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Father | Sr. DevX Engineer @ ClerkDev | prev @ Cloudflare | Autistic | AF Veteran | Hardware | Camping & Hiking 🏕️ | Trekkie | |

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Joined June 2011

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Jacob MG Evans

1 year

Well it finally happened! Several weeks of tedious re-architecting, diving deep into Monorepo mental model, learning every toolings support (and limitations) for Monorepo support. This all after the initial effort of team buy in: MERGED 🎉🎊 @turborepo

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Turborepo Implementation & Monorepo standardization by JacobMGEvans · Pull Request #3261 · cloudf...

👋🏻 This has been a long time in the making #1990, we are finally here! The Repo has undergone a lot of initial growth and evolution as we worked to make the migration happen to TypeScript and...

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Jacob MG Evans

3 years

I have 2 MacBook Pros, a custom-built PC running Windows & WSL2, and another laptop on Linux... None of them are "superior" they have their trade-offs. My suggestion, don't get into the brand loyalty camps or hate bandwagons.

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10 months

Apple rejected the new X name in the app store 🤣🤣🤣

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3 years

Just got access to @github issues beta, all I can say is wow... Jira is going to need to step up their game.

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3 years

A reminder the Data Engineering team at Cloudflare is hiring feel free to reach out to me 🙂

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2 years

TypeScript is all you need. TypeScript is life.

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Jacob MG Evans

5 years

@lizardschwartz @Smashmore86 @paul_clarke That's bananas!

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5 years

Well its official my code went into facebook/create-react-app 🎊🎊🎊🎊🎉🎉🎉🎉🍾🍾🍾🍾

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Support production profiling with React Developer Tools by JacobMGEvans · Pull Request #7737 ·...

Closes #7734. Some of the process I went through to test the changes include the following: I ran yarn test After I ran yarn build Following this, I ran yarn create-react-app my-app built a...

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2 years

@stephondoestech So... How is that package licensed 😅😆

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2 years

@JackRhysider My imposter syndrome.

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2 years

I Just set "git config --global push.autoSetupRemote true" for work and don't regret it.

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Jacob MG Evans

3 years

@_noid_ @viviofgridania @Firr @LilScaryAndCute I always just assume someone is trying to replace me. That way I'm always motivated to be looking externally and trying to move up or laterally internally. I don't suggest this mindset for most. It's constant anxiety and paranoia, which I have anyway...might as well use it. 😅😆

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5 years

@AmarachiAmaechi I've developed on Linux, Mac, and Windows... It's about preference. I mean if you're developing with .NET and using Visual Studio... Windows can even be in your favor. I say go with what you like and comfortable with, not what's popular or trendy.

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5 years

Been sitting on big news lately. I accepted a great offer with @chase and will be starting Oct 14th as an Associate Software Engineer with a great innovative team working on super cool projects! Super stoked

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Jacob MG Evans

9 months

I will be saying farewell to Cloudflare, it has been a great workplace & great people!! I can't stress enough I wouldn't have spent ~3yrs at Cloudflare otherwise!! Whats next? I will be joining @ClerkDev as Sr. DevRel Engineer working closely with @domitriusclark among others!

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Jacob MG Evans

9 months

IF you get a unknown Zelle transfer, immediately report it to Zelle or your bank. There is a "chargeback-like" scam happening. They will text you trying to get you to send the money back then immediately report their original transfer as fraud. My bank didn't even know about it

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3 years

I got access to GitHub CoPilot.

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6 years

@drw1018 @rebeccathemeh @Bollockchops81 @nowuvdunnit @nowthisnews Good as previous law enforcement I find is lack of action appalling. I am glad other officers showed up and actually served to restore peace.

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3 years

@iamsegunajibola "Works on my machine..." Well then push your machine to prod.

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Jacob MG Evans

4 years

It's official! I accepted an offer at @Cloudflare and am beyond excited to start working with all the amazing people I have met and so many others that work there!!!

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Jacob MG Evans

4 years

@dan_abramov @js_tut No no, we all should write our own version of React from scratch over and over and over again 🙄

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4 years

@scottjehl That being said I hate Java.

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Jacob MG Evans

11 months

On another episode of "I'm sorry, fucking what!?" on Tech Twitter

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@drwpwrs @Riyaadh_Abr @TkDodo You can achieve streaming using recursive promises:

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1 year

How the fuck you center a Div in augmented/virtual reality?

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1 year

Breaking points are about to enter a new era 😂😂

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Jacob MG Evans

10 months

Don't rebase. There are exceptions, I don't like them.

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10 months

Gonna start talking about git rebase again for the ad revenue

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3 years

@yaykyle @denvercoder I wouldn't have signed that... Anything that remotely sounds like "you won't take punitive action in case we don't pay" is just a giant red flag to me lol 😆

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2 years

@stephondoestech I'm vindictive don't be like me. Or do and let me know 🤣

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Jacob MG Evans

5 years

@bjcolangelo That's a good example of why that way of doing things can blow up in your face... Also, my daughter's hair is green 😅😆

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2 years

Met the myth the legend @ThePrimeagen , he only brought up Rust once or twice.

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5 years

@sarah_edo Because misogynists and sexist gatekeepers don't have issues with men's accolades and accomplishments in tech confirming their fallacious bias. Bouman is a rockstar and deserves credit where credit is due. I am stoked on her accomplishment.

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4 years

Happy Birthday Me 🎉 🎁

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3 years

I don't hate the hammer for not being a screwdriver.

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Jacob MG Evans

6 months

Wow, how long has Vercel been around!?

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🚨 PSA 🚨 you don't have to make a @vercel joke every time you see a god damn triangle thanks, mgmt

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1 year

TypeScript sucked the joy out of writing JavaScript. I'm forever grateful I didn't listen to anyone early on and kept writing TypeScript. Now I can enjoy my favorite language ecosystem with superpowers.

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Jacob MG Evans

3 years

@amyhoy @Samsterpiece2 Hell yeah, my work commit messages have all kinds of gems. 1. "Bugfix <insert meaningful msg>" 2. "Bugfix snag <terser msg>" 3. "Bugfix again" 4. "I'm not making any more promises" Yes this is a real commit series 🤣😅

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10 months

Balloon Day! 😆

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22 days

Hey! Just wanted to let everyone know that I have decided to stop beating myself up and recognize that I am a great person, great engineer and great dad!

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4 years

"XState Series: Introduction" by @JacobMGEvans #DEVcommunity #XState cc: @jlengstorf @kentcdodds @DavidKPiano @chantastic

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XState Series: Introduction

So I am going to start tracking my learning and attempts at implementing XState and the finite state...

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2 years

Happy Birthday Me! Thanks, Twitter lol 😆

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2 years

I can't stress the importance this library has been playing in our ecosystem. - tRPC is a great example which gives FullStack apps TypeScript superpowers Zod is a big part of giving TS superpowers.

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GitHub - colinhacks/zod: TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference

TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference - colinhacks/zod

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9 months

@AndresAcostaXXX @NicsuPR When sick as a kid, a lot of us grew up watching this because that's what HAD to be on during the day 😅😆

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Jacob MG Evans

2 years

1. Don't use reduce. 2. If you NEED reduce you should refactor. 3. If you CANT refactor to avoid reduce rm -rf ./project

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📌 JavaScript — Understanding Reduce(), Some(), and Every() Method 🧵👇 1.

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2 years

being fast is a VAST understatement. It's melt your eyeballs while playing death metal at 500 decibels going mach 20 into the Sun

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4 years

@scottjehl I love all technology. Any strange allegiance to one, in particular, is a projection of ego and pride, generally insecurities in something unfamiliar or subjectively difficult to grok.

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5 years

Yeah... This is an example of what not to do in a job posting.

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Uh, hey @cynetjobs - what's with this? Your job listing for a mid-senior level business development position's top qualification is "Preferably Caucasian" How could you POSSIBLY think that's okay?

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2 years

I like Danny Thompson, when you see me talk bad about grifters and self-help-like hustlers trying to pull you into their scheme... He ain't it, Danny is as legit, supportive, and just wanting to help, people as they come.

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1 year

Twitter has removed the Twitter Spaces feature.

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4 years

@yonitdm @jpancoast @KieranSnyder @textio I was like, huh... Check bio... "CEO" That situation, that person trying to project some grand false self-importance to a stranger... I imagine this dumpster fire.

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2 years

I was told Twitter was a waste of time in my Tech career and I see a lot of people say it's a waste of time in general. I am grateful for the opportunity it has afforded me to make really great friends and be part of amazing communities.

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3 years

Community Taught instead of Self Taught. Communities & Friends instead of Audiences.

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5 years

@nirkaufman @AmarachiAmaechi

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2 years

Bun can run NPM scripts and is 30x faster than NPM at running NPM scripts 😅🤣

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2 years

I'm begging y'all don't just write SQL, use @prisma

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Jacob MG Evans

5 years

This is toxic/unethical UI/UX. I would normally say "in my opinion" but it's just a fact. Tricking your users for your gain is wrong.

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😂 riiiight

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5 years

@dabit3 @Meetup I don't think this is gonna end well for you😅😅... Also, @freeCodeCamp is making a Free and open source meetup application 😆

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8 months

@WarrenInTheBuff Kotlin ain't bad, it's too bad it's on JVM 😅😆. Seriously tho solid lang

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4 years

Why is this so inspirational...😆😅

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10 months

Oh... Interesting, Prisma & Cloudflare partnered

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Developer Experience Redefined: Prisma & Cloudflare Lead the Way to Data DX

Prisma introduces Data DX and announces a partnership with Cloudflare

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1 year

Huge advocate for this pattern myself await + .catch() = OP Promise handling

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@jamonholmgren @housecor Dot catch is *the* way to handle errors in promises without over scoping their catch Devs avoid it because they learned await as an alternative to method chaining but they’re so powerful used together

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11 months

I'm probably gonna stare at that source code for a few hours in existential dread and imposter syndrome. 👀

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11 months

This landing page costs $500K to build:

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6 months

I will be the first one to DM and criticize Theo when he is fucking up. He isn't, he attempted to do this amicably & privately... T3-OSS isn't just a CLI its a community and he is trying to protect the community, thats never punching down in my book.

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3 years

Ok... Sarah Drasner just followed me... I don't know what I did but I need to keep doing it. 🤯🤯🤯

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3 years

This is the most attention HTML has gotten since MySpace.

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Jacob MG Evans

11 months

I am moving all my personal AND work projects to pnpm.... I was doing it before this Tweet, now I want to do it more.

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it's absolutely killing me when library authors list "pnpm install" as the only command in the readme. lmao there are literally 14 ppl using pnpm so chill

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1 month

Behind the scenes 😂😅

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Jacob MG Evans

3 years

All ya'lls luck must have paid off because I will be joining the Cloudflare Workers team! @CloudflareDev

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Jacob MG Evans

3 years

Wish me luck for tomorrow. I am gonna need it 😅😆

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6 years

@DryFlyRyan @Soyoag @naren_legha @iamdevloper Legends code in binary.

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1 month

Down to 193lbs now... LESSS GOOOO

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Jacob MG Evans

8 months

@t3dotgg To this day undisputed best code in OSS @kelseyhightower

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GitHub - kelseyhightower/nocode: The best way to write secure and reliable applications. Write...

The best way to write secure and reliable applications. Write nothing; deploy nowhere. - kelseyhightower/nocode

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3 years

I transfer officially to the Cloudflare Workers team on 11/16 🎊🥳🎉

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5 years

@RogueHanzo @ghost_of_kicks @BeardedGenius Tibetan Mastiff...

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3 years

Wish me luck for tomorrow. I am gonna need it 😅😆

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1 year

I'm flabbergasted. Giving Prime a big fat W following up with this golden, thoughtful response

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@elonmusk First, here is an example: TL/DR; Found some weird behavior in TypeScript, thought it was cool to share and lots of interesting takes Attachment? - seems fine as long as the preview window is well done. Characters? - anything longer than 150 lines, no

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8 months

This is my first tweet from my new laptop courtesy of @ClerkDev SO MUCH bad code is in this poor things future. 🤣

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7 months

Short article, here's to hoping I can get the ball rolling again!

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I'm Back! Burnout Sucks.

Why I Took a Break and Why I'm Back! I stopped writing blogs, and shorts (like this one),...

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1 year

The best Dev Advocate is great DX.

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2 years

@TheIntrepidCTO @HangDewan All it tests for is do you know the esoteric quirks of a language... Which is cool if you know it but not practical "fix this ticket" knowledge.

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1 month

Finally got he selfie with my good friend @kentcdodds

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4 years

@MadeupF @fyeahmfabello My exact thoughts.

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Jacob MG Evans

11 months

8k 🎉🎊🎊🎉🎉 for all of you that accidently followed me, I'm sorry 😆 Let's keep growing our community and network together!!

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1 year

Well, I caused a Prod bug... A good way to start the weekend. Just a reminder, we all make mistakes, it sucks and feels awful. Shoutout to my team & org who were completely supportive individually and as a whole.

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5 years

@Big_bangers @ke_nna_hloni @tayooye @fmogopodi16 A great place to start is It has step by step tutorials that help walk you through and you can ask specific questions on twitter with the #100DaysOfCode a lot of helpful supportive people

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2 years

Got to meet some more Twitter friends!! Had some coffee and had great conversations!

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4 years

"Cypress Super-patterns: How to elevate the quality of your test suite" by @wescopeland_ #DEVCommunity I like this article following a lot of the Testing Library principles and concepts which you can find in @kentcdodds articles/blogs

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Cypress Super-patterns: How to elevate the quality of your test suite

Cypress is awesome and a game-changer for testing your apps. You get the tools you need out of the bo...

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3 years

@AzieDee As someone that has been without water for only a few days, this is frickin horrific!

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@sebmarkbage @dan_abramov

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7 months

I swear, I WASN'T that important 😅🤣

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7 months

Just two weeks after @JacobMGEvans left CloudFlare, there have been two outages. Correlation or causation? You decide.

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2 years

I didn't do any coding this weekend. I plan on making this more regular for a while, literally doing anything else.

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10 months

My home is on fire, I grew up on Maui. It's worse than you think or most of the mainstream news is portraying! Lahaina is gone, fires are everywhere else on the island, 37 have died, and even more people are missing or unaccounted for...

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4 months

Finally, I can move off React and back to the true GOAT.

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After nearly a decade of hard work, jQuery 4.0 is in beta. Despite being the most popular framework on the web, I'm concerned this one will slip under the radar, so I decided to make a video about it

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@Beaver_Cap @anothercohen The comments on the Reddit post were immediately gold.

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@DavidKPiano One of the reasons I really LOVED React Query, so many useEffects just *poof* gone 😆😁

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1 year

This isn't a meme, it's just a picture of real life.

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js ecosystem experience

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@BenLesh @iamharaldur For real though. I'm heading to Austin... It's not perfect in all three categories but it's close enough.

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3 years

Please take breaks... You don't need to code EVERY DAY! Have days you spend with friends, family, hobbies... Anything else but code.

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Raza Rython 📜

3 years

Excellence is not an act. It's a habit. Code everyday. Now go and code some Python.

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1 year

Wow... Paywall tweets. Looks like it's hit Medium UX dark patterns.

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2 years

Just had a performance review done and got a raise... I don't know whose performance they were looking at but thank you!

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5 years

Happy Birthday Me. 🎁 🎉

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@SnipeTheSnipers @amysw_sec Don't forget the end-of-week binge alcoholism.

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@shaundai Somewhat recent photo...

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