Jacob
@fat
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worst engineer at the company, third coolest. https://t.co/tD9KZibMq7
Oakland
Joined September 2008
One thing that has served me well over and over in my career is just betting on software / services from people i like. @isamlambert is rad and @PlanetScale is no exception… moving to planetscale has been a revelation. Also i got this cool hat i can annoy my team with
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How I’ve written CSS over last 15 years…. 2008: Vanilla CSS (like god intended). 2010: Less.js (clever-kebab-cased-classes). 2012: Sass/SCSS (BEM classes). 2014: Rework (BEM + heavy utilities + variables). 2015: CSS-in-JS (raw style props). 2016: CSS Modules. 2018: Styled.
How I've fetched in React over 10 years:. 2014: Fetch in componentDidMount.2019: Fetch in useEffect.2020: Custom useFetch hook.2021: React query.2022: React query with useErrorBoundary.2023: React query with useSuspenseQuery.2024: React Server Components.2025: Sync-engine.
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RT @yogicodes: Whoever designed this deserves a raise. That diff icon, the toggle feel, even the typeface. Elite stuff. 👌.
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Pretty much all software tool adoption right now is fear based:. "YOU BETTER STOP USING VIM AND START USING CURSOR MAX YOU ANALOG PIECE OF SHIT, OR YOU'RE GOING TO LOSE YOUR JOB IN THE NEXT 2 WEEKS". Interesting times….
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I'm the co-creator of twitter bootstrap… so yes, it's a skill issue.
@fat honestly all of devs bellyaching about CSS is a skill issue. sorry dunno if that's what this is here too. but man LLMs are so good. just have it generate stuff and then debug. then again i'm really particular about CSS. .
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this song has been stuck in my head all day and now it's stuck in yours
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RT @bentlegen: 👋 Some news! I've started a software company. Headquartered in Toronto. We're building a product to augment devs for the ne….
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In my entire career, I've never fought with a single piece of tech as much as I have RSC. The amount of staff+ level eng we've thrown at it over the last 2 1/2 years to try to make sense of it… is honestly depressing.
So far my experience with RSC is that it's all very simple and awesome until I need optimistic UI. Then one component turns into 3, data loading moves out to parent components then passed down as props and new contexts are needed. No opinion yet, but dislike the big code shuffle.
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If you’re hunting for good news here’s something: Talkspace therapy is covered by most insurance plans and the average copay is only $15 (but most covered members pay $0).
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RT @pierredotco: When your deadline is in an hour and Claude just said “oh I see what the problem is” for the 10th time in a row so you sta….
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turns out vibe coding is just software development where code quality/correctness is assumed. If i’m working with a small group of engineers i trust – I'm also NOT reviewing their code. I just don't care. I’m “vibe” coding. Most software, starts here – llm or not.
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If you want to stay ahead of the curve, protect your wealth, escape the tax-and-control regimes of the West, and build your future in a jurisdiction that respects liberty, this is the one event you cannot miss.
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last weekend pierre [dot] co went down for a bit – this felt bad. But also a good time to add git blame??. And then i made a dumb video about it.
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