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Greg Hurrell

4 months

Where Relay Modern was born, 2016 — also pictured: React (as Fiber was being born), Flow, GraphQL. Quite possibly my favorite time at FB. Open-plan offices aren't always bad.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

1 month

Resigned from GitHub. Joining Datadog. Observability is the new version control.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

6 years

JavaScript is the ideal language for procrastinators. Whenever you want to work on something other than the actual problem you are supposed to solve, you can configure/update/maintain/tune/fix auxiliary stuff: Webpack, Babel, Flow, node_modules etc. No other language comes close.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

5 years

Thread: [In which a programmer opines about how to interview other programmers]. I interviewed well over 400 people in the SF Bay Area over the last 8 years, and along the way got to see a lot of other interviewers work.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

6 years

My favorite poster at Facebook. The phrase wasn't coined there but rather comes from Alfred A Montapert (or so my Google search tells me). I love the universality of it: I've seen this mistake played out at every level from megacorp down to small start-up down to me working alone

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

8 years

Slides from the #relayjs talk — "Relay 2: simpler, faster, more predictable" — that I gave tonight:

Relay 2: simpler, faster, more predictable

Relay is becoming faster, simpler, and more predictable. This talk will cover Relay's plans for the future of client-side data management. (Talk given o…

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

7 years

A behind-the-scenes take on how we built Relay Modern: — @en_JS : this one's for you. #relayjs #graphql

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

5 years

The most common mistake I saw interviewers make was treating the interview as a search for everything the candidate *didn't* know, instead of everything they *did* know. It's an unfortunate mistake, often leading to false negatives, a poor candidate experience, and a monoculture.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

6 months

@BenLesh Would be better as a slider

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

5 years

In 8 years in the Bay Area I never left my corp laptop at work overnight. I walked around with a company-provided phone in my pocket, full of company apps. In Spain, I leave my laptop at work. No company phone. I arrive at and leave work with energy. I get just as much done. 🤓🧘‍♂️

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

5 years

When I joined FB I immediately felt the pain of how slooooow everything was in the enormous monorepo. I knew, however, that if we'd gone the opposite end of the spectrum (hundreds, thousands of tiny repos) we'd just be trading one set of unpleasant problems for another.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

7 years

So I just replaced 476 lines of JS with 153 lines of @reasonml . The type system compactly encodes lots that JS can only enforce with code.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

6 months

@cpojer 100% correct. Home automation is a solution looking for a problem. Being able to hit a button from a phone (or not even having to hit a button) instead of getting up and walking across a room is a WALL-E Dystopia, not Utopia.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

7 years

Orthodoxy: Beware grand rewrites, second system effect etc. Learned at FB: Sometimes you just have to throw it away and start again.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

8 years

Happy open source anniversary #relayjs

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

7 years

As promised, blog post on the never-ending but misguided search for the perfect programming language:

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

6 years

Goodbye Facebook. It's done. Handed in my corporate laptop, phone, badge — and gun (haha, just kidding). I'm going to miss you. One last ride up the 101 in the company shuttle. 😭 At the same time, not setting the alarm to wake up on Monday morning is going to be pretty neat.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

7 years

The RFC for adding GraphQL Subscriptions to the #graphql spec is up:

[RFC] GraphQL Subscriptions by robzhu · Pull Request #267 · graphql/graphql-spec

Let's add GraphQL Subscriptions to the Spec!

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

3 years

I'm doing my first on-call shift at GitHub. Please be gentle. In fact, might I suggest that everybody just take the next few days off.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

8 years

Big refactoring in #haskell : 0. Huge refactor. 1. See 1,000 type errors. 2. Fix type errors. 3. Run tests; all pass on first try.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

8 years

New blog post, "Conquering my demons", about managing fear as a software developer:

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

8 years

The #relayjs team at Facebook has started posting their internal meeting notes on GitHub:

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

8 years

Wow. One of my longest-standing gripes with Homebrew just went away most unexpectedly.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

9 years

I put together a gist with some answers to questions about #relayjs I got at #reactjsconf yesterday:

gist:598fa75e22bdfa44cf47

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

5 years

How do you prefer to order functions within a module? (1) alphabetically (eg. a(), b(), c()) (2) dependencies first (eg. thingMainNeeds(), otherNeededThing(), main()) (3) dependencies last (eg. main(), thingMainNeeds(), otherNeededThing()) (4) main first, then alphabetical.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

9 years

Just pushed Relay v0.3.0 (Changelog: ) #relayjs

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

4 years

Lincoln: "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." Wincent: "Give me a series of simple programming tasks to do and I will spend 10 years of my life tweaking my dotfiles repo".

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

8 years

Long overdue #relayjs status update:

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

5 years

Software Developers who tweet 😩😩😩 Software Developers who only read tweets 😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫 Software Developers not on Twitter 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

Hashim Warren 🌄

@hashim_warren

5 years

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

7 years

Threads in JS.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

8 months

Disappointingly controversial opinion: 1. Well-executed monoliths are good (you can still have modularity and clear architectural boundaries in a monolith) 2. It's easier to produce a well-executed monolith architecture than a well-executed service-oriented architecture

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

6 years

What my website used to look like 20 years ago. This is about the oldest screenshot I have. It used to look worse before this.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

8 years

OMG fuck touch bar so much. I don't want to look at my keyboard in order to use it, ever.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

7 years

Pattern matching for JS proposal:

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

7 years

Relay 1.0.0:

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

8 years

Relay 2 presentation video now up: #relayjs

Relay 2 - simpler, faster, and more predictable

Transcript and slides available at https://zeemee.engineering/relay-2-simpler-faster-more-predictable-128769e72318Relay is becoming faster, simpler, and more...

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

3 years

Neovim v0.5.0 release celebration — init.vim is dead... long live init.lua! Vim screencast no. 107:

Vim #107: init.lua in Neovim v0.5.0

- Dotfiles: https://github.com/wincent/wincent- Music: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music- Other episodes: https://wincent.dev/link/screencasts

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

5 years

Seen on Stack Overflow — creating a named JavaScript function dynamically at runtime without `eval` (or Function constructor etc): function makeNamedFunction(name, body) { return {[name](...args) {return body(...args)}}[name]; }

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

7 years

Just released graphql v0.10.0 to npm: #graphql

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

9 years

How gzip trumps everything. Wrote this a while back but never shared it:

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

1 year

Me too!

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

8 months

@matteocollina Yes, I would, will, and am. But only because it is the "right tool" for this particular job. Next project, and every project, I'll reevaluate.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

2 years

My dotfiles repo recently reached 1k GitHub stars, and now my life is complete... 😜

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

7 years

React + MIT license:

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

8 years

Just published v0.10.0 of #relayjs — mostly a maintenance release, paving the way for things to come:

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

5 years

I think React hit its "explainability sweet spot" around the time ES6 class components "replaced" create last (ie. 2015, I think). No suspense, no hooks, no (documented) context etc. Since then, API has gotten much bigger (better too, no doubt).

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

5 years

Great presentation on full-stack type safety with GraphQL and TypeScript from @rbzhu

Nordic.js 2019 • Robert Zhu - Full Stack Type Safety with React,...

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

3 years

A fun walk down memory lane:

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

3 years

Emoji completion in Vim 😍

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

5 years

So, yeah. Instead of treating the interview as a mistake-cataloguing exercise, you should be viewing it as a search to expose as much of the candidate's knowledge and skill as possible. It's not hunting for errors, it's searching for expertise.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

7 years

It's easy to become blasé about Google Sheets. Really, it's a stunningly powerful app, and an astonishing demo of what a browser can do.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

3 years

I first came across Martin via his work on CRDTs, but most know him thanks to this well-regarded tome. Looking forward to diving into this one.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

11 months

Fuck cancer (or whatever it was).

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

9 years

Relay 0.4.0 is out! #relayjs

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

8 years

Video from the GraphQL meetup tonight:

GraphQL SF: GraphQL in 2016

Raw recording from our first GraphQL meetup. Content starts at 20:10Join GraphQL San Francisco for updates on our next event! http://www.meetup.com/GraphQL-SF/

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

5 years

FB 2014: we were already trying to prove that React + Relay (not called Relay then) could scale to implement the full experience of . A bunch of smart, tenacious people have been at it ever since. Pretty exciting to see it work out:

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

3 years

Literally the worst thing ever: being interrupted while in INSERT mode.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

7 months

"Building JS tooling in Rust is bad because it makes it harder for JS programmers to contribute" is a feeble argument. - The Rust community is plenty large. Not only that, but there is a growing intersection of people with Rust expertise who are also interested in building

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

3 years

If you want to enhance Neovim, don't learn Vimscript — it's utterly useless everywhere except in a single text editor. Instead, learn Lua, which you can additionally use to make a World of Warcraft add-on, a custom imapfilter set-up, and a bunch of other things.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

6 years

One of the great things about working for FB is the opportunity to meet stellar folk from the OSS world who work here too. Today, I had the pleasure of meeting @gnachman over coffee (and showering him with thanks for his work on iTerm over the years). Great guy and amazing eng.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

5 years

End of rant for now. Just remember: your job is not to catch mistakes (or rather, not *only* to catch mistakes), but to find out the most you can about what the candidate knows and can do. Now, go forth, and make the poor suffering fools scrawl on whiteboards!

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

5 years

The other half is ensuring the candidate feels they were judged fairly, treated with empathy and with respect, and that they walk away with positive feelings about the experience even if they failed. You want them to leave the interview wanting to work at the company.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

6 years

Non-technical people regard me as a "computer person" with a mystical ability to fix any problem they are having with their computer or phone. The secret of my success: I read the words on the screen and follow their indications.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

5 years

Window seat, flight today, I can see a guy coding in the aisle seat and continuously flipping back to a Gantt Chart. I'm like, WTF, is this guy a master procrastinator or something? Doing Gantt-Chart-Driven Development? Then I realize he's developing a Gantt Chart application. 🤦‍♂️

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

9 years

An intro to Relay and GraphQL, just posted to the @reactjs blog: http://t.co/Km73mfy6YD

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

6 years

After working at FB for 4.5 years I have done the commute up or down the 101 approximately 2000 times (as per Back of The Napkin™ calculation). In that time, I've read about 120 books and listened to half as many podcasts, which I guess means I am now 7.5% smarter as a result.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

11 months

Starting to put together a list to algorithm and data structure implementations I've made over the years. I often think, "I've done this before", but it can be hard to actually remember where, so hopefully this wiki page helps me find stuff in the future:

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

8 years

If you're using #relayjs in production, we'd like to hear from you. Please submit a PR adding your project to:

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

7 years

Seriously, I don't need my laptop to be 1.4mm thinner than the previous generation, I just want it to have a working keyboard. Oh, and ports

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

2 years

Thinking of switching my profile pic to this.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

5 years

Let's not lose sight of what is really important. We need to know our tools well in order to make the best use of them. But there is a reasonable definition of "well" that is far from the elevated heights necessary to be a language implementor.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

8 years

Just published the slides from the Relay Deep Dive: (for context, the video: )

Relay Deep Dive – Greg Hurrell

Slides here: https://speakerdeck.com/wincent/relay-deep-diveRelay is an open source data-fetching framework for React applications invented and used at Faceb...

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

6 years

The word "own" here is sure to ruffle feathers, but the uncontroversial bit (I hope) is that what the user experiences as "the product" is manifested in the front-end, and so the front-end should *drive* development of the back-end, not the other way around.

Sander Spies

@Sander_Spies

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The frontend should own the backend. Not the other way around.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

5 years

What I miss about Rails: that it was a no-brainer, batteries-included choice for rapidly prototyping an idea, full stack. And you could go pretty far past mere prototyping too. The current JS ecosystem is way more flexible and sophisticated, but the amount of choice is paralyzing

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

7 years

Sync notes from today's #relayjs team sync:

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

9 months

Merb made Rails better. Yarn made npm better. Neovim made Vim better. JSC and V8 make each other better. Bun will make Node better. Every JS bundler made every other bundler better. Not all competition is good, but the right kind is immensely beneficial.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

7 years

Neat new GitHub feature.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

6 years

Engineers love a Single Source of Truth but fear a Single Point of Failure.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

10 months

I'm kind of amazed that Bun got so far, so fast. This isn't just "1.0" as a mere marketing exercise; it really does feel complete/solid at this point. It's one thing to have a good/ambitious idea, another to execute on it to completion, and still another to do it so damn fast.

Bun

@bunjavascript

10 months

Introducing Bun v1.0 - a fast, all-in-one toolkit for running, building, and testing JavaScript and TypeScript

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

8 years

That time the Facebook GitHub bot asked the @greenkeeperio bot to sign a CLA.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

7 years

We just released — a server for building GraphQL features (autocomplete, diagnostics etc) in editors and IDEs.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

9 years

Check out the new Relay blog post by @yungsters #relayjs

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

3 years

Madrid: not really prepared for this kind of weather...

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

5 years

"With TypeScript, the code practically writes itself, freeing you up to do other things, like configure webpack." 😂

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

8 years

Relay 0.9.0 () is out (kind of twice, no less!, ) thanks to tireless efforts of @steveluscher

Unrevert the diff that releases Relay v0.9.0 · facebook/relay@103aa45

Summary: Closes https://github.com/facebook/relay/pull/1174 Reviewed By: mirciulix Differential Revision: D3357996 Pulled By: steveluscher fbshipit-source-id: 2a902890103de385a70fd8bad37b6bfdd2...

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

7 years

I have a shortest path algorithm for walking city streets. Appalled when I walk with other nerds and find they chose non-optimal routes, or worse still, don’t even seem to have a conscious algorithm.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

4 years

Monorepos are good for grouping together closely related NPM packages, but sometimes get used for projects that shouldn't be separate packages in the first place. Misguided enthusiasm for "modularizaton" creates friction and overhead in the name of "re-use" that never happens.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

11 months

My dotfiles. This is fine.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

1 year

Diametric opposite of my own feelings and experience. TypeScript has provided me with documentation, autocompletion, confidence, a whole extra layer of verification, and much more. Programming vanilla JavaScript feels like leaping back by an entire decade by comparison.

DHH

@dhh

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TypeScript sucked out much of the joy I had writing JavaScript. I’m forever grateful that @yukihiro_matz didn’t succumb to the pressure of adding similar type hints to Ruby. May we forever enjoy this beloved language without 🙏

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We've made relay-future as a place to discuss future development of #relayjs : — starting small for now; let's begin!

GitHub - facebookarchive/relay-future: Specs & docs for potential future and experimental Relay APIs

Specs & docs for potential future and experimental Relay APIs - facebookarchive/relay-future

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

3 years

Today I deployed for the first time 🎉 —Commands were issued. Graphs were watched. Issues were checked. In then end, all was well. 😀 You may wonder what the change was, but it was down in the plumbing and probably not very interesting to hear about😂

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

4 years

Programming languages hidden inside obfuscated syntax in "declarative" configuration files. May as well just make them actual programs at that point, so that they don't need their own bespoke linters, formatters, runners, syntax-highlighting, editor integrations etc.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

7 years

If Apple goes with an all Touch Bar laptop lineup, my next machine will either be an iMac or bloody PC laptop running Linux.

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

8 years

Latest #relayjs team meeting notes are up: (1) (2) (3)

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@scrowder

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This project was always absurdly ambitious (wanting to replace basically everything in the JS tool chain all at once), so failure was the most likely outcome. But you can't blame them for trying. Some good may yet come from the reboot, even if only in the form of new ideas.

Rome Tools

@rometools

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The Rome project is officially discontinued, the repository is archived. Follow @biomejs , the official community project.

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Greg Hurrell

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7 years

Updating a 2-year-old React app or just starting a new one with create-react-app then copying over the components? Picking the latter.

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7 years

If you're not convinced that "10x" engineers exist, could I persuade you that 1/10th engineers do? 😂

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Greg Hurrell

@wincent

5 years

lowers the activation energy required to do things with an AST to the point where you actually do it instead of taking the easy way out and using a regex. This is evidently much more robust! @fkling42 has saved uncounted Bothans by building such a tool.

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Greg Hurrell

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Questions and expected answers become narrow, closed instead of broad, open. The narrower the question, the less likely it becomes that even a skilled candidate will surpass "the bar". In my experience, this led to a higher than necessary false-negative rate.

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