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The docs are great for a given tidbit, but for structure and "why" I personally don't always get that from the docs and I end up reading something from Kent that tells me why.

https://kentcdodds.com/blog/usememo-and-usecallback

Granted that's probably because on a good day my reading comprehension is not great and learning within a narrative works way better for me.

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Kent's stuff is good but I have a niggle with him (and an annoyingly non-zero bunch of other bloggers): no publication dates on his posts. As someone who always makes notes of what I read, and who wants those notes to include publication dates, it annoys me that I have to look at the git source for a given blog post to find out when it was published. (Though at least with Kent I have that option...)

Web tech moves very fast. A good answer to a problem today will likely get superseded within a year. In such a context, dates become essential tools to help comprehend someone’s post.

This———^

Dates are in the RSS feed. https://kentcdodds.com/blog/rss.xml

The undated post thing is a huge pet peeve of mine (as are the relative time stamps, i.e. "2 days ago" rather than a real date/time).

it's on the very bottom of the post if you want it and apparently his posts are all on github which are timestamped as well.

So it is! I stand corrected - thanks! I am, however, still open to the possibility that I was right in the past, and that he recently added the dates. ;-)

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