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augbog / .Frontend Technical Interview Prep.md
Last active April 21, 2026 07:08
Frontend Technical Interview Prep: A study guide of things I constantly re-review when interviewing for frontend.

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

@Jarred-Sumner
Jarred-Sumner / comcast.js
Last active July 3, 2025 21:23
Comcast injects this into webpages to show copyright notices
// Comcast Cable Communications, LLC Proprietary. Copyright 2014.
// Intended use is to display browser notifications for critical and time sensitive events.
var _ComcastAlert = (function(){
return {
SYS_URL: '/e8f6b078-0f35-11de-85c5-efc5ef23aa1f/aupm/notify.do'
, dragObj: {zIndex: 999999}
, browser: null
, comcastCheck: 1
, comcastTimer: null
, xmlhttp: null
@kristopolous
kristopolous / hn_seach.js
Last active November 12, 2025 07:49
hn job query search
// Usage:
// Copy and paste all of this into a debug console window of the "Who is Hiring?" comment thread
// then use as follows:
//
// query(term | [term, term, ...], term | [term, term, ...], ...)
//
// When arguments are in an array then that means an "or" and when they are seperate that means "and"
//
// Term is of the format:
// ((-)text/RegExp) ( '-' means negation )
@quchen
quchen / trolling_haskell
Last active December 25, 2025 23:55
Trolling #haskell
13:15 <xQuasar> | HASKELL IS FOR FUCKIN FAGGOTS. YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF
| FUCKIN PUSSIES
13:15 <xQuasar> | JAVASCRIPT FOR LIFE FAGS
13:16 <luite> | hello
13:16 <ChongLi> | somebody has a mental illness!
13:16 <merijn> | Wow...I suddenly see the error of my ways and feel
| compelled to write Node.js!
13:16 <genisage> | hi
13:16 <luite> | you might be pleased to learn that you can compile
| haskell to javascript now
@funkatron
funkatron / chrometest.sh
Created February 9, 2011 15:20
To do testing on local HTML/JS apps in Chrome, I start it with this script to disable some security checks.
#!/bin/bash
# USAGE: /path/to/chrometest <localfile.html>
/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome \
--disable-web-security \
--allow-file-access-from-files \
--allow-file-access \
--log-level 3 \
$@