Erik Johnson @erjdev Twitter profile

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Erik Johnson

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5 months

@ThePrimeagen Functions should ALWAYS be 4-6 lines long. Hell no.

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@ThePrimeagen And look at you now, family, kids, a beautiful wife, and most importantly: an incredible impact on the world. Each day you bring joy and wisdom to thousands, fulfilling your goal. Then you post diarrhea on X.

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@youyuxi The confusion of the ecosystem is what is painful. There is not a default configuration that feels understood and standardized such that people can create and share packages easily. Feels like the gap to get started the right way is too high.

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@adamwathan Up next: a whole excel spreadsheet in CSS

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@PirateSoftware I agreed earlier, and I'll agree again. Blue Team member in the past; this man is the real deal, and I'd be terrified having him go after me as Red.

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@PirateSoftware No other streamer in the world deserves this more than you, Thor. You're an inspiration to the dev community, but more importantly you're an extremely positive voice in the software, game dev, and software security industries. You move mountains with your positive attitude, and

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@PirateSoftware SO very true. Devs are here for you, on your side, and care deeply. Game devs are driven by passion, or they'd be working in a different software industry.

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@PhysInHistory Looking up at the stars in the night sky. Physics, Science, and everything about our Earth becomes fascinating when you focus on how small you are in the scheme of our planet.

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@PirateSoftware nonononono, you changed the credentials for the mail server, right? And the ssh setup is already changed? our hosts are right, right..? HURRY. HE'S COMING! Did you just see a terminal pop up...?

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@ThePrimeagen Don’t let people in your back door like that

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@PirateSoftware “Our stakeholders demand that we have to sell in game assets for money to meet demands this quarter.” I don’t care. The game becomes corrupted as does the outlook on your company from your player base.

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@leeerob @zackchagal @AverageProMax I can confirm I want the same behavior. I may want an upgraded experience, but that doesn’t mean I want to impose my solo business to the risk of a sudden financial burden. I would much rather be able to configure my exact spending limits and be notified if something happens.

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@ThePrimeagen Starting off a bit weak with “you want to copy a JavaScript array.” That’s a pretty big assumption

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@Diablo This game defined a lifetime of gaming for me and pushed me to progress and learn through arduous challenges. I am so insanely excited.

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@MrMatthewLayton @ThePrimeagen It’s a bad recommendation that is irrelevant to understandability. I’ve been programming for 21 years and lead 9 teams in my tenure. Not ONCE has that advice been helpful for juniors to be able to consume a codebase.

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@cpplain @ThePrimeagen This was a response to a blog post from the creator of cURL. See

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@teej_dv No, but the fear of palindromes is Aibohphobia … which is a palindrome

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@ThePrimeagen Holy moly! You did it man! Congratulations on your unemployment

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@hernandoabella Without question, A. For people with protanopia, the top item is far better for accessibility.

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@IroncladDev Fail a thousand times.

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when people use var instead of let or const

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@ThePrimeagen this man did so much, but history remembers Turing and Ada more clearly. unfortunate

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how can @tursodatabase be so good so quickly

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@mfpears @ThePrimeagen The book highlights the example of 2-4 line functions as the “gold standard” as expressed by the author’s language. I do not believe I have misrepresented this claim as the book puts a large emphasis on the emotional and cognitive response from the developer to deliver the

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@ptr_to_joel uh oh, then I won’t be able to buffer my overflows

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Why do we separate our documentation and code? Just write markdown files in the codebase! We don’t need Confluence to hold the info when it should live closer to the person looking at the code.

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@Meech_Ward Solid advice, deleted home directory, and it’s just now about to fini-

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What did you learn today? Today, I learned how to stub my toe on the corner in the guest bathroom, twice, as I was cleaning it.

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@SpaceX @elonmusk Not gonna lie, that does look kinda fun to slide down. It’s like I’m being birthed by mother rocket.

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@ThePrimeagen A true shitpost of our generation

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@wagslane !(this > that) -> (this <= that)

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@adamwathan @emilkowalski_ Surprisingly - maybe even subconsciously - the single font size relieves the mental strain of trying to break apart meaning in each piece of information. I like it!

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@TheJackForge If I go to Reddit the only version I use is for its simplicity and consistency. Now that alien blue is gone I have no desire to use an app, and their new website is super buggy.

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@ImLunaHey Excel spreadsheet for subscriptions and a planned budget taking into account taxes, bills, and other misc monthly expenses. From there it’s basically checking mobile app for credit card or bank to ensure everything looks good. Probably check 3-6 times per month.

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@dev_maims Absolutely! I do more than web, but web is quite fun.

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@ThePrimeagen a man is a father, a leader, a lover, a fighter for what he believes He’s so much more than material possessions.

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@mfpears @ThePrimeagen The book explicitly states that a function should rarely hit 20 lines in length and immediately goes more extreme. The next paragraph it tells a story of source code that the author read which included 2-4 line functions across the entire program, praising it for its legibility

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Erik Johnson

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1 year

@githubstatus Github seems to be totally down at the root.

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5 months

@thdxr @ThePrimeagen something gilfoyle would say

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@ThePrimeagen High intensity, oiled up, VSM dripping off you. Firm handshakes for the work.

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@PirateSoftware my man was annihilated on stream

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@PirateSoftware @RiverMakes Incredible. A monumental ass of epic proportion.

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5 months

@swagsaucejpg @0xglitchbyte It’s not a bad language, but boy oh boy do beginners shoot themselves in the foot by accidentally messing up memory, overflowing, messing up indexes, etc.

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@t3dotgg Uh oh, I hope not 😳 XKCD is amazing!

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Erik Johnson

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1 year

@0xhrH @DarrylWhitwort2 @OMDolton84 @ShotByHale @retiredhater0 @Bornakang Thank you for clearing this up. So many people in these comments don’t seem to know what long division is.

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5 months

anyone remember Google+?

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@jmplourde_ @MrMatthewLayton @ThePrimeagen 100%. At the end of the day all programming is a set of abstractions. Building the right amount of abstraction in a comprehensible layout is the only goal to make software maintainable. Line count in functions that you’re printing on paper or cards is a big deal. Line count in

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The number of servers sitting with default configurations for important databases and services is nothing short of astounding. Security practices need to be better. Education needs to be better.

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5 months

What drives you to complete your projects? For me, the drive stems from watching my customers interact with a product that makes their lives easier. Optimizing someone’s day-to-day can be so rewarding. It’s like showing someone magic. 🪄

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Paging @mattpocockuk , the following gives a potential undefined for item[i].b. Any ideas why this may be happening? Link to TS playground reproduction below

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I’m curious. What’s your stance on college for software devs? Should young people get a degree? Why? If not, what’s the alternative?

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@ThePrimeagen New copy pasta-agen. Surely this isn't generated from an LLM, right? RIGHT, DEVIN?

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@ThePrimeagen Don’t get burnt guys, I’ve heard the sun is really bright (not that I would know in my arch linux basement)

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@trunarla I’ve been programming longer than one of my teammates has been alive 🙃 It doesn’t get better 😂

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types in programming languages are like the oxford comma remove them and there's ambiguity

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What dev tools do you use daily? I find myself reaching for VSCode, Neovim, and WSL most often.

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@PirateSoftware @dabjulmaros So true, I love that "small team of clever devs fighting a small team of clever devs." So true going back through time and all the historical WoW bots.

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5 months

@ptr_to_joel Each time I look at emails: What in the HTM HELL is this?!

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3 years

@JmariePumpkin @JackWilliamRtF UGH! YES! This drives me up the wall with HBO; it happens on my phone, it happens on desktop, it happens when casting to Chromecast, and it happens IN MY NIGHTMARES.

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5 months

Geology has less layers to learn than software

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@t3dotgg Dude. is the best chair I've tried, and I've tried DOZENS.

WorkPro® Quantum 9000 Series Ergonomic Mid-Back Mesh/Mesh Chair, Black

As your productivity heats up, you can stay cool on this WorkPro Quantum 9000 Series Mesh Mid-Back Chair. The adjustable office chair's mesh back and seat help promote airflow to keep you comfortable...

www.amazon.com

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@Lupe_Od It got more unhinged as it went on. My interest continued to climb, can’t lie

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@anthdm Seems like golang would be more interesting and valuable, but Neovim/vscode may be more viral. I’ll get popcorn and watch both

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@emil_priver internet compensation is far better than regular ass money

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@daboigbae we had to type up hills both ways, in the snow, on a processor that ran in MHz instead of GHz

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@loftwah Decision paralysis is a serious issue. Sometimes it's best to just choose something and go, pivoting after you've gotten a small prototype to see if the tech you chose was the right path.

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Have you thought about your programs memory or efficiency lately? Sometimes we forget how easy we have it with memory and system resources. Programming on those old game cartridges required a deep craftsmanship that simply isn’t possible these days with how complex consumer

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@adan_vivero Stripe took very little configuration. If I remember correctly I was ready to go after about 3 days because of account verification w/my bank. The code / configuration part only took an hour or so.

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idk who needs to hear this today, but you’re rad

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@PirateSoftware I'm afraid of elderly people being even more exploited. Kitboga is out here doing wonderful things, but AI will go faster. :(

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@loftwah See, the thing that's so neat about Rust's borrow checker is that...

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What do you listen to while writing code? Retrowave music makes me a better programmer, and I find it keeps me in flow state longer.

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@t3dotgg When we were talking about designing a call to action on the page, I didn’t mean for your vagina, VICTORIA. .. it’s really bad.

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@magnushammar @SilaciousK @Diablo Hahaha yes! Back on AOL when I was only able to play for an hour at a time. Uh oh, friend called. Time to get kicked in the middle of this trust run!

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@pygd__ @ThePrimeagen Yuuup, my experience as well.

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@eddiejaoude Looking like you’re ready to casually submit a pull request with 200 commits

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It’s not always easy, but this is absolutely the right attitude

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Life is way too good for me to be mad at anyone.

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@ThePrimeagen I’m so ready to hear about glove80

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@computervillain @ImLunaHey Oh jeez! That's not a fun time when you have you travel to get something and physically intervene to solve the problem.

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5 months

@tekbog Based. Whatever you do, don’t use typescript enums. Let’s just JSdoc the frontend

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1 year

@adamwathan Heck yeah, a nice, quick win making another CSS feature easily accessible that I probably wouldn’t have used otherwise. My CSS skills skyrocketed after using tailwind - thanks for staying awesome.

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Watching someone write code with inconsistent nesting is one of my peeves. Please just hit tab. Just a little bit over. tab is all it needs. PLEASE. Please line it up. I’m going crazy.

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@ken_wheeler @PursuitFarms bro I bet you could smash the FUCK out of some garlic with it

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@glcst It was awesome seeing you jump on stream with @ThePrimeagen to chat about @tursodatabase . Appreciate your openness and willingness to share and improve with the community!

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@gozkybrain4u If I'm seriously exhausted: naps If I'm a little tired and losing focus: exercise If I'm zoning out without being sleepy: meditation

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@thecolemanthe @ThePrimeagen It’s pretty aggravating trying to do code review and not being able to follow what’s going on without downloading the project and going to definition 30 times.

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@FailedHeatsink @PirateSoftware can you imagine microwave unit tests?

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Work from home developers: don’t forget to eat today

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4 months

@ThePrimeagen Lookin hot and steamy

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5 months

@t3dotgg @figma But have you customized a tailwind config and Figma config to match?

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1 year

@NikolaLovig @Bornakang He put it in the middle between both feet (vertically in the photo) as the subject was leaning forward slightly in addition to having a spread stance. Seems appropriate to approximate around where he used the base.

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5 months

Focus on ergonomics early and often

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@DarrylWhitwort2 @0xhrH @OMDolton84 @ShotByHale @retiredhater0 @Bornakang Thanks for the neat fact on the time, TIL a new bit of history! :)

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@IRLoadingScreen I can fix her

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@FailedHeatsink @PirateSoftware Hahaha integration tests - it successfully shocked the input

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5 months

@iSeiryu @ThePrimeagen Solid advice and a solid approach! This is about the same approach I recommend as well; 20-100 lines depending on the problem. Sometimes the logical complexity requires many lines. Sometimes it doesn’t. Either way, I don’t think limiting lines of code to a small number results

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@peterbalsara @adan_vivero It’s true, but it’s also a very consistent standard. The world has confirmed it’s a good choice, and paying a little extra for the tool people are used to (and you know will work) is worth the cost.

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@ThePrimeagen burndowns are wanna-be sledding hills turned cliffs

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