Zach Lester 🇺🇦

Software Engineering Manager at @magnite

[Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkKelly]

I couldn’t be more confident that Vice President @KamalaHarris is the right person to defeat Donald Trump and lead our country into the future. She has my support for the nomination, and Gabby and I will do everything we can to elect her President of the United States. 🇺🇸

[Zach Lester 🇺🇦 @Dire_Parakeet]

@CaptMarkKelly @KamalaHarris Say it with me now - Vice President Kelly!

[swyx @swyx]

I think I first started talking about the "Frontend Ceiling" 4 years ago and its still not well understood —

there are great exceptions, but for the vast majority of bootcampers entering the software industry today as Frontend/JS devs and indirectly React/Serverless devs, you are being quietly graded into a lower tier of software engineer that will NEVER be on a track to VP Eng or CTO.

Justified or not (I can argue both sides) this phenomenon is real and if you do not actively test your comfort zones you may find yourself hitting invisible career ceilings.

Acknowledgements (which I'm sure some pple will omit reading in their eagerness to contradict me):
- you can have a plenty successful career without being VPE/CTO
- many situations where a person from frontend/JS background can get there, but either the business doesnt have that deep of backend needs or the person effectively needs to dualclass because (proving the point) frontend isnt sufficient for a senior eng leadership role in the way that backend is.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Whoever keeps control, Putin or anyone else, will be faced with threats & instability. It is vital for the free world not to offer any lifelines to murderers. We do not expect democracy and liberty to suddenly flourish, but there can be no deals with Russian war criminals.

[Kent C. Dodds 🏹 @kentcdodds]

I'm teaching a workshop today.
1. Everyone is using TypeScript at work
2. Most of them have only ever used hooks with React (never class components)

Amazing

[UX Design Awards @uxdawards]

Congrats to @magnite and designers @JeffYam, @WeiW5917, @dire_parakeet, Pierre Wang, Alex Chan, Vladyslav Magada, Mykhailo Hud, Yevhenii Khrystal, Brad Rodriguez on #UXDA22-nomination of “Magnite DV+”!
Support it in the #public_choice poll! https://t.co/KHw22chMDg

[Zach Lester 🇺🇦 @Dire_Parakeet]

@k_estrel https://t.co/HFAOWdJULF

[Frank Force 🌻 @KilledByAPixel]

Fractal Fences https://t.co/SzKPydRGFI #javascript #generative #fractal #tinycode #creativecoding

for(w=c.width&=j=10368;j;T+=9)(a=j%w/64*T-T+t*9&t*30-j/8e3*T-T|T)%w>T||x.fillRect(j%w,--j>>7,1,1,x.fillStyle=R(v=T*4-w,S(v)*v,w-C(a)*v),T=1)

[Molly Struve 🦄 @molly_struve]

The simplest fix of all

[Zach Lester 🇺🇦 @Dire_Parakeet]

@yesmeck @github @natfriedman https://t.co/JBLlCh8357 Appears Ant confirmed they were hacked

[Zach Lester 🇺🇦 @Dire_Parakeet]

@yesmeck @github @natfriedman Any update on the situation? So the repo isn’t intentionally moving to Gitee?

[yan @bcrypt]

heads up if your org uses internal npm/pip/etc registries: https://t.co/IfxeiflV9u

[Zach Lester 🇺🇦 @Dire_Parakeet]

https://t.co/SE5kP4Crin

[Zach Lester 🇺🇦 @Dire_Parakeet]

“Code sixteen thousand lines, and what do you get — another day older and deeper in technical debt”

https://t.co/LyorqiohSF

[☄︎ @0xca0a]

mixing html+webgl w/ routes and mount/unmount transitions. using wouter by @mlfrg and react-spring. routes are accessed in the scene graph and the dom. transitions are uncommon in threejs, but commonplace on the dom. through react these differences vanish. https://t.co/VSVp2pUHG9

[Horse JS @horse_js]

In 5+ years of writing JS full time, I've basically never needed to know it

[yan @bcrypt]

absolutely stunned at the brutal honesty of this cover letter

[zach lieberman @zachlieberman]

More blob touch tests #openFrameworks