I'm a senior developer and I regularly google "html image tag"

Based on the Twitter meme from a few years back (kind of hard to search for but I'll add an example as soon as I find one), I'd like to hear the ways that you're not quite as smart/knowledgable as a junior dev might expect.

For me all of HTML is still a foreign language and I regularly google the most basic elements!

Comments

[Jasper Stephenson]

I think I'm 90% of the traffic to that CSSTricks complete guide to Flexbox article.

[Arber Braja]

Long live CSS tricks flexbox article :p

Way more easy then to read the specs and most of the articles out there regarding flex.

[Vom Com]

Then I'm the other 10%. Align-self, align-content, align-items, and then none of those do anything because the divs aren't properly display: flex, display: inline-flex, display: flexbox, display:row, flex-flow: .... / this is better than floating divs, I'm told. /

[Paul Truong]

Best article on the Internet

[Mark Harless]

It’s such a beautiful site.

[Kona Arctic]

We're developers not because we can regurgitate every last word of the HTML5 standard but because we can engineer and build clean, scale-able, maintainable, and working software.

[Paweł Kowalski]

Well, because you are senior, your brain is occupied with things a little less trivial than html img tag syntax that you can find in 2 sec.
I would say its perfectly normal and desirable state of things.

There is a quote attributed to Albert E.:

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”

I strongly believe in it in my field of work.

Remembering everything is domain of the robots, not humans, who train to be better at searching for things/solutions using abstract thinking.

Im on regex101.com every time i have to write any regexp. ;)

PS. Emmet is a pretty nice tool to minimize duckduckgo.com trips on a daily basis. Or snippets in general. img<tab> => <img src="" alt="">

[Bill Mitchell]

That's the exact quote that came into my head when I read the post. Great minds think alike :)

[Christopher Lee]

Created an account just to say "Thank You" I really needed to see you this post. I've been in web development since I graduated college in 2011 and made my way up to Lead Web Developer but always had sort of an imposter syndrome because I'd often look up some tags that in my head I'd feel like I should have just known. So yeah, thanks again.

[Nočnica Mellifera]

wow this comment made my day. Thanks Christopher!

[Stephen Smith]

So true

[Nicholas Duffy]

This page has been viewed 8 million times and I think half of them are mine. stackoverflow.com/questions/927358...

[Markus]

For me css is just trial and error.

[Tobias Struckmeier]

There are so many resources out there now. Please take the time and effort to learn it.
I see so many developers spreading hate on it. But they never invested dedicated time on it.
Big rewards at the end of the rainbow :)

[Nočnica Mellifera]

real

[Daileny Hernandez Barreiro]

I google the sql update syntax almost every time that I need it, I don't know why I forget it!!!!!

[Nočnica Mellifera]

oh yeah that's a huge one. I used to write sql every day, but now whenever it comes up I have to google the most basic syntax!

[diek]

I google a lot the next ones:

• alter table sql syntax
• grant privileges sql syntax
• parameters order in php's built-in array functions
• regex search/replace in js and python
• dict and iterators differences between python2.x and python3.x

And i don't think i'm worst professional or less senior because of that, the things i most search are in fact the ones i use less in my daily work, i don't feel insecure about the fact i cannot remember everything.

[Matteo Nunziati]

I work with a number of companies each one requiring a different tech/lib/language. While I'm in my 13th year as a coder I constantly Google for everything.

[Maria Zaitseva]

Yesterday I googled how to concatenate strings in Swift. Yes, it was "+", like in almost every other language I worked with, and yet I wasn't sure.

[Justin Edwards]

I prefer string interpolation on languages that support it.

let multiplier = 3
let message = "\(multiplier) times 2.5 is \(Double(multiplier) * 2.5)"
// message is "3 times 2.5 is 7.5

[Maria Zaitseva]

I agree, string interpolation is cool, but sometimes I feel that some simple operations are more readable if you just use concatenation, like when adding a prefix to a string.

let prefixedString = prefix + string
// versus
let prefixedString = "\(prefix)\(string)"

When my brain sees latter, it thinks "oh, some serious formatting is probably going on here, I should totally spend time and energy to carefully investigate it".