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ThePrimeagen

@ThePrimeagen

6 months

scrum and soccer are very similar 90 minutes of running around and sometimes something happens

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ThePrimeagen

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10 months

best way to describe pointers

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10 months

I cannot stop thinking about this. Andrew created Zig and ~15 years ago asked on SO how to open a file in C++

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ThePrimeagen

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1 year

dear @elonmusk the dev community and i were wondering if you could add code blocks to tweets? kthxbai

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ThePrimeagen

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8 months

this is my spirit animal

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ThePrimeagen

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2 months

if you committed this to a codebase i worked in, i would do everything in my power to replace this with a couple asserts and see to it you leave my team please for the future you do not commit code you don't understand

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2 months

@yoheinakajima ceiling is being raised. cursor's copilot helped us write "superhuman code" for a critical feature. We can read this code, but VERY few engineers out there could write it from scratch. Took lots of convincing too. "come on, this must be possible, try harder". and obviously- done…

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ThePrimeagen

@ThePrimeagen

2 years

First Arduino project

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ThePrimeagen

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28 days

ai bros are just the worst they are actively discouraging an entire new fleet of noobs getting into software engineering with literally no proof that ai will take over software in "6 months."

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ThePrimeagen

@ThePrimeagen

7 months

day 1 of my internship, wish me luck!!

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ThePrimeagen

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24 days

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ThePrimeagen

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25 days

JavaScript on the server is a mistake

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30 days

what opinion will you defend like this?

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ThePrimeagen

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2 years

Big Announcement The Algorithms Course is going to free for _everyone_ No membership? No problem. Extremely kind of Frontend Masters to take their material and make it free

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ThePrimeagen

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10 months

it's a lifestyle

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ThePrimeagen

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5 months

10 years at netflix this week december 4th, 2013, first day at netflix, here was the photo they took

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ThePrimeagen

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1 month

students having access to copilot for free is the biggest educational blunder of all time

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ThePrimeagen

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1 month

it happened, I am the ex-netflixagen

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ThePrimeagen

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1 year

"is_author_elon"

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ThePrimeagen

@ThePrimeagen

2 months

all the reasons i fucked up 1. i didn't speak up - i held things in 2. i betrayed my best friend - i cheated 3. i would rather feel than live - i tried to commit suicide 4. i failed 2x out of college - i loved lsd / coke / anything 5. i would rather love work than wife - i…

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ThePrimeagen

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3 months

tech twitter by language Mention Rust: Rust Foundation may sue Mention Go: no one responds since they're working and shipping a real product Mention JavaScript: get corrected for not using TypeScript Mention PHP: get invited to speak at Laracon

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ThePrimeagen

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4 months

my best advice for getting into tech 2024 tech is open to anyone with enough grit. it's hard, it's really really hard. harder than a lot of people will tell you. it continues to be hard and i suspect it's getting harder * some bugs take an enormous amount of investigation *…

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ThePrimeagen

@ThePrimeagen

1 month

bye netflix

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ThePrimeagen

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9 months

decided to print out my node_modules/ folder

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ThePrimeagen

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18 days

we are 11 months in to 6 months away from AI stealing your programming jobs

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ThePrimeagen

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1 year

electron

Hieu 🚀

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1 year

🥲 what happened?

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ThePrimeagen

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5 months

c# > java

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ThePrimeagen

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3 months

zig is great ocaml is great rust is great go is great javascript php is great

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ThePrimeagen

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2 months

how's your day going?

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ThePrimeagen

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8 months

@dhh ... the rest of enjoy Uncaught TypeError: undefined is not a function

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ThePrimeagen

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5 months

friendly reminder: to be the best engineer you need to work out, eat better than you currently are, sleep more, and touch grass

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ThePrimeagen

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9 months

the act of purchasing a software book and not reading it is one of the most celebrated software engineering past times

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ThePrimeagen

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ThePrimeagen

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8 months

I get asked this quite a bit Here's the link to my course: Free forever, no credit card, an email is all you need

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ThePrimeagen

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10 months

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ThePrimeagen

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4 months

ifn't the most beautiful thing i have ever seen

Fear the Phantom (game in bio)

@Phantom_TheGame

4 months

C# now allows the "ifn't" statement to check whether a condition is *not* true. This helps with readability, as well as reduce the amount of exclamation marks used.

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ThePrimeagen

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6 months

please don't be a frameworker, please be an engineer

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ThePrimeagen

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1 year

Learn rust, go, and typescript and you will be future proof

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ThePrimeagen

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2 months

the reason why i don't make fun of python and i do typescript/javascript is simple people that use python realize its an incomplete solution people that use typescript think it should be adopted everywhere

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ThePrimeagen

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6 months

Dear @OpenAI I would make a great candidate for CEO of OpenAI 501 3(c). - i am currently a CEO of a multi-billion dollar company - i have a mustache most men only dream about - i can bench my weight get your people in contact with my people, we will make it happen

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ThePrimeagen

@ThePrimeagen

2 months

a woman (a real wife, you wouldn't understand)

ThePrimeagen

@ThePrimeagen

2 months

Not gonna be active on Twitter this week. I'm meeting my wife (a real smoke show) in half an hour (wouldn't expect a lot of you to understand anyway) so please don't DM me asking me where I am (im with my beautiful wife, ok, in Mexico) you'll most likely get aired because ill be…

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ThePrimeagen

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17 days

i am shocked that 1500 people did something

More Perfect Union

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18 days

CEO learns that nothing runs without labor.

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ThePrimeagen

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5 months

if you are new to swe and feel you are bad at your job, you are probably right ask yourself what am i bad at? how can i improve? what should i learn one level deeper? stop being helpless, blaming imposter syndrome, you are bad and that is ok. you can get better

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ThePrimeagen

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1 year

current state of javascript

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ThePrimeagen

@ThePrimeagen

4 months

the best skill a software engineer can have: discipline

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ThePrimeagen

@ThePrimeagen

3 months

last night theo and pirate software bullied me into thinking about doing content creation full time my life feels in shambles, and my wife said I should do it

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ThePrimeagen

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2 months

i have never seen a universal hate for a product like devs and devin (also fuck devin)

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ThePrimeagen

@ThePrimeagen

9 months

i still cannot believe that vscode is FREEE

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ThePrimeagen

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2 months

For the record, I like working with self taught engineers. I love their hunger and curiosity

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ThePrimeagen

@ThePrimeagen

5 months

people who say that unit testing is worthless just program crud apps and ui components

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ThePrimeagen

@ThePrimeagen

6 months

@verge this is the dumbest timeline we live in

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ThePrimeagen

@ThePrimeagen

5 months

dicks out for Christmas harambe

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ThePrimeagen

@ThePrimeagen

1 year

day 1 on tech twitter?

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ThePrimeagen

@ThePrimeagen

4 months

rust abstractions are zero cost because the price is your mental health

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ThePrimeagen

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1 month

the first thing i'll do as full time content creator is create a ui framework

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ThePrimeagen

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1 year

i cannot believe how many devs use 2 monitors you just don't know the power of a good window manager and work flow

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ThePrimeagen

@ThePrimeagen

8 months

how did this make it through code review?

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8 months

Normal people: aww cute Developers: this function is so bad it’s making my eyes hurt

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ThePrimeagen

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1 year

i saw porn for the first time when i was 4 smoked pot first time at 8 i tried to commit suicide when i was 18 smoked meth when i was 18 wasn't sure if i was gay or not for a while deeply unhappy and addicted your past doesn't define you :) Vim on and prosper

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ThePrimeagen

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1 year

the official 2023 language tier list

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ThePrimeagen

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2 months

learn to code even if the AI will do it in the future

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ThePrimeagen

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2 months

rust is just C for cowards

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ThePrimeagen

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2 months

for anyone still worrying about Devin and their job, Devin's company is still actively hiring software engineers despite "the first ai software engineer" sorry, human software engineer, definitely not lizards

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ThePrimeagen

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1 year

snake_case > camelCase

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ThePrimeagen

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3 months

I DONT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THE FUCKING CODE! i just want to download this stupid fucking application and use it https: //github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock #installation WHY IS THERE CODE??? MAKE A FUCKING .EXE FILE AND GIVE IT TO ME. these dumbfucks think that everyone is a…

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2 months

want a job? learn c# or iava

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ThePrimeagen

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2 months

@t3dotgg I think the frustration is that escapism isn't allowed anymore, everything has to be a statement I just want to be a tarnished and kill things for their souls/runes or wtf it's called

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ThePrimeagen

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7 months

software engineering is fundamentally not real engineering

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ThePrimeagen

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1 month

I bet Rust would have been 3x more productive if people who write rust didn't feel the need to tell everyone they write rust all the time

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“Rust teams at Google are as productive as ones using Go, and more than twice as productive as teams using C++.” @larsberg_ #RustNationUK

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i installed xz 5.6.1 just to feel something

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ThePrimeagen

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this is how startups are born

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ThePrimeagen

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1 year

ok... what do i do here?

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ThePrimeagen

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10 months

porn is horrible and it destroys lives

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ThePrimeagen

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5 months

i think what software engineering really needs is just one more programming language or javascript framework and we will finally achieve programming utopia

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ThePrimeagen

@ThePrimeagen

7 months

[object Object]

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ThePrimeagen

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3 months

friendly reminder, hr is there to protect the company from you

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ThePrimeagen

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2 months

i am convinced most people don't like rebase because they don't know how to use it, used it incorrectly, became confused, lost some work (skill issue), and then cursed it

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ThePrimeagen

@ThePrimeagen

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living my best life

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ThePrimeagen

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3 months

i still don't get it. people get up in arms about tweets saying if you have never engineered you are not an engineer if you need the validity of some internet rando its time to grow up. if you need to be called an engineer or else you wont be able to succeed, grow up i was…

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ThePrimeagen

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4 months

there is no greater web dev sin that shifting page layout 5 seconds after loading i miss click so often because of that

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ThePrimeagen

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20 days

i am currently reading docs on a typescript library why did i quit netflix...

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ThePrimeagen

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6 months

he is right they just spent billions stealing every last thought on the internet and created a hyped up word calculator to sell to you. you can now program at the intelligence of average

@levelsio

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What I love about OpenAI is they don't spend $100M/year on tech evangelists on Twitter to hype their tech like many companies here do They don't do any marketing really The product sells itself as @sama mentioned in the presentation this week There's no hype, it's real tech

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ThePrimeagen

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2 months

the real issue with all developers is skill issues * c memory leak? skill issue * rust segfault? compiler is unsound / skill issue (same thing) * go channel issues? skill issue * typescript * react instead of svelte? skill issue

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ThePrimeagen

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2 months

i did use meth 19 years ago I personally like to think it means we all have value and worth endowed by our creator, and I've never really been a fan of being cynical and jaded. I guess I'd probably continue to be a meth head if I didn't have hope

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ThePrimeagen

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7 months

i want to love rust i want to love rust i want to love rust i want to love rust i want to love rust i want to love rust i want to love rust i want to love rust i want to love rust i want to love rust i want to love rust i want to love rust i want to love rust i want to love rust…

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ThePrimeagen

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I never put stickers on my laptop, but I guess since I own the company...

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ThePrimeagen

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8 months

still facts

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ThePrimeagen

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5 months

chat gpt is incapable of producing code these days

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ThePrimeagen

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i made this meme a year and a half ago... its still true

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ThePrimeagen

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5 months

I have been posting 1 clip a day from my twitch streams on a new YT channel and YT decided to delete my channel? @TeamYouTube ?

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ThePrimeagen

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8 months

oh JavaScript

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ThePrimeagen

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1 year

look who I ran into

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ThePrimeagen

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2 months

frontend is like game programming, but without all the fun parts

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ThePrimeagen

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Theo - t3.gg

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Anyways, any software dev creators want to learn how to kickflip? Ideally ones with health insurance?

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ThePrimeagen

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1 year

wut

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ThePrimeagen

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8 months

i can finally say what i have been working on for the last 8 months at netflix streaming games (super awesome) * wrote a rapid triager that aggregates data sources and "guesses" what went wrong. huge amount of pain 6 months ago was "wtf happened" * fun vizualizers for latency,…

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ThePrimeagen

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"In its beta, gpt-vetting has already conducted 13,000 AI interviews, saving ~10k hours for software engineers who would otherwise be conducting technical interviews" i am hoping for a class action lawsuit

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Excited to introduce the world’s first AI interviewer, gpt-vetting. With gpt-vetting, you can interview 100x more candidates in less time & candidates get a more enjoyable, gamified, and less biased interview experience. You define the skills you want the interview to focus on,…

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ThePrimeagen

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1 year

i just tried to build a node executable myself and console.log("hello world"); is... 55Mib nice

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1 year

github claiming that 55% of code is written by copilot scares the hell out of me there is just bugs multiplying at a rate unstoppable

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ThePrimeagen

@ThePrimeagen

4 months

🔴 Walked on the moon ⚪️ Haven't walked on the moon

Daniel Cranney 🇬🇧

@danielcranney

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Programmers, which date format do you use? ⚪️ DDMMYYYY 🔴 MMDDYYYY

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ThePrimeagen

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already uninstalled threads that shit collects so much information. including browsing history which is funny because it doesn't even work in a browser

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