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Effective Engineer - Notes

What's an Effective Engineer?

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basham / css-units-best-practices.md
Last active October 26, 2025 18:37
CSS Units Best Practices

CSS units

Recommendations of unit types per media type:

Media Recommended Occasional use Infrequent use Not recommended
Screen em, rem, % px ch, ex, vw, vh, vmin, vmax cm, mm, in, pt, pc
Print em, rem, % cm, mm, in, pt, pc ch, ex px, vw, vh, vmin, vmax

Relative units

Relative units

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tsiege / The Technical Interview Cheat Sheet.md
Last active December 5, 2025 18:04
This is my technical interview cheat sheet. Feel free to fork it or do whatever you want with it. PLEASE let me know if there are any errors or if anything crucial is missing. I will add more links soon.

ANNOUNCEMENT

I have moved this over to the Tech Interview Cheat Sheet Repo and has been expanded and even has code challenges you can run and practice against!






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gre / easing.js
Last active December 7, 2025 08:36
Simple Easing Functions in Javascript - see https://github.com/gre/bezier-easing
/*
* This work is free. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
* terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License, Version 2,
* as published by Sam Hocevar. See the COPYING file for more details.
*/
/*
* Easing Functions - inspired from http://gizma.com/easing/
* only considering the t value for the range [0, 1] => [0, 1]
*/
EasingFunctions = {