toastercat

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by toastercat 5y ago
My friendships in college came from asking fellow classmates to have study groups with me, and from asking classmates who I'd do group projects on to hang out after class. Easier if you're 21 and can drink so you can pose it like
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by toastercat 5y ago
As much as I'd love to use Mastodon, both times I tried, I got bored and gave up because I couldn't find interesting people to follow. All of the people I do find interesting are only on Twitter.
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by toastercat 5y ago
No, only my partner. I'm especially careful about it around family -- I don't even tell my parents. Inevitably, people begin to have expectations of you, whether they think your salary is high or low. I've learned my lesson.
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by toastercat 5y ago
Likewise, except for me, it was at the age of 6 months. My father was a very successful and famous entertainer (I won't name him to protect my identity). He was also an alcoholic, and it destroyed his life. I remember, clear as day, I
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by toastercat 5y ago
Installed it on a Dell XPS13 recently. It's great except I have to restart GNOME every couple hours because of of annoying visual glitch that makes all text disappear.
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by toastercat 5y ago
I've been actively moving all my projects from rollup to esbuild where possible. You have to do a bit more plumbing to get a lot of the niceties provided by the rollup/webpack ecosystem, but the resulting simplicity, speed, and si
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by toastercat 5y ago
Ironically, by putting in less effort at work. I know this sounds awful and a lot of PMs would probably gasp at hearing this, but I started to exert myself less at work -- worried less about code reviews, stopped stressing over small mistak
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by toastercat 5y ago
> Juniors are going to over-engineer something regardless, it's one of the most valuable lessons they'll learn the hard way. Yes, juniors tend to over-engineer. Kent C. Dodds is not junior -- he is a self-described "world
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by toastercat 5y ago
Pro-tip: skip using TypeScript the lang, and use it instead as a static type checker. Define all your types via JSDoc, and write JS normally: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/jsdoc-supported... You mis
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by toastercat 5y ago
Kent C Dodds is well known in the JS community. I've heard great things about his testing libraries, but he has a weird "dev celebrity" thing going on (EDIT: which, btw, is not rare in the JS/React/Node world). I&#x
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by toastercat 5y ago
Just for funs, ran this site's package.json through npm.avanka.com: https://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/https%253A%252F%252Fraw.git... Check out the size of that dependency graph for what amounts to (mostly
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by toastercat 5y ago
> having them cease to exist without any warning most definitely won't make the world better off. It may indirectly, in that it may spur a transition to another platform. Most likely, that platform will also be a privacy-invading ce