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@sebmck

4 years

Today is my first day at @discord where I'll be joining the Product Infrastructure team 🎉

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@sebmck

4 years

Rome, an experimental JavaScript toolchain, is now open source and available for contributors 🥳🏛️📜 It's far from production ready and there's a lot missing. There's no npm release, docs, website, or integrations available. Come help us build them!

GitHub - rome/tools: Unified developer tools for JavaScript, TypeScript, and the web

Unified developer tools for JavaScript, TypeScript, and the web - rome/tools

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@sebmck

5 years

Excited to announce a secret project that me and @Anagobarreto have been working on. We're having a baby! 👶🍼

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@sebmck

3 years

Announcing Rome Tools Inc, an open source first company for @rometools

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@sebmck

5 years

I'm joining the React Native team! ⚛🎉 Be prepared for new hot takes.

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@sebmck

5 years

After almost 5 years into my career, I still fail to effectively work in an office. Even when I was a 10 minute walk from Facebook London I still preferred to work from home. There's no way my desk at work could be better. At home I can control the noise, light, and temperature.

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@sebmck

2 years

I got this in the mail from... @brave ? Nothing says you care about privacy like sending unsolicited marketing spam. Never given them any personal details in my life.

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@sebmck

4 years

yarn is dead, long live npm

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@sebmck

4 years

This is my last week at Facebook. It's been a long 5 years and I'm ready to try something different. Extremely grateful for all the people I've worked with, I'm going to miss them.

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@sebmck

5 years

This has been my debugging strategy for the past 10 years and I don't see it changing

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@sebmck

4 years

When I moved from London to the Bay Area, Facebook increased my salary by 50%. Five. Zero. Same job. Same team. Same manager. Same work. Cost of living had nothing to do with it. It was the “market rate”.

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@sebmck

2 years

Announcing Rome v10 — the first stable release of our linter and formatter for JavaScript and TypeScript

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@sebmck

4 years

Early access

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@sebmck

4 years

Once you leave a company it really shows who your true friends were

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@sebmck

4 years

these two emojis are basically the same 🙂🖕

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@sebmck

3 years

Rome is hiring! Looking for developers who like to dive deep into developer tooling. 100% remote and in most countries. If you're interested please contact us at careers @rome .tools!

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@sebmck

5 years

GitHub are in such a good position to improve npm package security drastically. Imagine package releases that are verified against git commits. Impossible to sneak code in.

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@sebmck

7 years

Married my best friend today. Can't wait to spend the rest of my life with you, @Anagobarreto . ❤️

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@sebmck

4 years

After 12+ months on the FB React Native team it took me leaving Facebook and joining a new company to write my first RN app code

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@sebmck

4 years

You don’t realize the heavy conscious and mental burden that comes with being a Facebook employee until you quit

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@sebmck

5 years

Times I’ve ever wanted to use an in-app webview when clicking on an external link: 0

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@sebmck

5 years

Seriously cannot believe that people still have the expectation that you only tweet about tech. Not sure if some people lost the memo but this is a *microblogging* website. Blogging as in, I can post whatever the fuck I want.

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@sebmck

6 years

The reason I got a laptop with 32GB RAM is so I can run all my Chrome/Electron apps.

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@sebmck

5 years

Here's a summary of why Grammarly are predatory and why you should avoid them. I am not a lawyer™. This is my layman reading, but they are pretty explicit about a lot of these practices. Posting because I've seen a lot of people oblivious to what they're signing away.

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@sebmck

3 years

I wish GitHub Issues were two separate tabs called Bugs and Tasks.

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@sebmck

7 years

React, Jest, Flow and Immutable.js are being relicensed as MIT 😱

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@sebmck

8 days

please copilot, i am writing javascript

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@sebmck

6 years

More JS tools should provide actionable hints when reporting errors. Especially important for begineers. Shown is an example from a tool I'm working on.

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@sebmck

7 years

Prepack, a partial JavaScript evaluator and optimising compiler we've developed at FB, has just been open sourced!

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@sebmck

4 years

@slightlylate I don't usually do this, but it's about public health and this site is getting a lot of press and HOLY !*#$ WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE GOOGLE COMMUNITY!? literally has a lighthouse score of 2 and hits document complete at 13s

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@sebmck

7 years

Walk into the office and find this on my desk. Is this real life?

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@sebmck

5 years

It's official

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@sebmck

6 years

If a shopping mall in Vegas can have a code of conduct, then your open source projects, conferences, meetups, and more, can too.

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@sebmck

4 years

We removed Flow support from Rome. TypeScript will be the only supported type syntax going forward.

Remove Flow syntax support by sebmck · Pull Request #440 · rome/tools

I no longer work for Facebook so cannot commit to supporting Flow. I do not use Flow, the Flow team does not support open source, and we can focus support on TypeScript syntax that benefits a large...

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@sebmck

7 years

Got engaged to @Anagobarreto today 💍

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@sebmck

5 years

TypeScript is the Clippy of JavaScript

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@sebmck

4 years

Installation complete @Anagobarreto

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@sebmck

5 years

Excited to announce a secret project that me and @Anagobarreto have been working on. We're having a baby! 👶🍼

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@sebmck

5 years

We got our green cards and are now permanent residents! @Anagobarreto 🇺🇸🗽

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@sebmck

3 years

Wanted: A VSCode extension that forces me to create a commit every n minutes, because I always forget and end up with huge commits after hours of work

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@sebmck

2 years

"You should own your data." Like my address.

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@sebmck

3 years

Specialization is one of the best things you can do for job security, so it's no surprise a CEO wants all employees to have the same skills making everyone equally expendable.

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@sebmck

5 years

This is a collection of my tweets over the past ~2 years about a project I've been working on. Time and work fluctuated over that period. It was called Sonic, then Hydra. Now it's called Rome. It's a JavaScript toolchain. It has zero dependencies, every thing is custom.

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@sebmck

4 years

It’s honestly pathetic that it took a pandemic for large companies to be more remote friendly. A good reminder that most companies will only change when it’s a necessity.

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@sebmck

4 years

GitHub needs a "merge once checks have passed" option that you can select on specific PRs

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@sebmck

7 years

Yarn tip: You can alias a package by using `yarn add fake-name @npm :left-pad`. Now you can use `require("fake-name")` to require left-pad.

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@sebmck

2 years

👀👀👀

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@sebmck

5 years

Programming has been a lot more fun since I started avoiding certain toxic communities

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@sebmck

8 years

when you retweet yourself

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@sebmck

5 years

Even if you disagreed with the funding experiment, I don't know how anyone can support npm banning ads. npm inc is profiting off of the work of others and denying them the opportunity to explore funding avenues. This sets a bad precedent.

npm bans terminal ads

JavaScript community's negative reaction to recent experiment kills potential avenue for funding open-source projects.

www.zdnet.com

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@sebmck

7 years

@babeljs @yarnpkg @thejameskyle Revel in fragmentation and duplication because without it there's stagnation and it stifles innovation.

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@sebmck

5 years

@dan_abramov @reactjs React doesn’t include enough out of the box, and the lack of any official sanctioned recommendations increases ecosystem fragmentation and actively harms the ecosystem.

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@sebmck

7 years

🇺🇸🎊🎉 It's official! Our US visa has been approved! Me and @Anagobarreto are moving to the bay area! 🎉🎊🇺🇸

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@sebmck

3 years

Have been AFK from tweeting and coding for a while now as I sort out my mental health. Sorry for those looking for a Rome release and work. I’ll be back on track eventually.

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@sebmck

4 years

When Rome is syntax highlighting code, it will output RGB colors to the terminal instead of being restricted to the set of base colors. It extracts the colors from a VSCode theme and allows you to specify a custom theme path in your user config. First release by the end of July

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@sebmck

6 years

I'm 21 and still get people referring to me as the "17 year old creator of Babel".

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@sebmck

4 years

If you are a Facebook employee organizing collective action, do not use corporate laptops, phones, or apps! This includes Work Chat, Messenger, and WhatsApp. Communication between employees is not privileged. You signed this away in your employment contract.

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@sebmck

5 years

Just upgraded the firmware on my toothbrush AMA

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@sebmck

3 years

CSS is good, actually

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@sebmck

3 years

Maybe I'm too Gen-Z but "Request a Demo" and not offering a self-serve trial is such an annoying trend.

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@sebmck

5 years

Just got caught by this type cast semantic... > /[A-Za-z]/.test(undefined) === true Because it's essentially: > /[A-Za-z]/.test('undefined') === true Oh JavaScript.

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@sebmck

4 years

I’m going to try working on @rometools full-time. Look out for a comprehensive roadmap in the coming week. Will be launching a crowdfunding campaign to hopefully sustain myself short term.

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@sebmck

4 years

Distracting myself from election madness by announcing this week is my last at Discord. Amazing people, company, culture, and product, so it was a very difficult decision. Will have some news in the coming weeks!

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@sebmck

5 years

@dan_abramov

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@sebmck

5 years

Pi Day is terrible because it’s an annual reminder that Americans use the MM/DD format. It’s uniquely an “international” American holiday. The date format is almost as worse as the choice to use Fahrenheit but not quite.

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@sebmck

3 years

Hobbies to stay away from if you have obsessive tendencies: - Mechnical keyboards - Headphones and audio equipment

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@sebmck

5 years

I feel so privileged to be in the position where I don’t have to pirate anything anymore. Growing up with no money, it was my only source of movies, music, series, games, software etc

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@sebmck

7 years

Love when recruiters email me with job specs promising that I'll get to use the latest tech like Babel, Yarn and React.

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@sebmck

3 years

Writing an email is a two step process for me: 1. Actually writing the email. 2. Realizing I've ended every sentence with an exclamation point and replacing it with a period.

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@sebmck

4 years

Are contributors to Gatsby who aren't employees being compensated? Why is anyone contributing for free? Would love to see some of that 46 million in funding funneled to their open source dependencies who are critical to their operation.

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@sebmck

6 years

The McDonalds at Sydney International has its kitchen on the second floor and it’s using a belt to transport food between the floors... 🤯

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@sebmck

7 years

This month marks 3 years since I started @babeljs (then 6to5). Still feels surreal, like I have memories from another person.

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@sebmck

4 years

React developers really rave about colocation yet have dozens of folders and dedicated files for Flux actions, Redux reducers, containers and arbitrary component abstractions.

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@sebmck

5 years

@Anagobarreto "Wow Dad, did you really announce my birth with a joke about some software you wrote 20 years ago that nobody uses anymore?" "Yes"

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@sebmck

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When Lerna changed their license to forbid usage from ICE collaborators a lot of people got angry because it was no longer free software" and was "mixing politics and sofrware". Big fuck you to those people. Would love to see a more formalized version of that license.

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@sebmck

2 years

👀👀👀

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@sebmck

5 years

Anyone who says "code should be self-documenting" probably doesn't comment their code enough

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@sebmck

4 years

It me

SwiftOnSecurity

@SwiftOnSecurity

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When your side project is suddenly your job now

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I remember the rule of thumb for HTML class vs id was multiple vs single. But seems everyone has thrown that out the window and just use classes for everything unless you need anchor hashes?

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@sebmck

5 years

I refuse to use Webpack. Alternatives:

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@sebmck

7 years

Original name for @yarnpkg was kpm (kittens package manager), which is why we originally had the cat logo!

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@sebmck

5 years

I kinda roll my eyes whenever I see "senior developer" in someone's bio. This isn't your resume. The title is so arbitrary and it feels like an unnecessary brag.

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@sebmck

3 years

I did a Hackintosh

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@sebmck

5 years

JSX errors

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@sebmck

3 years

Our TC39 membership for @rometools was approved!

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@sebmck

4 years

look, i know there's a pandemic and thousands of people are dying a day but what's really outrageous is all these slow websites

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@sebmck

6 years

So many Google services requiring Google Chrome is utterly ridiculous.

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@sebmck

4 years

doesn’t matter how fast your shit is if nobody uses it. thank u next...

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@sebmck

4 years

Very fitting that GitHub decided on the Arctic for their Code Archive Program, they just love ICE.

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@sebmck

4 years

Distracting myself from election madness by announcing this week is my last at Discord. Amazing people, company, culture, and product, so it was a very difficult decision. Will have some news in the coming weeks!

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@sebmck

7 years

My original plan for @babeljs was to consolidate all the tools that involve processing source code. Lint, bundling, you name it.

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@sebmck

4 years

Can we please talk about why Babel and Jest are advertising **online casinos** prominently on their homepage? Jest has 16. Babel has 9. How did this happen?

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@sebmck

5 years

Me: Wrote Babel Also me:

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@sebmck

5 years

I only learnt React because a lot of people requested I add support for JSX to Babel (then 6to5). Maybe if someone wanted to put handlebars in JavaScript then I'd be working for LinkedIn instead of Facebook.

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@sebmck

2 years

Vercel have done a fantastic job at making their success seem like the success of the web. Skeptical on how it works out long-term and the dangers of a potential monopoly, especially perverse investor incentives.

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@sebmck

4 years

Imagine teaching a web developer how to write prolog so they can configure their JS tools

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@sebmck

7 years

Playing around with an idea I have for a completely integrated JavaScript toolchain.

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@sebmck

4 years

only 2014 kids remember this

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@sebmck

5 years

I am ashamed of the ad policy decisions that Facebook has made lately, notably allowing misleading and false political ads. All previous scandals could be attributed to incompetence rather than malice, but nothing has been so egregiously asserted.

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5 years

Super Mario Maker 2 Intellectual Property Notices jQuery

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