qazal

software engineer

[qazal @qazalin]

the number of first tries i didn't get because i copy pasted something is freakin sad

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Investing in your dev environment always pays off

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@adamwathan i didn't know i needed this

[Naval @naval]

The right model to think about productivity in software engineering is to consider that each engineer is backed by an infinite army of robots.

[Peter Jonas @pbjonas]

In Web3, Speculators ARE Gamers

As the platforms we play games on evolve, so do the players. Mobile and Facebook brought a whole new group of “gamers” into the ecosystem

Blockchain gaming can turn “speculators” into “gamers.” The companies who will win see the opportunity.

[qazal @qazalin]

over-engineering a side project because you've got unlimited time >>>

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that anxiety when you write 400 lines of code and then run it for the first time

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@adamwathan a clone of spotify with tailwind, trpc and prisma + next

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what the world would look like if everything was written in Rust

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The most fun part about data viz is picking colors

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@ThePrimeagen @roxkstar74 DEAD

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say what you wanna say about unit testing, but those green checkmarks are just beautiful

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my trying to figure out if I can set a table name as a variable in sql: forget about it I'll just use template strings

*sql injection anxiety*

[qazal @qazalin]

you know you get it when the code works first try

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At this point just writing .clone() feels emotionally painful

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i wish you could attach links to text in @excalidraw

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that moment when the code doesn't work and you add a console.log and it works

[qazal @qazalin]

confessions

[qazal @qazalin]

When writing a cli program, have these two in-mind before you start coding:
1. Work backwards from the final command
2. Make it extensible and modular, don't make adding new flags a nightmare