Andy Young
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Principal SWE @tableau • Ex- @microsoft • Built services serving 1B MAU • Mostly frontend • Rarely serious • He/him/his
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The hardest part of being smarter than everybody else is being completely self aware and modest at all times.
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The Windows 11 Start Menu is comically bad.
This machine has a $1600 Core i9 CPU and 128 GB of RAM and this is the performance I often get.
What is going on in Redmond?
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There's literally no such thing as a fast computer anymore. They're all slow. Same with networks, slow as hell. Wanna know what would make me think "hey this is fast!"? Programs that open instantly. Streaming video that starts and seeks instantly.
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Do the developers building Jira... like... know? They know, right?
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I didn't say Windows 11's performance was bad. I said the Start Menu's performance was bad.
Don't twist my words and fix your sensationalist headline.
@TechSpot
Or take the article down wtf.
Former Microsoft developer says Windows 11's performance is "comically bad," even with monster PC
Plenty of people still dislike Windows 11 – it's partly why adoption rates for the most recent OS are disappointing – so it's not surprisi...
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To any senior software engineers in their 30s who saw this tweet, you're doing just fine.
Bruh, If 8 years later I'm just some senior engineer at a company, I failed at life.
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DevToys is seriously a fantastic app. So many great little tools all in one place, and open source to boot.
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Do devs still create little tools or scripts that address dev pain points and/or make them and the rest of the team more productive? This has been super commonplace during my career, but I almost never see this anymore. Everyone is too busy working on user stories. 🫤
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Senior dev challenge: go one week without saying "it depends".
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I've never owned a super nice computer. Think I've spent only $1-2K building any PC (ignoring monitors) for the past 25 years but they've always felt good enough for 5-10 years.
What are people doing with their $5K rigs? Dual streaming AAA games at 4K? Heavy video editing?
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My favorite Windows feature is opening the Start menu, typing "notepad", hitting Enter, and having it open Edge to a Bing search for "otepad".
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Do people really *rush* to finish their work before a sprint ends? That sounds like unnecessary risk to reach some arbitrary goal.
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@DanielW_Kiwi
"Hey [team that owns the API], can you add filtering support?"
"Not this release, filter on the UI for now and we'll add that support next release."
Next release comes, repeat ad infinitum.
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I'm a successful software engineer by any definition but sometimes I wonder where I'd be if I didn't "waste" 20+ hours a week playing video games.
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My favorite Windows feature is opening the Start menu, typing "notepad", hitting Enter, and having it open Edge to a Bing search for "otepad".
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In a meeting, a senior dev gives you (another senior dev) credit for an idea that was actually that of a jr dev on your team.
The jr dev quickly clarifies it was their idea.
What are your next steps?
Leave it be? Confirm it was the jr dev's idea? Followup via DMs later?
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Everyone always shares code that they're proud of.
I want to see code you wrote that makes you cringe.
Here's mine, and it's been in production for years, and there's a very good chance you've executed it before.
No, I will not be taking questions. 😅
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I'm a Principal software engineer (referred to as a Principal Member of Technical Staff where I work) and have been in the industry about 17 years now.
I wanted to echo George's statement:
We've worked hard but do not discount the luck, privilege, and the efforts of other
I'm an E7 at Meta (principal-ish). I worked hard to get here. Here are all of the ways I was privileged/got lucky (in chronological order):
1) When I was in college, my mom wanted to start an online dating site. She had personal insight. I studied marketing and English in school
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If I've learned anything from Twitter, I am literally the only dev on the planet still using Windows.
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Twitter is replacing "twitter.com" with "x.com" in all tweets.
Pro tip: insert a "zero width joiner" (U+200D) after the dot (which I did in this tweet) to prevent this and also prevent it from becoming a hyperlink, something we know generally negatively affects the algorithm.
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I get the same dopamine hits when writing code, docs, etc. as I do when playing video games.
Is this normal? Do people enjoy their job tasks as much as their leisurely pasttimes?
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Twitter is replacing "twitter.com" with "x.com" in all tweets.
Pro tip: insert a "zero width joiner" (U+200D) after the dot (which I did in this tweet) to prevent this and also prevent it from becoming a hyperlink, something we know generally negatively affects the algorithm.
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I almost never use git stash. I'll just commit half-baked code to my local branch if I need to switch branches or something.
How do you use git stash?
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Over 4 years of WFH and I've not once lugged my laptop somewhere like a coffee shop to go work. Home is where the wifi is.
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@icculus
As someone who converted a very popular sign-in page from 1 stage to 2 and tested the hell out of cred prefill on all major password managers and browsers, this is a problem with the website. It's usually just a matter of inserting a "hidden" password field on the username stage.
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People shit on JavaScript but its impact on the global economy rivals Excel's.
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@voidcompiler
Smartphones are essentially toys. Decent machines for social media and streaming platforms.
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Questions I ask senior+ software engineer candidates:
1. Tell me about a time you helped a colleague succeed.
2. And tell me about a time a colleague helped you succeed.
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Data is pronounced "data".
Enum is pronounced "enum".
Gif is pronounced "gif".
Did I miss any?
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@wbic16
I don't think it's silly tbh. People are allowed to spend their money however they want. I'm curious if I'm missing out on something for being frugal.
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Today the glue on my sink failed and it fell into the vanity. How's your day going?
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@bad_at_computer
The number of times I've had this exact thought.
I can't even imagine shipping that and being like "yes, this is acceptable performance".
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Devs reading a codebase:
Jr: "What does this do?"
Mid: "I know what this does"
Sr: "I know why it does this"
Staff: "I hate this"
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@otac0n
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Surely not; my team aims for zero bugs on the backlog too. But it's more like the "stop everything and fix any bug" mentality doesn't scale to any sufficiently complex system unless you never want to ship. There are always going to be bugs, many of which are subjective anyway.
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My favorite Windows feature is opening the Start menu, typing "notepad", hitting Enter, and having it open Edge to a Bing search for "otepad".
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The first time I was in a planning session and the team did "planning poker"—a term and practice I was not familiar with—where they secretly voted on "story points" (another term I was unfamiliar with), I honestly thought they were all pulling my leg.
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I wish more professional devs shared their day-to-day learnings/frustrations/highlights.
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If you drop f-bombs at work in casual conversation, you are my friend.
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It's hard to explain how incredible DOOM was when it was new. I remember staying at a friend's house who had it and we stayed up ALL NIGHT playing it, on a school night! It was like nothing anyone had ever seen before. 30 years later and I still fire it up from time to time.
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Twitter, please show me 398 different people tweeting this same "Which monitor configuration do you use?" image. Thank you.
And just in case you haven't seen it enough, here it is again.
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What's the most universally loved software product?
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When the pull request has screenshots, a screen recording with voiceover, a great description, automated tests, and a link to the dev environment the changes are deployed to.
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Making tech content on TikTok: dumb kids trolling me for using Windows.
Making tech content on Twitter: smart nerds trolling me for using Windows.
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When someone uses the 👀 reaction on Slack, I can't tell if it means "I saw this" or "I'm giving you the side-eye now."
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I wouldn't buy my 70yo mother a laptop with 8 GB RAM. What is this, 2010?
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What games did you get dangerously good at?
Mine are Quake 2, WoW, TF2, DOOM Eternal.
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Anyone who worked on BNPL should be ashamed of themselves. Stop taking advantage of financially insecure people.
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Man, I knew most devs didn't like Agile—or at least just tolerated it—but some of y'all despise it with the white-hot passion of a thousand burning suns.
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Guys, I used git stash today for reals. I'm a real developer now!
I almost never use git stash. I'll just commit half-baked code to my local branch if I need to switch branches or something.
How do you use git stash?
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Me, casually browsing core-js source code...
Excuse me, what?
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Do you think there's any validity to the idea that apps on your smart phone are "listening" to your conversation so they can show you more targeted ads or content?
I don't but I can also recall a dozen or so times when the algorithm showed me something I was just talking about.
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I've seen this problem too many times.
If you have an array of objects with unique ids:
❌Don't iterate over the array every time you need to get an object from the array by its id.
✅Convert to an object type—keyed by that unique id—then lookup by using the id!
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What's your tech or tech-adjacent hobby that isn't coding/gaming? I need something new.
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To be clear, I love Windows. I helped build parts of it. I want it to be as good as it once was. If data suggests the software you build frustrates a significant percentage of users, it means there's work left to be done.
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I very rarely get angry in life, but these are the things that really piss me off:
* My son getting bullied.
* Being accused of not understanding something.
* Java.
* Drivers going under the speed limit.
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Whenever I want to know how some code works—and I mean really understand it with no stone left uncovered—I read through the code from beginning to end, going down every branch (within reason), and translate it to English, writing it all down in a document.
"When a user does X,
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As a child who wasn't allowed to play Pokémon because they "evolve" and "Evolution is bad" who thought the Earth was 6000 years old as recently as 20 years ago... let your damn kids play some video games holy crap. Kids are allowed to have a more fun childhood than you did.
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"My web app works even if JavaScript is disabled!"
The web app:
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Have you ever written code in one language that executes code in another language?
Example: WebDriver UI tests in Java/C#/Python that run some JS string in the browser.
Ever gone 3 languages deep?
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To traverse up two directories, which team are you?
cd ../../ [↵]
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cd .. [↵] [↑] [↵]
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I feel I may not be able to resist the gravity of Rust much longer. 🦀
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Devin submitted a pull request today but closed all my code review comments as "Won't Fix" because he said something about "429 quota exceeded".
I didn't quite understand so I rejected his PR.
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I'm still a bit bitter that my high school didn't offer any kind of computer programming. Closest thing we had was Typing... where I got bad grades for typing 100+wpm but didn't use the "right" fingers. Thankfully I was able to take a C class at the local community college in '99
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My sugar momma, err wife, got promoted to partner at her accounting firm. 🎉
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President Biden has just mistakenly referred to Java as JavaScript. The room gasped.
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I'm still figuring out this Twitter algorithm thing...
🚫 Post thoughtful, encouraging things from my 20 years of experience.
✅ Dogpile on Windows.
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When I submit a pull request, I will often leave PR comments that provide additional context—on top of normal code comments—describing:
- why I chose my particular approach, and more importantly:
- what steps I took to figure out what change I needed to make.
This can include
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Dual income, no kids: DINK
Dual income, one kid: DIOK?
Dual income, couple kids: ???
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@shanselman
Jen DM'd me. I'll try to get another repro tomorrow and work with her. Thanks for the follow Scott, big fan. 😁
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