Web Development Merit Badges

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Changed a DNS record and everything worked just fine
Comprehended someone else’s RegEx
Built an accordion from scratch
Exited VIM
Accidentally created own CMS
Pulled off a design you didn’t think you could
Told a client/boss “No, we’re not doing that.”
Wrote an HTAccess redirect that included a capture group
Refactored a large portion of CSS and didn’t break anything
Centered an element vertically and horizontally
Migrated a database without character encoding issues
Pushed to production on Friday and didn’t roll it back over the weekend
Merged master into a six month old branch
Had a neglected site get hacked and spammed
Used CSS Grid in production
Someone you don’t know starred one of your GitHub Repositories
Hand-coded a HTML email
Gave someone useful feedback on a Pull Request
Debugged something for over one hour where the fix was literally one character
Solved a bug by taking a nap
Became extremely confused by a CORS error
Quoted the exact number of hours it took to do the job
Renewed an SSL certificate without any drama
Found an answer to an issue on StackOverflow
Rocked the Checkbox Hack on a project
Your personal website hasn’t been updated in at least 5 years