Salah Al-Dhaferi

Co-Founder & CTO at Tektonic Labs, Teaching aspiring youth in conflict affected countries web development @recodedofficial

[Salah Al-Dhaferi @tech_chieftain]

Github Readme project has been putting a spotlight on the stories of many of the developers around the world. Absolutely humbled and honored by having my story shared with them.

Thank you @github.

[GitHub @github]

Lack of internet access and spotty electricity in Yemen never stopped Salah @tech_chieftain Al-Dhaferi from finding a coding education, starting with CDs and books. Get his full story: https://t.co/vSWAc14iKg

[Salah Al-Dhaferi @tech_chieftain]

RT @AdelAAlsunaini: الحكومة اليابانية تقدن منحة جديدة لبلادنا بقيمة 5 ملايين دولار
الحكومة اليابانية، تعلن  اليوم، عن تقديم منحة لدعم "الم…

[Salah Al-Dhaferi @tech_chieftain]

@soaiworld Really liked this and will be giving it to the kids in my family to play. One note though, I would recommend changing and reducing the sound when a mistake occurs because it is too loud.

[Salah Al-Dhaferi @tech_chieftain]

@IbrahimJalalYE @CarnegieMEC @MohanadHageAli @BeirutCalling @abaabood Congrats Ibrahim. Wishing you all the best.

[أحمد بن عبدالعزيز النفيس @ahmad_alnufais]

إلهنا نلحّ عليك ونحن نوقن بأنك لا تخيّب الملحّين

اللهم ارحم أهل غزة فقد تولّى عنهم الرحماء
اللهم انصرهم فقد تولّى عنهم كل نصير
أنت حسبنا وحسبهم يا نعم المولى ويا نعم النصير
نشكو إليك ضعفنا وقلة حيلتنا وهواننا وتفرّقنا
نشكو إليك أهوالاً تحيط بأهلنا ولا نستطيع لها دفعا، فافتح لنا بقوتك سبل النصرة والدفاع يا رب العالمين

#ساعة_استجابة #غزه_تقاوم_وتنتصر

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Ya Allah thank you 🙏, finally someone is doing real journalism

That’s how you dismantle the Israeli Hasbara 👏

[Salah Al-Dhaferi @tech_chieftain]

Modern day software engineering in a nutshell.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

Are you actually sitting there telling me that, in 2024, a significant open source project is using fucking Autotools instead of something like Cmake?

See, this is why I retired early from software engineering.

Because for every new job I took, the same conversation would occur in slow motion over the course of a year or three.

Foobar, Inc: Welcome aboard, Devon. We were really impressed by all the awesome super-smart stuff on your resume!

Devon: Thanks, let's have a look at this codebase.

{Sound of Devon throwing up a little in his mouth.}

Devon: Pieces of this code appear to have been thrown together by howler monkeys over the course of a seven-day cocaine binge.

Foobar, Inc: Oh, that would be Fred. Yeah, he's self-taught, and his code's a little unorthodox, but —

Devon: He has clearly never taken a single computer science class in his life, and his code is a crime against god, art, and nature.

Foobar, Inc: But he's just so fast. He got our whole version 1.0 written over just seven days!

Devon: I totally believe that, and it's the reason why we need to —

Foobar, Inc: Yeah, we wish more programmers were fast like him. Nowdays, everyone seems to take forever to do anything. Including Fred, for some reason. Weird.

Devon: Have you ever heard of something called "technical debt"?

When you write hasty code, you introduce bugs and accidental complexity. It's like borrowing time from future you. You have to pay it back, with interest.

Foobar, Inc: What an interesting concept. You are clearly very smart.

But we don't have time for you to be an abstract philosopher king, pontificating about theoretical concepts which obviously have no bearing on the real world.

We have new features to write. That seems to happen so slowly nowdays for some unknown reason.

Devon: It's because you are drowning in technical debt.

Foobar, Inc: What an interesting abstract philosophical concept that has no bearing on our reality. You are clearly a really smart guy.

But we can't test your theory, because the CEO expects 5,763 new features in next month's release, to fulfill promises he made to Important Partner Business, without consulting us at all.

Devon: This tech debt needs to be paid down sometime. You can't just put it off. If you do, the interest will inflict itself on the timetable for every new feature you write.

Has someone tried explaining the concept of tech debt to the CEO?

Foobar, Inc: We can't do that. He's a boomer. Also, he has the power of a god, and the emotional stability of a single mother with a crack habit and an Onlyfans account.

We find it easier to smile and present him with rosy scenarios, and then lay off a few scapegoats when we don't meet goals.

If only we could understand why everything takes so long these days. Software engineers must be lazy. Not like Fred. Let's put Fred in charge of the whole department. Maybe he can shake things up.

Devon: Hey, I spent a week re-architecting the BazTranslator component. It runs sixty-three times faster, and you can include new conversions by inheriting from this base class and overriding just these two virtual functions.

Foobar, Inc: How DARE you, sir? You were supposed to be writing new features! This is why progress is so slow. You spent a whole week without adding any new functionality! Don't you understand we are in crisis, here?

Devon: You are always in crisis. Have you tried reading this book of essays by Fredrick Brooks?

Foobar, Inc: Get that thing out of my face.

Why are you being so difficult? You should watch out. You're acquiring a reputation for being difficult to manage. You should tremble in fear now.

Devon: I could have a new job with one phone call. I am trying to help you, you silly people.

Foobar, Inc: Then stop being an abstract philosopher king and write features as fast as you can! Like Fred! Why can't you be more like Fred?

Devon: Fred made a whole set of structs containing raw untyped pointers so he could reinvent polymorphism in C, because he "doesn't like C++".

Foobar, Inc: Yes, isn't he clever? We love Fred!

Devon: And segfaults, apparently.

{Sound of major project hitting an iceberg, burning down, falling over, and then sinking into the swamp.}

Foobar, Inc: Another project failed. Clearly, it's your fault, wasting time with all your weird philosophy and refactoring code. We're going to lay you off.

Devon: I am actually relieved.

Appros of nothing, does your family carry a lot of credit card debit?

Foobar, Inc middle manager: Of course not! That stuff will kill you!

Why do you ask?

Devon: No reason.

{Sound of Devon retiring from a high-paying engineering career and writing a science fiction novel in his bedroom for nine months.}

[أحمد بن عبدالعزيز النفيس @ahmad_alnufais]

القرآن نعيم الدنيا والآخرة
عز وفخر وشرف وأنس ولذة
وبركة ونور وبهاء
وهالة عظيمة من الضياء
صدق الله : لقد أنزلنا إليكم كتابا فيه ذكركم = فيه عزكم وشرفكم وعزكم ..

[Nour Odeh 🇵🇸🍉 #FreePalestine @nour_odeh]

Yesterday my cousin was heading home after getting flour & cooking has. A sniper shot & killed him. His mom didn’t want to leave his body to the cats & dogs. Today she went to retrieve his body. The Israelis shot her & her other son. We buried them all today. (Translation of 👇)

[عبدالله بن حمدان @Abdullah_14_H]

أردت في رسالتي للدكتوراة أن أحمد الله وأثني عليه وأن أشكر أهلي. وأبيت إلا أن أكتبه بالعربية لأني أرى الثناء بها أبلغ معنىً وأشد وقعًا وأقرب وصفًا من الإنجليزية. فأرسلت لجامعة مانشستر أستأذنهم فأذنوا لي.

وكنت آمل أن يكون في رسالتي شيئًا عربيًا فكان ذا، ولعل الله يكتب لي ترجمتها.

[Salah Al-Dhaferi @tech_chieftain]

@tannerlinsley If only it gets lit.

[Salah Al-Dhaferi @tech_chieftain]

So the time has come...

React is not cool anymore.

[Tanner Linsley @tannerlinsley]

You inspired me, @cassidoo.

Since hooks and the early conception of the suspense API, I have personally felt that React has been obsessed with just a handful of concepts. While technically impressive and undoubtedly pushing the limits and boundaries of what a single-threaded UI API can do, these new concepts have had very little impact on what I do day to day to deliver value to my users (other than making it more complex to "safely"/idiomatically do the same thing or dancing around experimental APIs that my open source users think are officially ready for prime time).

I want so badly for React to return to the client-side-focused and client-performance-obsessed utility I originally loved (or at least help me know better that it still has my interests in mind). It's painful to see other frameworks continuing to deliver on the same motivations that led me to React from day one.

React Forget has drummed up some of that old excitement, but it's easy to get caught up in a new "feature" that in reality is a reactionary answer to a deeper issue. The most brief I can be on this topic is that I really wish we could just drop this obsession with immutability and address true reactivity. Whether that's through signals (please) or not (still fine), this has felt like the most ignored low-hanging fruit for a while (sorry I've been following @RyanCarniato's signals for much longer than most).

Like Cassidy, I'm still using React very heavily and I'm still reaching for it regularly... but with increasing resentment.

[Salah Al-Dhaferi @tech_chieftain]

@tannerlinsley That is correct, but it feels that React has reached the beginning of the jQuery era. It is useful; it could be cool; there're just newer toys/tools.

[Mohammed Hijab @mohammed_hijab]

There is a province in Russia called "Jewish Autonomous Oblast" which has a larger land area than the entire entity of Israel (36 thousand km2 to Israel's 26 thousand km2). It is one of two Jewish jurisdictions in the world (the other being Israel). Zionists who ask why Palestinians do not go to other Arab nations should be asked why Jews do not migrate to this region.

[Zara Magnusson @zaramagnusson]

This shattered my heart into a thousand pieces! 😞💔

Please, for the love of God and all that is good, share this!
We CANNOT go back to this again in 2 days! We simply can’t!

Reem, may you rest in peace little angel, we will never ever forget about you! 🥹❤️

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

At risk of stating the obvious, anyone advocating the genocide of *any* group will be suspended from this platform

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🚨🇮🇱 ZIONISTS got my phone number and are leaving me voicemails, they seem like great people!

[Salah Al-Dhaferi @tech_chieftain]

Apparently, Hamas soldiers drink water. This makes the water supply a legitimate target.

[Hebh Jamal @hebh_jamal]

Israel bombed the main drinking water supply in Jabilya just now and here are people witnessing their only source of water run through their streets. Israel is sending a message to Jabilya that existence there will now be impossible. Where are they to go…?

[Salah Al-Dhaferi @tech_chieftain]

@jacksonhinkle has been awakening people on his own, and now they are trying to silent him.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

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