Brock Boren brockthebear

Frontend Technical Interview Prep

EDIT: Well this has been linked now so just an FYI this is still TBD. Feel free to comment if you have suggestions for improvements. Also here is an unrolled Twitter thread of a lot of the tips I talk about on here.

I've been doing frontend for a while now and one thing that really gripes me is the interview. I think the breadth of knowledge of a "Frontend Engineer" has been so poorly defined that people really just expected you to know everything. Many companies have made this a hybrid role. The Web is massive and there are many MANY things to know. Some of these things are just facts that you learn and others are things you really have to understand.

Every time I interview, I go over the same stuff. I wanted to create a gist of the TL;DR things that would jog my memory and hopefully yours too.

Lots of these things are real things I've been asked that caught me off guard. It's nice to have something you ca

Moved to Shopify/graphql-design-tutorial

ESPN's hidden API endpoints

Football

College Football

Latest News: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/college-football/news

Latest Scores: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/college-football/scoreboard

Download Audio from YouTube

-i - ignore errors

-c - continue

-t - use video title as file name

--extract-audio - extract audio track

Project Title

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Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

Use these rapid keyboard shortcuts to control the GitHub Atom text editor on macOS.

Key to the Keys

⌘ : Command key
⌃ : Control key
⌫ : Delete key
← : Left arrow key
→ : Right arrow key
↑ : Up arrow key

	import time

	print "..."
	time.sleep(1)
	print "..."
	print "..."
	print "..."
	print "..."
	time.sleep(1)
	print "..."

	/**
	* Definition for a binary tree node.
	* function TreeNode(val) {
	* this.val = val;
	* this.left = this.right = null;
	* }
	*/
	/**
	* @param {TreeNode} root
	* @return {number}

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	# Generic macOS workstation setup
	#
	# A pragmatic, public bootstrap for developer / technical-productivity Macs.
	# It installs Homebrew, common CLI utilities, runtimes, terminal/editor/agentic
	# coding apps, viewers, media tools, and a curated font set.
	#
	# Philosophy:
	# - Open-source / cross-platform first.
	# - Commercial apps only when explicitly useful/common for this workflow.

	function transfer
	if test (count $argv) -eq 0
	echo "No arguments specified. Usage:\necho transfer /tmp/test.md\ncat /tmp/test.md \| transfer test.md"
	return 1
	end

	## get temporarily filename, output is written to this file show progress can be showed
	set tmpfile ( mktemp -t transferXXX )

	## upload stdin or file