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I like theory in practice and I like to practice…in theory
Joined July 2008
This is an incredible example of OOP brainrot + Clean Code dogma gone very wrong.
I hired another dev once that loved to over abstract things. They would've refactored that original for loop to look more like this. Every time you worked with their code there were just so many more layers than necessary to do simple things.
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The craziest twist of the $5 VPS discourse for me was the revelation that Levels actually pays a devops engineer 🤔🤯
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Some distractions are more difficult to say no to than others.
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You order $60 of sushi for takeout, drive over to pick it up, give the host your name, he walks 5ft to pick up a bag and hands it to you. The minimum tip option on the checkout iPad is 15%. wyd?.
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I did not have “Bun becomes an UploadThing competitor” on my 2025 bingo card 👀.
In the next version of Bun. Bun gets first-class support for S3. Upload, download, stream, and presign with 0 dependencies
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@xyz3va HUGE find!! 2k is a steal…respect you framing it as “they don’t normally pay but bounties” but I have to ask…why?.
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Been thinking about TDD a bit this week after opening a codebase with component tests 10x the size of the component. 🤔
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I’ve got a genuine question for fellow parents of littles (1yo + ~4yo currently):. When does the “perpetual exhaustion” stop?.
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@soychotic Little known fact: Java only got its name as a marketing ploy so people would subconsciously associate it with the wildly successful and brilliantly designed scripting language JavaScript.
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“One thing I’ve noticed is that I give thumbs-up like a psychopath…”
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🚨WE'RE HIRING REMOTE🚨. Synadia has *two* marketing oriented tech roles that recently opened up. Marketing Web Developer ($120-160k contract-to-hire) - FE dev + design, UI/UX+Astro+Storyblok. Technical Marketing Engineer ($135-165k FTE) - Marketing + dev edu focus (GTM, events).
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Of all the takes I’ve seen on tech Twitter…. This is…certainly a take!
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@TylerMKing @seldo Ngl most days I’d rather open a terminal to navigate the filesystem than Finder.
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@anpaure Anthropic devrel @alexalbert__ has created and posted lots of good resources including I’d also check his TL though the man has been cooking this year.
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🚨Starting to send out full time applications🚨. Open to:.Director of Engineering.Engineering Manager.Staff Architect/SWE. 🙏RTs for visibility greatly appreciated! 🙏. If you are looking or know someone looking, my DMs are open!.
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Progress is being made. switch statement proposal is in for #GruLang. I think postfix is the play. I'm so sorry
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Hey friends, I finally did it. I published my first YouTube video 😅. Rough start. but many more of these to come!. Link below 👇
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@ThePrimeagen “My life feels in shambles and my wife said I should do it”. Commonly said before making good decisions.
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Weird take. Now we're gatekeeping, tone policing, and shaming young devs for authenticity in their writing? Devs have been passionate about their tooling for decades, why are y'all trying to act "cooler than" when someone does something legitimately productive with that?.
Devs now writing blog posts about switching tools as if they’re going through a break up 💔.
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@natemcgrady @ZachWarunek This post has more layers than an onion and is so beautiful it also made me cry 🥲.
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I had to.
@ccccjjjjeeee I've thought / said this for ages. IMO the best solution: A single `config.js` or `config.ts` & treeshake export the name of the config you want. EG: Rather than `tailwind.config.js` you have `config.js` that exports a constant named `tailwind`.
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can confirm
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And just to think, if I grinded enough leetcode and hit my KPIs I could be driving home from the office right now!
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Made it to our seats and we are about to take off!. Wish us luck for this 10hr flight…I’m already utterly exhausted 😅
Won’t be online much for two weeks. LAX ✈️ UK 🚢 France 🚢 Portugal 🚢 Span ✈️ home ❤️. Wish me luck, this is the most travel we’ve ever done with a one and four year old. “Vacation” hits different as a parent 😓.
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Pilcrow is an absolute genius of OSS dev and I absolutely love what they have done with Lucia v3. I’m a fan of POSIX mentality growing in the webdev ecosystem…smaller packages with narrow scopes leveraged as primitives in higher level packages. Auth is a brilliant problem
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@KevinNaughtonJr Bro I try to keep my TL purely politics free but the RT button on this post is a serious temptress rn 😭.
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⚠️DO NOT DO THIS if you’re using a client component in Next app router.
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For the first time in years, I am flying to a tech conference! About to takeoff for ATL, can’t wait to see so many of my tech Twitter friends in person at #RenderATL23!! See y’all soon! @RenderATL
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HOTEL SHOWER REVIEW. Pros: .- water pressure == gravity.- accessible towels (forgot to mention).- fancy “half of a wall” glass. Cons:.- No @t3dotgg or @ThePrimeagen in sight.- @JacobMGEvans forgot to tell me to turn on my brain before filming. Rating: 5/7
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@armankhon In your opinion, what practice, norm, or trait contributed the most to exceptional engineering culture?. Maybe the same answer, but which of the above did you find most unique to TikTok?.
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Today I’m feeling fairly depressed / existential / futile. Steps taken so far:. 1. Hug and play with my kids.2. Read a book.3. Touch grass + eat sun. What’s your best advice or favorite hacks for those days where you feel pointless?.
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AIDEN THE ABSOLUTE GOAT JUST SAVED GITHIB NO WAY. 🙏EVERYBODY SAY THANK YOU AIDEN🙏.
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In addition to being incredibly genuine, open, welcoming, and a generally awesome human. Rox was probably the most Zen person I met at #TwitchCon and here's proof.
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@EnembieNMB @Liv_Agar You say “no problems” twice and use the word literally…yet there LITERALLY were problems…that’s why people are injured and we’re having this conversation….
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@TejasKumar_ Oh my goodness. this is so bad hahah. I've struggled to find things in settings as of late and this makes me feel way less crazy, something about their indexing is entirely insufficient.
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@csdojo404 lol that's a bad hiring mgr. If I see PHP on your resume I know for a *fact* you've seen some ish. you're going to be a battle hardened veteran not afraid of the trenches, and you'll be incredibly grateful for any modern tooling we have :).
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First out-of-the-house-no-kids date in quite some time!
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Me, submitting a PR to nuxt/nuxt having never built anything in Vue:
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@ziademarcus Nothing’s “critical stuff” in that sense, could’ve written the whole thing in WASM too. This code will pass your compiler / class project but infuriate and slow an effective team/org of many experienced devs.
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Can someone explain to me the logic behind this? Genuinely open to being enlightened…but how do you justify labeling something “stable” when it’s pegged to canary of its most significant dependency. ?.
@AdamRackis App router uses canary React.
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Today I've got a 2hr technical and a 45min hiring mgr intro. I always feel totally useless at DSA and basic React tutorial-level code whenever I'm prepping for technicals 😓. Plz send energy 🙏.
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“Misogyny is a skill issue” 😂.
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@jamonholmgren @dhh Dangit Jamon I had my pitchfork all sharpened up and you had to come in here with your NUANCE.
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So many amazing group people showed up to support me during my talk! I had a blast and they all shared such kind words and encouragement. Thank you!!
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@DigitalBlkHippy Mentorship. Surround yourself with starry eyed recruits/juniors who are quick to recognize and acknowledge the magic all around us.
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IT'S RUNNING! WE HAVE POSTED! THE BUILD IS DONE!!!. Holy crap this took me 7 hrs and without Twitch chat I literally wouldn't have been able to get my airflow correct. thank you EVERYBODY who hung out you are all such legends, what a stream
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@mhartington facts. That's why TailWind is cool. you can subversively get a dev to learn CSS by saying "Learn Tailwind" and since it's a "framework" they'll salivate at the opportunity before realizing they've just been tricked into learning CSS attributes!.
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It’s anniversary week around these parts, so we escaped the toddler for a nice brunch with baby 👶🏼
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Question: Is this how all programmers sit? Curled up in a ball? Or is this just my programmer? #Musingsofaprogrammerswife #MrsNateCodes #Myaccountfortheweek
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My 2yo counting to 44:. 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.13.14.42.43.44.
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I might have self-bruised my cheekbone…. TL;DR: baby started to tumble off her brother’s bed, I dove to catch her, toddler bed support beam was between baby and my face. Parenthood is a contact sport 😵💫
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@0xmer_ @FlossGauss Thinking test scores conflate at all with “highest achiever” is old head mentality. Deloitte as a choice is an economic decision not impact. Some want to bank for 5-10 and frugal retire on $5M, consulting can be one smooth pathway to that.
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Big announcement. I will be speaking *TOMORROW* at 9AM @RenderATL (stage 2)! I'm talking about "Cultivating Confidence" in ourselves, and those around us. I would be honored to see you there, and please come up to me and say hi if we haven't had the opportunity yet! #RenderATL23
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Pro-tip: if you catch the stomach flu going around the US right now DO NOT take CHERRY FLAVORED NyQuil. If you do, then when you inevitably vomit for the 6th time in 12hrs you won’t be able to tell how much is NyQuil and how much is blood from your esophageal lining.
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Me this morning, leaving THAT conference inspired, energized, and excited to get to work:. “I’M GONNA READ THIS WHOLE BOOK ON THE PLANE TODAY”. Me on the plane:
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First week on the job and I already fixed a centered div issue. still got it 😤.
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Why am I getting so many follows from this what is wrong with y’all???.
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@0xIlyy My CS coursework showed an inverse correlation between value and applicability. The esoteric theoretical stuff remains relevant and helped build foundational knowledge, but was worthless in jobs . The “useful” courses (web apps, swe lab, vcs) were outdated before the first day.
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Today, I'm writing a bunch of Python. I'm. having. fun? 🤷♂️.
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Dude babies SUCK at sleeping. Like…you have one job and it’s literally laying there and doing nothing. Give me a break (please).
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Won’t be online much for two weeks. LAX ✈️ UK 🚢 France 🚢 Portugal 🚢 Span ✈️ home ❤️. Wish me luck, this is the most travel we’ve ever done with a one and four year old. “Vacation” hits different as a parent 😓.
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WE HIT 1K FOLLOWERS ON TWITCH!!! To celebrate, we CODE!. Also I think I legitimately hurt my neck from reading all the follows from the Prime raid yesterday on my upper monitor. And seriously, to each and every one of you, THANK YOU so much for the kindness and generosity!
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