Tomasz Łakomy @tlakomy Twitter profile

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Tomasz Łakomy

4 months

Excited to share some big news: I'm joining the @RunwayML engineering team 🚀 Looking forward to help expand the boundaries of what's possible with creative AI. The best stories are yet to be told. Onward.

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6 years

My girlfriend told me to take the spider out instead of killing it. We went and had some drinks. Cool guy. Wants to be a web developer.

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3 months

The only person who should interview Putin

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6 years

Actual footage of US Missle Warning System

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Okay, I always knew I wasn't exactly handsome but I've never had a mirror straight up kernel panicking

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This is significantly cooler than any “metaverse” project released in the last 2 years

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This was the absolute highlight of technology

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Is this Docker?

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4 years

Using Higher Order Components in React

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4 years

Check out my new app! http://localhost:3000/

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8 months

How tech debt is born:

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4 years

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3 years

Everybody's like "the web is decentralized now" until us-east-1 goes down

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npm install eslint-config-airbnb

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When your entire test suite depends on mocks

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6 years

Advice for conf speakers: When someone you care for is speaking, sit in the first row. Be there for them. Laugh at their jokes, _actually_ watch the talk (Twitter can wait), make yourself visible for them. Be the audience you'd like to have, and next time you will have it.

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Anyone got this to work? It’s not doing anything for me

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2 years

Fixing tech debt in an enterprise codebase

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4 years

77% of JavaScript developers are terrible at math So glad to be a part of the other 33% 😎

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3 years

Burgernetes

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Margaret Hamilton standing besides the average tailwind className prop

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1 year

Microservices

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6 months

My boy Sphere is the best thing humanity has built since jQuery

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5 years

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Tech Lead vibes

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There are no actual full stack developers in 2019. The stack has become too large for a single person

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2 years

Senior engineer lifehack: Write undocumented, unmaintainable code to avoid layoffs 🫡

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6 years

Using webpack for my "hello world" app

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4 years

Developers: $5 for a beer? - Gimmie two and at the same time $4.99 for a productivity app? - Do you think I shit money?

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7 years

Me at a coding interview

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4 years

An actual unpopular opinion: @zoom_us is the only videoconference software that actually works (and I’ve used basically everything else in my career) and the fact that their servers aren’t straight up burning at the moment is a testament to excellent work they’ve been doing

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3 months

Microservices

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TypeScript

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4 years

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6 years

This joke is older than the Internet and I'm glad that it made so many of you chuckle

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3 years

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3 years

I’ve come to realize that I have too many followers so here we go:

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2 years

What’s stopping you from coding like this?

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4 years

There should be a staging environment for children My wife and I want to have kids one day but straight to prod is kinda risky

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6 years

Tech interview: "What will be the value of: var a = 10, b= 20; console.log(-+a++-+-+b--);" Actual job: "Hey, can you make this button grey when on hover?"

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3 years

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2 years

oh boy

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24 days

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Spending 24 hours in Silicon Valley has already recharged me with enough optimism to survive another 4 months of European pessimism.

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1 year

Ticket title: refactor Twitter Estimate: 5 story points

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6 months

Deploying a blog with 3 posts in 2023 to prod

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3 years

Developers spend $9001 on fancy mic & camera home office setup just to say “I agree” at the end of 60 minute meeting

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1 year

The worst programming rule I ever saw enforced in a tech company was “every function can have only one return statement” Don’t do this folks, early returns are great!

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4 years

This image helps me from time to time, I hope it’ll help some of you as well 💯

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Senior JavaScript Developers

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2 years

Using AWS Console instead of IaC when nobody’s watching

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1 year

Live footage of *not* being on call

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3 months

Fun fact: if you spend $1M/year with DataDog they let you pet the dog

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2 years

Backend: generating a JSON Frontend: displaying a JSON Twitter: arguing over the best ways to do one of the above

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3 months

useEffect runs twice because you need to think twice before using it

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Some PMs need to be stopped.

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3 years

JavaScript has 8 falsy values: - 0 - -0 - null - undefined - NaN - your unit tests coverage - “” (empty string) - false

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2 years

Today I learned that Staff Engineers are not actually given an actual staff and my disappointment has no limits

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4 years

Hiring tip: Immediately reject half of the candidates to avoid hiring unlucky people

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2 years

As a part of an ongoing effort to make frontend more complex, ES2024 will introduce malloc() and free() to JavaScript

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4 years

Apparently TDD stands for T-shirt Driven Development who knew

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4 years

AWS should allow you to mark your account as “hey, I’m learning this stuff, this is not a business” and set a *hard limit* to 20 USD per month Surprise-bill-driven-revenue is a terrible business model, they should get rid of that part

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5 years

100% test coverage, ship eeeet 😎

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3 years

Navigating React+redux codebase

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Side projects

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Which tech opinion you got that results in this

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3 years

I’m never going back to JavaScript TypeScript all the way 🚀

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4 years

The Venn diagram of people who dismiss frontend development as it’s “easy” and people who are terrible at anything frontend related is a circle

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I can't recommend getting used to listening/watching content at speeds higher than 1.0x enough It definitely takes a while to get used to, but watching tech videos at 2.0x is life changing for a developer

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2 years

Disable StackOverflow in Russia, tank all tech projects at once.

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4 years

Backend: distributed systems Frontend: divstributed systems

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I still can’t believe that the creator of React, Dan Abramov, has more followers on Twitter than the creator of Java, John Resig 🤯

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1 year

Opening AWS Console for the first time:

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2 years

I’m writing an article on elderly JS developers, if you remember backbone.js pls reply

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2 years

Elon changed the like button animation, what the hell 🫥

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5 years

This is the best thing I've seen on the Web is quite some time, absolutely mind-blowing:

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1 year

Running npm install in a frontend project that wasn’t updated for 6 months

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2 years

Someone else’s AWS account

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2 years

What's the best serverless compute platform out today, and why?

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4 years

Imagine you're looking for a job as a JS developer and the interviewer hits you with a *cursed tree*

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6 years

This hits a bit too close to home

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4 years

Every single codebase

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3 years

I’m starting to have an opinion that *every* JS/TS function that takes more than one argument should take an object instead Better IDE support, code completion and you’ll never screw up the order of arguments 🧐

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Those “I earn X per year” tweets would be much more valuable if they included how much they pay for rent 200k USD sure sounds impressive until you realize that they’re based in SF, have 5 roommates and one of them lives in a room under the stairs I believe his name was Harry

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TypeScript is okay CSS-in-JS is okay GraphQL is okay Web Components lmao CSS Grid is okay but neither of those necessarily make for a better user experience Users don’t care if you’re shipping shiny new tech or straight up jQuery apps if they’re able to accomplish their goals

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1 year

Parents limiting their children’s career choices are the worst. Luckily my children will have the freedom to program in whatever language they want

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2 years

Either @Spotify or @Shopify needs to change its name, we cannot continue like this

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4 years

PSA: please stop referring to human beings as 'resources'. An S3 bucket is a resource 👍 A software engineer is not 👎 'Resources' don't have kids, parents to take care of, take sick leaves etc.

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5 years

This is gold Source: @Oatmeal

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3 years

Stop recommending “JavaScript: The Good Parts” to newcomers, this book has been outdated since 1468

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Do you prefer to squash all commits when merging a PR or are you wrong?

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If you're a web developer I think I know what your inbox looks like today God dammit dependabot

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Me at a coding interview

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It’s called web3 because the hype lasted exactly 3 months

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4 years

The “C” in CORS stands for “crying”

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Every REST API driven JS app right now: const userName = response?.content?.innerData?.data?.payload?.userObject?.user?.nameFactory?.getNumber(1)?.name;

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Backend developers after being forced to write CSS for an hour

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