Rob Styles

Founder at Returnable.
Day Out With The Kids, Meducation, Talis, Egg.

He/him

[Rob Styles @mmmmmrob]

You can find me on Mastodon as
@[email protected]
https://t.co/5ebBqME9xC

[Rob Styles @mmmmmrob]

Any JS devs looking to work on an very good political transparency project? The very lovely @skinofstars is looking for someone to work with him at Who Targets Me

https://t.co/7BCK0Rz6ty

[Rob Styles @mmmmmrob]

@AlSweigart In my experience most people getting into coding through both Comp Sci degrees and boot camps pick up almost nothing about character encodings until somethings goes wrong and they start seeing encoding issues — at that point they have to learn quickly…

[Rob Styles @mmmmmrob]

@allenholub When you start a re-write the unspoken statement is that _nothing_ is a better starting point than what _is already running in production_.

IME That's never true. The existing code is always a better starting point than nothing.

Refactor, refactor, refactor.

[Rob Styles @mmmmmrob]

@ScienceMagician @gsarcone Stunning.

[Rob Styles @mmmmmrob]

@MattJamesBoyle 💯 there are big products, like Cloudflare, whose team will benefit from multiple repos, indepedantly deployable microservices, etc, for sure.

But most products don't need that additional cost and complexity of those approaches.

[Rob Styles @mmmmmrob]

Also asked on https://t.co/tgMzBwE1RZ if you prefer to be there…

[Rob Styles @mmmmmrob]

Anyone here consider themself God-level knowledge of tsconfig.json for multiple local, related, modules within a monorepo?

I have "TS2307: Cannot find module" issues that appear to use different paths for static analysis and at runtime.

I could do with an hour of your time…

[Brianna Wu @BriannaWu]

Fine. I’ll try Mastadon.

Who all is there so I can follow? Drop your handle below!

https://t.co/jnwL2DUmz1

[Rob Styles @mmmmmrob]

My sympathies go to all Twitter employees cut loose today.

Apart from those involved with "see less often". I hope you are destitute and never work in tech again.

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

So, the next time someone thinks they're being smart by telling you they "should have stayed in France"...

here's the @JCWI_UK 5-step guide to responding, which doesn't involve pointing out how deeply they are lacking in either humanity or imagination...

[Rob Styles @mmmmmrob]

Keep your engineering skills polished. There are always more jobs for engineers than leaders; and leaders working in the trenches are highly valued in good cultures. Don't specialise; be flexible and you're more useful to more people.

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

Great article: "These days the Pre-Integration Review, carried out on a Pull Request is the most common mechanism for a code review, to the point that many people witlessly consider that not using pull requests removes all opportunities for doing code review." 1/

[Rob Styles @mmmmmrob]

@timClicks Have you started an account on https://t.co/F9sNbUCsgt? Would love to follow you there as well, for when you get de-platformed. I'm https://t.co/5ebBqME9xC

[David Haney hachyderm.io/@haney @haneytron]

Literally an exact graph of my programming career. Thankfully at the bottom right these days. Man did I ever overengineer some stuff in my early days.

[Rob Styles @mmmmmrob]

I would love for Mastodon to become the twitter replacement. I have a couple of ideas I'd like to build that aren't possible on twitter, but that Mastodon would make possible. Let's all go there…

[Rob Styles @mmmmmrob]

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[Rob Styles @mmmmmrob]

@fantasticlife I seem to recall @r4isstatic may have written an ontology for this?

[Erik Schierboom @ErikSchierboom]

Last week, we at @exercism_io launched an exciting new feature: a Dig Deeper section for exercises. @iHiD explains this new feature in https://t.co/qFLWkpdYnL
For an example, check out the Dig Deeper section for the C# track's reverse-string exercise:
https://t.co/DbDFGPLJhP