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design-driven software engineer • writing down the details

Joined October 2021
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No. This is false. I helped to create two different billion-user projects at Apple: WebKit and iPhone. I was on these teams from the earliest stages and I never once came close to sleeping at the office. It’s not an essential part of doing great work.
This is how great new things are built, more often than anyone has been willing to say during the last decade's cultural revolution in Silicon Valley.
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Useful framing questions in Next.js (from today): Page content depends on external data? Use getStaticProps(). Page path depends on external data? Use dynamic routes.
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New video just dropped - all about my absolute fav, Kalanchoe Beharensis 'Silver Shadow'. I've had it for almost 2 years, so there was a lot to say - I hope you enjoy this one as much as I enjoyed making it Link to watch: youtu.be/_Z7dUt3q3CE
need those fiction recs
Replying to @mariogabriele
Read nonfiction to raise your floor. Read fiction to raise your ceiling.
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Starting to learn more about testing, lots of useful articles on this blog: "Static vs Unit vs Integration vs E2E Testing for Frontend Apps" by @kentcdodds kentcdodds.com/blog/static-v…
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Loved using this, very intuitive
Meet the new `create-next-app`: ◆ TypeScript by default ◆ Interactive configuration ◆ Faster, single-shot dependency installs Kudos to @ctjlewis for their work on this!
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Reminder to self
To reach your target, you must first build the right process. But to build the right process, you must focus on the target, not on the process. It's too easy for processes to take a life of their own and forget the goal they were serving.
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endless possibilities
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✍️ gotta try this one
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underrated: Open Graph meta tags
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there’s something so beautifully minimal about a monospace font
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art imitates life..vice versa
The Final look of the KidSuper SS22 show!!
remember when you wanted what you currently have?
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Metadata can quietly limit your visibility in the digital age It's only now I've started programming that I appreciate how up to date and properly formatted metadata can be the difference between being seen and unseen online
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Maybe it's a problem? Maybe it's important that individuals can be in charge of creating and distributing their own data?
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Especially if we come to rely on these datasets (via some implementation of AI) and don't realise our experiences are being limited by the datasets we use
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