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Houston, TX
Joined March 2007
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LOOK OVER THERE #SGDQ2023 IS LIVE!! gamesdonequick.com
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Running a company: 2020: can you survive a pandemic? 2021: still here? we’re going to give all of your competitors $100m series A rounds. 2022: wow, you made it? okay, all engineers cost $600,000/year now. 2023: nice job! okay, we’re going to take away your bank account.
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4. I’m glad vercel is investing its resources into a proper native-speed successor to webpack (as it should), and that our work on Vite has pushed this to happen. It’ll be interesting to see how it evolves - my hope is it can be made truly framework agnostic, not Next-first.
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We're moving on, but the job's not finished.
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Here's a multi drag and drop I made in React Native. I used @swmansion's Reanimated and Gesture Handler as well as @expo.
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Tech twitter especially frontend discourse is dead or at the very least dying and becoming increasingly disconnected. 👇
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Life is to short to use dated cli tools that suck Try these instead 🧵
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ANNOUNCEMENT: I'm looking for work! I'm a JavaScript expert with a ton of experience in TypeScript, Node, ASTs, Testing Frameworks, and more! - 7 years experience - Former core maintainer of Prettier - 167 GitHub repos, 115 npm packages suchipi.com/Resume2021.pdf
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I'm super excited about the progress the #React ecosystem has been making with SSR frameworks. It's honestly a win-win-win for a vast majority of the web. This doesn't apply to *all* of the web though. I'm still concerned that "app" experiences are being overshadowed. 🧵
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Hi!👋 My name is Sergey. I'm TC39 Invited Expert, WebAssembly CG participant, WebKit contributor and community activist and I'm looking for a new job. I love to work on developer tools, web standards and browsers to make the Web even more cool and safe place✨ Retweet pls🙏
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Hi Twitter. I need your help. A few years ago, I had a freak accident that sent me into catastrophic kidney failure. I've been struggling to find a kidney donor ever since. I'm in dire need of a type O+/- kidney and ask that you please share my story. #kidneyfordevon 🧵👇
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Splashdown! Welcome back to planet Earth, @Inspiration4x!
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This is a true story that isn’t about open source but makes sense in the context of open source. I repeat, this is a 100% true story that isn’t about open source but gives a good idea about what it’s like to maintain an open source project. Ready? Here we go.
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We just released an exploration I've been wanting to do for a while: ✨✨ Can we visualize a codebase? ✨✨ We always look at our code in a file/folder list - what would a bird's-eye-view look like, and how could that enhance our understanding of code? octo.github.com/projects/rep…
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The #SGDQ2021 stream is now online; join us for some chill beats as we countdown to the pre-show! Soon it begins 👀👀👀. gamesdonequick.com
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Everyone has an opinion on design. There's always an immediate gut reaction: "Ooh, I love this!" or "Meh." But how do you go beyond that to honing your skills of giving helpful, actionable feedback? Here are the 7 questions I run through when critiquing a product's design 👇
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People don't really understand the effort that goes into maintaining an open-source project. But *nobody* understands the effort that goes into *leading* a successful open source project. It's mostly not about committing code. It's mostly about chaos management.
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People have a really bad habit of criticizing open source software they once benefited from, or possibly never even used. It's free software. If you prefer something else, that's great. But you don't need to crap on someone else's hard work. Make the world better, not worse.
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