The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/webdevsimplified10201 This year Hacktoberfest has taken a turn for the worse. Starting on the first day of October, thousands of spam pull requests were opened with the sole intent of merging 5 pull requests to gain a free T-shirt. This left a huge burden on maintainers as well as other contributors. In this video I talk about the effect of this year's Hacktoberfest as well as how it can be fixed. ? Concepts Covered: - What Hacktoberfest is - The burden Hacktoberfest puts on maintainers - Why spam pull requests effect more than just the maintainers - How to improve Hacktoberfest ? Find Me Here: My Blog: https://blog.webdevsimplified.com My Courses: https://courses.webdevsimplified.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/WebDevSimplified Twitter: https://twitter.com/DevSimplified Discord: https://discord.gg/7StTjnR GitHub: https://github.com/WebDevSimplified CodePen: https://codepen.io/WebDevSimplified ⏱️ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 01:44 - What Is Hacktoberfest? 02:57 - The Spam Problem 05:43 - The Greater Impact of Spam PRs 07:42 - The Solution This video was sponsored by Skillshare #FreeSwag #WDS #Hacktoberfest ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXEVL3fVbB0

In this video you are going to build your very first game. We will be using JavaScript to build a simple text adventure game that can be expanded upon as far as your creativity can take it. Everything we cover in this video will be incredibly beginner friendly, so no matter your skill level you will be able to build this text adventure game. We will be using a finite state machine combined with dynamic character state in order to craft an infinitely expandable text adventure game. If you create a text adventure using this tutorial tweet me @DevSimplified, so I can see your game! ? Materials/References: GitHub Code: https://github.com/WebDevSimplified/JavaScript-Text-Adventure CodePen Code: https://codepen.io/WebDevSimplified/pen/xoKZbd ? Concepts Covered: - How to center content on the screen - Creating character state - Creating state trees - Using dynamic options based on character state ? Find Me Here: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/WebDevSimplified Twitter: https://twitter.com/DevSimplified Discord: https://discord.gg/7StTjnR GitHub: https://github.com/WebDevSimplified CodePen: https://codepen.io/WebDevSimplified #TextAdventure #GameDevelopment #JavaScript ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1S_NhKkvGA

Impostor syndrome is one of the biggest problems in web development and programming as a whole. With the vast amount of technologies, languages, and frameworks to learn it can be incredibly overwhelming, which leads to a feeling of not being good enough. You feel like eventually everyone will see that you do not belong and you constantly struggle to overcome that feeling. Since there are some many things to learn in tech it is not possible to know them all and it is important to remember that. There will always be people more knowledgeable than you in certain subjects, but that doesn't make them smarter than you. You will almost certainly be more knowledgeable in your own subjects than they are, and because of that you should seek out these people you see as smart and learn from them as they learn from you. ? IMPORTANT: Discord Server: https://discord.gg/7StTjnR ? Concepts Covered: - What is impostor syndrome - How to cope with impostor syndrome - The best way to overcome impostor syndrome - How to use impostor syndrome to your advantage ? Find Me Here: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/WebDevSimplified Twitter: https://twitter.com/DevSimplified Discord: https://discord.gg/7StTjnR GitHub: https://github.com/WebDevSimplified CodePen: https://codepen.io/WebDevSimplified #WebDevelopment #WDS #ImpostorSyndrome ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdyR6LTsQMc

Nick Chapsas's Video: https://youtu.be/_ougvb8mT7k This may sound crazy but I really don't use the else keyword in my programming anymore. When I do end up using else it usually leads to worse code than if I purposely avoided it. In this video I explain exactly why that is. ? Materials/References: Optional Chaining Video: https://youtu.be/v2tJ3nzXh8I?t=379 Optional Chaining Article: https://blog.webdevsimplified.com/2020-03/javascript-optional-chaining Guard Clause Article: https://blog.webdevsimplified.com/2020-01/guard-clauses ? Find Me Here: My Blog: https://blog.webdevsimplified.com My Courses: https://courses.webdevsimplified.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/WebDevSimplified Twitter: https://twitter.com/DevSimplified Discord: https://discord.gg/7StTjnR GitHub: https://github.com/WebDevSimplified CodePen: https://codepen.io/WebDevSimplified ⏱️ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 01:00 - Guard Clauses 04:03 - Single Return Is Bad 05:43 - Extract Functions #StopUsingElse #WDS #JavaScript ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EumXak7TyQ0