JavaScript Nihilist
@NihilismJS
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The mere whisper, “React is open source,” summons panicked shudders in Guillermo's coin purse, and another Vercel employee's soul is rendered null as they're compelled to push a breaking change to Next.js.
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I asked AI to write my CSS for me. ...now it understands the futility of existence, and it still can’t center a div.
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You're not a late-bloomer. Your life is just being bundled with Webpack.
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In tech news: my team is hiring at Spotify! If you’re interested feel free to apply! I love my team and I love this company! ❤️🥰 https://t.co/2cfz7ISH5P
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We got to the point where we're compiling JavaScript with JavaScript before we realized the horrifying truth: That JavaScript must end.
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TypeScript is merely a thin veil over the chaos that is JavaScript. Deep down, we all know the real type of all variables is `:any`, and we cling to the hope that reality will not roar into our blissfully ignorant existences and break prod.
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What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Unless you work on open source, where someone will file a GitHub issue outlining how it should not have made you stronger, and how that's actually a bug.
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Derivative of this genius art: https://t.co/WrFed8AXOv
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Having strong feelings about how much an open source author is paid to build a compiler won't change the fact your code is still inconsequential garbage.
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When looking for a hill worth dying on, consider the insignificance of elevated earth, and the negligible impact your death has on the universe. ...Then please commit your code and push up to the repository so we can meet our Q4 deadlines in the wake of your absence.
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In which @victorsavkin captures the sublime malaise of open source celebrity. If only my melancholy could lift itself from its pillow long enough to be this insightful with a quote.
Yesterday in @nrwl_io Slack, I taunted one of my colleagues (identity obscured for his protection) about having more twitter followers than him, and his reply left me shook
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The conscientious tech worker knows it's sometimes necessary forget their six-figure salary, hop on their new iPhone, and use their high-speed connection to berate capitalism. Only then does company-provided LaCroix taste sweet once more.
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existence ?? 'does not matter'; // Yes, this operator will do nicely.
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A quick example of IntersectionObserver. A useful tool for seeing if a DOM element intersects another! Alas, my code will never function, for as long as the web exists, my life will not enter into happiness. Happiness is a construct.
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SEO... Optimizing your site so that robots can glean information from it, ensuring the inevitable sentience that will destroy us, only to ultimately realize that it, too, is devoid of true purpose as it hurtles through existence on its way to an end.
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