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Alan Yang

@alanyang.com.bsky.social

senior software engineer @ ufl.edu • alanyang.com • not the producer by the way

183 Followers  |  179 Following  |  36 Posts  |  Joined: 09.11.2024  |  1.9985

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Saw this when my team was interviewing for an entry level dev position. One of the tech questions we had was debugging a broken form, and it was very surprising to see a lot of applicants didn't know where to start.

11.01.2025 22:19 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I shared that repo to a few of my friends that love Go and they instantly starred it lol

20.11.2024 18:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The worst thing about React Native is how quick dependencies and projects get abandoned.

19.11.2024 03:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I hate magic links.

18.11.2024 00:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So who tripped and pulled the plug at Discord?

17.11.2024 05:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I feel like it could be an optional field when users edit their profile.

17.11.2024 04:53 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Had to nuke my browser's cookies and cache. Signing into everything is such a pain.

17.11.2024 04:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ooh. I am also a big fan of the Kailh BOX whites!

16.11.2024 02:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Do you have a favorite switch?

16.11.2024 01:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I think most people are hoping this happens.

16.11.2024 01:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Stop returning an error message with status code 200.

15.11.2024 15:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think it's kind of wild you have to jump through hoops to delete your SendGrid account.

14.11.2024 21:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a man with long hair and a mustache wearing a pink shirt with a unicorn on it . Alt: a man with long hair and mustache saying magic

That feeling when your team discovers a big bug and you fix it on the spot.

14.11.2024 20:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a cartoon drawing of a person standing in a corner Alt: a gif of a person going to sit in a corner

I know that feeling. All of my team's newer projects use TypeScript, but we have some fairly large older projects that don't and it's a pain working on those.

14.11.2024 19:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I can't imagine using just plain JavaScript.

14.11.2024 18:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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a cartoon of a man flying through the air with the words lend me your strength on the bottom Alt: a cartoon of a man (Goku) flying through the air with the words lend me your strength on the bottom

Bluesky right now

14.11.2024 17:44 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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a black and white photo of a young boy holding a bowl with the caption please sir i want some more Alt: a black and white photo of a young boy holding a bowl with the caption please sir i want some more
14.11.2024 17:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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deadpool says it 's too good in front of a theater Alt: deadpool says it 's too good in front of a theater
14.11.2024 17:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Instead of a fail whale, Flappy Bird but 🦋

14.11.2024 17:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Definitely degraded service currently.

14.11.2024 17:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I cringe when I see z-index: 99999999;

13.11.2024 22:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Call it Buzz for all the buzzwords 😂 Sounds like a good stack though.

13.11.2024 22:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Would be interested to know the stack. 👀

13.11.2024 22:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
man wearing white pokemon hoodie that has silhouettes of the first 151 pokemon

man wearing white pokemon hoodie that has silhouettes of the first 151 pokemon

two women wearing pokemon hoodies, one umbreon and one espeon

two women wearing pokemon hoodies, one umbreon and one espeon

These VANDYTHEPINK x Pokémon hoodies are kind of fire...

13.11.2024 01:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My team uses it and we think it's great.

13.11.2024 01:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We do something similar to you.

Branches:
- main
- develop

Process:
- Branch off of develop
- Merge requests into develop
- Create releases from develop
- Merge release into main
- Merge release into develop
- Have all devs fetch latest changes

12.11.2024 16:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a baby yoda standing next to a frog with the words real the struggle is written above him ALT: a baby yoda standing next to a frog with the words real the struggle is written above him
11.11.2024 20:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's the worst when you have to vertically align text that uses a font with built-in spacing.

11.11.2024 20:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Eggs are a must.

11.11.2024 19:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I actually had to nuke corepack yesterday because it was messing with all of my projects using pnpm.

11.11.2024 19:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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