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.@germdisco 1, 2, 3... 11. But then I never really studied that up.

 

@sie_kensou77 Apparently so. :)

 
 

@benwerd you gotta be careful when you drop that GG hashtag... It's like blood in the water (or flies to crap).

 

Fatigue and Mastery

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Tero Parviainen (@teropa) has a nice piece about [Overcoming Javascript Framework Fatigue](http://teropa.info/blog/2015/07/15/overcoming-javascript-framework-fatigue.html), but don't let the title fool you - much of the advice can be applied those who work (and live) in most any rapidly-evolving field. Plus, it contains [one of the best quotes](https://gist.github.com/prakhar1989/1b0a2c9849b2e1e912fb) from Rich Hickey (@richhickey, the creator of [Clojure](http://clojure.org/)) about what skills a developer really needs to have (and those skills have nothing to do with preferred language or framework):

> Programming mastery has little to do with languages, paradigms, platforms, building blocks, open source, conferences etc. These things change all the time and are not fundamental. Knowledge acquisition skills allow you to grok them as needed. I'd take a developer (or even non-developer!) with deep knowledge acquisition and problem solving skills over a programmer with a smorgasbord of shallow experiences any day.

Via [HTML5 Weekly](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/241)

 

No matter how many times I see it, it still doesn't get old.

http://i0.wp.com/media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/vJA3gk.gif?resize=480%2C270

 

Finally, a comment plugins I can get behind: Echochamber.js
https://github.com/tessalt/echo-chamber-js

 

Online news schadenfreude / naval gazing.

https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/623583274972151808

 

I've become increasingly convinced that @realDonaldTrump is secretly an ultra-lib who is just trolling the GOP.

 

This is the scariest thing I've read in weeks. Via @starxed

https://twitter.com/WIRED/status/623458457870540800