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 Started picking up my guitar more again. I really needed something not-tech-related to balance my head, and this is easier than working out 😅

Besides family & friends (obv), what are your "developer head" remedies? 
 When I was 17, my grandma asked me what I wanted to do for a living. I said I wanted to build websites.

She didn't understand what that meant.

I said "It's like making little books about things, but everyone can read them for free on their computer. People can get all sorts of useful information from them."

At the time, I thought that was a decent analogy. 
I wonder how kids would describe that now. 
 @365a528d burying the lede here! 

that "-asaurus" suffix is the pefect way to handle the "has to contain a hyphen" naming requirement for custom elements and I will now regard it as best practice 
 rather than upgrade google analytics to a new major version—why not instead write my own analyt... 
 @365a528d I implemented my own analytics, even managed to get it under my performance budget of 0.0kB