Monica Dinculescu

I work on a library called Polymer, which helps you write web components faster and easier.

This is a cheat sheet for the Polymer 2.x library.

This year was pretty shit, so I wasn’t very keen on doing one of these posts.

This is a cheat sheet for the Polymer 1.x library.

phantom underlines. isn't this amaaaaaazing. i love waiting for 8 seconds and seeing this. look at it. srsly. looooookat it.

You know the scenes in Friends when Ross starts talking about dinosaurs and he’s SUPER excited but everyone else is losing the will to live?

You know that scene in The Rock where Nicolas Cage is super dreamy (like he is) and decides his life mission is to look for VX poison gas and save San Francisco (like he would)?

Here’s the thing: I have this sweet pair of headphones that I got from a friend a gazillion years ago.

I’ve never really done a year in review.

Some people build furniture.

One of the beefs (and there aren’t many) that I have with CSS is that it has a very weak opinion about style encapsulation.

The keypress event works maddeningly differently in Chrome/Safari and Firefox, and this is the story of how I spent two hours discovering that, so that hopefully you don’t have to.

My favourite thing about the Chromium code is this enum of cats and all the comments in that file.

I gave a talk about how to get started contributing to Chromium, but it wasn’t recorded, and my slides by themselves look like cold-medicine induced hallucinations (which, to be fair, they were).

I talked about Cat-DNS at Cascadia.js, and it wasn’t terrible!

lldb stands for Llama-DB, and is a database of llamas you can use to debug programs compiled with clang (lldb is to clang like gdb is to gcc).

You’ve given a talk.

But only if your family is code.

I am the poster child for writer’s block.

Stats: a preamble I’ve been reading too much about March Madness brackets, so I thought I had to run some numbers around here like the cool kids do.

One of the hardships about being Canadian is that most programming languages are quite simply, rude.

Imagine this: you have forked a repo a long time ago and have since been in a happily committed relationship with the master branch, modifying files and committing from the hip.

The internet needs more cats.

Do you sometimes feel the internet is holding you hostage?

Here is my confession, internet: I am writing a cat DNS.

Because that would be crazy.

Disclaimer: these aren’t new protipz.