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@bitandbang

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they/them. poly. fashion. javascript. open source. principal developer advocate at @twilio . fricking disgrace. himbo. web2 boomer. adhd. demiboy. 1312.

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3 years
$ npx bitandbang
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If you’d given me 1,000,000,000 guesses of things that would happen in 2022, “creator of Veggietales implying Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber are trans in a Twitter thread where he’s asking other Christians how drone strikes are okay but abortion isn’t” wouldn’t come up.
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I got a meme template from the FUCKING US GOVERNMENT
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@philvischer
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@iamkeithandrew @Josh87380905 @TruettGlen @William_E_Wolfe @JoelWBerry Botanically speaking, cucumbers and tomatoes are, in fact, fruit. Sorry about that.
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I have not seen anything on TikTok that touched webdev... until today. I am not disappointed.
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hey hello fellow 1x engineers. I made a site for us, hopefully you'll add anything that's missing?
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3 years
are companies stealing from workers by leeching free internet, free heating, free cooling, free facilities labor, free transportation, free electricity, free nourishment, and free enhanced equipment setups? Some workers say yes.
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Are workers ‘stealing’ time from their companies when working from home? Some employers say yes — but studies say just the opposite.
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4 years
Should you use "URL" or "URl"? Use a lower case "L" and you'll always be right.
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1 year
@kyliebytes Elon sowing: haha fuck yeah!!! yes!! Elon reaping: well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.
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so the @code team has now released the VS Code server, allowing any server to host the VS Code backend. this is so huge.
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I find it absurdly funny that you can type "man <command>" unironically and have the command explained to you
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absolutely insufferable human
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I…. do not like this. “GitHub was founded on git. Today, it’s re-founded on Copilot.”
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Today the @code team shipped remote development and my mind is 100% blown 🤯 This is absolutely awesome. Now, the power of your personal machine *does not matter*. This unlocks so much potential. 🔗 Blog: 🔗 Extension: 📸 Example:
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@bitandbang
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YYYY-MM-DD is the superior date format
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ty @USCPSC <3
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for your information
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GraphQL is amazing because it saves me a lot of custom JavaScript logic by making me suffer through writing an absolutely disgusting query
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digital scarcity does not exist and we should not be building systems that perpetuate it
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3 years
BREAKING: GitHub to ban `git push`ing to their servers on October 1
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for those asking, here's a blank version of the template
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the best part of “microservices bloatware” is that Twitter is on-prem and this will likely not meaningfully reduce their costs
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@bitandbang
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Are you a maintainer or contributor to one of these projects? - @nodejs - @expressjs - @d3js_org - @vuejs - @bower - @gulpjs - @momentjs - minimist - Karma - request - RequireJS If you are, @NASA is depending on your code. No pressure.
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hey let's stop idolizing these "leaders" now
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why is cookie acceptance not a browser API at this point?
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Microsoft has apparently decided to name Edge on Android "Microsoft Edge: AI Browser". I'm so deeply disappointed at every decision that Microsoft leadership makes around Edge. It's like every time they're presented with two options, they intentionally chose the worse option.
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extremely disappointed that @github changed the mask policy from “required” to “optional” for GitHub Universe 3 weeks before the event. that kind of bait and switch isn’t okay.
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the state of open source funding
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@bitandbang
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5 years
How to start any new Node.js project: $ npx license mit > LICENSE $ npx gitignore node $ npx covgen YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS $ npm init -y You're ready to start coding.
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@bitandbang
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5 years
I’m incredibly excited to share that today is my first day at @Microsoft as a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate on the @azureadvocates team 🎉
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I am *extremely* excited to share that today is my first day as a Staff Developer Advocate at @twilio 🎉🎉🎉
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3 years
wow @tellerapi seems like a super safe place to work
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@bitandbang
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if a CEO of a company I worked at did this, I'd be updating my resume and reaching out to friends.
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zoom call from a ceo who cancelled all employee bonuses but took a $6.4 million bonus herself
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5 years
Updated my business card 😎
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lmao I didn't realize @DHH 's post literally boils down to him having a tantrum over an email from the RailsConf program committee saying the stage should be shared with other contributors
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3 years
New keyboard arrived, can’t wait to not be able to type for several months
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3 years
Unpopular opinion: the best thing young people can do early in their careers is sleep until 3pm on the weekends
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3 years
i can’t fathom why people dunk on CSS programmers, they’re able to do absolutely wild and incredible stuff that I’d absolutely never be able to
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gonna say something I’ve been talking with multiple friends about recently: Just because you can be successful in tech without a college degree does not mean that college degrees are useless. It’s really weird to see the conversation very aggressively going that direction.
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i fundamentally do not understand people who think that they'll get a problem solved by threatening open-source maintainers by saying they'll stop using the project like... ok bye
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@steveklabnik honestly it's better than spending it on guns
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I feel like the more senior I get, the more of my “work” becomes syncing with people to make sure everyone has context and everyone’s moving in the same direction?
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@bitandbang
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6 years
Always retweet people who are looking for jobs. You do not know which of your friends or followers are beginning to search to fill a position, have been actively looking, or have the ability to hire someone. You ✨ literally ✨ have the ability to change someone's life. Do it.
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tell me again how tech is apolitical
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Rafael Shimunov
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Bumble dating app disables political matching after women got together to match with white nationalists coup crew. They did so to lure evidence out of men bragging of their involvement in US Capitol attack. Bumble calls antifascism ‘misuse’.
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six figures in 2021 doesn't mean the same thing six figures meant in 2001
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4 years
Can you do me a favor? If you use or like and open-source project that has a Twitter account, would you share it’s handle? Want to get as large a sample as I can; appreciate any project regardless of language! If you feel comfortable, I’d appreciate a retweet for reach ❤️
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"happy to chat if the base pay is over $800k" is 100% the best LinkedIn recruiter repellant.
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docker solves "it works on my machine" unless the task you're doing is building the Docker image
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our landlord sent us our new lease proposal: Old price: $3950 (mid-COVID peak) New price: $5000
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Every time I’m connecting a friend to an engineering role, their first question is “do they do remote?” Often, the answer is unfortunately “no”. So many companies are missing out on such amazing folks.
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satya just called it “vs code” not “visual studio code” so “vs code” is now the canonical name I assume this matters to nobody outside of Microsoft
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i'm honestly shocked that operating systems haven't given us a way to export all our settings to a config file and import them on different hardware
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Node.js has finished all the necessary prep work and completed the change from `master` to `main` 🎉🎉🎉
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2 years
THE WORDLE GUY IS ALSO THE R/PLACE GUY ???
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2 years
Some personal news: today is my last day at @Microsoft . It’s been really great and I’ve had some absolutely amazing opportunities, but it’s time. I’ll be taking a ~month and a half off to just relax a bit before starting my next role on June 13th 🎉
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techleadhd is 100% engagement baiting at this point. Dunking on him as direct replies/QTs is giving him exactly what he wants. the most obvious example is him saying he was *just* fired from FB. He wasn’t, that happened two years ago.
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hot take for some, ice cold for others: integrating AI into products is a distraction and it’s going to burn billions of dollars if productivity. It’s pretty clear this distraction has body slammed Microsoft’s leadership, and I’m guessing the same is happening at Google.
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software engineering: guessing until you succeed
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5 years
Super happy to share today that I'm moving internally at @Microsoft to the OSS team in @azureadvocates . I'm going to be focusing EVEN MORE on @nodejs and JavaScript (surprise!) 💖
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I have a small but very deeply important piece of professional news that I get to share in a few days ❤️
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ICs can’t fix shitty companies.
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Interested in contributing to @nodejs but not quite sure how you can jump in? I've just published a blog post on @ThePracticalDev that goes over everything you'll want to know to get started 🙌
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saved you a click: it doesn’t
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I just arrived at the building I’m supposed to be giving a Node.js workshop at. Turns out it’s next week 😭
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@bitandbang
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With the release of @nodejs 10.5.0, we've officially hit ✨ 500 ✨ releases of Node.js, across all release lines. A truly incredible milestone, reached via many thousands of hours put into the project by ~2000 humans around the world over the past 9 years. Here's to 500 more 🥂
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@danhonks @kyliebytes *after* you fired 50% already.
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@lazerwalker HOW DO YOU PUBLISH SOMETHING THIS BAD AT ITS JOB
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I *know* a lot of y'all are still following this asshole. At this point there's really no excuse. If you can take a look at this and decide it's still a totally okay and fine thing to continue following him, you're actively contributing to hate and exclusion.
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Over the weekend I started a project to help more developers start contributing to @nodejs – I'm excited to share: npx good-first-issue node Run the above command, and it'll surface an issue labeled "Good First Issue" in the @nodejs GitHub org 🎉
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I was today years old when I learned people apparently cleaned the balls in their mice
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Just out of interest. How many of you remember using, and cleaning, ball mice?
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Reading comments on a blog post about a CoC: If you’re against CoCs and to protest you’re leaving the community because the CoC has become more inclusive... 1. You identified yourself as part of the problem 2. You removed your problematic self from the community ... thank you?
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I am honestly shocked that git was able to ship an init option for default branches so fast 😬 $ git config --global init.defaultBranch main
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you heard it here first, there's no social impact in the spaces of project management, communication, or email. truly revolutionary thinking.
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we just got the bill back for my partner’s arm surgery: $42600, *after* my very good insurance… which only covered 7%.
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I'd have called you a liar if you told me 10 years ago that I'd read this: - Microsoft ♥ Linux - Microsoft is supporting the addition of Microsoft’s exFAT technology to the Linux kernel - we will be making Microsoft’s technical specification for exFAT publicly available
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Announcing support for exFAT in the #Linux kernel. Learn more: ❤️🐧
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@philvischer
Phil Vischer
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@iamkeithandrew @Josh87380905 @TruettGlen @William_E_Wolfe @JoelWBerry Botanically speaking, cucumbers and tomatoes are, in fact, fruit. Sorry about that.
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I stand corrected, not letting users into the site will in fact reduce costs. less users means less costs, easy.
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apparently they didnt turn off 2-factor authentication but they DID turn off the service that sends you the 2-factor authentication code. so if you log out and try to log in with an authentication code you simply wont receive one. lol. lmao
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Sad to lose friends who helped me get to where I am because they’ve gotten into cryptocurrency, NFTs, and the like and apparently see my choice to not have that content in my feed by unfollowing them.
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Pro tip: if you build a torrent app, make sure the screenshots you post on social media are of you downloading Linux ISOs, not blockbuster movies.
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JavaScript Problems: .gitignore .editorconfig .eslintrc.js .eslintignore .flowconfig .gitattributes .npmrc .travis.yml circle.yml appveyor.yml codecov.yml package.json tsconfig.json yarn.lock package-lock.json .js .mjs .prettierignore .prettierrc babel.config.js lerna.json
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Designer problems: .psd .indd .aep .prproj .eps .pdf .ai .jpg .tif .gif .png .svg .docx .txt .ppt .keynote .otf .ttf .html .css .js .xml .md .mov .mp4 .mp3 .ttf .otf .app .zip .sketch .wtf
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idk if this is an unpopular opinion or not but: please have a dedicated team to making small improvements to your product. there will *always* be papercuts in your users' experience. add time to papercuts and they become infected and deadly.
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imagine being this fragile
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having jumped rapidly from $11k to $45k to $74k to well over $100k within just a few years, this is absolutely and unquestionably true
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$100K salary is life-changing money. Period.
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does anyone know what technology they use at Uniqlo to do these checkouts because it’s fucking magic
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OH SHIT OH FUCK
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optional chaining is IMO the best DX improvement to JavaScript since async/await. it saves me so much repetitive logic in literally every application.
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as someone interested in compilers, how does one enter working on compilers?
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"Remote Junior Web Developer" job description: - know 5 languages - know animation with niche libraries - know two platforms - know server management - know git - know standards/best practices - know three different design tools - know a different industry - MORE jesus christ.
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GitHub commits, physically manifested
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hey 👋 ☑ do you work at a company? ☑ do you have cool open-source projects? ☑ do you have issues labeled "Good First Issue" on those projects? If you answered yes, you should share this command: $ npx good-first-issue <your company's github org>
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TIL this exists????
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Tomek Sułkowski
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#HTML / #UX tip for today: Setting `autocomplete="one-time-code"` will allow your user to fill the input field with the auth code they've just received - without the need to manually copy it from a message.
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📝 test: Water should end up in the basin of the sink after passing through pasta ✅ passed: Water made it into the basin of the sink after passing through pasta
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obviously 2
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this is why “don’t break the web” is a thing thanks @film_girl for pointing this one out
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TIL you can run `npm run` and see all the possible npm scripts in a project. How did I not know about this before?
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ah yes, let me improve the sharpness of my writing... so sharp it'll make your eyes bleed:
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