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@chatsidhartha

3 years

Today’s hot take: A very large proportion of managers in tech have no idea what they’re doing and this actively harms folks.

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@chatsidhartha

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We at @gatsbyjs just shipped support for Chrome's new native lazy loading feature in gatsby-image @2 .1.0 Works out of the box if your browser supports it and falls back to our own implementation if it doesn't 😉

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Native <img> lazy-loading is coming to the web! <img loading=lazy> defers offscreen images until the user scrolls near them. Shipping in Chrome ~75

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@chatsidhartha

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I'm very pleased to announce that Rust for JavaScript Developers now has a early release date. Preorders open on Monday, December 20, 2021 at 12:00 PM GMT. In the mean time, take a look at our new website.

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I'm delighted to announce that I'll be joining @Cloudflare as a Senior Systems Engineer on the Pages team early next year in London. I'm very excited and can't wait to work with the fantastic team to help push the Jamstack to the edge! 🚀

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Got promoted at @GatsbyJS 🎉 I'm a Staff engineer now!

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2 years

lol I just received a legal notice from Oracle America to rename my company for @rustforjsdev because they own the trademark to javascript Ridiculous 😅

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@chatsidhartha

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You know why most web apps suck, are slow as hell, aren’t accessible, don’t work well on several devices and consume a tonne of data unnecessarily? Because some folks think frontend is just for junior devs 😅

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Been curious about @rustlang lately? I've been working on just the course for you! Announcing Rust for JavaScript Developers. A thorough introduction to world of Rust.

Rust for JavaScript Developers

Curious about Rust lately? I'm building an accessible and thorough course, especially for JavaScript developers.

rustforjs.dev

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@chatsidhartha

4 years

If you're a web developer who's been curious about @rustlang , I'll post a snippet on how to do something in Rust (and compare it to JavaScript) every other day. Here's the first one. Printing some text to the terminal!

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@chatsidhartha

2 years

Holy mother of God SQL on the edge

Announcing D1: our first SQL database

Today, we’re excited to announce D1, Cloudflare’s first SQL database, designed for Cloudflare Workers.

blog.cloudflare.com

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@chatsidhartha

2 years

We've been working on some magic over at @Cloudflare Pages and Workers As a sneak peek, should now load almost 10x faster Typically would take about 673ms, now at 70ms or so

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@chatsidhartha

4 years

I lost my father yesterday. I have so much regret for all the things I didn’t tell him and all the things I couldn’t do for him. I regret fighting with him. I feel like a big part of me was lost yesterday.

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@chatsidhartha

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I've now been at @Cloudflare for a little over two months and I'm even more bullish now than I was before I joined. Here's why. A (biased) thread... 🧵

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@chatsidhartha

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My 2022 highlights: ◆ Moved to London 🇬🇧 ◆ Joined Cloudflare ⛅️ ◆ Made Principal Engineer ◆ Got the best pup 🐻 ◆ Made an offer on a house 🏠 ◆ Got healthier mentally and physically ◆ Made friends in London So grateful for this year. Looking forward to 2023! 😊

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@chatsidhartha

2 years

New title at @Cloudflare . I’m now Principal Systems Engineer! 😊

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@chatsidhartha

3 years

Rust for JavaScript Developers preorders close on Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 12:00 AM GMT. This will be the last time to buy the course at this price. To make things fun, I’m giving away licenses for free to 10 random people who retweet this! 😛

Rust for JavaScript Developers

Curious about Rust lately? I'm building an accessible and thorough course, especially for JavaScript developers.

rustforjs.dev

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@chatsidhartha

5 years

Prototyped a new Suspense based renderer and useQuery API in @gatsbyjs yesterday that enables variables in queries in not just page queries but at any depth in your component tree. Here's a quick demo of the useQuery API in action with Gatsby Image! 💃

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@chatsidhartha

3 years

How I built the course platform for Rust for JavaScript Developers A thread 🧵

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@chatsidhartha

6 years

Super stoked to announce that I’m joining @gatsbyjs full time! This is one of the best teams I’ve had the pleasure to work with and I’m super excited to be a part of it ❤️

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@chatsidhartha

3 years

Not acknowledging someone's work is a great way to discourage them

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6 years

Introducing useStaticQuery You can now query your data in @gatsbyjs with a Hook 🚀

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3 years

First day at @Cloudflare today!

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@chatsidhartha

2 years

A lot of folks have wanted to check out a sample lesson in @rustforjsdev Here's the lesson on Lifetimes in Rust!

Rust for JavaScript Developers

Curious about Rust lately? I'm building an accessible and thorough course, especially for JavaScript developers.

app.rust-for-js.dev

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@chatsidhartha

8 months

So many people I talk to or see on Twitter who don’t know of half the services we offer at Cloudflare and when to use them I need to write a thread on this Imagine building with minimal cost, no egress fees, practically infinite scale and with latency under 25 ms everywhere

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@chatsidhartha

4 years

Announcing Web Development for Everyone! When I started my career in frontend development, this is the book I wish existed. A no frills introduction for anyone interested in web development. Sign up to get an early peek into draft chapters for free!

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@chatsidhartha

3 years

I got a small promotion today over at @GatsbyJS

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@chatsidhartha

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Introducing Workflows on Cloudflare! We're now in open beta. We've built this entirely on Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects. Here's a deep dive on how:

Build durable applications on Cloudflare Workers: you write the Workflows, we take care of the rest

Cloudflare Workflows is now in open beta! Workflows allows you to build reliable, repeatable, long-lived multi-step applications that can automatically retry, persist state, and scale out. Read on to...

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@chatsidhartha

3 years

It’s my last week at @GatsbyJS and with it comes the end to an amazing two and a half years. I’ve grown more than I could’ve imagined and met some of my best friends here. I’m very proud of the work we’ve done together. I’m excited about what’s next! 😊 (To be continued)

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@chatsidhartha

5 years

My first performance review at @gatsbyjs was fantastic. And... I got promoted! 💃

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@chatsidhartha

5 years

My first performance review at @gatsbyjs is in the next few weeks. Wish me luck! 🤞🏻

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What a productive Sunday, I think I’ve built out much of the course platform for

Rust for JavaScript Developers

Curious about Rust lately? I'm building an accessible and thorough course, especially for JavaScript developers.

rustforjs.dev

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@chatsidhartha

3 years

Tomorrow’s my last day in India for a long time. I’m super excited about moving to London but equally terrified. New place, new job. Hope it goes well! 🤞🏼

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@chatsidhartha

3 years

Here's a sneak peak into We have Distraction Free Mode!

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@chatsidhartha

5 years

JUST GOT MY VISA TO THE UK 🇬🇧 Can’t wait to finally meet my folks at @gatsbyjs 💜

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@chatsidhartha

7 months

It's day three of @CloudflareDev Developer Week and finally time to share what I've been working on for the past few weeks! Introducing Workflows A thread 🧵

Data Anywhere with Pipelines, Event Notifications, and Workflows

We’re making it easier to build scalable, reliable, data-driven applications on top of our global network, and so we’re announcing a new Event Notifications framework; our take on durable execution,...

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@chatsidhartha

2 years

I'm quite happy with how search turned out for @rustforjsdev It's fully accessible, works with Command+K as well and is fast as hell Shipping this to production now

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@chatsidhartha

3 years

Preorders for Rust for JavaScript Developers are now open! Go get your early copy 🎉

Rust for JavaScript Developers

Curious about Rust lately? I'm building an accessible and thorough course, especially for JavaScript developers.

rustforjs.dev

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@chatsidhartha

3 years

I'm very pleased to announce that Rust for JavaScript Developers now has a early release date. Preorders open on Monday, December 20, 2021 at 12:00 PM GMT. In the mean time, take a look at our new website.

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@chatsidhartha

5 years

We've merged in 500 PRs into @gatsbyjs over the past month! 😱 Thank you for your contributions, folks!

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@chatsidhartha

2 years

The hardest part of moving to a new country has to be the loneliness

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@chatsidhartha

3 years

Moving to London in less than a month so I wanted to get some tropical diving in the Maldives in right before. Got here yesterday and just getting ready for my first dive of the season! 🤿

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@chatsidhartha

5 years

Oh hey! I now have a blog at Just started writing the first post, a deep dive on how @gatsbyjs works under the hood. But instead of waiting till it’s “done”, I’ll keep publishing as I write 🙂

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@chatsidhartha

4 years

I have a first date with someone at 7 am tomorrow! Given COVID, we’re meeting on our bicycles and biking together while still safely distant. Excited! She seems so lovely 😊

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@chatsidhartha

5 years

I don’t think I’ve ever been this low emotionally before. I’ve been suffering from anxiety and depression for a while now but this is worse than ever before. Not sure if I can function at the moment.

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@chatsidhartha

4 years

I complete two years at @GatsbyJS today 😊

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5 months

What are your largest DX challenges within the Cloudflare Developer Platform? We’re actively working at getting better at this so I’d love to hear

Theo - t3.gg

@theo

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Most CloudFlare products are _literally unusable_ without a bunch of community tools to handle basic functionality

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@chatsidhartha

3 years

Tomorrow, I'm going to write a thread on how I build the course platform for Rust for JavaScript Developers from scratch. It's blazing fast irrespective of where you're located. Hint: Workers

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@chatsidhartha

2 years

For Christmas, I bought myself this hour glass that takes exactly an hour. It’s great on my desk and I love setting boundaries on my tasks in one hour increments!

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@chatsidhartha

3 years

Made my first angel investment today! 😊

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@chatsidhartha

5 years

Anxiety is hard 😞 Send hugs

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@chatsidhartha

6 years

Today was my (official) first day with @gatsbyjs and damn, I love this team! ❤️

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3 years

I'm blown away the positive reception and feedback for Rust for JavaScript Developers! Thank you all of you 😊

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@chatsidhartha

3 years

The next AWS is @Cloudflare

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@chatsidhartha

9 months

I've now been at Cloudflare for a little over two years. It's time for a short thread of my experiences and what it's like working here

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@chatsidhartha

3 years

I turn 31 today. Grateful for the years and for the experiences.

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@chatsidhartha

3 years

Find yourself someone who looks at you the way @mxstbr is looking at me here 🥰

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@chatsidhartha

2 years

Say hi to a new member of my family. He’s still with his mum and I pick him up in a week. I’ve named him Bear. 🐻

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@chatsidhartha

3 years

Love this team. @Cloudflare Pages turned 1!

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3 years

I am itching to build a backend framework for cloudflare workers

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@chatsidhartha

5 years

Have I mentioned that I love my coworkers at @gatsbyjs ? We just finished a team gathering yesterday and I’m really so privileged to work with a bunch of such smart and warm people ❤️

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@chatsidhartha

4 years

I'm very excited for my talk tomorrow at @ReactEurope I'll be talking about a brand new paradigm of building for the web with @gatsbyjs

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@chatsidhartha

3 years

London! 🇬🇧

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@chatsidhartha

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Hello everyone 👋🏻 I’m available for remote contract work starting mid August. I’m fantastic with React, GraphQL, design systems and building 🚀 progressive web apps. If you’re interested, feel free to DM. Please RT for karma 🙏🏻

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Something said stateful serverless and this guy showed up

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6 years

Guess who's preparing for the Hooks release

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@chatsidhartha

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Velocity in engineering is everything. Often I prefer just writing something and learning from it rather than designing it in a doc The most successful projects I’ve done started with a prototype, then a spec, then making it production ready

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@chatsidhartha

3 years

I had the worst anxiety attack I’ve had in years yesterday. I’m feeling better but the reason I’m tweeting this is to remind you that: Your mental health isn’t something you take care of once and forget. You continually need to work at maintaining it.

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@chatsidhartha

5 years

Depression sucks

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3 years

Oh my god, it’s snowing. This is the first time I’m seeing snow and it’s gorgeous.

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@chatsidhartha

5 years

My first performance review at @gatsbyjs is in the next few weeks. Wish me luck! 🤞🏻

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@chatsidhartha

4 years

When I started my career in frontend development, I had to learn a lot from a variety of different sources. HTML, a11y, CSS, JavaScript, how browsers work, caching, git, React, webpack, the list goes on... I wish there was a single resource that covered most of the basics.

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@chatsidhartha

4 years

I’ve been promoted over Zoom! 🤷🏻‍♂️ @GatsbyJS is all remote.

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Here's a very simple way of describing why I'm so long on SF/Bay Area, and why I think even more ambitious young people are going to keep moving here to replace all the FAANG employees leaving for Montana "You can't get promoted over Zoom"

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Extremely excited about what I'm building at @CloudflareDev right now I'm really leaning into building entirely on public primitives we offer and honestly, this is magic

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@chatsidhartha

4 years

Having a great manager is so important for productivity

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@chatsidhartha

3 years

Today‘s my father’s first birthday after we lost him last year. Happy birthday, dad! Wherever you are, I hope you’re happy.

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@chatsidhartha

2 years

@kjbetz @rustforjsdev Unicode is a good thing. Perhaps we don’t need names, just emoji

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@chatsidhartha

5 years

My team at @gatsbyjs sent me this card along with other goodies! I love these folks so much ❤️

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@chatsidhartha

6 years

We just merged in experimental support for GraphQL Playground from @prisma into @gatsbyjs Super props to @Saifadin for all the work and putting this together! You can now use Playground instead of GraphiQL by setting an env variable GATSBY_GRAPHQL_IDE=playground

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5 years

I love my coworkers at @gatsbyjs . They’re the warmest and kindest people I know. Feeling so grateful ❤️

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@chatsidhartha

5 years

Brand new September edition of the @gatsbyjs Gazette is out! This one features: 📌 Content on Accessibility by @marcysutton 📌 GraphQL improvements by @freiksenet 📌 RFC to localize docs by @tesseralis 📌 Theme of the month by @narative And more!

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2 years

@cpojer @rustforjsdev Yeah, I might as well wait and then rename it at once 😅 Oh boy

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@chatsidhartha

3 years

I’ll be at @ReactAdvanced (in person) in London on Oct 22! Speaking about @GatsbyJS v4 and all the new rendering modes including DSG and SSR! We’re going to go deep into how we architected this, why and how it’s different from ISR. Can’t wait to see a bunch of you’ll again!

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@chatsidhartha

6 months

What’s edge compute and what tradeoffs do you want to think of? Re: recent Vercel announcement A thread 🧵

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@chatsidhartha

5 years

🏫: Self-taught ⏳: 5 years 🏷: Senior Software Engineer 🌎: India (US based company) 💸: $85k

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5 years

@gatsbyjs We shipped support for native lazy loading in @gatsbyjs back in May! So if you're using Gatsby, your site already does this out of the box 😊

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Native lazy loading just launched on Chrome 76 ✨ <img loading=”lazy”> <iframe loading=”lazy”></iframe>

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My project the last few months has been all about making @CloudflareDev Pages the fastest way to serve your site globally It's now faster than the likes of @Netlify and @vercel and we're just getting started! 🥳

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i know this is a 🔥spicy take but going from @vercel at ~$100/mo to @CloudflareDev at $0/mo for improved perf is pretty excellent

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@chatsidhartha

3 years

#ReactAdvanced turned into a mini @GatsbyJS alumni meet up!

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@chatsidhartha

7 months

I’m so excited about some of the announcements for Developer Week at @CloudflareDev @ritakozlov_ will kill me if I spoil them but if you like AI and reliability, it’s going to be a fun one

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@chatsidhartha

3 years

Time for a @wongmjane appreciation thread I think she’s super smart and I really value how she finds all sorts of cool stuff and shares it with all of us!

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@chatsidhartha

2 years

So for all my Rust people out there, this is huge for Workers. We now support WASI natively so it'll be much much easier to write Rust and ship to Workers. WASI makes Workers effectively a POSIX compatible env! 😱

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@chatsidhartha

3 years

Okay @kentcdodds you were right. @remix_run is very cool! 😱

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@chatsidhartha

4 years

Really excited about my first real vacation since the pandemic started Taking off for Maldives in 10 minutes! It’s going to be an exciting couple of days of diving, disconnecting from the internet and relaxing 😊

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5 years

Today’s random (and probably not very important) achievement: I am now the number 3 contributor on Gatsby after @kylemathews and @mipiechowiak :sweat_smile:

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I think what people don’t realize about Vercel is that you’re not paying for bandwidth or usage, you’re paying for DX And they’re damn good at it

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@chatsidhartha

4 years

Just finished up writing an RFC for my next project at Gatsby. Gatsby Functions! 🚀 Easy to use, Serverless functions for your next @GatsbyJS project, hosted on Gatsby Cloud. I'd love to hear what you think. Check it out at

RFC: Gatsby Functions · gatsbyjs gatsby · Discussion #27667

Summary Gatsby Functions are serverless functions hosted on Gatsby Cloud that are deployed along with your Gatsby site. Creating a new function is as simple as creating a file in the src/functions ...

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3 years

Boy, moving countries is hard. It's been a month now and while I've always wanted this, I can't help but have a feeling of wonder if it was all worth it.

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@chatsidhartha

3 years

Taking off. Goodbye, India!

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5 years

Want to make your first contribution into OSS? Here's a good first issue in @gatsbyjs I'd be happy to walk through anyone who wants to pick it up!

Error: ENOSPC: System limit for number of file watchers reached, watch '/home/foldername/abcrypto...

Description The web app compiles but when I reload the website, the compilation end with an error. Steps to reproduce Just type gatsby develop and if you click an article for example or you reload ...

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5 years

Sitting in quaint little café and writing the @gatsbyjs Gazette 2019 recap edition! Reminiscing over everything we did and released last year. Also, this Jasmine tea is so good 😍

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3 years

On Monday, I’ll be announcing a project I’ve been working on for quite some time now. I’m both nervous and also very excited! 😊

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@chatsidhartha

4 years

Huge thanks to the folks at ⁦ @github ⁩ for sending me this lovely package! I’ll be discussing OSS communities and my time maintaining ⁦ @GatsbyJS ⁩ with ⁩⁦ @SantoshYadavDev ⁩ and ⁦⁦ @shikhamishra03 ⁩ at GitHub Satellite India!

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