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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

3 years

So, next month I am joining @vercel as engineering director. Super excited for what's to come! Have been a big fan of vercel's work for years and its amazing to be part of it directly now 🥳

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

Maybe everyone knows this already, but excited to officially announce that I am joining @ClerkDev - this is my first week! I wrote up some reflections around my somewhat unconventional job search technique and why I made this decision here ✍️

Reflections on my Most Recent Job Search

Thinking about values, interviewing, and accepting a job at Clerk

medium.com

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

4 years

Super excited to see @vercel analytics announced at #nextjsconf - we have been testing it at @HashiCorp and are loving it. Here's a little preview of the dashboard, even with per-page breakdowns. So helpful for us to work on our site's performance 😍

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

2 years

👋 Hi friends! I'm ready for the next step in my career 🚀 I made a little resume site that goes over: - My career history - References from coworkers - My side businesses (including the bagel shop) - My values Let's make cool things together 💖

Jeff's Resume

resume.jeffescalante.com

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

2 years

Excited to finally see this launch after a ton of hard work from @shuding_ @styfle @huozhi and others 🎉

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

4 years

So, a lot of github-integrated services are built to run on every commit. Netlify, percy, CI, etc. Developers link these services up to github and every time someone makes a commit, each of the services run, and report back via the checks UI.

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

Flying back home from @reactathon and the @ClerkDev and @vercel events in SF this week and overflowing with gratitude for all of the incredible people that I met, the friends I could hug and reconnect with, and the deep, thoughtful, and silly conversations from tech to toilets 💖

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

3 years

🎁 Hey friends, I have some free some free next.js swag from @vercel to give away before #nextjsconf next week! Reply with your favorite community-built next.js plugin/utility - I'll pick 10 winners and DM you a link to get a free next.js tee shirt 👕 or mug ☕ on friday 🎉

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

It’s easy to be sucked into this world where developers agonize over tooling and architecture decisions and never actually build anything. Don’t let it happen to you 💕

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

I think I may be addicted to ai generating landscape illustrations 😍

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

4 years

I'm diving deep in to next's strengths and weaknesses and how HashiCorp uses it tomorrow at Next Conf. Check out my talk on "Stage X" @ 12:30pm EST! 💖

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

6 months

Come say hello! I've got a secret demo of a very cool upcoming feature as well if you ask 👀

Clerk

@ClerkDev

6 months

We hope you’re as excited as we are for #ReactMiami this week. Stop by Clerk's booth to meet the team and join our scavenger hunt for a chance to win a Steam Deck OLED!

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

3 years

Made a github action-ish script that will analyze your next.js bundle for each pull request, and includes perf budgets. Hope it's helpful, feedback welcome! cc @vercel

GitHub - hashicorp/nextjs-bundle-analysis: A github action that provides detailed bundle analysis...

A github action that provides detailed bundle analysis on PRs for next.js apps - hashicorp/nextjs-bundle-analysis

github.com

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

If I can accomplish anything in my tech career, ideally it would be for being a kind and supportive person who people like to hang out with and work with. Any other form of success, I hope, would follow naturally if I can get there 🧑‍🤝‍🧑💖

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

2 years

Been working on this since I started at Vercel in January and am thrilled about it finally being generally available 🙌

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@vercel

2 years

Introducing the Build Output API: ◆ Build and inspect a project locally ◆ Deploy your build output directly ◆ Use any framework with Vercel’s infrastructure primitives

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

A huge level up for your career is getting to the point where you *value* critical feedback. There are 3 stages: - Getting mad about critical feedback - Accepting critical feedback - Valuing critical feedback It’s really hard to get to that last stage, but critical for growth.

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

Our CEO bailed on #RenderATL at the last minute so we now have a ticket we're giving away from @ClerkDev . If you'd like it, retweet and drop a reply. We'll select randomly from the replies this evening. Part of the deal, you can come hang out with us at our invite-only events 💖

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

If you are aggressively trying to push an agenda around some developer tooling, architecture, etc and is just not catching on the way you believe it should, I feel like there are two paths that I see people take:

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

2 years

@AdamRackis It’s like the time that msft acquired GitHub and everyone was moving to gitlab

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

🎉 big milestone

Clerk

@ClerkDev

1 year

We've been seeing cool posts with graphs so here's ours Over 10 million managed end-users!! 🎉🎊 Join Clerk and add to the millions 🔗 below

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

2 years

This is gonna be one of the biggest upgrades to nextjs maybe ever? Super excited 🤩

Lee Robinson

@leeerob

2 years

📣 The Next.js router is getting a major upgrade! ◆ Nested routes / layouts ◆ Client and server routing ◆ React 18 features – startTransition, Suspense ◆ Designed for Server Components ◆ 100% incrementally adoptable 🤯 Expect an RFC very soon 👀

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

Had such a good time at Reactathon and thrilled to have been there. Here's the slides and outline for this talk along with some extra context from feedback I got:

Reactathon

@reactathon

1 year

We're excited to publish @jescalan 's talk on React server components! Jeff oversaw the integration of RSC while managing the @nextjs team at @vercel . So naturally after he left Vercel, we saw him as the perfect neutral fit to deliver this talk. See the full talk here:

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

7 years

@tweetsauce So the most common letters are “eatin” — coincidence?!

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

2 years

Very excited for next.js conf today - the team has been working SUPER hard for many months on what is without a doubt the most dramatic release we have ever done for next.js. - If you're in person in SF, come find me! - If you're not, check it out online

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

Quick dev twitter, we need more bland takes about how typescript is good and dhh is wrong 😑

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

I am very excited about this - we have had tons of amazing feedback already. 💡We meet every week to review votes/feedback here and make roadmap prioritization decisions 👩‍💻 Expressing interest in a feature means we reach out for RFC/beta reviews User driven development ftw 🎉

Clerk

@ClerkDev

1 year

We are excited to introduce our new Feedback Portal! The Feedback Portal will let you view, add, and upvote features to influence what we prioritize working on next. Head over to to share your ideas!

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

3 years

@rachelnabors I'll submit @HashiCorp for consideration at least, but I am definitely biased since I work there, so curious to here what folks think ☺️

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

I did a talk about react server components last week for #reactathon , here is the full talk, script, demo, and everything, nice and open source:

GitHub - jescalan/reactathon-2023-talk: My talk at reactathon 2023!

My talk at reactathon 2023! Contribute to jescalan/reactathon-2023-talk development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

4 years

I don't think I have ever had such a high ratio of tweets I see to tweets I like as today. So much joy, so much relief in this country right now 🥰

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

6 months

Twitter friends - who is coming to @RenderATL this year? 👀

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

3 years

Little chungler update

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

Stumbled across this vibe by accident but like, it’s beautiful 🤩

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

4 years

We're hiring again on my small, friendly, and very nextjs-focused team at @HashiCorp -- if you want to work with us or know someone who would, please take a look or pass this along!

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

3 years

Here's the recording of my talk today!

Interactive Documentation at Scale Using MDX & Next.js

At HashiCorp, documentation is critical to the company's success. In this talk, we discuss how we use next.js and mdx to create a strong, flexible, and scala...

www.youtube.com

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

Ready for my next banger? 😂

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

2 years

A couple things that I think should be a default in all education - Personal finance - How to research things on the internet - Basic home cooking - Basic handyman skills Not knowing any of these things can cost you SO much money & time, but we still have to learn on our own 😭

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

9 months

If you want to replace an industry standard, you need something that is enormously better in most ways, not slightly better in some ways. People aren’t gonna take the risk for an incremental improvement.

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

5 months

Great developer tools not only don’t lock you in, but make it easy for you to migrate out as well. You win as a product when users don’t want to leave, not when you force them to stay against your will. This is something we take pride in at clerk as well!

Dave Kiss

@davekiss

5 months

Just published our new open source video migration app called Truckload 🚚 I put a ton of effort into this over the past few months, so glad it's finally out!

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

5 years

Refreshing to see this after the usual remote work hate. I have been remote for years and am a huge fan

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

3 years

It is both fascinating and terrifying to watch covid, an incredibly effective virus, and crypto, an incredibly effective pyramid scheme, take the globe by storm in the same year.

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

For me the main issue with AI is that despite being absolutely amazing on average, you can't actually trust anything it outputs.

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

3 years

Curious if anyone feels like next.js has vendor lock-in with vercel, or if its difficult or not possible to properly deploy next.js outside of vercel - if either of these or some other combination ring true to you, please let me know! Want to make sure this is not the case 😁

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

4 years

Very excited for this! Been working hard on my talk hope you can all make it!

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@timneutkens

4 years

The Next.js Conf schedule looks amazing! - @shubhie @hdjirdeh on improving UX - How Lyft adopted Next.js - How Tencent scales Next.js to millions - @jescalan When not to use Next.js - @type__error Building a Bank with Next.js Sign up for your free ticket:

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

3 years

@cherthedev @vercel This is super unreasonable of a way to behave, Cher. What I said here was not about anyone that works or worked at vercel. I only started this job two months ago. Making my employer part of this and making me a target for a pile-on is really not acceptable behavior.

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

Headed to #RenderATL - let me know if you’re there and come hang out with me and the @ClerkDev crew 💖

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

10 years

I can't be stopped guys don't even http://t.co/G05HlPeQKN

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

Headed to SF for @reactathon ! Excited to see old friends and make new friends 💖

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

Clerk funnel cake truck has pulled up outside #RenderATL doors! Come grab some treats while they last, on us 🥰

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

3 years

This is definitely bittersweet for me as I am leaving an absolutely incredible team at hashicorp that I poured my heart and soul into for the last 4 years.

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

11 months

My 9 month old eating food:

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

2 years

Just arrived in Miami for @ReactMiamiConf ! If you’re here let’s hang out 🥰

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

2 years

@neelesh_salian @GergelyOrosz Probably keep moving is my guess. Younger generation isn't that into Facebook, they need a new product with mass appeal to survive the next generation, and metaverse is their bet for this.

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

3 years

On the plus side for anyone reading, there is a fantastic job opening now on that team for an experienced web-focused engineering manager to join a happy, healthy team managing 20+ nextjs websites. Please let me know if you or anyone you know might be interested!

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

Ok back to your regularly scheduled ai-generated cat image content 🐱🌈

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

3 years

Just moved to @serenbe (~40m outside of atlanta) this weekend and wow this is such a huge upgrade to every part of my life 😍 It is an absolute joy to be surrounded by nature, sunlight, and beauty every day.

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

3 years

This is an amazing opportunity to work directly on the product interface @vercel - please feel free to reach out if interested!

Kath Korevec

@simpsoka

3 years

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle." - Steve Jobs We're hiring UI and UX Engineers at Vercel.

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

Come on down and see your man @domitriusclark “suckin it like crazy” 😂

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

2 years

Very excited to be speaking at Reactathon this year! Come hang out!

Reactathon

@reactathon

2 years

We're excited to publish the full schedule of talks at Reactathon! See all of the talks and speakers here 👇

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

Ok it’s hot take time: every baby looks the same. They look like babies. My wife strongly disagrees with this take. Am I wrong?

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

3 years

@AdamRackis I can't tell if this is a joke or if you really think the pumping lemma is necessary knowledge for front end development

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

@TheLarkInn Sean I admire you deeply but this is not the right take man. Read way more into this than was provided, in a super negative direction

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

8 months

This has been a serious labor of love. Please give it a try and give us your feedback 🥰

Clerk

@ClerkDev

8 months

Introducing Core 2 Beta, the latest generation of Clerk’s SDKs & UI Components! This release ships with an improved design and UX for built-in components, new middleware for Next.js, and a new CLI tool to help you upgrade. ✨

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

9 months

📣 One of the most important skills you can work on to level up as a developer has nothing at all to do with development - it's controlling how you cycle your focus and perspective while working on a project. Let's talk a little more about this:

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

4 months

🚀🙌😍

Clerk

@ClerkDev

4 months

We are thrilled to be the authentication provider selected for this year's InfraRed 100, which lists the top 100 fastest-growing and most impactful cloud infrastructure companies Thank you @Redpoint !

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

4 years

I'd like to pose the following controversial question to tech twitter: does it really matter what lighthouse score your personal developer blog gets?

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

7 years

Spike-optimize — a webpack plugin that scope hoists & aggressive splits your js and auto-rewrites your script urls

GitHub - static-dev/spike-optimize: A simple interface for advanced webpack performance optimizat...

A simple interface for advanced webpack performance optimizations - static-dev/spike-optimize

github.com

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

I feel like in US culture we always struggle to keep every door open, every relationship alive, every connection intact, but this does nothing more than drain our energy and force us to be ingenuine. Since then I have tried to be more open to endings, but in a good way 💖

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

4 years

Regardless of whether Trump wins or loses, it is clear by how close it is that the last election was not an anomaly, and that candidates that behave this way are a good choice, at least for republicans. That is really what makes me sad.

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

4 years

Tell me she's not a little chungler

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

🤯 over the latest midjourney engine

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

Reflecting a little on endings to things in life - jobs, relationships, etc and I was reminded again of an interaction I once had with a good friend I had when studying abroad, something that has always stuck with me even though it happened 10+ years ago

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

3 years

And funny enough I will surely also be looking for EMs to join me at vercel soon. Honestly, there isn't a conflict here as the companies are doing very different things at different growth phases. But of course feel free to reach out about either/both and we can chat it out 😄

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

@3YearLetterman This guy toes the line if “serious or troll” so effectively

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

11 years

possibly the best website ever: http://t.co/1F41stibm9

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

3 years

@acdlite Writing confusing code to increase your job security 😆

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

If anyone is coming to @RenderATL next week and is staying early or late and would like to come visit my little commune town, let me know 🥰

Serenbe

The best reason to live here is the life here. Serenbe is a pioneering community model connected to nature on the edge of Atlanta.

www.serenbe.com

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

If you have the money to pay for a life coach, do you need a life coach? 🤔

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

4 years

@rauchg @HashiCorp 🥰 100% the same for vercel to us! Nextjs and vercel hosting have allowed our small team to be able to survive and even thrive as hashicorp has scaled up at an insane pace. Take note any other startups aiming for the same!

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

3 years

@cherthedev As much as I wish this were the case, it has not been in my experience. I have witnessed plenty of people doing exactly this 😞

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

2 years

happy new year whooooo!

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

3 years

Check out my talk at #nextjsconf today in ~30 minutes on stage D - "Interactive Documentation at Scale using MDX & Next.js" 🎉

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

It’s interesting to observe how resistant people are to change in things they are already familiar with, but how open they are to new things that are entirely different. I wonder if this is some sort of built-in thing with our brains, like loss aversion etc

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

6 years

I feel like the greatest advantage you can be get in life is to be raised by parents that are loving and psychologically stable

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

3 years

A critical mindset for cultivating strong and positive relationships with people is to *be on their team*. Even if it's a negotiation or you have opposing goals or disagreements, going into the conversation as someone trying to help the other person makes a HUGE difference.

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

@thdxr Can’t tell you how many times I have thought about this, 100% down. Party only. I feel like the talks are just the things you have to live through to get to the after party anyway. But also are what get companies to sponsor 😔

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

I know yall been waiting for more AI illustrations so here you go 😘

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

Got more engagement on my AI landscape image tweet than the thread on my conference talk and in depth thoughts on server components, so that’s it IM ALL IN ON AI HERE I COME @swyx SEE YA LATER JAVASCRIPT

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

10 years

Soooo I’ll be traveling around the world for a year starting in march. Check out the website and leave a tip! http://t.co/WHFKS6pFUi

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

8 months

@chantastic I felt a very similar way between my last two jobs and ended up making this little site which took a long time but i feel was really worth it. Wanted to share in case it was at all helpful 💖

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

2 years

Thank you SO SO SO much to @addyosmani @kylemac @padmaia @shuding_ @joshcstory @lucidiguana @t3dotgg @gir1ganda1f @mwickett @gkat_ny @huozhi @balazsorban44 @gretaworkman @brkalow @feedthejim @_ijjk @karaforthewin @timneutkens @Rich_Harris @joebell_ for being part of this 💖

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

3 years

This is an enormous milestone for mdx, well done @wooorm & contributors! 👏

Titus 🇵🇸

@wooorm

3 years

Super happy to share that MDX 2 was just released. Faster. Smaller. Better. Much improved ⚛️

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

2 years

Next conf lets goooo!

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

Starting to dial in an aesthetic here

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

4 years

We finally have a position on my team open! The pitch: - Successful, fast-growing, well-loved remote company - Small, friendly team w/ management that really cares - Good pay, stock options - Huge variety of challenging work - 14+ sites on next.js Apply:

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

1 year

@Baconbrix @expo Excuse me sir are you trying to steal my identity?

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

6 years

My friends, today is the day for the Christmas mass live tweet. Yes, this is the one time a year I put anything on Twitter more or less, and the only reason that most people follow me continue to do so, allegedly. It will be coming up probably around 4-5 hours. ☃️🎅💌

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@jescalan

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

4 years

This is essential watching for any react devs. This feels easily like the biggest change to to react since hooks, and the impact of this change feels much larger than that of hooks. Very excited that the @vercel team collaborated on this, and for my team to help test when ready!

React

@reactjs

4 years

As 2020 comes to an end we wanted to share a special Holiday Update on our research into zero-bundle-size React Server Components. The demo is available now whether you want to play with it during the holiday, or when work picks back up in the new year.

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

5 years

Know what's crazy? All the cells in your body are reproducing constantly and every time they do there's a small chance they mess up passing on the DNA to the new cell, and if they mess it up enough times, you get weird diseases and shit bc your DNA isn't right, and you die.

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Jeff Escalante

@jescalan

2 years

@matthewcp @RyanCarniato React is not tied to nextjs. You can use react outside of nextjs perfectly fine. This is major FUD

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