Lau Siaw Young

Engineer @Forge_Global, previously @thecarousell.

[Lau Siaw Young @siawyoung]

@paigeegorry You're welcome! Cypress recently introduced new toys (https://t.co/MUuVmXJoiv) so this custom command may irrelevant soon -- though you know what they say... #ifitaintbroke

[paigeegorry👩‍💻 @paigeegorry]

Thank you @siawyoung and your post on graphql mocking with cypress. You saved me after four weeks of headaches. Your solution was the only one that worked out there on my weeks of searching the web. This is amazing. 🙏https://t.co/AilCEwzAdT

[Lau Siaw Young @siawyoung]

💖 I'm sponsoring jethrokuan because… he introduced Emacs into my life. https://t.co/vOK2XkLlDX

[christina @cszhu]

i'd like to take this moment to thank MapleStory and RuneScape for my 120wpm typing speed, thus paving the way for my career in software development

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

Shopify is 15 years old.
Basecamp is 20 years old.
MailChimp is 18 years old.

It takes time to build a sustainable business that matters.

[Jethro Kuan @jethroksy]

This is exactly how Carousell does it too, but here's a postmortem of how I spammed 50000 users in 30 minutes on the second week of my internship.
https://t.co/QrPwkJfxNE

Thread:

[highscalability @highscal]

Maybe we should just give up on the idea of reuse and make coding applications easier? It seems even the with the best intentions and highest skill levels reuse remains elusively situational.

[Andrew Certain @tacertain]

"Duplicated effort" is an anathema to most developers. But for a new service, when you are figuring things out and need to move quickly, the cost of consensus can be crushing. It's better to have "duplicate" efforts and join them later if you figure out they really are the same.

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

I enjoyed this. My slightly different take on it:

Would do again:
* Rolled the dice on immigrating.
* And on starting a business.
* Wrote first million words publicly.
* Set hedonic level reasonably low.
* Did not optimize for near-term career/etc success.

[Carousell @Carousell]

Introducing our brand new look! We've updated our app interface and we can't wait for you to see it 🙌 Read the story at https://t.co/VRWSBPDurR ✨

[comedycentral @ComedyCentral]

Nah, last time there was a joke at a debate it became president.

[Sidwyn Koh @sidwyn]

Been working on a podcasting project on the side –

Podcasters: if you've ever wanted to interact and engage with your audience more, check out https://t.co/hrEH4llSEc – you can host discussions, poll your audience, and share your show notes all in one place!

[Lau Siaw Young @siawyoung]

@yishusee https://t.co/3iMdVLHn28 is my favourite online regex tester.

https://t.co/zHDrDVRsrH if you wanna deep dive into regex (which are FSMs in disguise)

[antirez @antirez]

I had forgotten how beautiful NYC is.

[Erik Bernhardsson @bernhardsson]

The largest unsolved puzzles in behavioral economics: are markets efficient, what’s the right utility function, and why do people line up to board flights for an hour before boarding begins

[Golden State Warriors @warriors]

Be great.

[Naval @naval]

Work as hard as you can. Even though what you work on and who you work with are more important.

Knowledge workers train, sprint, rest, and re-assess.

Inspiration is perishable - act on it immediately.

Be impatient with actions but patient with results.

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

“How the Hell Has Danielle Steel Managed to Write 179 Books?”

https://t.co/gvKvDpJ4h7

[Geek Nexus @geek_nxs]

Something that has always seemed to be the simplest thing to do is to always show up.

It’s the great separator for many: