Brandon Dail
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me, before having kids: I’m never going to lie to my children
me today to my toddler: they don’t have hot dogs in Colorado
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[man who won the lottery]: here’s why i think buying lottery tickets is the future of finance 👇🧵
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I’m starting to think that every product org should have at least one senior+ engineer who isn’t beholden to a roadmap and who just goes around making little quality of life improvements everywhere
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Lord give me the confidence of a recruiter who thinks I want to leave my job for a part time, 3 month contractor gig working on Java in Pittsburg
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me, a software engineer: large scale production systems are complex and require teams of experts to keep running. It’s near impossible to get right 100% of the time
me, when an app I use goes down once: these fucking clowns, what the fuck
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@LukeDashjr
Oh no a Bitcoin shilling forced-birther thinks I’m a bad parent how will I recover
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hi, discord expert here! this is not funny, parsing libraries only do this when they’re very distressed
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Ok, it’s been six months since web3 folks told me the environmental issues with ETH would be solved in six months, how we doing?
Ok everyone keeps telling me it’ll be fixed in six months so I’ll see y’all again next March for a status update
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Using commit count on Github as a measure of a developer's skill is like using Tweet count as a measure of a person's intellect.
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💫 you can push into Array.prototype and totally mess up empty arrays
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I never understand people who are like "I don't use TypeScript because the type checker is always yelling at me" because that's the whole point!
It probably means you are doing something sketchy? big shooting the messenger vibes
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✋What are the best companies hiring right now that:
👨👩👦 embrace remote work
💸 have competitive pay
🤝 actually value diversity beyond their "About Us" page
👨💻 care about accessibility
😇 aren't totally evil
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With no formal education I went from not knowing anything about coding to getting an offer from Facebook in 3 years, because of opportunities in OSS.
Its *amazing* how engaging with a community based on free and open software can totally change your life ♥️
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Trump's attack on Martin Gugino is despicable and a clear violation Facebook's anti-harassment rules. It's again extremely disappointing that we (and Twitter) haven't removed it.
The amount of mental gymnastics required to assume good intent and ignore impact are astounding.
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Recently VSCode disappeared from my dock. I could still access it through tabbing so I didn't pay too much attention to it.
Today I realized that it never disappeared in the first place! 🔎
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Disappointed that, again, I need to call this out: Trump's glorification of violence on Facebook is disgusting and it should absolutely be flagged or removed from our platforms. I categorically disagree with any policy that does otherwise.
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Facebook is unlocking remote hiring for experienced engineers, starting in the US and Canada 😍
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The events at Mozilla should be concerning to all who care about the future of the web. With so many critical web services and tech on the cutting block, it's a lesson on why relying on the goodwill and resources of for-profit companies is an unstable foundation for the open web
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web developers: use descriptive variable names
also web developers: class=“md:w-56 mt-1 mx-auto px-auto”
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I’m going to stop building UIs and start jailbreaking iPhones. First off, can someone write me a script that jailbreaks an iPhone? I must be able to run it from my iPhone
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Announcing react-perimeter 🚧
Draw an invisible perimeter around an element and respond when the mouse breaches it.
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💫 You can use array destructuring to swap values between variables
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perfection
absolutely dying at the bootlickers clambering to get into Twitter for the “glory of the technical challenge”
The idea that Twitter was struggling due to a lack of engineering expertise is so hilariously wrong, I can’t wait for them to realize what the actual problems are
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JSX, except you have to add the same attributes to the closing tag too 😈
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I've used git for years and only recently learned you can use `git checkout -` to checkout the last branch you were on 💫
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Facebook just open sourced an experimental state management library for React called Recoil
I've seen a handful of internal teams use it for performance sensitive projects. It's worth taking a look at if that sounds interesting to you!
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Working on a Chrome extension that won't let you tweet images until you add alt text ✨
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this is fine, I’m begging y’all to stop with this take
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*on Github*
user: I have I problem
maintainer: we need more details
*6 months of silence*
user: here's a screenshot of my code
maintainer: no that's not helpful
*9 months later*
user: here is a git repo, its 100k lines and I'm not going to tell you where the problem is
😭
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exploring: a calendar interface where rescheduling or adjusting event times or durations automatically adjusts downstream events. less useful for rigid events like meetings but nice if you are trying to schedule a sequence of dependant, flexible events (e.g, a family vacation)
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Hi, I’m recursion. You might know me from my greatest hits “Hi, I’m recursion. You might know me from my greatest hits “Hi, I’m recursion. You might know me from my greatest hits "Hi, I’m recursion. You might know me from my greatest hits “Hi, I’m recursion. You might know me fro
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So when are we going to talk about how React isn’t apolitical and the community’s complicity in supporting Facebook?
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@PFTompkins
how can we be so sure Flipdaddy doesn’t provide additional glasses to visually impaired babies
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Wait until folks realize you can write inaccessible HTML by hand too
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coming soon: prefetching components based on the proximity of the mouse to an arbitrary element 🤺
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The year is 2025, and all Microsoft employees are now Dev Advocates
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I've been working on migrating
@discord
from Webpack to
@rspack_dev
and I'm finally close to being done.
Production build times are down over 70% 📉
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We couldn't have Array.prototype.flatten because it broke a few sites using MooTools but sure lets just go ahead and delete alert()
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"I should write a blog post"
"I should write a blog site from scratch"
"I should create my own blog framework"
"I should write my own language for this framework"
"OK x86 isn't going to cut it, I need a new ISA"
"The von Neumann architecture is outdated, time for something new"
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Did you know that because of hoisting, you can define functions *after* a return statement?
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[person who traded all their stuff for seashells, spends all day talking about seashells, and has an immense financial stake in the success of seashells]: why yes I do think seashells are the currency of the future
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Me writing JavaScript: allocate objects left and right without a second thought
Me writing Rust: clone a pointer?! Who am I, Rockefeller?
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this is exactly how you ship inaccessible products
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I just published a Chrome extension that will prevent you from tweeting images without alt text ✨
Any issues can be reported here:
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this is not a good user experience, lets not turn the web into a bunch of overcooked dribbble posts just because we can 💀
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To all my colleagues not speaking out: I see you. Silence is implicit support. You have a platform and it’s disappointing that you aren’t using it.
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what I've been focused on recently: adding a saturation slider to Discord's Accessibility settings on the Desktop app to better support users with color sensitivities.
we're using HSL with calc() and CSS variables to do it.
available now in the Canary build 🟡
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what if you could define a custom error message in
@typescript
to provide more context to users who are encountering a common problem 💭
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Hooks are the reason I've stopped extending react-copy-write. With Hooks, using Immer is so easy, it's not even worth publishing a package 🙂
Here's a useMutableReducer hook that lets you just mutate the state to update it in the reducer 😯
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Avoid using React.memo on components that use props.children! Those children will almost certainly change every render, so React.memo will never prevent the component from re-rendering, making it unnecessary overhead ✨
Demo: 👨💻
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Thinking about starting a “Writing a Compiler in Rust” blog post series to share a bit of what I’ve learned so far
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Sometimes you want to update state in an effect, but you need to reference the last state to do it ⚛️
This can be hard with useEffect, as you then need to add the state to the dependency list.
You can use the update form of setState to simplify this ✨
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Petition to add Discord to the FAANG club and remove Facebook so it can be DAANG ✨
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I’ve been working on this feature and I’m SO excited that it got a shout-out at F8. We think there’s a lot of potential here for improving
#a11y
for the entire community 🙂
This is what FB developers will see in their local sandbox when building features for the upcoming redesign. Regardless of your stance on FB the company, this is a really powerful example of how a considered developer experience can directly impact the end user experience.
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I asked
@Vjeux
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@reactjs
's lead and add a statement of support to Recoil's docs and he privately refused, claiming open source shouldn't be political.
Intentionally not making a statement is already political. Consider that next time you think of Recoil.
We just published the first release since we open sourced Recoil two weeks ago.
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I've been using Tailwind for the first time over the past week and I have really mixed feelings. It feels like it's a great approach to styling with the wrong API.
My markup is totally dominated by long class strings that are really hard for me to scan and organize.
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It’s almost like people use their blogs as a development playground to explore things that interest them. Over-engineering is kind of the point
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You wake up. Bleary eye’d, you notice something off. As your eyes focus you notice a black triangle painted on the ceiling. And then another and another. You rush to the mirror; your face is covered in triangles. “No, no, no” you panic, but it’s too late. You now work at
@vercel
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Calling this out is literally the bare minimum employees can do; I understand that being an employee makes me complicit, but I'm doing what I can to voice these concerns internally too. I'm sorry to all the people these policies hurt.
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I can't stress enough how much of a difference it makes working on a product that you actually love and enjoy to use.
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✨ Tired of having to write clear() or console.clear() when debugging in the browser console?
Just define a getter for `clear` on the global object that does it for you. Then you can type `clear` just like you would in the terminal 👨💻
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It’s okay if your site doesn’t work well with JavaScript disabled. It’s been a core part of the web for decades now. It’s nice if you can be fault tolerant, but using the full platform to build your product doesn’t mean you’re breaking the web in anyway.
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This detail about useMemo is so powerful, you can memoize children at whatever granularity you want 🤯 it inverts control and allows parent components to define exactly how child components get memoized.
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Caching.
You look up a phone number in a large phone book. You know you’ll need the number again soon, so you write it down on a piece of paper. Now you only have to look at your paper to get the number next time.
What's the most difficult programming concept you can explain in a tweet?
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Elevators are the ultimate programming metaphor. You can use them to explain:
* State machines
* Idempotence
* Asynchronous requests
* Fault tolerance
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When tech companies tweet without actually changing any of their problematic policies
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Sometimes you want to pass down methods along with state when using
@reactjs
Context. Creating a new object in render is easy, but can lead to unnecessary Consumer updates.
Solution? Build context with a memoized method that's a function of the state being provided ⚛️
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I wonder what it’s like to be a web developer who isn’t on Twitter?
Like, there’s this whole group of people out there who are just shipping products without worrying about what the latest hot button issue is
Sounds nice
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@sarah_edo
I haven't drawn in years, but I had to try and make a version for React. Thanks for the inspiration Sarah!
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It seems highly unlikely that I'll be interested in returning to an office after this mandatory work from home period is over 😬
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I've been working on integrating new functionality into an older codebase that uses lots of class components ⚛️
I didn't want to refactor a bunch of giant class components, but I also wanted to use a hook for this feature.
It's amazing how easy this is using render props 😍
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Just to clarify here: I wasn't explicitly let go for speaking against Facebook policies. I publicly called out another employee for a problematic political stance. I don't doubt that violates Facebook's respectful workplace policy.
I still stand by it.
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