Himanshi Patel

Software engineer building things + Occasionally making fun of software engineering.

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@shutup_prince Interesting stuff

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The most underrated developer skill:

Reading someone else's code without immediately rewriting it.

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If something has a 1% chance of breaking, someone will eventually find that 1%.

Usually at 2:47 AM.

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Do developers actually enjoy writing documentation?

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@ipfizz @jarredsumner 🙌

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bunmaska alpha.8 is out! Now running on Bun 1.4.2 on all three OSes.
@jarredsumner rewrote Bun in Rust and made bun:ffi 3x faster. That makes every bunmaska app faster too. Thanks for the free speed.

Try building your next desktop app with bunmaska.

npm i bunmaska
https://t.co/F4lBL8PVAw

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Did you try astra?
What's you take?

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@X NaN:Nan.... Nice timing

Vibe coding or what?

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What’s one piece of programming advice you completely ignored when you were starting out…

and later realized was actually right?

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What’s the most embarrassing thing you’ve ever pushed to production?

Wrong API endpoint?

Debug logs?

Broken UI?

Or something much worse?

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Software engineering is mostly:

“Surely this is the last thing I need to understand.”

It never is.

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Everyone has that one tool they use constantly but barely see anyone talk about.

What’s yours?

Could be an IDE, CLI tool, library, extension, anything.

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You can delete ONE thing from modern software development.

What are you deleting?

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There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. Check out https://t.co/yy6m1oLAIo to solve your desktop app bloat problems at least.

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Nothing builds character like deleting something that was “definitely unused” and watching the entire application collapse.

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I’ve been playing around with Bunmaska for small desktop app experiments.

One thing I like: you can write against familiar Electron-style APIs without bundling Chromium into the app.

Definitely an interesting project to keep an eye on.
https://t.co/yy6m1oLAIo

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I love fixing bugs.

Especially the ones I accidentally created while fixing another bug.

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Debugging is basically:

“Interesting.”

“Very interesting.”

“Why would anyone do this?”

checks git blame

Oh.

It was me.

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I finally understood Docker.

Then I opened docker-compose.yml.

We’re back to square one.

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@Anthony_K81 Mostly curiosity. I kept wondering when you actually need distributed systems vs. when you’re just adding complexity for no reason. One rabbit hole led to another.

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Currently trying to understand distributed systems better.

The funny part:

The more I learn, the more I appreciate simple systems.

If you can solve the problem with one server, one database and a queue…

maybe you should.