Emily Kauffman

Pretty nice. Software engineer @PlexTrac. She/her.

[Emily Kauffman @kauffeem]

@pgh_scanner Any idea why there’s a fire truck in Observatory Hill?

[Emily Kauffman @kauffeem]

@ThePrimeagen 's algorithms course on @FrontendMasters has me on a do while loop kick

[Emily Kauffman @kauffeem]

@DanielKanem Good call out! I'll do that!

[Emily Kauffman @kauffeem]

I've been working on an app to help manage frontend metrics/code quality off and on for the past year. I finally got a fun ESLint page going! It's been fun to learn about OAuth and caching and improve my backend skills. S/o to @DanielKanem for the SaaS template! #buildinpublic

[Emily Kauffman @kauffeem]

@nathanpedretti @cursor_ai https://t.co/zmPygkxr3b This one stands out. Once things get "off", I need to stop, clear out changes, and take a minute, otherwise the agent just keeps adding to the problem.

[Catherine Olsson @catherineols]

5) I can accidentally "climb up where I can't get down".

E.g. I was working on code in Rust, which I do not know. The first few PRs went great! Then Claude was getting too confused. Oh no. We're stuck.

IME this is fine, just get ready to slowww dowwwn to get properly oriented.

[Emily Kauffman @kauffeem]

I used @cursor_ai for the first time today. Results: my code is a mess, I used a lot of prior dev knowledge to prompt it in the right direction, and I accomplished more this morning on my hobby project than I have in months. 😬

[Kent C. Dodds 🏹 @kentcdodds]

Young Coders Are Using Stack Overflow for Everything, Giving “Blank Stares” When Asked How Programs Actually Work

It’s always been this way. Young coders don’t know what they’re doing. The seniors need to senior and the juniors will learn over time and eventually become seniors.

[Emily Kauffman @kauffeem]

I'm sure there's a good AI use case for some of this here and so I'll probably need to get over my AI curmudgeonliness. Let me know what actions you'd use in a site like this.

[Emily Kauffman @kauffeem]

Every place I've ever worked, I like to knock out frontend tech debt and I want a way to make this less tedious and give the business more insight into why it's important. After being asked for metrics more times than I can count, I'm building the app I need to do so.

[Emily Kauffman @kauffeem]

@cursor_ai Insanely productive. But I had to say "uh actually can you not do it that way and do it this better way instead" many times. But it also suggested many performance improvements that I had missed. Lots of tradeoffs, but I am glad I didn't learn to code while this was a thing.

[Emily Kauffman @kauffeem]

@Shopify Scenario - building a site for someone who just wants to a portfolio site but then decides to sell something. I either have to redo it all in Shopify so they only have to check in one place, or do a headless store (never again).

[Emily Kauffman @kauffeem]

@Shopify "complaint" - I wish there was a marketing site only plan (no purchasing features) with the ability to upgrade. This would make 2 phase (marketing + e-commerce) rollouts so much better. I'd use Shopify for everything.

[Emily Kauffman @kauffeem]

I could really go for a @FrontendMasters Zod class.

[Remix 💿 @remix_run]

React Router v7 prerelease is now available

This pre-release is the first glimpse at the new Vite plugin coming to v7. This plugin enables React Router to be a full-stack framework, giving you features such as:

- code splitting
- data loading
- actions
- server rendering
- static pre-rendering
- pending states
- optimistic UI
- and much more

[Emily Kauffman @kauffeem]

I merged this PR AND finished my book, Tress from the Emerald Sea, today. What a good day.

[Emily Kauffman @kauffeem]

@KamalaHarris let me know if you want to join our league for a pickleball game while you're in Pittsburgh

[Emily Kauffman @kauffeem]

PlexTrac is hiring a staff and senior software engineer! Lots of React and TypeScript, autonomy, and good people who care about what we're building.

#HiringNow #security #react #typescript

[Emily Kauffman @kauffeem]

@florinpop17 Not sure this is a "website builder" but I use @convertkit for this.

[Emily Kauffman @kauffeem]

@BrooksLybrand This happens to me frequently

[Emily Kauffman @kauffeem]

Yearly hackathons!

[Emily Kauffman @kauffeem]

PlexTrac is hiring a staff and senior software engineer! Lots of React and TypeScript, autonomy, and good people who care about what we're building.

#HiringNow #security #react #typescript

[Emily Kauffman @kauffeem]

Backend and frontend guilds: groups that meet every other week to identify problems and get tickets into all of the team sprints