"Is it .splice(), .slice() or .explode()?"
Vitor Paladini @vtrpldn
About: A software engineer that really likes working with user interfaces. Writes mostly JS at getcircuit.com. Loves cooking.
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What's that piece of code that you have to Google *every time*?
Publish Date: Aug 3 '20
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Vitor PaladiniAug 3, 2020Reduce argument order was a common search for me as well, but repeating "prev, curr, ind, arr" a million times eventually made me learn it 😄
- Marcell CruzAug 3, 2020
"acc, item".. was the one that done it for me, I don't know why I always found it "prev" wierd, like, it's not the previous value is the accumulation of the previous values, I know that you can argue that "prev" means the previous returned value, but I always got confused because of this 😄 it's funny how much naming is important in programming and how different people have a different understanding of the names
- Vitor PaladiniAug 3, 2020
regex is a classic, I've been through the whole HackerRank's regex course last year but still find myself searching for specific regex patterns
Andrew BaisdenAug 4, 2020Even now I don't know it that well I have to constantly keep googling it to remember different patterns. If we used it day to day then I think we would learn it better. I watched a video where a developer was using regex for daily productivity.
- Vitor PaladiniAug 3, 2020
I've come to a conclusion that, no mater how experienced you are, dealing with Date always require some hours of googling.
harleyblAug 3, 2020This isn't just a #beginners thing. I've been developing for a long time but have mental blocks with certain syntax. I was just writing up a post about the things I have to look up all the time.
For Typescript/Javascript I never remember when to do 'for of' or 'for in' when iterating an array or iterable. No matter what language I am writing in I wind up having to look up the syntax for initializing a Map or Dictionary with a bunch of values.- Vitor PaladiniAug 3, 2020
Indeed not a #beginners only thing! My reasoning behind the tag is so that junior devs can see that it is perfectly normal to search for code 😄
I decided to post this question when I realised that despite having 10 years experience making websites I still need to Google how to add a .css file with
<link />
- Vitor PaladiniAug 3, 2020
CSS might not be a programming language but it is a kind of code nonetheless 🙂
One CSS thing that I always search for is gradients syntax and
display: gridstuff
perpetual . educationAug 3, 2020It's totally a programming language... / but - it's ok if you don't agree.
background-image: url($url);- is a function that goes and sends an HTTP request for an image based on an argument.
- perpetual . educationAug 3, 2020
CSS in general probably doesn't count - because it's like - an entire language / but "Is it text-decoration or font-style...?" - is surely what this discussion is about! haha
- Vitor PaladiniAug 3, 2020
It does count, yes! 😄
For me if it is a matter of property name DevTools suggestions works great. But if it is a whole concept like Grid, Gradients or Flexbox, then I have to search it
Klaudio MilankovicAug 3, 2020How to make a triangle in CSS. You know those that you apply on :after.
Dennis PloegerAug 3, 2020Even basic jq filters. That tool is so powerful and awesome, but also a major brainfuck. 😊
- perpetual . educationAug 3, 2020
"metaviewport" tag - but we use textExpander now... so - yeah. Also "box-sizing paul irish"
Doaa MahelyAug 3, 2020Literally all string and array functions since I switch between 3 languages a day. My latest one was the syntax for uppercasing a string in JavaScript.
- Vitor PaladiniAug 3, 2020
I still have some muscle memory from PHP times so I always try Array.explode() and wonder why it is not working before remembering that it's Array.split() in JS 😩
DavidAug 3, 2020LOL! I hadn't worked in PHP in so long and I've completely forgotten about this.
But now it's a bit of a solved problem unless you're using an old editor like Notepad++, Sublime, or Atom. The editors that are timeless (sans Notepad++, and emacs), all seem to have decent LSP (language server protocol) support now to provide "intellisense" for auto-completion and linting at minimum.
Adron HallAug 3, 2020Not code, but the switches for keygen to get the ssh key setup for ya know, everything.
Robert MyersAug 4, 2020Ditto. I think part of the reason is I rarely do it. I set up a machine then use it for a long time. Fresh machine and it's Google time to get the key generated and the agent working with git properly.
- Adron HallAug 4, 2020
Exactly, same thing for me. I know the command, I know the switches I want, I just don't always remember the specifics of em'! :)
Justin MitchellAug 3, 2020Basically any PHP function as every like function is back to front, so glad I'm not using that anymore
Jake VarnessAug 4, 2020Not really code per se, but the debugging arguments for enabling remote debugging on the JVM. Why can they just have a simpler argument like -DremoteDebug.enable or something??
Jonathan YeongAug 4, 2020CSS Flexbox, every single time. Honestly, I should just bookmark this page: css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guid...
Elliot DerhayAug 4, 2020For PHP in general,
DateTime,DateTimezone, and how to create a format string for theDateTime::format()method.For WordPress, the parameters for
wp_enqueue_script()andwp_enqueue_style().
Björn GrundeAug 4, 2020Every single haystack/needle argument order for any PHP function that uses them.
I mean did the core team meeting go like:
Dev1: Hey let's decide the order for arguments in array functions.
Dev1: I think we should use the order; needle, haystack, optional.
Dev2: That's not fun. Let the order always be random, also let's make those functions also solve several problems at once so we can have more arguments thrown in.
Rest of devs: Applauds
Raphael HaberederAug 4, 2020new MessageFormat("I just want to format {0} {1}").format("strings","easily");Every damn time :D I just can't remember it, but need it so often.
LocalDate is a great candidate was well. I still use my Calendar until I remember there's something newer/fancier with LocalDate
Nikhil GautamAug 4, 2020I used to switch a lot between ruby and JS. Since then I started using capitalize method from ruby in JS. Every single time I have to search why it is not working. facepalm
btlmAug 4, 2020I google for
forloop syntax every time I switch technologies I use. I used to develop application in PHP with Twig templating, now I work in Node.js and Angular. The hardest thing to remember is when to typeinorof:D{% for user in users %}- in Twig we havein <array>*ngFor="let item of items"- in Angular we haveof <array>Annoying.
Vincent DedoAug 4, 2020Usually git commands I use once every 6 months as well as string and datetime formatting.
Sachin Saini 🦄Aug 4, 2020regex, centering a div, C++ STL functions, string methods, and I don't know what else.
Marco DamacenoAug 4, 2020JavaScript
sliceandindexOf.
PHPmap,filterandreduce. I always forget the order of the arguments.
Ben SinclairAug 4, 2020Anything in PHP that has a haystack and a needle, and the order of arguments for
array_mapandarray_filter. All I remember is that they're different.
Mario HernandezAug 4, 2020DateFormats, I forget about them all the time.
Oh, and the init stuff for git
Paul JohnsonAug 4, 2020strftime and strptime in python, every single time. Surely there must be something better than formatting and parsing by arbitrary string formats...
FeRDNYCAug 8, 2020The simplest/stupidest? Bash operator precedence. I have to check Every. Time. But only because it's so weird and stupid! Whoever did this is a sociopath:
Of these list operators,
&&and||have equal precedence, followed by;and&, which have equal precedence.
Regular expressions in general, i've used to do the same for reduce but then I saw one definition that I always remember