> That method was horrible, as someone who struggled with poor knowledge sources until HTMLDog and MDN became a thing. But they are a thing now. > ...Conferen

> That method was horrible, as someone who struggled with poor knowledge sources until HTMLDog and MDN became a thing. But they are a thing now. > ...Conference talks? lmao your class is showing, the average self-taught hacker can't afford to go to those. An average self-taught hacker can afford YouTube. That’s why I explicitly mentioned talks and not conferences per se. > Anyway, View Source is a good way to learn how to do something you see for the first time. It's a necessary feature to double-check what's being sent to the browser when you're developing, too, and keeps website operators honest by giving you a way to inspect how they build their site. Opening up source code is a choice. And if a creator wants to open-source their app, I would rather look at it in GitLab rather than in production.