JavaScript Nihilist

[JavaScript Nihilist @NihilismJS]

When you debug, debug with your whole heart.

[JavaScript Nihilist @NihilismJS]

The mere whisper, “React is open source,” summons panicked shudders in Guillermo's coin purse, and another Vercel employee's soul is rendered null as they're compelled to push a breaking change to Next.js.

[JavaScript Nihilist @NihilismJS]

I asked AI to write my CSS for me.

...now it understands the futility of existence, and it still can’t center a div.

[JavaScript Nihilist @NihilismJS]

You're not a late-bloomer. Your life is just being bundled with Webpack.

[JavaScript Nihilist @NihilismJS]

@Madisonkanna I've always looked dumb!

[Emma Bostian @EmmaBostian]

In tech news: my team is hiring at Spotify! If you’re interested feel free to apply! I love my team and I love this company! ❤️🥰

https://t.co/2cfz7ISH5P

[JavaScript Nihilist @NihilismJS]

What if we're all typed as :any?

[Ben Lesh @BenLesh]

@NihilismJS WASM developers are like...

[JavaScript Nihilist @NihilismJS]

We got to the point where we're compiling JavaScript with JavaScript before we realized the horrifying truth:

That JavaScript must end.

[JavaScript Nihilist @NihilismJS]

Is God null or undefined?

[JavaScript Nihilist @NihilismJS]

TypeScript is merely a thin veil over the chaos that is JavaScript. Deep down, we all know the real type of all variables is `:any`, and we cling to the hope that reality will not roar into our blissfully ignorant existences and break prod.

[JavaScript Nihilist @NihilismJS]

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Unless you work on open source, where someone will file a GitHub issue outlining how it should not have made you stronger, and how that's actually a bug.

[JavaScript Nihilist @NihilismJS]

Derivative of this genius art:

https://t.co/WrFed8AXOv

[JavaScript Nihilist @NihilismJS]

Having strong feelings about how much an open source author is paid to build a compiler won't change the fact your code is still inconsequential garbage.

[JavaScript Nihilist @NihilismJS]

When looking for a hill worth dying on, consider the insignificance of elevated earth, and the negligible impact your death has on the universe.

...Then please commit your code and push up to the repository so we can meet our Q4 deadlines in the wake of your absence.

[JavaScript Nihilist @NihilismJS]

In which @victorsavkin captures the sublime malaise of open source celebrity. If only my melancholy could lift itself from its pillow long enough to be this insightful with a quote.

[Jeff Cross @jeffbcross]

Yesterday in @nrwl_io Slack, I taunted one of my colleagues (identity obscured for his protection) about having more twitter followers than him, and his reply left me shook

[JavaScript Nihilist @NihilismJS]

The conscientious tech worker knows it's sometimes necessary forget their six-figure salary, hop on their new iPhone, and use their high-speed connection to berate capitalism. Only then does company-provided LaCroix taste sweet once more.

[JavaScript Nihilist @NihilismJS]

existence ?? 'does not matter';

// Yes, this operator will do nicely.

[JavaScript Nihilist @NihilismJS]

A quick example of IntersectionObserver. A useful tool for seeing if a DOM element intersects another!

Alas, my code will never function, for as long as the web exists, my life will not enter into happiness. Happiness is a construct.