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is a similar framing of this, which is more self oriented rather than focused on replicating techniques of others. ## Go Meta **Active over Reactive**: Active Learning is **Pull-based** - You try to do something, find gaps, and go seek out what you need to get it done. Most

a React conference without reference to React as making your view layer a pure function of data, `v = f(d)`. I've [talked before about the problems with this](https://www.swyx.io/speaking/react-not-reactive/), but basically React has always done a collective `¯\_(ツ)_/¯`

dev job in Jan 2018. My first meetup talk was in [Dec 2017](https://www.swyx.io/speaking/contributing-to-react/). My first conference talk was in [Aug 2018](https://www.swyx.io/speaking/react-not-reactive/). In the year-and-a-half since then I have spoken at 20+ events from [~250 person local community

a bunch of functions between them and the cold hard truth. I get the value of [functional, immutable programming](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2018/10/05/netlify-and-the-functional-immutable-reactive-deploy/). However, [even React embraces local

in the topic, so it did pretty well! I also looked at [Netlify's usage and philosophical synergy with Immutable.js](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2018/10/05/netlify-and-the-functional-immutable-reactive-deploy/) and made [the case for moving to Immer](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2018/09/12/the-rise-of-immer-in-