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@codebytere

4 years

man, SO much of coding is...not coding.

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Hi! If your job has been impacted by Covid-19 and you'd like to improve your GitHub profile by working on open source, I'd love to help you do that! You're more than welcome to DM me about setting up a time to talk about contributing to OSS or pairing on a PR.

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4 years

someone just confidently spent several tweets telling me that Electron works on mobile and that i'm a know-it-all for saying it doesn't lmfao

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@codebytere

4 years

devs please do not put a bunch of shit in multi-nested ternaries to make it one line it is not worth the loss of grokkability i'm begging u

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@codebytere

4 years

🥳 Node.js v14.8.0 has been released 🥳 Big highlight - Top Level Await has been unflagged! HUGE thank you to @devsnek , @MylesBorins , & all others in the wide cast of characters who worked to bring this to you all! For more information 👇🏻

Node.js — Node v14.8.0 (Current)

Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

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@codebytere

3 years

Atlanta airport what Atlanta airport why

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@codebytere

4 years

🥳🥳🥳 Node.js v14.3.0 just went out! Update to check out top-level await (shoutout @devsnek ) amongst a host of other great new updates! Post here (soon) 👇🏻

Node.js — Node v14.3.0 (Current)

Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

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@codebytere

3 years

what an incredible offer yes let me female my way right on over

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@codebytere

4 years

🥳 Node.js v15.3.0 has been released 🥳 More info (soon!) 👇🏻

Node.js — Node v15.3.0 (Current)

Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

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@codebytere

3 years

flew all the way to the US for a wedding and it’s taking place in a weird little replica german town i’m very disconcerted

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@codebytere

4 years

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Node.js v12.18.1 has been released! Release notes here (soon™️) 👇🏻

Node.js — Node v12.18.1 (LTS)

Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

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@codebytere

4 years

forbidden ravioli

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@codebytere

3 years

me, sobbing: you can’t just call everything a salad! germany, pointing at literally anything mixed together in a bowl: salat

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@codebytere

5 years

asking teammates to pair on hard problems like

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@codebytere

4 years

pretending that "git yeet" is a valid command: what would you assume it did?

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@codebytere

3 years

✅ first berlin pride 🏳️‍🌈

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@codebytere

4 years

please let golf die, it is such a wasteful use of land, money, and resources

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@codebytere

4 years

🥳 @nodejs v14.5.0 has been released! 🥳 Of note: - V8 has been updated to v8.3 (h/t @mmarkini @targos89 )! - New experimental EventTarget API (h/t @jasnell !) More here (soon) 👇🏻

Node.js — Node v14.5.0 (Current)

Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

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@codebytere

4 years

📝 i wrote a little bit about the art of crafting an effective GitHub issue 👇🏻

Open Source: The Art of the Issue

Learn to craft issues that open-source maintainers will want to solve just as much as you want them solved.

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@codebytere

4 years

@sidecut here ya go lol

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@codebytere

4 years

@Shotta @CalebJHull you didn't look at my bio, did you

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@codebytere

4 years

🥳 Node.js v12.19.0 has just been released 🥳 it's an EXTREMELY chonky fellow with loads of fixes & features 👀 Catch them all here (soon!) 👇🏻

Node.js — Node v12.19.0 (LTS)

Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

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@codebytere

5 years

it always simultaneously makes me happy and also super mad that i can stare at an engineering problem for hours and feel totally lost, then wake up the next morning, get to work, and suddenly know what i need to do and it's done in 15 minutes.

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@codebytere

3 years

i genuinely feel like I’m in a giant prank when people start talking about NFTs as if any second someone’s gonna be like “punked! Of course this is an incredible fuckwit idea no one would actually take seriously!”

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@codebytere

2 years

more 💗 queer 💗 people 💗 in 💗 environmentally 💗 destructive 💗 grifting 💗

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@codebytere

2 years

i find it really *really* infuriating that so many US-based tech cos do "remote" and cap it to a few time zones - if you're worried about working hours crossover, imo: 1) you're not understanding asynchrony 2) why not let the applicant decide if they can make it work?

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@codebytere

3 years

finally got my blue card - looks like germany is stuck with me for a while 🥳

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@codebytere

4 years

Lyft is now sending me *push notifications* about how to “save rideshare* from shutting down in CA as if 1) it’s not their own fucking fault 2) they are not actively, themselves, choosing to shut down

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@codebytere

4 years

just a girl, standing in front of apple documentation, begging for it to show me some examples

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@codebytere

3 years

🥳💉🦠🖤🧬✨

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@codebytere

4 years

just read a blog post where a tech dude unironically said that the separation of church and state was to keep the government out of the church and not the other way around so if you need me i'll be astrally projecting myself into the earth's core

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@codebytere

4 years

possibly my least favorite type of Twitter interaction is with what i refer to as Schrodinger’s Asshole, the person who decides whether they are joking based solely on the reactions to their tweet(s)

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@codebytere

4 years

got this linkedin request from a rando and still cannot tell whether this is an invite to chat or like......duke it out in a parking lot lol

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@codebytere

5 years

Recently I’ve gotten some emails from recruiters noting that they want “diverse candidates like me” - this is for layered reasons a problematic approach, but also does anyone have tips for gently telling them that this is Not It?

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@codebytere

6 years

hi! my team @github is hiring for interns to work on @electronjs next summer and want you, yes, you, to apply!

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@codebytere

3 years

i hate the tech mindset that’s like “if we’re getting hate and criticism that means we’re doing something right” consider: your idea actually just sucks shit

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@codebytere

4 years

✨🐢🚀✨ Node.js v12.18.3 has been released! Blog post (incoming) here 👇🏻 ✨🐢🚀✨

Node.js — Node v12.18.3 (LTS)

Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

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@codebytere

4 years

I just released Node.js v13.9.0 🥳 Check it out and as always let us know what you think!

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@nodekitten

4 years

There's a new @nodejs release available: Node.js v13.9.0 is out now! 🙀 $ nvm install 13.9.0 🔗 Release post (will be) available here:

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@codebytere

4 years

something i'm asked sometimes is how to find open source projects to contribute to - 95% of the time i'm just solving my own problems tbh you use loads of oss even if you don't realize it, and often the fastest way to fix a little annoyance is to just PR it in yourself!

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@codebytere

4 years

@Shotta @CalebJHull by all means continue to tell me how Electron works lmao

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@codebytere

4 years

Can i get an F in chat for my 6am meeting tomorrow

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@codebytere

3 years

gf is trying to tell me why i should be better abt sunscreen and instead of some nice motivation i got “if you want to look like a leather bag when you’re older that’s your journey”

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@codebytere

2 years

absolutely incredible logo i passed today

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@codebytere

5 years

famous last words

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@codebytere

19 days

My team at Microsoft is hiring for a Principal Software Engineer - you'd be working with me on core Electron engineering as well as contributing to the open source ecosystem around it. Feel free to reach out with questions about the role or my experience!

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@codebytere

3 years

a depressing thing about working in big c++/obj-c codebases is not a single one of the nice handy editor tools works well in them go to definition? more like go fuck yourself

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@codebytere

5 years

🎉✨🎉✨🎉✨ Happy Node.js LTS Release Day! $ nvm install v10.15.1 This was the first release I both prepared and promoted by myself, with help and mentorship from @MylesBorins 🙇‍♀️ See more here 👇

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@codebytere

2 years

@NikkitaFTW this is basically my take

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@eevee

2 years

and there it is. github takes all our free code, puts it in a blender, uses us for free QA on the result, and finally turns around and charges for it

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@codebytere

5 years

current status

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@codebytere

5 years

for JavaScript folks who dislike C++, what specifically is the most off-putting aspect of the language? been considering why such a chasm exists between the two and how I might better help folks have fun with both 🤔

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@codebytere

3 years

some days it feels like tech companies are in a race to the bottom for how morally uncomfortable they can make me when i think about what it'd be like to work there

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@codebytere

4 years

trying to explain Electron to other people

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@codebytere

3 years

took a walk around lunch today to try to improve a difficult morning and a bird literally shit on my head sometimes you just gotta know when to give up on a day lol

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5 years

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@codebytere

4 years

Given that whether or not i spend time on a given issue is generally at my discretion, it is fascinating to me how many people do not realize that denigrating maintainers about an issue is probably the fastest way to make us choose...other issues

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@codebytere

5 years

the day after every js conference ever

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5 years

inspired but so fucking tired

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4 years

i keep seeing the “married women shouldn’t have male friends” bad take getting shared and while it is awful, she’s from tradwife twitter and a raging bigot and TERF so like...can we perhaps not amplify her more

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@codebytere

4 years

university CS degrees emphasizing theory/conceptual learning and devoting comparatively far less time to frameworks/similar practical concepts is fine bordering on good

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@tlakomy

4 years

Which tech opinion you got that results in this

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@codebytere

4 years

finally set up at home for some good old social distancing ✨

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@codebytere

5 years

happy Monday morning from the @electronjs codebase!

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3 years

i cannot emphasize enough what a catastrophically awful idea i find this please never do this or even consider anything in the stratosphere of this oh god

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@codebytere

4 years

twitter i cannot impress upon you how much this is not something that i should have gotten a new notification for

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@codebytere

5 years

we never want to make assumptions in what other people know - removing these words helps us all learn ✨ (cc @carolstran who has done a lot of amazing docs work on this front!)

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@codebytere

4 years

personal pet peeve - i really hate when people use cutesy epithets for tr*mp. calling him cheeto mussolini or whatever when we're talking about war crimes being committed is really not appropriate for the gravitas of the topic.

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@codebytere

4 years

feminism isn't reducible to WOMEN DOING STUFF oh my god how many times does this need to be reiterated for it to stick

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@codebytere

4 years

i should *NOT NEED* to say this but it is wildly inappropriate to 1) go dig my number out from some old resume online and 2) use it to message me unsolicited on whatsapp! come on!!

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@codebytere

4 years

If you'd like simply to work on open source, that's also cool! Just please note that at this time i'll be prioritizing those who would most benefit as a result of our current climate.

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@codebytere

4 years

@LouisatheLast something i see a lot from tech people is a belief that for a particular algorithm or system to be racist it has to have been *programmed that way maliciously* which couldn't possibly convey a more aggressive misunderstanding of racism's structural nature

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@codebytere

4 years

please, websites, if i command-click a link, i never ever ever want that link to load over the current tab 😐

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@codebytere

4 years

every little choice we make, every day, tells people whether we are someone they are safe to be themselves around. move through the world with that in mind, because many people do not have the luxury of giving you the benefit of the doubt.

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never ceases to amaze me how many fearless weekend coding warriors proudly proclaim they could recreate apps and app architectures they couldn't even begin to explain the technical underpinnings and necessary complexities of

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@codebytere

4 years

never ceases to amaze me that vcs can tweet shit like "the sun's personality is a frame of mind" and like clockwork a whole bunch of tech people will sagely respond "ah yes,,,,,,,so wise"

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@codebytere

4 years

Working on Electron basically means going "i don't know how to do that right now, but i'll figure it out on the way" every day forever and ever

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4 years

i love when randos accuse open source moderators of being evil and also marxist somehow? sir if you have read and can explain marxist ideology to me coherently i will eat my own shoes

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@codebytere

4 years

can i get uhhhhhhhhh

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4 years

waiting for Node.js to build for a tiny change in /lib

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5 years

2009 | 2019 cheers to Pretty Much Looking The Same

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4 years

just realized that three years ago this week i joined the Electron team - time flies

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@codebytere

4 years

tiny upsides of people lining up to @ you about how your project "shouldn't care about politics" - a nicely presented and packaged blocklist.

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@codebytere

4 years

when u get asked to debug native crash backtraces on windows

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3 years

i am having A Morning

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@codebytere

3 years

my mom got a new puppy and im losing my mind that i can't go cuddle him immediately

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@codebytere

4 years

it's very funny to me on OSS projects when an issue has absolutely no activity, a new version is released in the interim, and someone comes and comments 'still not working' on the issue who do you think fixed it? the project's invisible maintenance gremlins?

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@codebytere

4 years

solved one of those bugs today where you're convinced it's directly ascended from hell but also the solution is quite terse so in the end you’re kinda satisfied but mostly just pissed about how much it wronged you

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@codebytere

4 years

For those who have watched me suffer at the hands of XCode and Swift of late, finally won the battle 🚀 a native Node.js module invoking a Swift function:

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@codebytere

5 years

Electron is adding some support for macOS Touch ID in our upcoming v7 line, but in the meantime if you'd like to try it out you can use this native module i wrote: feedback welcome, please let me know what you think or ways I could improve it!

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@codebytere

6 years

a year into this job, it still blows my mind that i get to spend my days writing all my code in the open and learning things from and with people i never thought i’d meet, let alone know well 🤯

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@codebytere

4 years

yall have already probably seen the shitty tweets so just know that for the record terfs can fuck right off into the sun and if i see a single whiff of gender critical nonsense from any of you it's an instablock.

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@codebytere

4 years

hello @apple friends! @electronjs spotted ourselves on the platform SotU, and if you're working on Electron/Chromium compat for ARM we'd love a chance to chat with you 🙇🏻‍♀️ Please feel free to DM or reach out if you can!

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@codebytere

6 years

GitHub poppin on a Friday

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@codebytere

5 years

i respect the hustle but i absolutely promise you that emailing my personal email or DMing me on twitter will not make me solve your bugs faster

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@codebytere

4 years

@EricaJoy this is my favorite comment in there

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@codebytere

2 years

the pride version of something costs less than the version For Men™️????? big moment for the queers

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@codebytere

4 years

downloaded Pajama Sam (1996 PC game i loved as a kid) for shits and giggles and was absolutely flabbergasted to discover this very real question during playthrough:

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@codebytere

2 years

imo one (of many) reasons a lot of adults don't pursue reading more is because there's so much cultural pressure and shame around reading the "right" kinds of books - it's hard to enjoy reading if you're worried about how you'll be judged for what and why you're reading

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@codebytere

3 years

as someone who has never used bobby pins i really underestimated how living with someone who does would have me randomly discovering them in absolutely every conceivable location

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@codebytere

4 years

i am so very deeply tired of watching people whose lives are largely materially unaffected by politics discuss it like it's an interesting tennis match and shout down anyone who dares treat it like the life-and-death matter it is for literally millions of people

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@codebytere

4 years

running three operating systems on one machine and it has ground to a complete halt me: "please compile this" my mac: "no ❤️"

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4 years

SCOTUS: lgbtq folks can have a little a rights, as a treat

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5 years

trying to download xcode on hotel wifi and it's going about as well as you'd expect

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