David K 🎹 (@DavidKPiano) on X (original) (raw)

Making state machines at

@statelyai

· I play piano

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  We're making it even easier to create state diagrams. ➡️ state . new
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  Facebook is extremely over-engineered for a birthday reminder app
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  Replying to @jacobmparis
  That's easy URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator URI stands for Uniform Resource Iocator
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  Interviewer: Invert this binary tree Junior dev: Here's the algorithm I memorized Experienced dev: Let me find a library for that Senior dev: Does inverting the tree align with our core business objectives?
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  Developers: lets/ ├ store ├ files ├ in └ some/ ├ super ├ organized └ opinionated/ ├ hierarchical └ structure Also developers: import { something } from "../../../../../../../"
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  Junior dev: "why isn't this working?" Senior dev: "oh, you just need to do X, Y, and Z" Junior dev: (wow they're so smart) Senior dev: (wow I made that mistake so many times)
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  Why hire a 150k/yeardevwhenyoucanjustpay150k/year dev when you can just pay 150k/yeardevwhenyoucanjustpay200/month for an AI coding agent and $200k/year for a dev to fix its code?
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  I have no idea what to name my baby At this point I'll just name him "utils"
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  GitHub Copilot is really amazing. I used to spend hours writing error-prone & sometimes incorrect code manually, but now, that error-prone incorrect code is automatically generated in seconds.
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  Developers: "I guess accessibility is important to some people, we'll get around to it" Developers at conferences: 🗣️ "CAN YOU INCREASE THE FONT SIZE I CAN'T READ THE CODE"
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  ⚛️ React tip: when conditionally rendering component based on some string enum (like a role), use an object to map enum values to components. This can be cleaner than using conditional operators, and it keeps the logic organized & clear.
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  The levels of testing code
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  Junior developers: "I have no idea how to solve this one problem; I'll never get good if I just keep Googling for the answer" Senior developers: (46 tabs open to Google and StackOverflow for one problem)
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  If you're using Tailwind, don't sleep on child selectors. They clean up your styles and eliminate repetition. Vibe coding agents aren't smart enough to do this. (if you're using CSS, keep scrolling)