Um, Actually: Gameshow About Being (Confidently) Wrong
summary
Live gameshow that hunts tiny technical lies: expect rounds where contestants correct claims like JSX is transpiled to plain JavaScript before the browser runs it and calling setState triggers a rerender whereas assigning to state directly does not. Hosts pull on concrete examples — a bogus “60% code size” Angular claim, whether Chrome stores CVCs or just Google account cards, and whether Figma sends screenshots or JSON — with audience buzzing, on-the-spot scoring, stickers and small prizes.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Opening and introductions
- 5:51How the game works
- 7:58First round Scrum example
- 10:05React and JSX deep dive
- 11:31Angular version confusion
- 14:01AI and image processing
- 16:30React state and rendering
- 18:58XKCD comic controversy
- 21:08HTML tag syntax debate
- 23:59React and Instagram origins
- 28:16Browser rendering behavior
- 28:59JavaScript equality operators
- 31:08Google Chrome data storage
- 32:11Closing and thanks
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