Alec Chernicki @alecchernicki Twitter profile

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

1 year

Hulu is actually now almost entirely built with @nextjs in TypeScript. Type safety has helped us as our engineering team has grown to hundreds of developers.

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1 year

Gotta love the pivot from "it doesn't scale" to "you can't write real systems without types" as the new ding-dong argument against dynamically-typed languages like Ruby (and vanilla JavaScript and Smalltalk and...).

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Alec Chernicki

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3 years

After a couple months of work, I'm super excited to say that @disneyplus and parts of @hulu will be running in a JavaScript monorepo powered by @pnpmjs . We'll be adding @turborepo in the coming months too!

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

8 months

we now compute graphs in a background job powered by @inngest and cache the result in Redis via @upstash now you can visualize larger projects like @nextjs even faster 🛠️ quick diagram of how it's built below 👇

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

11 months

- I got nominated to Principal Software Engineer working on @DisneyPlus - I was able to pay for an amazing wedding and take my husband on a honeymoon to Japan - (Virtually) spoke at @nextjs Conf - Didn’t have a mental breakdown

Jacy, LPC

@ATMwithJacy

11 months

BRAG ABOUT SOMETHING YOU’RE PROUD OF ACCOMPLISHING IN 2023 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

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Alec Chernicki

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8 months

This is the first time RSC has truly blown my mind 🤯 Every time the graph changes, we're actually calculating the new layout on the server and streaming in a new graph. Client-side interactions feel seamless alongside streaming

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

1 year

Making the switch from Jest to @vitest_dev for all our platform projects at Disney. 🧪

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

2 years

Loving the ACME+ logo. I see you @vercel

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

1 year

@matthewcp @nextjs It is + a bunch of internal stuff. Here’s an article that the team wrote before my time that touches on it a bit:

Introducing Hulu’s Modern Web Stack

By Morgan Cheng, Architect, Matt Wong, Senior Software Developer, and Patrick Fitzgerald, Principal Software Developer

medium.com

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Alec Chernicki

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1 year

Some context to keep in mind: A lot of the tech that is stable and exists now didn’t 10-20 years ago. As new tech is created folks will switch if it fits their use case better. This is natural and will happen to most of your tech choices eventually. Folks forget that Hulu is

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

1 year

@trashh_dev Performance is a conspiracy pushed by Big Server

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

10 months

@jaredpalmer Auto Import has probably saved me more time than Copilot.

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

7 months

Some news! After three years I'll be leaving my role as architect for the @DisneyPlus and @hulu web teams. There have been ups and downs but some of my proudest moments are: • Leading architectural efforts for one of the largest apps in the world from launch to 150M users •

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

8 years

Spending the afternoon watching @dan_abramov 's Idiomatic Redux videos.

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

8 years

Someone just used this as a pickup line on Tinder and I have never been more impressed.

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

1 year

Submitted my Next.js Conf talk for Disney internal approval. It’s in the hands of the enterprise gods now. 🙏

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

11 months

I went from zero to getting nominated to Principal Software Engineer, building Disney+ in about ten years without a degree. If you're considering an alternative career path, here are some things that were great, not so great, and some things I wish I had known earlier...

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

8 months

@aarondfrancis @PlanetScale I'm so sorry, you are SO good at what you do and it's been incredibly inspiring to see your growth hopefully, you can take some time to rest but you've struck a chord with the entire community and anyone would be lucky to have you. the best is still to come!

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

6 months

“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard” - Winnie the Pooh Last day today

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

1 year

Incredibly excited to say that I’ll be talking about scaling applications with monorepo tooling at this year’s @nextjs Conf 🎉🥳

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

9 months

Family kicked me out after coming out. Was working an unpaid internship and only ate if my bank let me overdraft my checking account. Slept on a friend’s air mattress for months and taught myself to code in a coffee shop at night until I got my first paid job as a contractor.

Buikem

@ambuikem

9 months

The POOREST you have EVER been ??

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

1 year

Thanks for watching my @nextjs Conf talk today! If you want to learn more about scaling applications with monorepo tooling. I wrote up a longer guide to dive deeper!

Infinitely Scalable Applications

How to grow from one application to an ecosystem of apps and packages.

www.chernicki.com

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

11 months

@Madisonkanna Interviewing is super anxiety-inducing for me. I'm okay not chasing marginal gains in TC if I'm content and happy in a position. I'll only start interviewing if that changes for me.

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

1 year

@laneparton @nextjs It was! The original tweet quotes applications that were at one point built with Rails over the past 20 years. A lot has changed in that time and eventually the team chose Next.js as it fit their needs better as they grew. Before my time but worth a read:

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

3 years

For those looking to learn more about current monorepo tooling in general, the team found this super helpful

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

1 year

Entering my creator era

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

8 months

just used this @pnpmjs pattern to simultaneously run the @nextjs dev server alongside @inngest dev the blocked logs for each process looks 🔥

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@mattpocockuk

8 months

TIL you can use a regex with pnpm run to run multiple scripts simultaneously. No more npm-run-all or concurrently!

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

1 year

@trashh_dev @t3dotgg It still is lol

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

9 months

can we please start designing electric cars that look like this?

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

7 years

I'm not saying my dog is the cutest but like...

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

9 months

Used the @arcinternet “Browse for Me” feature to find a cocktail bar near our hotel before dinner. Ended up finding one of the best bars all trip 🍸

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

9 months

pnpm —filter valentine up —latest first Valentine’s Day married to my one and only ❤️👬

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

1 year

My husband is about 8 years older than me. Decided to be a little on the nose this year. 🎃

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

9 months

google is not ready for @browsercompany , this is 🔥

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

1 year

I started my career in startups, but transitioning into architect role at a huge company like Disney required some new skills. Here are three soft skill tips I learned from leading the Disney+ and Hulu teams as an IC over the past 3 years...👇

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

3 years

Figure it’s worth posting every once and a while. I got engaged this past weekend! 💍🎉

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

9 months

The number of straight men in the replies feeling like they’re being infringed upon not realizing that these questions are designed to prevent that exact thing from happening to a different group of people. 😂 Main character syndrome for real

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@fahirmdz

9 months

Is someone joking around? Questions on the application form for a DX engineer at Vercel.

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

1 year

I’ve been thinking about submitting a talk to Next.js Conf this year about how we used @turborepo and @nextjs to build the monorepo for @DisneyPlus and lessons learned while scaling it to 100+ devs. Would need to clear it first but is that something would interest folks?

Yeah that would be cool

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

1 year

Let's goooooo 📈. Speaking at @nextjs Conf in two weeks!

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

8 years

*walking home from 3rd date* Random drunk guy: "Are you guys dating? You would be a cute couple." THANK YOU RANDOM DRUNK GUY

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

10 months

@ryanflorence totally agree, feature folders end up scaling the best especially as your codebase grows talked a bit about this in my @nextjs conf talk this year!

Building Infinitely Scalable Applications with Next.js and Turborepo...

Presented at Next.js Conf 2023. View all talks from the conference: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBnKlKpPeagl57K9bCw_IXShWQXePnXjYExplore templates...

www.youtube.com

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

1 year

This Halloween I'm going as a same-day meeting invite named "quick chat"

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

4 years

I am SO excited to say that in a month I’ll be joining @DisneyStreaming as a Technical Lead building the front-end for @disneyplus . I never thought I’d be able to work for @WaltDisneyCo , seriously a dream come true.

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

8 years

Amazingly humbled by the overwhelmingly positive response to the article I wrote for @HubSpot .

Meet the First-Gen Engineer Who Forged His Path In Tech Despite All Odds

“If you could have anything in the world right now, what would it be?”

thinkgrowth.org

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

8 months

mvp shipped 🚀 visualize any JavaScript monorepo on GitHub link to try it out below ⬇️

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

5 months

this is just 🤯 @basementstudio is just building on a completely different level

Matias 🧉

@matiNotFound

5 months

Have you ever enjoyed the sunset shadow on a website? Here is a sneak peek of what we have been cooking with @matiasperz_ at @basementstudio : 🔗 📝 Article coming soon

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

8 years

"Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere" - Ratatouille #halloween

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

11 months

A first look at the newest monorepo tool... ✨Commonality✨ • Works with any JS project • Place constraints on dependencies in your project • Codify best practices for the tools you already use with checks • No wrappers, no lock-in Want to try it out first? Let me know ⬇️

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

9 months

Today was really really really shitty and I am not feeling great Going to doordash chicken nuggets, watch a movie on the couch, and reset so I can push forward tomorrow

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

1 year

I heard that if you say, "OpenAI is nothing without its people" three times in the dark, a Microsoft recruiter will appear in the mirror.

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

8 years

I got butterflies for a crush for the first time in years. Ughhhhhh.

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

6 months

warmest day of the year so far ☀️ thanks typescript

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

1 year

@jay_soo We allowed teams to have different dependency versions in the Disney+ monorepo and it became a complete nightmare. I'm fully on team keep dependencies in sync and if there's a good reason to have diff versions then those packages might warrant being in a different monorepo.

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

8 years

Found out that the guy Ive been crushing on for a month is straight. Going to die alone, my 12 cats are going to eat whats left of my body

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

8 years

I went to 6 different grocery stores looking for sweet potatoes. Today I learned that yams are the same thing as sweet potatoes. I am 23

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

1 year

In 2020, I joined a company that I had wanted to work for since I was a kid. Over the past 3 years, I've had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help bring Disney+ from launch to scale. Humbled to work alongside so many amazing engineers across the world. Happy #Disney100 !

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

1 year

I've been MIA for a couple years but so much has happened. One of the bigger moments, I got married this last Spring! More 📷 in 🧵

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

10 years

The $10 shirts on the J. Crew sale rack will be the end of me. http://t.co/AExP9qU5bV

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

9 years

"Today there is no gay marriage, there is only marriage"

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

11 years

I TOLD A PORN STAR HE LOOKED FAMILIAR AND HE SAID HE GETS THAT ALL THE TIME I CANT EVEN DEAL WITH MY LIFE.

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

7 years

I don't think I've ever seen an image that describes me more than this one.

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

11 years

I'm gay, hispanic, technically homeless (staying with friend), first generation to go to college, and I have a 4.0 GPA. Thank you karma.

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

11 months

Amazing launch from the team getting a Hulu tile in Disney+. Looks simple but is only possible because of years of hard work from our streaming teams. 👏👏👏

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

7 years

Oh hey, did this today.

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7 years

So moved by our amazing panelists talking mental health and wellness @HubSpot your willingness to be vulnerable is an inspiration ❤

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

8 years

I have never been more proud to work at a company than I am now at @HubSpot . Amazing day at #firstgensintech

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

10 months

@trunarla .clearfix all the things

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

10 years

Relationships should be as simple as I really like you and you really like me. That's it.

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

9 months

this is peak DevEx the @posthog toolbar allows you to view analytics and heatmaps directly on a page but it also has "hedgehog mode" dress your hedgehog up and it'll keep you company or you can control it and walk around the page 🦔

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

7 years

Tbh my ideal date would just be going to a coffee shop with a significant other and working on side projects all day while eating pastries.

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

10 years

Date people, not a situation. Don't date someone because it's easy, date someone because they're awesome. Situations change, people don't.

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

8 years

What if I started making videos on YouTube again though?

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

11 years

Im gonna have a high paying job, be the trophy husband, and take care of the kids. I just want a sexy husband that will love me and can cook

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

2 years

Thanks @vercel for the conference swag!

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

1 year

Feeling like my timeline really needs more LGBTQ+ folks. Who in the 🏳️‍🌈 tech community do you really love hearing from?

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

8 years

Barista: "You know youve been getting rewards right? Like 1 free drink every 10" Me: "Oh cool how many do I have?" Barista: "14" Me: "Oh..."

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

10 years

I walk out to baggage claim and there's an entire group of people wearing @Firebase shirts. Yup, I'm in San Fransisco.

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

10 months

Seeing homophobic comments on these posts is disappointing, but it's so so inspiring to see a gay man become one of the most successful founders of our time and continue to pursue happiness. Congrats @sama !

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10 months

Sam Altman just got married today. Congratulations 👏

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

5 years

Hello Twitter. I miss you. Let’s be friends again. Here’s a picture of puppies as an apology for not tweeting.

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

8 months

@anthonysheww when someone links a @stackblitz repro

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

8 years

Finally releasing Palettable! Generate color palettes, even with no prior design knowledge.

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

9 years

Some REALLY sexy data vis coming out of @UberEng , the React component is open sourced too!

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

7 years

Seeking help doesn't mean you're weak, it means you're strong enough to recognize your potential to grow.

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

9 years

Two years ago I had $6 for 3 days worth of food, now I'm moving into my own apt. Learning to code has been nothing short of life changing.

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

3 years

@_thomasholland @pnpmjs @turborepo We wanted something that allowed us to iterate on the underlying toolset and pivot if needed. NX's tooling was a little too heavy-handed for us and didn't allow the flexibility that @turborepo does. Hulu also is built with @nextjs so roadmap alignment from @vercel is huge for us

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

8 years

Actual Tinder Convo: "Oh youre a software engineer?" "Yeah Im a web dev" "I used PHP, I like it way more than JS" "This isnt gonna work"

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

8 years

I got a personal trainer a little over 2 months ago. Weighed in today, I've gained 10.5 pounds, lost a ton of fat, and feel amazing. Aww yee

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

12 years

Having my bf call me the second I say Im not feeling well and ending the call with the first time I hear him say I love you. #comforting

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

8 years

Amazingly humbled to have been chosen by @ScotlandJS for their diversity scholarship. Flying to Edinburgh in a week!

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

11 years

"Walking in on my roommate having sex" CHECK ✔️

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

10 years

Home. http://t.co/AP2K5ZCiqC

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

1 year

@steventey @nextjs Also slowly but surely @DisneyPlus ! We’re only running it on a few pages right now but the team is migrating.

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

8 years

Super secret sneak peak at my next project. Haven't been this excited to build a site in a while.

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

9 months

ICs focus a lot on mentorship but sponsorship is equally as important. If you're an IC and see a coworker: • Going above and beyond to solve a problem for you or your peers • Communicating clearly and empathetically • Sparking joy in otherwise mundane tasks TELL THEIR

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

10 years

Five for you IKEA, you go IKEA. http://t.co/2o6NiQADEx

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

10 years

Got kicked out bc of being gay, was homeless, got well paying job at 4k/ month, moved across country, now $300/month and a ton of ambition.

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

8 years

Kitchen is finally all put together, now just need a bookcase and living room is done too. 🏠

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

8 years

I fucking love Boston.

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

11 years

Everyone one just wants someone to hold hands with on the dark rides at Disneyland and snuggle with when they get home.

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

8 years

Ok people. I need advice. How do I tell this v attractive stranger on the other side of this coffeeshop that Im going to marry them?

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

1 year

I was a @tailwindcss holdout for years and have tried almost every other styling alternative. I eventually came back to Tailwind and can say with a good degree of confidence that all these comments made by Nue.js are false. Reasons why in 🧵

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Alec Chernicki

@alecchernicki

5 months

Celebrating our 1 year anniversary in Punta Cana 🎉🌴

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