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90% of my job as a senior engineer is giving others the confidence to go with the less-impressive-but-simpler approach.

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If you're surprised about the log4j vulnerability, just wait until you hear what happens when you put a .URL into a hashtable

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all you npm haters aint never used pip

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This morning I'm releasing a hobby project I've worked on for the past two weekends: GPT-3 powered video summarization.

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“The problem with object-oriented languages is they’ve got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.” RIP @joeerl

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I think many struggle with OLTP relational databases because we do a bad job educating people, and many of our best practices are not actually best practices. RDBMSes can do a lot more than most people think. Wanted to share a few contrarian principles that helped me out w/ them:

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1 year

We just shipped a new blog post I wrote on the @dagster blog. It's a step-by-step tutorial on how to build a ChatGPT-like bot that can answer technical questions about any GitHub repo using a great new Python library - @langchain - and the @OpenAI API. (1/4)

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11 months

@alexgraveley i got about 20k for my work on react too!

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7 months

a few weeks ago, i moved summarize dot tech off of gpt-3.5 and onto @MistralAI 's mistral-7b-instruct, an open-source LLM that runs on normie hardware. the model is hosted by @perplexity_ai . it's just as fast, just as high quality, and much cheaper to run. here are the details:

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3 years

Literally never ever use redux on a new project under any circumstances. Even if it’s what the team knows.

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10 months

Before React Server Components...

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1 year

pretty good deal available on @googlecloud rn

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5 years

Like this tweet if you remember *zoom: 1;

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8 years

JS isn't the problem, shitty adtech is the problem

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5 years

twitter's in the midst of a huge shift towards graphql, and the team has grown to the point that it needs a dedicated manager. i'm pretty sure that twitter is the 2nd largest graphql app in the world after facebook, so if you're interested in managing this team, DMs are open!

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9 years

Just announced: react native. Use react and JS to build native apps (native views, not DOM) and interpret gestures. #reactjsconf

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3 months

The AI bubble burst is gonna be brutal.

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6 years

Whether react or react native lives or dies doesn’t matter. What’s important is that the programming model pioneered by react lives on.

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7 years

Anytime @reactjs bugs you, remember that 1. Angular added "else" just a few months ago and 2. It looks like this:

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2 years

@antoniogm not really

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2 years

The first commit on React was over ten years ago.

Fax Initial · jordwalke/FaxJs@660c868

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if bun actually frees us from ESM/CommonJS hell then that might be its killer feature

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1 year

The reality is gpt-4 won’t make engineers more productive or companies more efficient; we are just going to ship even more microservices

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8 years

The @reactjs community needs more opinions to help out newbies. Here's my first pass. Feedback/PRs welcome!

GitHub - petehunt/react-howto: Your guide to the (sometimes overwhelming!) React ecosystem.

Your guide to the (sometimes overwhelming!) React ecosystem. - petehunt/react-howto

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5 years

your yearly reminder that it's 2019 and we still don't have UITableView (foundation of most apps w/ a feed) in the browser

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9 years

your yearly reminder that it's 2015 and we still don't have UITableView (foundation of most apps w/ a feed) in the browser

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2 years

microservices are an architectural style enabled by 0% interest rates

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8 months

this is a popular pov but i disagree. you will hire from very different talent pools, and have a very different engineering culture, depending on whether you pick c#, nodejs, or scala

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What tech framework you choose is by far the least important thing in building a startup Which is funny because it’s what everyone seems to spend the most attention and time on Getting a customer to spend their money by building a product that solves a problem should be

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@nroman some principal OOP architect back in the day decided that a URL object must represent the canonical resource in some abstract sense. to do this they need to resolve dns, even to compute the hash code. it is bananas

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but they told me react is slow and bad

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2 years

uses GPT-3 to give you a high-quality written summary of a YouTube video, and will link to the relevant timestamps in the video so you can watch the interesting parts yourself.

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2 years

i wish someone would make a react JSX runtime for tailwind, where every tailwind classname exists as a boolean prop on every html element. so i could do stuff like <div pt6 spaceY4 w24 h24 bgRed100={isFailed} bgWhite100={!isFailed}>...</div> cc @adamwathan

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1 year

so... what bad things would happen if we added package.json files to all of our python packages and started using npm instead of pip?

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1 year

i just want a badge that shows up on twitter accounts that went hard on web3 in 2021 and transitioned to going hard on AI in 2023

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6 years

Some advice for hackers who want to start companies but haven't had a great idea yet: wasm is shipping and could be foundational tech for the next generation of billion-dollar startups (like SaaS was)

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@twothreemany it issues a network request. dns specifically

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one thing that helped @reactjs get adoption early on was we were really nice to people who were mean on the internet, and then they turned into nice people

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2 years

Relational databases like MySQL and Postgres should throw errors when they table scan unless an explicit flag on the connection is set.

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8 years

it took a few years but @reactjs just surpassed @angularjs in github stars #coremetrics

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2 years

Reminds me a lot of this

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2 years

“The problem with object-oriented languages is they’ve got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.” RIP @joeerl

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7 years

Correct for your biases: everything you like isn't as good as you think it is, and everything you hate isn't as bad as you think it is.

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5 years

Have you noticed less cryptospam in your timeline? Here’s why!

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10 months

...and after React Server Components. @dagster blog post coming tomorrow!

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2 years

It's available at , and is live on product hunt:

Summarize.tech - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2024 | Product Hunt

summarize.tech uses GPT3 to summarize long YouTube videos, like lectures, live events, or government meetings into an easy-to-read summary with timestamps linking to the relevant parts of the video.

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5 years

My next tweetstorm is about @dan_abramov ’s interview last week.

Facebook React with Dan Abramov - Software Engineering Daily

React is a set of open source tools for building user interfaces. React was open sourced by Facebook, and includes libraries for creating interfaces on the web (ReactJS) and on mobile devices (React...

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4 years

Microservices bake the temporary dysfunctions of your organization into your software forever.

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At @dagsterio we made the unorthodox decision to use Postgres as our message queue instead of something like Kafka or RabbitMQ (1/4)

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7 years

Remember everyone: if you are doing responsive web design, you are infringing on a Google patent:

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3 years

Game devs trash on the web for being bloated and slow, then turn around and make us download 40gb updates for their game every week.

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2 years

when deciding on whether to adopt a microfrontend approach, consider whether you like having all of your trash in a small number of trashcans, or little bits of trash scattered all throughout your house

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1 year

@acdlite I think you guys should be way more aggressive in pushing back against this stuff. Throwing out the react programming model and adopting something like signals (or worse, signals plus a dsl) is a huge step backwards and most people haven’t internalized that

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1 year

I don't understand the useReducer() stans. Seems like it'll result in the same old Redux boilerplate problem where you need to define a bunch of different types for all of your actions. IMO useState() + helper functions is the way to go. Am I missing something?

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9 years

Starting to see a trend of premature fluxing of react apps. Try plain @reactjs first and bring in flux only when you absolutely need it.

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@floydophone

2 years

hell yeah

Pascal Bornet

@pascal_bornet

2 years

Unlike other weeding technologies, this #robot utilizes high-power lasers to eradicate weeds, without disturbing the soil... And, avoiding the use of herbicides! It leverages #AI to instantly identify and target weeds while rolling, days and night By Carbon Robotics #green

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4 years

re: this weekend's web performance discussion, here's the lighthouse score of google docs, which is perhaps the finest application to ever run in the browser. not everyone is building content sites!

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8 years

Interviewing a tech lead? Ask them what types of technical debt they allow and forbid in their codebase and why.

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7 years

According to the top comment on hacker news, @SoundCloud layoffs wouldn't have happened had they used a graph database.

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11 months

Today we're making the @dagster company and project roadmap public. (1/12)

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6 months

Is jsx the most successful deployment of xml of all time? 🤔

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8 years

really great post on how to diagnose a perf problem w/ a react app

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2 years

i wanted to share some news - a few months ago (pre-elon!) @schrockn convinced me to leave twitter and lead engineering at elementl, the company behind @dagsterio

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10 months

react server components are the easiest way to build a static html site and evolve it over time

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8 years

Roller coaster tycoon was programmed by just one person. In assembly language.

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6 years

we are hiring frontend engineers! shoot me an email pete.hunt @smyte .com

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9 years

This should fix a big missing piece of the React server rendering story:

GitHub - petehunt/webpack-require

Contribute to petehunt/webpack-require development by creating an account on GitHub.

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9 years

check out @twitter open-sourcing some react components

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5 years

Also: always deferring to senior engineers is what’s keeping you junior

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7 years

signs you may be becoming a real ceo :(

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7 years

@thomasfuchs I did a talk a few years ago that addresses this directly, if it matters.

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2 years

Learn more about the detailed rationale, what worked, and what didn't, in our latest blog post:

Postgres: a Better Message Queue than Kafka? | Dagster Blog

When lots of event logs must be stored and indexed, Kafka is the obvious choice. Naturally, our queue runs on Postgres.

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7 years

if you're a front-end engineer who needs to do ops, this is a great resource

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bun being able to hot reload unit tests is actually its best feature i think

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8 months

Before you commit any queries to the codebase, write a script to fill up your local development DB with 100k+ rows, and run EXPLAIN on your query. If it doesn't use that index, it's not ready to be committed. Baking this into an automated test would be better, but is hard to do.

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1 year

As a tech entrepreneur and engineer, my AI/LLM strategy for 2023 is to learn the HVAC trade.

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5 years

I think one of the reasons JS is so successful is that it has a really strong culture of focusing on cold start performance. Spend some time in JVM land and you’ll quickly appreciate it :)

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8 years

CSSConf taught me a few things. The first one is the "React world" needs to build more bridges to the "CSS world".

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5 years

twitter infra running smoothly all day, just sayin!

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6 years

Clearly @reactjs is the lightest weight js library

Biolojical

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Mass in grams 10^33🌞 . . . . 10^28🌎 . 10^26🌖 . . . . . . . . 10^17🗻 . . 10^14🌀 . . 10^11🌉 . 10^9🌲 10^8🐋 10^7🐘 10^6🦏 10^5⛹️‍ 10^4🐩 1000🐇 100🐀 10🦇 1🥜 0.1🐝 0.01🐞 0.001🐜 . . . . . 10^-9🔘human cell . . 10^-12🔵bacterium . . 10^-15🔹virus . . . . . . . 10^-23⚛️

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it turns out that many organizations' Big Data™ can often fit on a single cloud instance. @duckdb is super well poised to step in as the data warehouse in those situations, especially given its features, perf, and testability. however, there's one big problem with it: (1/4)

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The overall end product is pretty cool, and adaptable to your own GitHub repo. Check out our blog post to learn more! And thanks to @hwchase17 for the great @langchain library! (4/4)

Build a GitHub Support Bot with GPT3, LangChain, and Python | Dagster Blog

In this tutorial, we tap into the power of OpenAI's ChatGPT to build a GitHub support bot using GPT3, LangChain, and Python.

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7 years

> Tweets about lack of empathy in our industry > Is a total asshole to recruiters

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@dadamssg @mjackson microservices work great until you have to do a big cross cutting change and then you're fucked

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📈📈📈

TechCrunch

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Elementl raises $33M Series B for its data orchestration platform based on Dagster by @fredericl

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what the fuck

Eraser

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📐 Introducing DiagramGPT • Code → Diagrams • Natural language → Diagrams Diagrams are helpful to have but painful to draw. What if you could generate diagrams from what you already have? From code or project descriptions?

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@levelsio Your dilution math is 10x too low, and you forgot that this is taxed at cap gains not income. Completely changes the story. By my math they’re taking home over a mil after taxes per year. Not bad!

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10 months

apple's original logo from the 70s was dope

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3 years

Most projects are served just fine with context, hooks, and something like useSWR(). Beyond that you should look at something like relay.

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3 years

my favorite react state management solution just hit 1.0

Daishi Kato

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We are thrilled to announce Jotai v1, a @ReactJS state management library. This is the outcome of last ten month work. Visit 👉 and find cute jotai mascot! 👻

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bravest person on hacker news

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@ThePrimeagen My hot take is rust is the wrong choice 99% of the time

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2. Think in terms of indexes first. Every single time you write a query, you should first think: "which index should I use?" If no usable index exists, create it (or create a separate table with that index, see point 1). When writing the query, add a comment naming the index.

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(yes, this violates database normalization principles, but in the real world where you need to consider performance we violate those principles all the time)

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This might be my favorite HN quote ever: “Excel is the human condition, messy, varied, capable of doing many things and most of the features aren't used, and results are often horrifying. But it works.”

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This is very cool

Framework-defined infrastructure – Vercel

Framework defined infrastructure means programmatic framework understanding for automatic infrastructure provisioning—an evolution from Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

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I’m definitely on team monolith.

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