>No 4 year university will teach you React as part of a CS degree. Most probably won't even teach JavaScript. Point is, becoming a good developer is largely a self-taught discipline as is.

I'll have React, GraphQL, .NET Core, EF Core, Dapper, MongoDB and RavenDB

cuz we're having some courses with an actual industry person with 15+ years of exp (no, it isnt private school).

Those courses are: Building applications based on HTTP / Non-relational Databases and Programming (lang + data access)

Basing on his milion videos that use "ex googler/facebook" in title to lure people, how he ain't just programming celebrity?

Why should I care about his opinion?

Check out his LinkedIn profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickshyu - from the projects he describes there, seems like he can back it up. And what's wrong with telling people you're an "ex googler/facebook"? If that's the experience you have to share, fair enough.

There's nothing wrong with telling people you're an "ex googler", but mentioning it whenever you can is quite... weird?

I mean from Youtuber that wants to get viewers perspective it's perfectly reasonable, but generally it looks not nice for me.

Here's a good starting point for understanding what's going on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_gag

It's a running joke in the channel. "Hi welcome to my channel TechLead, with your host The TechLead who's an ex-google and now an ex-facebook tech lead"

I think it's tongue in cheek.

From what I can gather the guy is going in on satirical comedy. Specifically in the way we tend to evangelise these big tech companies and those who work for them.

Sometimes his delivery is so deadpan that I get an odious vibe from it. But it does seem that he’s not serious and is using his previous status as a part of the humour.

Some of his earlier videos did show him breaking down and laughing. He’s gotten good at maintaining his serious look after doing this for two years.

It's part of his comedy schtick. If you watch enough of his videos you realise how developed and deep his personality actually is.

I had to write mid size custom markdown parser?/lexer? with many various business requirements or things like attaching additional informations that'd allow frontend to display completion popup menu

I wrote it just as "just" step by step algorithm that transforms e.g 500LoC into flat tree of parsed objects

I thought about learning formal grammar theory, but I couldnt see how it'd help me because at the end everything worked fine. It just needed writing a lot of tests.

Debugging fancy JS frameworks in firefox (for me, unexperienced js user) is more painful than in chrome, but debugging js in webbrowser is pain anyway

In Angular (which I like) I have found that there is a bug in error logging that only occurs on Firefox.

So every time I stumble upon that I'll open Chromium, find the stack trace and go back.