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 🥳
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 ✍️
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 😍
👋 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 💖
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.
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 💖
🎁 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 🎉
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 💕
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!
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
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 🧑🤝🧑💖
Introducing the Build Output API:
◆ Build and inspect a project locally
◆ Deploy your build output directly
◆ Use any framework with Vercel’s infrastructure primitives
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.
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 💖
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:
📣 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 👀
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:
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:
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
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 🎉
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!
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!
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 😭
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.
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!
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!
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.
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 😁
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:
@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.
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.
@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.
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!
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.
"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.
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. ✨
📣 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:
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
!
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 💖
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.
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
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 😄
@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!
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
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.
@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 😔
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
@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 💖
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:
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. ☃️🎅💌
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!
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.
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.