Brian Bug 🐞

Your bugs were never the problem — they are the very guides to your dreams. 🐞

[Brian Bug 🐞 @thebrianbug]

Processing a massive amount of data in parallel is oddly satisfying, when it's all working #buildinpublic

[Brian Bug 🐞 @thebrianbug]

@NayakSatya_SG Be the change!

[Brian Bug 🐞 @thebrianbug]

Knowing your team has your back is priceless when you're feeling under the weather. Take care of your people #buildinpublic

[Brian Bug 🐞 @thebrianbug]

TDD was never about test coverage

It's all about design

Test first => better design

#buildinpublic

[Brian Bug 🐞 @thebrianbug]

Nothing feels so 🪄 as to refactor after you have full test coverage. The magic test everything button 👌🫶 #buildinpublic

[Brian Bug 🐞 @thebrianbug]

The moment of peace after deploying something big... and it's all working

[Brian Bug 🐞 @thebrianbug]

Messy UI code, but not sure how to fix it? Study up on state management. The right pattern makes the complexity disappear 🪄 #buildinpublic

[Brian Bug 🐞 @thebrianbug]

Software has no prototypes. Whatever you code WILL be used in production. Do it right, or else #buildinpublic

[Brian Bug 🐞 @thebrianbug]

Using serverless? Make sure to test with only a few items at a time. If things go wrong, you could end up with a VERY big bill 😬 #buildinpublic

[Brian Bug 🐞 @thebrianbug]

Not sure why your DB query is taking SO long? You need Postgres EXPLAIN. Tells what the DB will for a given query. Then dump the results into ChatGPT for ideas for optimizing #buildinpublic

[Brian Bug 🐞 @thebrianbug]

No joke - going serverless helps you write better code 💡

Smaller functions for the win 🎉

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[Brian Bug 🐞 @thebrianbug]

ChatGPT is not good at mocking in unit tests. Why does it so often screw this up? 🤔

[Brian Bug 🐞 @thebrianbug]

Wow, that code is crap

Who wrote it? Oh!

...Me

#buildinpublic

[Brian Bug 🐞 @thebrianbug]

Onboarding new devs? Write READMEs:

1. To get code running locally
2. How to deploy everything
3. List @fireship_dev videos for each tech used

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[Brian Bug 🐞 @thebrianbug]

Handling big files? Be aware of how many copies you're making in memory, or you may exceed limits faster than you're expecting #buildinpublic

[Brian Bug 🐞 @thebrianbug]

Breaking down code into serverless functions introduces new potential for network failures at each step. Utilize topics to link sequential serverless functions, without making earlier steps dependent on the availability of later ones 💪 #buildinpublic

[Brian Bug 🐞 @thebrianbug]

@brtkvc Agreed!

And they tend to last much longer without alteration than more centralized models

[Brian Bug 🐞 @thebrianbug]

People complain that serverless can be hard to debug

If you think that's hard, try debugging servers

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[Brian Bug 🐞 @thebrianbug]

Just found @amptdev and was blown away by the infrastructure building blocks they already offer.

How have I not heard of this?

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[Brian Bug 🐞 @thebrianbug]

Regular devs can build pretty much anything these days, if given the right infrastructure primitives. But when something fundamental is missing, you get complexity explosions #buildinpublic