Aki Rautio

Software developer driving code quality and effective development practices.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

This thread started as fake speaker accounts at DevTernity and JDKon.

It ends with what is very likely a catfishing Instagram account operated for 5 years: Coding Unicorn. Growing it to 115K Insta followers to promote the conference.

Shameful.

https://t.co/6ricCjsAIt

[Aki Rautio @akirautio]

I have been amazed how much progress there has been with CSS libraries. Now it's easy to write zero runtime CSS with #vanillaextract or use skip styles by using utility classes from #TailwindCSS. These inspired me to write about the most usual approaches.
https://t.co/dnaPehVWdl

[Aki Rautio @akirautio]

@EevisPanula Thanks very much for sharing your journey. The seriousness of burnout and the effort it takes to recover are hard to understand without brave people sharing their experiences (or experiencing it).

[Yishan @yishan]

I've now been asked multiple times for my take on Elon's offer for Twitter.

So fine, this is what I think about that. I will assume the takeover succeeds, and he takes Twitter private. (I have little knowledge/insight into how actual takeover battles work or play out)

(long 🧵)

[Maria Pevchikh @pevchikh]

I would like you to meet Polina Kovaleva. Polina is a 26-year-old glamorous Russian girl from London🇬🇧. She lives in a huge apartment in Kensington and loves to party, her instagram feed looks like a non-stop holiday. That’s not unheard of, but there is one small detail…(THREAD)

[Aki Rautio @akirautio]

If you haven't yet read Gergely's books, now is a great time to get them all.

[TypeScript @typescript]

TypeScript 4.5 is now available!

Read up on what's new including

- Promise Improvements with the Awaited Type
- lib Overrides in node_modules
- New JSDoc Constructs
- Snippet Completions

https://t.co/IJWp6ggFRG

[Aki Rautio @akirautio]

I very much like that @stitchesjs and vanilla-extract makes dynamic styles more complex to write. Like 75% of the times I passed a variable to the styled-components, it could have been purely with CSS.

[Abhijeet Singh @cse_as]

What's new in #webdev

1. Microsoft Edge Tools for VS Code
2. Stitches v1 release
3. Behind the scenes of Razorpay's new mobile app

#reactjs #javascript #opensource

[Aki Rautio @akirautio]

@cse_as Great topics once again! 💪 Engineering team practices from Razorpay was especially insightful since these are not shared that often.

[Abhijeet Singh @cse_as]

What's new in #webdev

1. Why does Redux recommend hooks API as the default instead of "connect".

2. Jest for VSCode now supports the "Test Explorer" feature.

3. The BroadcastChannel API makes communicating between browsing contexts easier.

#reactjs #vscode #javascript

[Aki Rautio @akirautio]

During the past year, I have had many discussions regarding refinement and how developers can contribute. Here are the key learning that I have gotten.

https://t.co/jg11cTKV2Q

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

"GitHub Copilot is a code synthesizer, not a search engine: the vast majority of the code that it suggests is uniquely generated and has never been seen before."

The future.
https://t.co/eqApkWlyB7

[Aki Rautio @akirautio]

@GergelyOrosz Super good work Gergely! I got so many good ideas already from the draft so I'm eager to read final version.

[Aki Rautio @akirautio]

@sarah_edo @dan_abramov Huge thanks for sharing your experiences Sarah!

[Aki Rautio @akirautio]

Software development is not just writing code, it's far more than that. I wrote an article about my thoughts on what kind of skills a good developer has. #SoftwareEngineer

https://t.co/fUMvMInPnj

[Aki Rautio @akirautio]

@jevakallio IMDB is also an Amazon company so maybe that's why they have included the number.

[Abhijeet Singh @cse_as]

Idk who needs to hear this but passing down state in React from a parent to a child component isn't prop drilling. If you've dumped your entire app data into Redux just to avoid sharing local state, your application probably has bigger problems than prop drilling.

#reactjs

[Aki Rautio @akirautio]

This is big. 🎆 Temporal API looks so much easier to use than the current Date API.

[Justin Grant @justingrantjg]

So... I've spent much of the last 9 months working with a smart bunch of engineers designing a new date/time API for JavaScript. A big milestone: the TC39 standards body just gave the 👍 for browsers to implement this API. If all goes well, it'll be in browsers & Node.js in 2022!

[Aki Rautio @akirautio]

@HoviMarkus @NesteGlobal Superb and all the best for the new position!