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If you’re a startup, don’t waste time chasing perfection. What you need are doers—people who focus on quick, functional solutions to help you thrive in a fast-paced environment. And if you’re aiming to become a senior engineer, it’s not just about what you know—it’s about learning from mistakes, staying humble, and knowing when to question yourself.

Sometimes, the best engineering advice comes from non-technical perspectives. Building trust, fostering collaboration, and allowing safe failures are what truly make teams thrive. And speaking of making things easier, the new CSS @scope rule is finally here, giving you a cleaner, more intuitive way to organize CSS for your components.

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• Don’t Hire Great Programmers if You’re A Startup. Startups need doers, not perfectionists, to thrive in fast-paced environments. Great programmers focus on polished masterpieces, but startups survive on quick, functional solutions. Hire those who prioritize results over perfection, especially in the early stages.

• You’re Not a Senior Software Engineer. Becoming a senior engineer isn’t just about gaining knowledge; it’s about accumulating enough experience to question what you know. Experience comes from mistakes, teaching humility and the ability to recognize when you’re wrong.

• All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people. Great engineering teams thrive on trust, not bureaucracy, and the best insights often come from outside the software world. Whether it's focusing on overlooked integration seams, knowing your true expertise, or valuing thought as work, success depends on empowering engineers to collaborate, fail safely, and share their expertise. A great manager builds trust, advertises their team’s value, and ensures the organization sees the brilliance behind the scenes.

• Introducing CSS @scope (it’s finally here!). The new CSS @scope rule is here to make web development cleaner and more intuitive by enabling nested CSS selectors directly in stylesheets. Unlike Shadow DOM scoping, @scope simplifies CSS organization without isolating styles entirely, making it perfect for component-based development.

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Convert Minutes to Hours and Minutes

The minsToHoursAndMins function converts a given number of minutes into hours and remaining minutes.

const minsToHoursAndMins = (mins) => `${Math.floor(mins / 60)} hour(s) and ${mins % 60} minute(s)`;

console.log(minsToHoursAndMins(125)); // Output: "2 hour(s) and 5 minute(s)"
console.log(minsToHoursAndMins(45));  // Output: "0 hour(s) and 45 minute(s)"
console.log(minsToHoursAndMins(240)); // Output: "4 hour(s) and 0 minute(s)"

How it works:

1. Math.floor(mins / 60): Divides the total minutes by 60 to calculate the number of full hours.

2. mins % 60: Uses the modulus operator to find the remaining minutes after dividing by 60.

3. Combines the results into a formatted string.

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