Back to the Future
summary
A 25‑year web career traces five reinventions: builds Dojo (used by ~80% of Fortune 500 at its peak), becomes an early TypeScript adopter, later embraces React and maintains Slate, and within a week closed ~100 PRs to ~20 to rescue a stalled project. Debugging lore includes fixing a Netscape parsing bug by splitting "script" into separate strings. A live six‑question quiz with an 80s retro arcade prize tests details like why 2015 mattered and the significance of 88 mph.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:21Web tech reinvention cycles
- 3:08Career timeline and Dojo
- 6:21Debugging in early JavaScript
- 8:48Team fit and ego in engineering
- 11:57Adding value without ego
- 13:42React and dependency chaos
- 15:49Modern vs past technical problems
- 17:34Work hard and smart
- 19:45Back to the Future quiz
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