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We recently stopped using React to render map elements in
@Felt
Not only does this make Felt faster than ever, but it also makes it look even better and cleans up our code.
Why did we do this, and how did we manage such a big change?
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@OnMeHols
@KatyMontgomerie
But Holly it was like a tornado. Evidence, as if we needed any, that when trans people operate automatic hand driers they are much louder and more terrifying to adult humans.
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I've almost finished migrating a 35K LOC, 3-5 year old
@reactnative
project over from version 64 to 73 (while doing an almost complete rewrite of every screen)
Here is a thread of my observations of how things have changed in that time, what has been hard/easy etc.
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@MsI_ELsie
@kiridluffy
If you don’t know the difference between joking about someone’s life choices vs joking about someone’s medical condition, maybe this isn’t the conversation for you.
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@karunchandhok
Amazing that this has to be clarified repeatedly.
The Hamilton/Rosberg fight was amazing.
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@will_ye_
If enough people do this all together for like a month will it stop LinkedIn forever?
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@NoContextBrits
“Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.”
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When the antivaxxers start up with that “1598 athletes have suffered cardiac arrests” thing again.
(Spoiler: The “athletes” are between the ages of 5 and 86, and include suicides, a lot of cancer, road traffic accidents and one person falling off a cliff)
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Ok, this
#AR
app is pretty fun. Have a look around our messy garden to see what I’m slowly killing this month!
#AugmentedReality
#iOS
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@Vc27Mr
@AlanaKinrich
My bro once had to go to the ER shortly after Christmas because he swallowed anti freeze trying to syphon it out of the petrol tank.
The doctors rustled around in the cupboard and came back with a bottle of rum left over from the Christmas party and told him to get smashed.
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@mattpocockuk
Enforcing namespaces for analytics events in a big app.
Disallow cruft from building up like “item_added_to_cart”
“added_item”
“searched_term”
“clicked_search_result”
by enforcing an allowlist of namespaces:
“cart_”
“search_”
So you’ll get predictable names.
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@danettunplugged
@sahana_srini
We should also include fractions in our ages when we meet. I’m Tom and I’m 35 and three quarters!
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@DrAseemMalhotra
Why did
@BBCNews
let this disgraced, lying fraud onto the news?
The BHF have distanced themselves from him for these reasons.
He’s there to sell his fad diet books and raise his profile to collect more speaking fees for his lies.
@Ofcom
why is he allowed to do this on the BBC?
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@arancaytar
@tresdessert
In Spain, they reverse the rows compared the the UK and it actually causes me to forget my PIN
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@daraobriain
@Kristan75
People who's life's work is to make people angry, angered by people who's life's work is to make people laugh 🧐
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PS: Native dev is 10x more satisfying than web dev.
Everything just feels nice and looks nice in a way that the web just can't no matter how hard you try.
I know
@thekitze
has had the same epiphany recently!
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@DrAseemMalhotra
@DoctorTro
@BrianLenzkes
@AlexBerenson
@DrJBhattacharya
@zoeharcombe
@FatEmperor
@jordanbpeterson
@rustyrockets
@joerogan
@elonmusk
Spent*
Did you try submitting this paper to a publication where you’re not on the editorial team?
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@thetoad101
@Acococure
@rebexxxxa
You could make that point about praising any achievement. “Are people who don’t climb Everest not worthy of praise?”
Losing weight is a big achievement for a lot of people and often has great health benefits. If they’re happy with their hard work why not congratulate them?
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@peter_ackerson
@harryhurst
This sounds horrible.
Whether or not you “ding” people, you’re immediately ratcheting up the pressure to 11, and that will affect subsequent performance.
You’re basically biasing your selection towards “people who can instantly recall an appropriate joke”.
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@Shining_Kate
@git_pull_union
How is a local company supposed to find any employees, if they’re all being payed 5x as much by a foreign company?
This could totally, unpredictably change economies in countries with lower cost of living.
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@MarshaLowe20
@DreamCrushn
@KelseyObGyn
It depends whether it’s useful to the patient though.
If I get my brake pads changed, the guy at the garage tells brake pads push against something to slow it down.
They don’t tell me how kinetic energy is transferred into heat at the molecular level because it’s not necessary.
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@scootykins
@albfresco
@asdkfjasdlfjd
I’d have microservices (with separate databases of course) for:
- button identification
- button pressing
- door state
- door history
Just to begin with. Later I’d probably add door logger and button press logger.
Put it all into a data lake and hey presto your startup is dead.
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@DrAseemMalhotra
@rustyrockets
Does 💥 now mean “a massive circle jerk where you chat a combination of unsubstantiated antivax rubbish and conspiratorial word salad”?
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👧 Antivaxxers: covid vaccines are causing cardiac arrests.
👨🔬 CDC: we’re investigating a safety signal in strokes.
🤡 Antivaxxers: we were right all along.
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@The_Squiggleman
@KevinWolfiee
@starstrickenSF
Not believing in the same things is one thing, but any sentence that contains “but it’s nice that you’re excited” is either sarcastic or condescending or both.
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Here is disgraced MP
@ABridgen
who recently posted on Twitter about a disgusting, offensive conversation with an antivax consultant cardiologist.
He’s standing here with *another* consultant cardiologist Aseem Malhotra whose antivax views he referred to in Parliament.
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@MarshaLowe20
@DreamCrushn
@KelseyObGyn
The people administering the vaccines don’t need to know how they work. They need to know how to safely administer a vaccine.
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My favourite react native “UsErS can AlWaYs TeLl” story is when we were invited to Apple’s offices in London to talk about promoting an app and them not realising it was React Native until we told them
The curator of the UK App Store didn’t know
@jamonholmgren
you’d like this.
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To see how we squeezed even more performance out of our canvas rendering, read the full post here:
And next week we'll have Part 2 where we explain how we built a novel interaction system to handle all the gestures in a simple and performant way.
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@Dan1763
@markaizatt
@danj_h
Best possible reply-all in this situation:
“IF EVERYONE JUST STOPS REPLYING-ALL IT WILL ALL BE OVER SOON. PLEASE PASS THIS ON IN CASE SOMEONE MISSES IT”
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@EmmettNaughton
Each could be considered a nightmare in five words. But altogether this has been our last year.
Sorry it’s not a funny one about poo or bogies.
“All babies sweat while eating”
“Don’t worry about his weight”
“You did well resuscitating him”
“He needs a heart transplant”
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3. ScrollViews and keyboards are still a pain, 5 years later.
This is one place that I think Expo should perhaps look at providing their own library for. There are many things to consider and each library seems to miss one aspect.
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8.
@typescript
is just non-negotiable
There's no way on this earth I'd have been able to do this semi-rewrite at this speed without TypeScript.
If you've been living under a rock and are still using JS, just stop it.
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@thebestjstn
@Shining_Kate
@git_pull_union
No no it’s a fair wage based on that country’s economy. But a richer country paying people market rates from the richer country is going to outpay people paying local “fair wages”.
Not all currencies/economies are equal.
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9. Component libraries are overrated
If you're building Facebook or something, then fine. But for the rest of the world you'll be fine with:
- typography
- color palette (just what you need)
- shadows
- spacing unit
- Button component
- anything else *really* common
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@JIronopolis
@patcondell
No they didn’t. They changed it because people mistakenly thought immunity meant you could never catch something. But that’s never been the case.
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@spiritgateoz
@twuraychel
She would have been right to sit the fuck down and not get involved because she’s not got any relevant training or expertise
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@JediSooze
@kiridluffy
You don’t know that. He laughed first, yes. But you don’t know what changes his mind.
The way it looks to me is that his laughing was a social instinctive reaction, without fully realising what had been said.
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@SwaledaleMutton
@stkirsch
I propose this as a topic.
The data is unequivocal: Steve Kirsch's optical mouse caused a 9000% increase in autism rates in California from 1980 to 2014.
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Here's a nice little TypeScript tip...
If you're ever dealing with values transitioning from one state to another you can end up with a lot of nasty if-statements.
Use TypeScript Template Literals to make your code more readable with complete type safety.
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@FeignEmulator
@MinimanZero2
@cassidoo
@Danny_2462
I already cursed at this joke once. Now I’m going to have to... recurse
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@jtidmarsh
@DrAseemMalhotra
No she asked if it was proven scientifically to which Aseem said “yes” (a lie) then babbled about RCTs for a bit and then made up some more lies. Because he’s a disgusting liar.
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I've been writing TypeScript/React/node almost exclusively for three years now. Last night I joined
@kentcdodds
live stream and in < 1 hr learned 2️⃣ new things:
1️⃣ VoidFunction is a thing
2️⃣ How React event/nativeEvent & target/currentTarget all fits together
Highly recommended!
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@JoeyRoss83
@JamesMelville
@DrAseemMalhotra
@KayBurley
Talk about what? That the evidence overwhelmingly supports the position that vaccines are still very safe, have been great at preventing severe disease, and are being replaced by boosters that will do even better?
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@liverheart
@JamesMelville
…by James Melville
Here’s the 2017 from the same station.
Do you see it now?
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7.
@GraphQL
is an absolute godsend
To be able to quickly get another property here, traverse the graph another hop there, without having to do *any* back-end changes, and have type safety all the way through is so nice!
Those of you who hate GQL are missing out, seriously.
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@reactnative
Completely overhauled the UI for my upcoming app for tracking team happiness (for retrospectives and stuff)
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@webpack
v4 ➡️ v5
#NextJS
build
📦 Client Bundle (total, all pages)
Gzipped:
2.3MB ➡️ 1.36MB = ⬇️ 41% ✨
Parsed JS:
8.58MB ➡️ 5.18MB = ⬇️ 40% ✨
😱 That's awesome
@timneutkens
@rauchg
🙌
If you have a Next.js application that does not have custom webpack configuration could you try enabling webpack 5 if you haven't already:
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@DrAseemMalhotra
@drbobgill
Anyone worried by the 1 in 800 claim? Don’t. It’s not true.
It’s only if you pick a subset of adverse events and ignore a load of others.
That’s what the paper that this number – written by a renowned antivaxxer – does to arrive at that figure.
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@sneridagh
@kentcdodds
Typescript is code.
Patterns exist in typescript and they are more explicit.
You don’t spend time fixing typings if you wrote types first, usually.
Typescript setup is almost zero.
Typescript is often easier to read, for a number of reasons.
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@DrAseemMalhotra
I think you made a typo. When you said “without any doubt” I think you meant to say “without any evidence”
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@FastestPitStop
@joshwrigley
What’s that then, Ferrari sends their drivers out on slicks and everyone else behaves like they’ve seen a Grand Prix before?
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10. Margin is the devil
Use stacks, gaps, nesting and padding. The only good margins are negative margins, except in prose typography.
Literally no exceptions to this rule. If you think you've found one, you're wrong.
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1.
@expo
is great
Still really confusing to get to grips with due to the huge number of different tools, terms, etc. but once it's in the groove it's awesome.
Regularly recreating my iOS/Android folders from scratch and having everything just work is fantastic.
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@winstoncrowder
@Experience_Jeff
@MattLech
I quite like the idea of that guy picking 3.9 million tomatoes by hand on his own. Just so his ridiculous maths plays out.
Oh, and then finding 3.9 million idiots who will pay $1 for a tomato.
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@TheDrJon
I’m not a doctor or vaccine safety monitoring expert but I sincerely doubt the phrase “falling so hard you can hurt yourself” is anywhere near any adverse event lists.
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2. The expo "standard lib" is great.
Before it felt like the wild west trying to find libraries to do various things, but expo has so many ordained libraries now for so many things.
Image rendering, BlurView, Haptics, Sharing, etc all just work.
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@domjoly
HELLO?!
NO I’M ON AN AEROPLANE.
AN AEROPLANE.
NO IT’S RUBBISH. JUST A LOAD OF RACISTS READING NEWSPAPERS.
YEAH.
YEAH NAZIS. JUST LOTS OF NAZIS.
OK, CIAO!
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@18681670z
@lamdeinu
Correction: we’re talking about a *made up* interaction happening in English.
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@rachelschraer
@BBCNewsnight
The absolute state of Stew Peters thinking he can sit there knowing he’ll be asked “why did you put people who aren’t dead and died before vaccines existed in a film blaming vaccines for deaths”.
What an absolute clown.
How can anyone take it seriously?
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@Vox_my_ass
@kellyc7c
Everyone has their own sun but there’s only one and it’s above the clouds but it’s in the clouds and under the clouds and it’s hot but can’t evaporate clouds and it moves for no reason and lights up the moon that’s its own light source which has phases but doesn’t and there’s a…
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@thetoad101
@Acococure
@rebexxxxa
I also see what you’re saying - a Twitter first?!
I don’t think the existence of eating disorders should stop people celebrating a healthy change. I don’t know what to do about that, but I believe it shouldn’t be to *not* talk about weight/health correlation.
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@F125AXer
@MarshaLowe20
@DreamCrushn
@KelseyObGyn
One person doesn’t understand:
1. Analogies
2. Vaccines
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@jessegenet
What we did instead was, basically:
- select for kind, supportive people when hiring
- encourage openness and honesty about how you’re feeling about everything and everyone
- learn, as a group, how to resolve issues, as a group
- be really engaged with other parts of the org
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@DrAseemMalhotra
Have you read that paper?they literally choose periods where people die, compare them to when people don’t die, then go “look more people are dying”.
It’s almost good enough to publish in your Insulin Resistance journal.
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wow using zod (from
@colinhacks
), react-hook-form (
@HookForm
),
@trpcio
and
@chakra_ui
all together for the first time and it's absolutely incredible.
building this thing I was like oh no, I've got to do forms and now I'm like I want more forms
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@inversecos
@tazwake
My answer would be:
- Els Tres Porquets (The Three Little Pigs)
- Mr Sneeze
- My first farm animals
I have young kids and I don’t have time to read for myself.
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@ken_wheeler
@EricRichards22
This is the most bizarrely wholesome thing.
And this is going to sound like a real old man thing, but people without kids just don’t know the feeling.
And having had a kid that was seriously ill for a long time (and still is, in a way) it’s the easiest choice ever.
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@skeptophile
@jaowrites
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to suggest that words caused far more hurt in this instance.
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@EmmettNaughton
I forgot one from the middle
“Ambulance. My son isn’t breathing.”
If anyone sees this, be happy that you consider your funny little stories as nightmares.
I’d give anything just to worry about a bit of poo or upturned Lego.
Hug your kids more.
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Firstly, some stats:
Number of lines source code:
35K → 29K, and it does the same thing
Lines of config and dependencies:
149 → 94
And, my observations...
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@HeyNurseKat
Cardiologist in ITU when my son was in hospital said something like “this place is run by the nurses I just work here.”
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@JPatterson1501
@mrjamesob
@adamboultonSKY
I am British in Spain. Everyone wears masks indoors and if it’s crowded outside, even children.
No one’s freedom is being impacted, and the excess mortality is essentially zero. In the UK it’s around 15% higher than usual.
Lowering deaths is easily possible.
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@quad_canceled
@PeterSweden7
Given that the article is from 2015, it’d be a stretch to blame it on vaccines that weren’t administered for another 5 years, don’t you think?
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