Adam Rackis
@AdamRackis
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Software Engineer. Prev, Riot. TanStack, Next, React, C++ when I'm feeling nasty. Beer, whiskey, coffee snob. Book lover. Jr Developer for life.
Joined August 2009
People who make $50K a year seeing a proposed wealth tax on $100 Million
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Remember that dude who torched his career at Google after convincing himself ChatGPT version 2 was conscious or whatever?. Anyone check up on him?.
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My god I am so sick and tired of boomers pretending that moving into a smaller house is some kind of human rights abuse.
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People get twisted in their relationship with work. For $800K I will work on the most boring, uninspiring shit imaginable.
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Linux is only “free” if your time has no value.
Tried to wake from sleep. Sign in screen wouldn’t accept inputs. Tried rebooting. It will no longer boot. The Linux experience 🫡
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Be extra nice to your Android friends. Life is already hard for them, and it’s gonna get worse
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I feel so dumb. A staff engineer and I are both working on sister projects that involve playing audio. We both need to make sure playing one track stops whatever was already playing. I spent hours adding React context bullshit. He just did this 🥲
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This week I watched a Staff Engineer quickly solve a problem by reading the error message, real psychopath shit.
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Half tempted to change my bio to Senior Software Engineer at Twitter and see if I can provoke Elon into firing me 🤔.
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O(N^2) algorithms absolutely can, and many times will be faster than a “faster” O(logN) algorithm for small input sizes.
What is some piece of Computer Science or programming knowledge that *you* think is "core" but not enough people seem to know?.
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Once again begging Europe to create their own tech sector rather than just regulating ours.
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.catch(() => {}).
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No clue if this replaces software devs in a few years, but the free lunch is gone. The days of graduating an 8 week bootcamp where you learn React, then fall into a $200K job are over. Be ready to grind & learn deeply. Expertly guiding ai to a good result might be our value-add.
Today we're excited to introduce Devin, the first AI software engineer. Devin is the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies, and has even completed real jobs on Upwork. Devin is
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Company: "We'd like to use SQL Server Enterprise".MS: "That'll be a quarter million dollars + $20K/month".Company: "Ok!". Company: "We'd like to use Babel".Babel: "Ok! npm i babel --save".Company: "Cool".Babel: "Would you like to help contribute financially?".Company: "lol no".
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FAANG Java devs making $400K TC watching tech Twitter debate Go vs Rust
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I’ve shipped code for Java services, Spotify’s C++ core layer, The League of Legend’s C++ proxy layer, a smidge of Swift, and a metric ton of web dev. I use almost no math, but I’d be happy to as a Mathematics minor from college 🤷♂️.
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Google needs to just eliminate the PM role until they can figure out what’s going on over there.
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Uhhhh what happened to Postman? I just want to send, and inspect http requests? . What is all this shit?
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how the fuck does someone manage to have a sql injection vulnerability in a next.js app.
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CEO of some ai bullshit you've never heard of. every time.
Rates For Programmars Will Tank. Non-techies creating full-stack web and mobile apps will reduce demand for devs by around 15-20%. This will happen in ~3 months and will cause a massive drop in the TC for SWEs. Some elite engineers will still command a high compensation, but.
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It really is insane how we let a tiny number of privacy zealot weirdos ruin the web for everyone else
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This is so brutal. Do you nerds understand now why I said it’s safer for newbies to stick with industry standard tools like React, instead of fun tools like Svelte?. This is people’s livelihood, not some stupid game.
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Tell me you’ve never worked on a team of more than 5 people without telling me y—
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@wanyeburkett That's an extremely weird way to say "everyone's vote should not count the same".
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Do people understand that when you sell your house, you don't have the house anymore, but you do have the money the house was worth? . Is that something people just don't know?.
@AdamRackis They earned it over a lifetime of savings and commitment. When you start out it a tiny 1 bedroom apt and save for 10 years to get a down payment on a slightly larger home, then keep saving until you can buy a larger one, then keep saving until you pay it off, then you'll get it.
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Some news: I have decided to accept the role of Senior Staff Engineer at Vercel. Now I just have to wait for them to offer it.
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🎉🍾🥳🎉🍾🥳. Some funs news: . I've accepted a new role as a Senior Web Engineer at Spotify! 😃😆😁. 🎉🍾🥳🎉🍾🥳.
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@subdivisionguy The non-pathetic Elon simping answer is that interest rates went up and money got more expensive.
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Yeah sure that’s it, not anything to do with the rolling layoffs or killing every single project you start lmfao.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says Google lost its competitive edge when it decided that employees working from home and going home early was more important than winning
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Brutal news for my FAANG friends who were hoping to work twice as hard for a third the money trying to enrich some founder with a god complex.
Tough news for FAANG engineers:.Startups don’t want you anymore. Every founder I’ve spoken to is tired of them. Instead, they’re hiring ex-founders— engineers who value ownership and grinding to win.
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Former OpenAI board is all “yeah we fucking tried to tell you”.
Sam Altman says instead of Universal Basic Income, there should be Universal Basic Compute, where everybody gets a slice of GPT-7's compute
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Me, reviewing pull requests.
One of the final messages from the crew of the Titan submersible before it imploded has been revealed during a hearing:. “All good here.”
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Bro you gotta put all this shit into a book or course I can’t just keep bookmarking these tweets.
Nice opportunity for transitioning CSS grid columns with :has() && linear() 🤙. label {. --selected: 0;. grid-template-columns:. auto calc(var(--selected) * 20px);.}.label svg { opacity: var(--selected); }.label:has(:checked) { --selected: 1; }
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This is . fine and unsurprising? TS / JS frameworks were never meant to improve the productivity of lone-wolf 10X engineers. They're for teams. A lone wolf 10X engineer raw dogging vanilla js / html is fine. A team of regular devs doing that will be a terrible mess in a year.
is now almost 14,000 lines of raw PHP mixed with inline HTML, CSS in <style> and raw JS in <script> tags. I did not use TS, flexbox or frameworks except jQuery. A lot of $.ajax() and float:left though. It has 1,872 paying customers making $61,808 per month
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One day you’re talking shit about how overpriced Apple products are, and then suddenly your house looks like this
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Good god has CloudFlare responded to this? Please tell me there’s another side to this story. Article in the reply below - absolutely sickening
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As someone who frequently interviews at Spotify, no, please do not feel the need to ever write me a thank you note for interviewing you. It’s literally part of my job. And I promise it will not help (or hurt) your application one bit.
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fix this cors error you robot bitch.
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I’ve interviewed more senior engineers than I can remember and this is just absurd. Why do these insipid takes always come from an account with “founder” or “entrepreneur” in the bio 😅.
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I’m so sick of seeing useful web platform features only shipping in Chrome.
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I just love @shadcn's adorable, naive optimism to think a z-index of 50 is all that's needed for a context menu in this app oh to see the world through your eyes 🫶
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These layoffs are terrifying. My advice for younger devs, from my time conducting a *lot* of interviews, is this: learn your fundamentals. Well. Fucking around with some new js framework is fun, but your career will benefit a lot more from tightening your JavaScript / css skills.
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I need a verdict. This was a bit, right? The dude who killed a would-be FAANG career creating an AI cheating tool knows useState is a React api, right?.
it's really fucking hard to find competent engineers. i've interviewed about 20 cs majors who claim to be experts at typescript and only 3 of them have been able to explain what the purpose of useState is (not trolling).
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I think I’ve cracked the code here. For people whose days are mostly meetings, RTO is a huge improvement in productivity, and quality of life. For IC’s it’s a net loss on all fronts.
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Fuck it I know C++ someone give me direct access to InnoDB's internals I'm gonna segfault my way to catastrophic data loss.
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They. Removed. Prettier. 💀.
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til the ai cheating app startup is trying to pay $120-150K for _onsite_ engineers in SF lmfao think I figured out why bro can't find good people 🤣.
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9 year old daughter: “Daddy, you know how you have stickers on your computer?”.Me: “Yeah”.9yo: “Can I put stickers on *my* computer?”.Me: . * wipes a tear away *. “Of course”
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Man what the fuck happened.
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Genuinely heart warming seeing English people discover freedom for the first time ❤️.
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It's not everyday a wrong number blossoms into a new friendship 💙
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I'm usually the type of engineer who won't die on any hill. I'll almost always answer "should I use ___" with "it depends." . I can pretty much always find tradeoffs with anything. But I am absolutely convinced strict adherence to TDD is a complete waste of time.
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Holy shit this is real. Zuck's image is officially restored. Bro can steal whatever data he wants from me I don't give af
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Yeah. I kinda think software engineering will go back to being only for the unhinged weirdo's like me who genuinely love coding. Which sucks.
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Try out Datadog.
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Remember when he was hiring and said straight up “yo if you wanna work here we’re gonna have to grind so be ready” and everyone lost their minds? . Doing cool shit requires hard work sometimes. Fucking legend.
mf really said im gonna fix the javascript ecosystem for web devs and did it. a real 10xer
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⛔️ Error Messages ⛔️. Web Dev:. * renders an object *. "Hey buddy, an object's not a valid React component. Did you goof up an export? Here's an article, and it you're still stuck, here's Dan Abramov's personal cell". C++:. * passes a pointer by reference *. * program crashes *.
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@jenuhh124 @ratlimit You’re a deeply gross human being but I suspect you already knew that, deep down.
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I genuinely do not understand how so many people take this guy seriously
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Who's interested in a 🧵 about tech interviews? . In the last ~2 years I've interviewed at Riot, AWS, Spotify and Citadel, and got offers from all except AWS. I promise that's not to brag, just to say I'm not pulling this stuff out of my 🍑.
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Was genuinely devastated when aws rejected me. My god the bullet I dodged. Better to be lucky than good.
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Just squash and merge my god some devs have too much free time
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I cannot imagine what it feels like to have balls big enough to complain when a hosting provider takes down a project that exists to literally bypass paywalls. Hell I can’t imagine having balls big enough to even ship such a lawsuit magnet. Respect 🫡
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The one person I know who actually uses Linux on the desktop is a brilliant Senior Staff Engineer. Last time I saw him I said something like “ayyy still using Linux eh?” — he sighed and said “yeah but things keep breaking and I’m sick of it. I’m about to give up and get a Mac” 😂.
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"hah hah I can't BELIEVE how many people Spotify employs". - Some mid-level dev who's never worked on anything with over 1,000 users.
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Seriously what if Microsoft just buys Mozilla? They can abandon their silly Edge experiment, commit to Firefox, and we'll all forget about stuff that happened in the past and give them a clean slate.
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Look here's the bottom line: DHH is rich. He can say whatever he wants. But are YOU sure you want to announce that TypeScript is too hard for you? If a job interview asked about it, do you really want to say "I tried, but getting rid of the errors was too hard so I gave up" 👀.
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It's wild how many angry Trumper dudes in tech I've interacted with here. Like bro you make _well over_ median household income sitting on your ass writing (probably mediocre) code. You have one of the easiest jobs in human history how the fuck you get radicalized from that 🤨.
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Me, with C++ in production in the Spotify Core Layer, and League of Legends client network layer watching you children argue about frontend vs backend
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That dude complaining about Vercel *getting ready to* charge him 💰💰💰 after his app went viral was pretty ridiculous BUT I do think Vercel should have a big red button on their dashboard that says . "This app does not matter—if it ever starts costing real $ just shut it down".
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@realmattforney Hating on women having fun won’t make your life any less depressing or pathetic.
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This tweet would be mildly disagreeable IF these books were good, and would help level up your career; they’re not and they won’t. If you want good treatment of higher-level software engineering, start here.
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Dan Abramov: "Now remember, hooks is still in Alpha, it's just a propo—". Entire React Community: "Hey there's still two libraries not converted to hooks. Are these projects dead?".
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Well that explains the sudden influx of insufferable pieces of shit in my mentions lmao
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Atlassian said "we don't have time to maintain this open source library with a million weekly downloads we're too busy making Jira awesome"
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Devs: * waste hours arguing `let` vs `const` *. Babel: * takes a drag on a hand-rolled cigarette *. Babel: "var it is".
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I have honestly never in my career seen a technology shoot higher, faster, and then crash, harder, than GraphQL. What happened? . Was it a bad fit for the Serverless world we all found ourselves in?. And don't blame Relay/Apollo - there were always simpler options.
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@alexhorner2002 The new password was indeed similar to the old. They could only tell that if the old password was not hashed.
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