James Apple 🍎

Listen to my podcast

[James Apple 🍎 @JamesAppleDev]

ESM is the worst thing that has ever happened to the JS ecosystem.

[James Apple 🍎 @JamesAppleDev]

ESM is the worst thing that has ever happened to the JS ecosystem.

[James Apple 🍎 @JamesAppleDev]

Why do enterprise pentests feel like an absolute grift

[James Apple 🍎 @JamesAppleDev]

I think copilot has only replaced writing snippets in my workflow so far

[James Apple 🍎 @JamesAppleDev]

Is Jest Mocking You?
https://t.co/fpzKO3VjVg

[James Apple 🍎 @JamesAppleDev]

It would be great if every javascript library didn't change their entire public interface every 2 years

[James Apple 🍎 @JamesAppleDev]

@JakeMetzDev oh baby

[James Apple 🍎 @JamesAppleDev]

Copilot has gotten substantially worse at providing valid completions for simple statements.

Always wants to add bonus brackets inside parentheses for some reason...

[James Apple 🍎 @JamesAppleDev]

@fullstackfrank Reverse proxy into your already chaotic microservice architecture is the prime use case. I'd probably lean into an APIGW like Kong since caching becomes substantially simpler.

Graphql independently of the HTTP protocol to query any data you want to use as a graph anywhere.

[James Apple 🍎 @JamesAppleDev]

Do you really want GraphQL or did you just want a typed API client.

[James Apple 🍎 @JamesAppleDev]

@ianldgs @amacarthur @trunarla Again, a couple files in a demo project are not representative of working in very large TS/JS projects with many developers.

Default exports and abusing index files in applications have led to moderate (not horrific) pain from mine and my colleagues experiences.

[James Apple 🍎 @JamesAppleDev]

@t3dotgg challenge him to boxing

[James Apple 🍎 @JamesAppleDev]

@ianldgs @amacarthur @trunarla A common example of this is something along the lines of a file named `Form.tsx` with the component declared `class Form extends React...`
and `export default compose(Form)`

Slightly more annoying to rename the class `Form` to `_Form` `UnwrappedForm` or the like for no reason

[James Apple 🍎 @JamesAppleDev]

@ianldgs @amacarthur @trunarla Expressions are an incredibly common form of default export especially working with react over the years that have made refactoring more difficult/time consuming.

3 files in a bare project are not representative of a codebase made of many thousands of files.

But u do u

[James Apple 🍎 @JamesAppleDev]

@ianldgs @amacarthur @trunarla Very sure.
Not all default exports even have names to rename.

[James Apple 🍎 @JamesAppleDev]

@amacarthur @trunarla Auto import usually functions a bit better with named exports using TSC.

Also makes the "rename" refactor with TSC update all reference names instead of leaving the old name of the function scattered around.

[James Apple 🍎 @JamesAppleDev]

@jbaruch @davidwalshblog @HermanMiller Have used many chairs in many offices and this is the only one where I experience no leg pain and no back pain from long sessions.

[James Apple 🍎 @JamesAppleDev]

@ThePrimeagen not sure if you're allowed to call yourself a developer if you don't see the sunrise before bed

[James Apple 🍎 @JamesAppleDev]

@Maaikees just encourage heavy drinking in your retros and they won't be so useless

[James Apple 🍎 @JamesAppleDev]

If your answer to any question in software isn't "it depends" I do not respect your answer

[James Apple 🍎 @JamesAppleDev]

@housecor yeah it depends though