Mistakes were made

Top 5 code related mistakes of 2018 (that I can share publicly)

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1. Mistakes were made A highlight reel from 2018
2. Who I am
3. What I did Large project for a small company, everything from designing table relationships to print stylesheets
4. Introduced state management (Vuex) too late Refactoring messy events and state was painful
5. Should I have known better? NO* Did it require an urgent fix? YES *https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/you-might-not-need-redux-be46360cf367
6. Made a prototype Of course it wasn’t a prototype, it’s in production now
7. Should I have known better? YES Did it require an urgent fix? NO* *dumb luck
8. Mistook easy for simple A complicated theme I know well is easier than a simple theme I don’t
9. Should I have known better? YES Did it require an urgent fix? NO
10. Asked for too much from the REST API Vue is easy to extend but don’t ask for everything at once
11. Should I have known better? YES Did it require an urgent fix? YES
12. Didn’t make the impossible not possible “Oh it’ll never do that” is the worst excuse for making sure it can’t
13. There were so many failures • Database • API • Front end js
14. Should I have known better? YES Did it require an urgent fix? YES Was it super stressful? YES
15. BONUS: Firefox print css wtf Printing in FF is insane
16. Should I have known better? NO Did it require an urgent fix? YES
17. The end for now