnovs

LOL, this is funny one.. I always google: "PHP String contains" and go to this article: stackoverflow.com/questions/436673...

Should finally remember this! :D

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Madza

You should bookmark it or print it on the wall 😃😃

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shadowtime2000

String and array 'slice' 'splice' regex Material UI component props

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Gbenga Ojo-Aromokudu

How to use .reduce() in JavaScript

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Madza

yeah and that one too 😉

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Michael Gee

Regex for sure.... every time I need a new regular expression I find myself back on Stack Overflow or Regex101 learning it again the hard way 🤦

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Sundeep

In case you don't find it on SO, or wish to see more suggestions, I'd highly recommend using github.com/aloisdg/awesome-regex#c...

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Arnaud Delante

Command line for tar compression / decompression. I know I know them, but I'm never sure enough to not check it first

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Sundeep

I wrote a book on regexp, so I now look that up instead of searching online ;)

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Halil Can Ozcelik

Regular expression rules :)
my favorite is regex101.com for online edit

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Valentin

media queries ... wich one is max or min ? is there a parenthese somewhere ?
All . The . ****** . Time

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

\s vs \w

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Aashir Khan

Less than/Greater than sign to give my head relief that I'm right and JavaScript sucks.

Am I the weird one?

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