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ep3 firefox: Update textarea intrinsic height calculations

A Gen-Z textarea bug old enough to vote finally gets a fix.

In this episode of Commit History, we explore a small commit that fixes a 25 year old bug in a 20 year old open-source project - Mozilla Firefox.

We also learn about lambda expressions in C++, a new1 language feature that feels right at home if you’re coming from Javascript, Python, or many other lambda expression friendly languages.

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New for me - someone who hasn’t read or written C++ since my sophomore year Data Structures course in college. For C++ it’s been around since 2011.

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