Patrick McElhaney

Bug fixes and performance enhancements

[Patrick McElhaney @patrick_mc]

Are you wary of posting a question on Stack Overflow? Feel free to bounce it off me first.

At a minimum, I can guarantee:

- encouragement
- an immediate upvote
- if you get a rude response, they’re being rude to you and me both, so at least you’re not alone

[Andy Slavitt 🇺🇦 @ASlavitt]

Let us stop messing around. Equivocating. Not being clear. “Maybe we will manufacture? Don’t gather in crowds?”

I’m going to say it. #StayTheFHome socially. I know it’s hard but it’s all we have to prevent our front line workforce from an onslaught. 5/

https://t.co/6Ujbo5cbIO

[That's Interesting @innneresting]

Outstanding graphical illustration of the effects of social distancing, and exponential growth

https://t.co/6BLFUAOILL

[Patrick McElhaney @patrick_mc]

@pekkagaiser @kentsatwit @garylosh @gortok Finally got around to getting that job description updated. Thanks for the feedback!

[Patrick McElhaney @patrick_mc]

Coming out of the Twitter carbonite to seek help with this JavaScript job posting. Not getting many bites. What would you change to make it more appealing / inclusive?

https://t.co/G03rMYFxZN

[Patrick McElhaney @patrick_mc]

@pekkagaiser @gortok It’s reporting to me. I’m not nearly as cool as Gortok, but like him, I’ve been using SO since it was in beta. (That’s where we met, in fact.) I also had a pretty big role in getting https://t.co/TeEsmAg8QZ off the ground. Thanks for your feedback!

[Patrick McElhaney @patrick_mc]

@gortok Yeah, I got a good chuckle out of it. Just the right amount of sass. :)

[Patrick McElhaney @patrick_mc]

@gortok You had me at “when he’s not writing speaker bios”.

[Patrick McElhaney @patrick_mc]

My daughter is trolling the math teacher again.

[Patrick McElhaney @patrick_mc]

@beeonaposy I have a little experience with data warehousing and business intelligence. How do these relate to data science?

[Nick Kapur @nick_kapur]

Something incredible is happening on reddit. I'm tempted to say these people have way too much time, but this is legit amazing. #RecursionFTW

[Patrick McElhaney @patrick_mc]

Every night my watch nags me about closing activity rings. 🏃

Every night my phone nags me about limiting screen time. 🤳

Every night I wonder when @Apple is going to let us use activity to buy screen time. 🙏🏼

[Patrick McElhaney @patrick_mc]

@PaulJanPauptit @lizardbill Okay junior, I’ll show you this one time. From now on, you’re responsible for remembering how to do this new thing.

Later I’m going to expect you to explain it to me. Every time. Even though you just reminded me the week before.

That’s how this works.

[Patrick McElhaney @patrick_mc]

Working on a list of accessibility anti-patterns.

The one that can be remediated by adding tabindex=“0” is called “eligible receiver” and I’m pretty pleased with myself.

[Patrick McElhaney @patrick_mc]

Hulu’s is better.

[Patrick McElhaney @patrick_mc]

@sompylasar @sindresorhus Imagine you could view class and function names in disassembled code for 25 years.

There’s an easily discoverable way to disassemble any application.

You learned to code by dissembling your favorite apps. Others learn from your apps.

Does that help you understand?

[Sindre Sorhus @sindresorhus]

I learned web development in the early days (long before GitHub) with the "View source" button. The trend of generated class-names makes me sad...

[Patrick McElhaney @patrick_mc]

@inastheananas Hi @iAmMaccing. You don’t know me, but I thought you might have some advice for this other person who doesn’t know me. :)

https://t.co/O3Olnr9VhI

[Patrick McElhaney @patrick_mc]

@relizarov If you’re stuck with plain old JavaScript, ESLint can help. https://t.co/t7y48aKwwW

[Patrick McElhaney @patrick_mc]

@Nothke @RikardAslund @olafurw @MatRopert Definitely reinvent the wheel! Do it to learn how wheels work and how to work with wheels. Just prefer the off-the-shelf wheel in production code. :)