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Adam Rackis

4 years

I know I've been heavy on the Svelte hype lately. Some folks have been asking for specifics, which is pretty reasonable. So while my League Client patches, here's a thread of actual Svelte features that make me happy.

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Adam Rackis

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2 years

He’s making a new JavaScript bundler

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Adam Rackis

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2 months

People get twisted in their relationship with work. For $800K I will work on the most boring, uninspiring shit imaginable.

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Adam Rackis

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3 years

This week I watched a Staff Engineer quickly solve a problem by reading the error message, real psychopath shit

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Adam Rackis

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1 year

Half tempted to change my bio to Senior Software Engineer at Twitter and see if I can provoke Elon into firing me 🤔

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Adam Rackis

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5 months

I know it’s not exactly news but my god markets are savage

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Adam Rackis

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5 months

Once again begging Europe to create their own tech sector rather than just regulating ours

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Adam Rackis

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9 months

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

2 months

No clue if this replaces software devs in a few years, but the free lunch is gone. The days of graduating an 8 week bootcamp where you learn React, then fall into a $200K job are over. Be ready to grind & learn deeply. Expertly guiding ai to a good result might be our value-add.

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2 months

Today we're excited to introduce Devin, the first AI software engineer. Devin is the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies, and has even completed real jobs on Upwork. Devin is…

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Adam Rackis

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6 years

Company: "We'd like to use SQL Server Enterprise" MS: "That'll be a quarter million dollars + $20K/month" Company: "Ok!" ... Company: "We'd like to use Babel" Babel: "Ok! npm i babel --save" Company: "Cool" Babel: "Would you like to help contribute financially?" Company: "lol no"

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Adam Rackis

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9 months

FAANG Java devs making $400K TC watching tech Twitter debate Go vs Rust

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Adam Rackis

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7 months

Server actions 🔥

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

3 months

Google needs to just eliminate the PM role until they can figure out what’s going on over there

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3 months

Every. Single. New. Google. Product.

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

10 months

Uhhhh what happened to Postman? I just want to send, and inspect http requests? What is all this shit?

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

6 months

See what happens when you assholes don't use TypeScript

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

9 months

This is so brutal. Do you nerds understand now why I said it’s safer for newbies to stick with industry standard tools like React, instead of fun tools like Svelte? This is people’s livelihood, not some stupid game.

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discuss

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

1 year

Tell me you’ve never worked on a team of more than 5 people without telling me y—

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

2 years

Some news: I have decided to accept the role of Senior Staff Engineer at Vercel. Now I just have to wait for them to offer it.

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

3 years

🎉🍾🥳🎉🍾🥳 Some funs news: I've accepted a new role as a Senior Web Engineer at Spotify! 😃😆😁 🎉🍾🥳🎉🍾🥳

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Adam Rackis

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2 months

Of all the colors you could have chosen

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

5 months

@subdivisionguy The non-pathetic Elon simping answer is that interest rates went up and money got more expensive

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

5 years

Me fixing TypeScript errors with `any`

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

1 year

Brutal news for my FAANG friends who were hoping to work twice as hard for a third the money trying to enrich some founder with a god complex.

Alex Reibman 🖇️

@AlexReibman

1 year

Tough news for FAANG engineers: Startups don’t want you anymore Every founder I’ve spoken to is tired of them. Instead, they’re hiring ex-founders— engineers who value ownership and grinding to win

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

4 months

This stuff genuinely makes me want to hurt someone

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

10 months

This is ... fine and unsurprising? TS / JS frameworks were never meant to improve the productivity of lone-wolf 10X engineers. They're for teams. A lone wolf 10X engineer raw dogging vanilla js / html is fine. A team of regular devs doing that will be a terrible mess in a year.

@levelsio

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is now almost 14,000 lines of raw PHP mixed with inline HTML, CSS in <style> and raw JS in <script> tags I did not use TS, flexbox or frameworks except jQuery A lot of $.ajax() and float:left though It has 1,872 paying customers making $61,808 per month

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

11 months

One day you’re talking shit about how overpriced Apple products are, and then suddenly your house looks like this

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

2 years

As someone who frequently interviews at Spotify, no, please do not feel the need to ever write me a thank you note for interviewing you. It’s literally part of my job. And I promise it will not help (or hurt) your application one bit.

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Adam Rackis

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1 year

I’ve interviewed more senior engineers than I can remember and this is just absurd. Why do these insipid takes always come from an account with “founder” or “entrepreneur” in the bio 😅

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Adam Rackis

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22 days

I’m so sick of seeing useful web platform features only shipping in Chrome.

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

1 year

These layoffs are terrifying. My advice for younger devs, from my time conducting a *lot* of interviews, is this: learn your fundamentals. Well. Fucking around with some new js framework is fun, but your career will benefit a lot more from tightening your JavaScript / css skills

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

7 months

Make PHP great again

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

8 months

They. Removed. Prettier. 💀

Peer Richelsen — oss/acc

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8 months

guess the PR

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

5 years

9 year old daughter: “Daddy, you know how you have stickers on your computer?” Me: “Yeah” 9yo: “Can I put stickers on *my* computer?” Me: * wipes a tear away * “Of course”

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Adam Rackis

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4 months

Genuinely heart warming seeing English people discover freedom for the first time ❤️

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British girls first time in Target 😭😭😭

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

2 months

It's not everyday a wrong number blossoms into a new friendship 💙

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

2 years

I'm usually the type of engineer who won't die on any hill. I'll almost always answer "should I use ___" with "it depends." I can pretty much always find tradeoffs with anything. But I am absolutely convinced strict adherence to TDD is a complete waste of time.

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

10 months

Holy shit this is real. Zuck's image is officially restored. Bro can steal whatever data he wants from me I don't give af

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

8 months

Remember when he was hiring and said straight up “yo if you wanna work here we’re gonna have to grind so be ready” and everyone lost their minds? Doing cool shit requires hard work sometimes. Fucking legend.

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8 months

mf really said im gonna fix the javascript ecosystem for web devs and did it a real 10xer

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

1 month

Fundamentals are important, kids

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

5 years

⛔️ Error Messages ⛔️ Web Dev: * renders an object * "Hey buddy, an object's not a valid React component. Did you goof up an export? Here's an article, and it you're still stuck, here's Dan Abramov's personal cell" C++: * passes a pointer by reference * * program crashes *

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

3 years

Who's interested in a 🧵 about tech interviews? In the last ~2 years I've interviewed at Riot, AWS, Spotify and Citadel, and got offers from all except AWS. I promise that's not to brag, just to say I'm not pulling this stuff out of my 🍑

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

4 years

My god this is perfect.

Unreal Engine 5 is meant to ridicule web developers

Our sources report that the underlying reason behind the impressive tech demo for Unreal Engine 5 by Epic Games is to ridicule web developers. According to the Washington Post, the tech demo includes...

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

3 months

Just squash and merge my god some devs have too much free time

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

7 months

I cannot imagine what it feels like to have balls big enough to complain when a hosting provider takes down a project that exists to literally bypass paywalls. Hell I can’t imagine having balls big enough to even ship such a lawsuit magnet. Respect 🫡

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Adam Rackis

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5 months

"hah hah I can't BELIEVE how many people Spotify employs" - Some mid-level dev who's never worked on anything with over 1,000 users

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Adam Rackis

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8 months

Look here's the bottom line: DHH is rich. He can say whatever he wants But are YOU sure you want to announce that TypeScript is too hard for you? If a job interview asked about it, do you really want to say "I tried, but getting rid of the errors was too hard so I gave up" 👀

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

4 years

Seriously what if Microsoft just buys Mozilla? They can abandon their silly Edge experiment, commit to Firefox, and we'll all forget about stuff that happened in the past and give them a clean slate.

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

5 months

@RecurseWord yeah that's the point

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

10 months

Me, with C++ in production in the Spotify Core Layer, and League of Legends client network layer watching you children argue about frontend vs backend

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

6 months

This tweet would be mildly disagreeable IF these books were good, and would help level up your career; they’re not and they won’t. If you want good treatment of higher-level software engineering, start here.

Taylor Poindexter

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My yearly reminder to no longer recommend or read any tech books from Uncle Bob aka Robert C. Martin (ie: Clean Code or Clean Architecture). FWIW, folks are making me proud in the responses though 💜

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Adam Rackis

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6 years

Dan Abramov: "Now remember, hooks is still in Alpha, it's just a propo—" Entire React Community: "Hey there's still two libraries not converted to hooks. Are these projects dead?"

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

5 months

Atlassian said "we don't have time to maintain this open source library with a million weekly downloads we're too busy making Jira awesome"

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

5 years

Devs: * waste hours arguing `let` vs `const` * Babel: * takes a drag on a hand-rolled cigarette * Babel: "var it is"

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Adam Rackis

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7 months

I have honestly never in my career seen a technology shoot higher, faster, and then crash, harder, than GraphQL. What happened? Was it a bad fit for the Serverless world we all found ourselves in? And don't blame Relay/Apollo - there were always simpler options.

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Adam Rackis

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8 months

Holy shit I love TypeScript 💙

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

2 years

Who’s gonna tell them

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

4 years

"Someday I'll quit tech and just be a farmer" Am I the only dev here who still enjoys this? Like, coding is kinda fun and it blows me away I can get paid for it. You'd have to drag me kicking and screaming from this industry before I ever give it up.

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Adam Rackis

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2 years

C++ watching all JavaScript tooling get rewritten in Rust

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

3 years

We just bought a house!!!

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Adam Rackis

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5 years

Me trying to use RxJS

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

8 months

I don’t know what NueJs is but it’s nice to know up front I can safely ignore it

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

2 years

Vercel’s new Rust-based webpack replacement, Turbopack, is an order of magnitude faster than Vite holy shit

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Adam Rackis

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1 month

Just posted this in Slack - backend engineers are laying a savage beating on Next 🫣

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

4 years

mother of god what even is this UI

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Adam Rackis

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2 years

lol

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

1 year

Sending a bug report to SvelteKit and decided at the last minute not to act like a 12 year old—please clap

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Adam Rackis

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6 months

Next.js tip: be careful with the Link component. It'll prefetch by default, but only in production. I just saw code that had multiple Link tags in each row of a big table. The network tab was getting destroyed by basic scrolling 😭

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Adam Rackis

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3 months

You obviously knew what I meant why don't you just do it

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

2 years

Heroku had a catastrophic security incident involving GitHub OAuth tokens on April 15. It's not resolved; Heroku customers still cannot use GitHub CI/CD integration. And hilariously, nobody is talking about it because nobody uses Heroku anymore 😂

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

3 years

Offend a web developer with a single tweet

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Adam Rackis

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1 year

Imagine some PHP dev who just woke up from a 10 year coma, asking his friend what he's missed in the industry. "Dude everyone's into Server Side Rendering now it's insane!" "What the fuck are you talking about"

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Adam Rackis

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1 year

Hot take: this is a really dumb reason to dislike a JS framework. It’s fine. If you’re worrying about shit like this, you don’t have enough impactful work to do.

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

2 years

We will never adequately repay @youyuxi for creating Vite

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Adam Rackis

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2 years

CDC says just use `any` to eliminate your TypeScript errors.

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Adam Rackis

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8 months

Web developers use the weirdest language to describe static types to disguise their own dislike at having to use something new. Jesus christ chad we're not hacking MySpace profiles anymore. Static types are good. Use them.

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Adam Rackis

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Adam Rackis

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5 months

@subdivisionguy Better except for the constant bots, neo-Nazi’s being brought back, and ads being reduced to literal sugar daddy websites because anyone reputable doesn’t want to be seen here. But go off simping your billionaire bf 😂

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Adam Rackis

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3 years

omfg

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Adam Rackis

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1 year

lol this rabbit hole keeps getting deeper 🤣

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Adam Rackis

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8 months

It’s honestly hard for me to think of a language I’ve used professionally in the last 5 years (Swift, C++, Java) that doesn’t have syntax similar to this. If you find this maddening and indecipherable I urge you to level up and just learn it. Future you will be grateful

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Holy shit I love TypeScript 💙

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Adam Rackis

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1 year

I've never been as wrong about anything as I was about GraphQL. Most of the benefits I attributed to it were just the result of me not having a proper application framework like SvelteKit/Next/Remix. And the others are solved more simply with tRPC.

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Adam Rackis

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1 year

omg now that html forms are relevant again there's a whole generation of devs about to learn weird bullshit like <button type="button"

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Adam Rackis

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3 years

Some of TypeScript's advanced features are just jaw-dropping

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Adam Rackis

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8 months

“He works on Bun”

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Adam Rackis

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2 years

"How do I animate things in Svelte?" @Rich_Harris : "It's built in, yo. Here's a link to the docs" "How do I animate things in React?" React core team:

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Adam Rackis

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2 months

@Gok That’s a tough one. I might settle for the $500K depending on my cost of living

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Adam Rackis

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2 months

Who's old enough to remember SourceForge? I mean I'm not ... just wondering if any of YOU people are

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Where did developers store their code before GitHub became popular ?

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Adam Rackis

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1 year

I've been using Tailwind for about a minute. I was expecting to like it. I wasn't expecting to love it, certainly not this quickly. You Tailwind haters: who hurt you?

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Adam Rackis

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1 year

Before this site shuts down I have to get this off my chest: I'm not even a JavaScript developer. I code in Ruby on Rails for a living. I just pretended to be into JS and React to hang out with the cool people

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Adam Rackis

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8 months

Bun dude watching everyone say Vercel's about to acquire his company

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Adam Rackis

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6 months

Don't ask me how I discovered this but apparently html supports a bunch of math elements? What?

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

2 years

Seriously, try XState if you haven't. Just fucking try it. Starting to think we hate hooks & effects so much because we should be using XState more. I'm refactoring spaghetti code into a state machine and watching the complexity just vanish. This is amazing. I love it so much.

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Adam Rackis

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4 years

Periodic reminder that optional chaining in JavaScript is a thing now. So instead of this: this.bindingTeardown && this.bindingTeardown(); you can just do this this.bindingTeardown?.();

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Adam Rackis

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1 year

You can have a superb culture of quality, like Spotify does, and still be grownup enough to realize that shit breaks in unexpected ways, so not deploying on a Fri is just basic human empathy

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Adam Rackis

@AdamRackis

2 years

Young devs will never understand how insane tech Twitter was ~7 years ago. All the modern bits of JavaScript were brand new, and tons of crusty neck beard JS devs were *pissed* There were protracted, useless debates on whether arrow functions and classes were appropriate.

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Adam Rackis

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5 years

Well, I've been using my new MacBook Pro for a whole week, so naturally I have strong opinions. Every negative opinion I ever assumed about MacBooks were utter bullshit–complete trash, and as Carl Orff said, should be burned I'm angry I spent the last 10 years coding on Windows

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Adam Rackis

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6 months

OpenAI board of directors

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Adam Rackis

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2 years

AWS billing is wild. I dump shit into S3 with impunity, for pennies per month. I fired up Elastic Beanstalk to see how good it was at replacing Heroku. I created an empty web app, and quickly gave up. A week later I had $5 in charges 👀

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Adam Rackis

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7 months

LOL called it

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Adam Rackis

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5 years

I feel shameful admitting this, but .... I prefer export function foo(){ over export const foo = () => { but I keep writing the latter because I want to fit in 😐😐😐

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Adam Rackis

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1 year

Yo @rauchg get the fuck off my bedroom tv my wife sleeps in here

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