Have you thought about what makes a good programmer?
I mean have you sat down and thought hard about what it means? Of all the programmers you’ve met in your (maybe long) career, which ones were ‘good’ and why?
When I was in school I always aspired to be the ‘best’ at what I did, but this definition has changed dramatically over time…
Adapted from a technical talk I gave at Frontend York about using the Google Maps JS badly on a website, the technical debt that can be accrued, and a few different modern techniques to use it well. Full code is available here.
When we rely on Google Maps for it’s API (I.e. geocoding addresses, Places API) it becomes a hard dependency on your JS code that becomes a legacy problem and hard to remove.