Jason Clavelli

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[Jason Clavelli @JClavelli]

If you think you're bad at naming things, you're actually just bad at thinking

[Jason Clavelli @JClavelli]

"We should

[Jason Clavelli @JClavelli]

Something I learned from poker is that there are no isolated decisions, you're a machine that responds to inputs and all you do is tune your response algorithm

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

@allie__voss yeah the mental move you want to make is "If I make a similar purchase every time I want something about as much as I want this, do I end up in a good financial situation?"

[Jason Clavelli @JClavelli]

"We should build the next feature instead of cleaning up the messes from the last one" - machine that doesn't care about compounding messiness cost and will make this same decision every time.

[Jason Clavelli @JClavelli]

This is clearly correct, the people who disagree with it learned "descriptive variable names are good" once and never thought about naming after that

[Jamon @jamonholmgren]

Unpopular opinion: 1- or 2-letter variable names in focused, obvious contexts are totally fine.

[Jason Clavelli @JClavelli]

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[Cowboy Space Corp. @CowboySpaceCorp]

Welcome to the high frontier. A new era begins. 5.11.2026

[Jason Clavelli @JClavelli]

Yeah I'm not sure how big the pro-poker but anti-sports betting crowd is but I'm in it. Line where it goes from little hobby/vice to cultural rot is somewhere between those two

[Jason Clavelli @JClavelli]

I got tired of GitHub downtime and slowness and set up my own git backend + pr system, will share all my code for it if anyone wants to do the same

[Melkey @MelkeyDev]

Did GutHub engineers just stop working on the platform? Everything feels SO SLOW. To the point where I thought I was having internet issues. But adding comments on reviews is taking forever. What's going on @github ?

[Jason Clavelli @JClavelli]

@RollingStone

[Jason Clavelli @JClavelli]

@greg16676935420 Not only that, it’s his 6th straight World Series win!

[Jason Clavelli @JClavelli]

@suzukiplshomer How do so many people end up with the takeaway “the dodgers just can’t be stopped, we have to intervene”, that was the most stoppable World Series win of all time

[Jason Clavelli @JClavelli]

@DylanAbruscato “I’m going to take a 4-foot lead off of third”

[Jason Clavelli @JClavelli]

Oh

[Jason Clavelli @JClavelli]

Everything about this play was handled correctly, and anyone saying otherwise is pretending to not understand the rules. OTOH, the energy of this shot is so lame that the dodgers are cursed and have zero chance of winning game 7.

[Jomboy Media @JomboyMedia]

THIS ONE IS GONNA BE A NAIL-BITER

[Jason Clavelli @JClavelli]

Sharing pieces of it here, and will eventually just publish the whole thing https://t.co/yX9uvMv4qg

[Jason Clavelli @JClavelli]

Yes and you can’t burn it down and start over if a million people use it, serious engineers need aggressively iterate with no users other than themselves and share their results, otherwise we crawl forward with tiny backwards compatible tweaks forever

[Nic Barker @nicbarkeragain]

This photo has been posted so many times, and often sparks discussion about iterating towards an ideal solution, but I feel like the message for programmers hiding in plain sight here is that we should be throwing software away and rebuilding it from scratch more often

[Jason Clavelli @JClavelli]

Thomas and I and working on a web framework that’s like engine number 3 compared to everything we’ve seen, it’s not even that hard to iterate your way to miles ahead of everything else when you can do so without backwards compatibility

[Jason Clavelli @JClavelli]

@JomboyMedia Even the camera was pointing to first!

[Jason Clavelli @JClavelli]

@birdabo I just switched back to qwerty from dvorak after 15 years, dvorak definitely feels smoother but not enough to make up for the nonstandard shortcuts and slowness when using someone else's computer

[Jason Clavelli @JClavelli]

@Caltrain why does the posted schedule not match the schedule displayed at the station? Sunnyvale station says train 617 is at 11:11 but the schedule shows it at 11:12. I just missed train bc of this (and it took off even earlier, at 11:10).