1 American authors sometimes forget for many people the dream is to emigrate to somewhere like America. This is a very different kind of ambition from being “So Good They Can’t Ignore You”. 2 Do we have to be very “successful” in the first place? In the sense of being better by a significant than others on some objective measure? Surely not, even though that is the inevitable premise of self-help.

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I fell in love with the technology of CSS recently, having obsessively followed a YouTuber (and CSS guru) called Kevin Powell. One of the articles that Kevin recommends is the Dao of Web Design. In essence, the article argues that web as a medium is fundamentally different from printed media because the layout of a webpage has to work on so many different devices: mobile phone, tablets, laptops, Desktops And also on different browswers with customisation such as dark reader or screen readers.

Kevin Powell points out that people (certainly me!) tend to be too impatient with CSS. They assume it is a “simple” technology and just resort to looking up answers on Google as they go along, without trying to understand the undelrying principles. But paradoxically in CSS more than in (say) Javascript, fundamentals matter even more. The layout of a web page differs from device to device and from browser to browser.

Quick test: what do these code snippets do? const a = new Promise(function (a) { a }) const b = new Promise(function (b) { b("success") }) const c = new Promise(function (a, b) { b("failure") }) const d = Promise.resolve("success") const e = Promise.reject("failure") const f = new Promise(function (a, b) { a("success") b("failure") }) const g = new Promise(function (a, b) { b("failure") a("success") }) const h = new Promise(function (a, b) { throw new Error() }) const i = new Promise(function (a, b) { a() }) const j = new Promise(function (a, b) { b() }) const k = (number) => { return new Promise(function (a, b) { a(number * 2) }) } Check by opening the console in your browser and test with e.