Zain Afzal

Computer Scientist by day, Disappointment by Night.

Software Engineer at @rippling, Formerly at @qwilr, @google

[Adam @adamdotdev]

It's 2026 and your CEO just sent you a 2,400 line pull request.

You get a cup of coffee and sit down to review it.

It's a disaster. A dozen unrelated refactors. Unused methods with names like `convertFromBase10` and `normalizeBeforeSerialization`.

You catch a few hardcoded API keys, but that's ok. It's part of the dance. They didn't consider that someone might look at this diff. Here's a comment buddy.

They respond in an hour (after Copilot, qodo, CodeRabbit and Greptile finish their reviews) saying we shouldn't worry about "implementation details" anymore, those are relics of the past. Hey let's jump into a room and figure it out. We can't just agree to disagree, this is probably my last job in tech and I can't watch this fucker burn the place to the ground.

The PR merges and goes to prod. You feel a shared sense of apathy and dread with Hannah the intern (she has to review his AI generated social media posts ever since Grok got too imaginative).

That night you go to sleep and have nightmares of that code. You can still see the shapes of it on the backs of your eyelids.

You go to work the next day ready to quit. You no longer understand the system. There is no foundation. Time to use those savings and an SBA loan to buy a liquor store and never login to GitHub again.

[Zain Afzal @blockzain]

@michael_timbs And https://t.co/o1xHx9v5BH for a actual walk through guide

[Zain Afzal @blockzain]

@michael_timbs I personally like this dude for overview / fundamentals

https://t.co/OqMSFt1HPf

[Zain Afzal @blockzain]

@ryanjchr Ryan you go shopping in the hot girl district, that’s not universal

[Zain Afzal @blockzain]

@ryanjchr - someone who now has a bat bite on their dick

[juan @juanbuis]

to commemorate alan dye moving from apple to meta, here's one of his best quotes

[Zain Afzal @blockzain]

I'm giving a talk about how fonts work! Come along and say Hi :)

[Zain Afzal @blockzain]

@pilcrowonpaper https://t.co/BFlmq1LnMo

It's somewhat outdated but it was fun to play with threejs for the background

[Zain Afzal @blockzain]

@wtfgeoff Oh yeah sure yeah, let me just bring 3 different outfits when i leave the house

[Zain Afzal @blockzain]

@seanyeoh A promotion is off the table until you to drop a k pop dance tutorial

[Zain Afzal @blockzain]

Got absolutely smashed at the SZA concert but not in the way you’d think

[prerat @prerat]

babe whats wrong your 500ms slower than usual

[fudge @fuckpoasting]

engineers will notice a library running 0.2s slower but cant tell if someone is flirting with them

[Zain Afzal @blockzain]

@techytacos Frontend ❗🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

[Zain Afzal @blockzain]

@plantbard The chokehold unreal unearth has on me....

[Zain Afzal @blockzain]

@techytacos Sure you can. Just look at the screen and see if it's open.

Follow for more web development tips and tricks ❤️🙏

[Zain Afzal @blockzain]

@Sereeena Oo what's new!

[Zain Afzal @blockzain]

@al_hinds Look at this design! Wdym I need to code it now.

[Zain Afzal @blockzain]

I made this nice logo for a JS library i was making and then i gave up but the logo is nice! I need to find something else to justify it's existence...

[Zain Afzal @blockzain]

Why are you, as a straight man, typing "man" into a terminal?

Seems kinda sus to me....🤨