sophie alpert

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1	May 31, '23	I have 10 years of react experience	58.2×	789k	3.3k	118	124
2	Jun 14, '24	@TkDodo good news re Suspense, just met w/ @rickyfm @en_JS @acdlite * we care a lot about SPAs, team misjudged how many people rely on this today * still recommend preloading but r	22.1×	299k	726	98	72
3	Nov 19, '18	Timeless software engineering skills: 1. Not feeling scared to change code you didn't write 2. Empathy for your users and for your collaborators 3. Ability to communicate ideas cle	17.2×	0	6.4k	1.5k	130
4	Jun 12, '23	Excited to say I'm now considering new job opportunities! I was an early user of React, managed the team at FB, and recently finished a VP Eng role at Humu. Now I'm looking to join	15.8×	214k	839	111	72
5	Nov 2, '18	life hack: console log function that auto-indents based on the depth of your call stack	13.9×	0	5.1k	1.1k	272
6	Oct 27, '18	To the YouTube commenters saying me being a “thing in a dress” takes away from the content of my keynote: I was React’s #1 committer for its first 5 years, and now I manage the tea	10.6×	0	4.5k	578	28
7	Apr 24, '20	no I actually did not want to search google for `localhost:8080`, thank you	10.2×	0	5k	404	16
8	Apr 18, '21	Knuth check	9.7×	0	4.7k	232	111
9	Jan 1, '22	365/365	8.1×	0	3.9k	81	134
10	Jul 8, '22	concept: german bakery named Gluten Tag	7.5×	0	3.6k	258	53
11	Oct 1, '19	Just got out of an interview during which the candidate searched Stack Overflow and copy-pasted some code… from an answer I wrote. (They didn’t notice.)	7.0×	0	3.3k	238	25
12	Jan 11, '19	Today's my last day at Facebook. I'm gonna miss working on React full time, but I'm excited to try something smaller and new: I'm joining @humuinc next week as an engineer.	6.3×	0	3k	131	16
13	Sep 3, '20	Last week, I was promoted to head of engineering at work!	5.9×	0	3.2k	20	15
14	Jul 11, '18	My programming strategy: if something can be fixed or made better in less than 15 minutes, don’t file a task for later or for someone else: just do it!	5.7×	0	2.1k	472	18
15	Mar 11, '18	Today's props go to Airbnb, who kindly edited my new name and pronouns into all the past reviews I've received from hosts – so new hosts who read them aren't confused. I feel appre	4.7×	0	2.2k	196	1
16	Feb 22, '19	my rule for .reduce(): only use it when the result has the same type as the items and the reducer is associative, like .reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0) ✅ summing some numbers ✅ multi	4.6×	0	1.6k	264	122
17	Jan 11, '20	The real “clean code” is code that is easy to understand, verify, and change. Which often means more repetition and less abstraction.	4.6×	0	1.8k	339	73
18	Mar 11, '23	in uncertain times, remember to focus on the important questions	4.2×	58k	540	54	1
19	May 19, '20	Unpopular opinion: moving "constants" that are used once to the top of the file is often less readable/maintainable than leaving them inline	4.2×	0	1.9k	129	24
20	Mar 21, '19	My one tip for organizing code: If two files are usually edited together, combine them into one. That is, organize your code to minimize the number of files (or directories) that t	4.1×	0	1.6k	265	41
21	Dec 11, '18	Don't listen to people who tell you your tools are bad. If you're happy with your tools and they're helping you build great stuff, that's all you need.	4.0×	0	1.6k	308	8
22	Nov 12, '18	I’m 26 today! 🎂 happy birthday to me	3.7×	0	1.8k	14	3
23	Dec 24, '19	Someone asked me today about the differences between Google’s and Facebook’s engineering cultures. Based on what I know, here’s what I said:	3.7×	0	1.2k	242	191
24	Sep 26, '17	React v16 is out! 😄 Read my post going behind the scenes of how we rewrote the whole thing: .	3.6×	0	994	470	0
25	Mar 6, '19	> aGkgdHdpd… me: I have no idea what this is > aGkgdHdpdHRlcg== me: oh it’s base 64	3.4×	0	1.5k	183	11
26	Mar 1, '20	if I was starting a new company I’d seriously consider using Rails not because I agree with most of their technical decisions (I actually disagree with a lot of them!) – but becaus	3.4×	0	1.5k	127	52
27	Jun 15, '21	instead of frontend vs backend as the two Main Types Of Engineers maybe we should talk about low-level code vs high-level product vs infra external users vs internal users	3.4×	0	1.4k	143	91
28	Oct 27, '18	In this community we respect all people. If you have a problem with that, you don’t have to use React.	3.2×	0	1.6k	121	0
29	Nov 11, '19	literally just got an email offering me $600 if I send a pull request to their project because of the visibility it’ll give them what is the world coming to	3.1×	0	1.1k	156	35
30	Mar 23, '19	Good API design is the hardest part of building libraries.	3.0×	0	1.3k	180	10
31	Apr 27, '21	Simply have no feelings, write clean code, and you will be successful here	3.0×	0	1.5k	68	21
32	Feb 16, '20	That React Component Right Under Your Context Provider Should Probably Use `React.memo`	2.9×	0	944	143	185
33	Mar 31, '24	he didn’t notice 500ms of latency in his own workflow; he was investigating the source of high sshd CPU usage reported in performance monitoring tools	2.9×	39k	1k	40	49
34	Dec 21, '20	What you should take away from this: In a typical app, tons of components only rerender when there’s new data. This will let you run those components on the server instead. Which r	2.8×	0	980	175	121
35	Aug 26, '17	Really excited to share with all of you: I'm trans! Today is a great day because I get to start being me. 💖	2.8×	0	1.3k	45	0
36	May 30, '18	Happy 5th birthday, React!	2.7×	0	1.1k	189	2
37	Mar 26, '19	dinner with the @reactjs team!! first time I’ve seen the whole team in one place since 2016 💖💖	2.7×	0	1.4k	38	4
38	Feb 19, '19	After getting back into app dev, I feel like the React team has * underestimated how much code in apps is related to data fetching/management * overestimated how complex data reqs	2.6×	0	1.1k	100	44
39	May 19, '21	at facebook someone told me, “coding is the most important part of being an engineer, which is why 2/4 of the onsite interviews are coding”, which only seems like a worse and worse	2.5×	0	1.2k	53	43
40	Oct 31, '19	Hi! Watch my talk from last week's React Conf! It's about how to build your own React renderer. React DOM? React Native? React <whatever you want>!	2.5×	0	878	143	102
41	Apr 19, '19	using a monorepo solves many code management problems, and in turn it does introduce some of its own. but ime, the problems caused by a monorepo can be tackled by a single centrali	2.2×	0	874	144	29
42	Jan 2, '20	New blog post: "Fast and maintainable patterns for fetching from a database"	2.2×	0	688	120	152
43	Aug 25, '18	Using fancy words instead of simple, common ones makes things harder to understand. Your writing will be clearer if you stick with a small vocabulary.	2.1×	0	817	149	4
44	Jun 12, '19	At Facebook we often ended up preferring GraphQL types based more around a "view model" rather than a pure, normalized "model" for a few reasons:	2.1×	0	706	139	94
45	Sep 1, '19	hey it’s been two whole years since I came out! 🥳💖🏳️‍🌈	2.0×	0	1.1k	5	0
46	May 15, '18	👀 Looks like the React Devtools extension on the Chrome webstore now has over 1,000,000 users. That's over a million developers using @reactjs! 🎉	2.0×	0	843	137	5
47	Mar 26, '21	google cloud support, week 1: are you sure you’re not using it wrong week 2: ok we’re looking into your problem week 3: we’re still looking week 4: still looking week 5: it’s been	2.0×	0	980	40	10
48	Nov 22, '17	How to build a good test suite: 1. Every time you fix a bug, add tests that would have caught it 2. Wait a year or two (There is no step 3.)	2.0×	0	662	224	0
49	Dec 4, '18	More than anyone else I know, I like to fix stuff. Especially in code I didn't write. In this post, I explain why and how.	1.9×	0	672	100	50
50	Mar 31, '19	you can see me today because it’s #TransDayOfVisbility! being me is one of the best things I’ve ever done 🏳️‍🌈	1.9×	0	1k	28	0
51	May 31, '19	Working at a 50-person startup, I feel like the most important things I can spend time on are building the right culture and habits on our team for the future. Feels way more impor	1.8×	0	822	75	19
52	Sep 20, '19	I think it's time for a new profile picture	1.8×	0	988	4	5
53	Oct 15, '19	my new favorite thing is how every language has its own little abbreviation of "for example" e.g. – English p.ej. – Spanish p.ex. – French z.B. – German	1.8×	0	726	74	28
54	Dec 26, '18	Feelin' bored tonight so I just wrote and published a new post: why do code reviews?	1.8×	0	557	179	46
55	Sep 26, '19	TIL: `background-color: currentColor` pulls the element's text color! Works on all modern browsers (IE9+).	1.8×	0	740	84	43
56	Jan 7, '20	I'm shocked global calendar optimization is still Not A Thing. * Need a room all day, but it has a 30min block already? * Need to meet w/ 7 people, but every slot has _1_ person wi	1.8×	0	772	51	48
57	May 12, '21	Returning from a 1-week vacation is the worst length because everyone will have just waited for you to come back instead of figuring their shit out another way…	1.8×	0	927	34	8
58	Jul 18, '22	who do I need to bribe to make the next apple watch have a co2 sensor? it would be a gift to global public health	1.8×	0	833	56	19
59	Aug 8, '18	If we wrote official React guides with examples and “best practices” for topics like: animations, forms, error handling, data management… what would you most want us to cover? (Mor	1.7×	0	653	62	12
60	Jul 11, '19	Whenever a rule is added in a team, first ask: Will the existence of this rule discourage future people from using their human judgement to make smart decisions in nuanced situatio	1.6×	0	597	141	19
61	Oct 24, '18	sure React 16.6 is good but just wait until you see what we’ve got for 16.7! I think I’m more excited about 16.7 than any release before it 😀	1.6×	0	682	83	2
62	May 31, '18	You should apply for jobs that list some qualifications you don’t have. But also: if you do meet all of the preferred qualifications in a job ad, there’s a good chance you are over	1.5×	0	593	117	7
63	Jun 7, '21	instead of making a rainbow logo for pride month, make it so people can easily change their name everywhere it appears in your products looking at you @Spotify with the unchangea	1.5×	0	667	73	6
64	Jan 14, '22	logging lets you travel through time debuggers let you travel through space	1.5×	0	541	76	56
65	Apr 11, '19	Instead of Google forcing AMP on people, someone should make guidelines for writing fast webpages and a way to statically verify if pages follow them. Then G can add an icon in sea	1.5×	0	650	66	4
66	Aug 13, '20	WTB a lint rule that detects const [processedData, setProcessedData] = useState(); useEffect(() => { let processed = /* do something with data */; setProcessedData(processed); }	1.4×	0	520	57	79
67	Aug 24, '18	Heading to Google HQ this afternoon to host a Q&A with their engineers about building with React!	1.4×	0	629	52	3
68	Mar 26, '19	If I have to choose between building a community that attracts (a) a diverse group that cares about the consequences of their words and actions, and (b) only people who aren’t offe	1.4×	0	592	80	5
69	Feb 17, '20	what	1.4×	0	665	23	6
70	Nov 15, '18	and may I present: the fix I just wrote.	1.4×	0	594	48	16
71	Apr 9, '19	Looks like about 1 in 4 developers (professional or not) use @reactjs according to the @StackOverflow survey. And 3/4 of them would happily use it again! 😎	1.4×	0	618	60	4
72	Oct 31, '19	25% of professional developers use @reactjs. At least, according to Stack Overflow's 2019 Developer Survey (17,800 out of 72,500). Wow.	1.3×	0	594	70	5
73	Apr 17, '19	people say “manager readmes” are cocky+prescriptive, but if I want to tell things like * your health is more important to me than your work, or * if you’re unhappy please lmk and I	1.3×	0	603	40	24
74	Jun 4, '20	Some people seem impressive on the internet but are disappointing when you get to know or work with them. Dan's the real deal. A great person, and talented too. A++, would work wit	1.3×	0	714	26	2
75	Feb 28, '19	if A players hire A players but B players hire C players… who hires B players?	1.3×	0	542	50	8
76	Dec 23, '18	oh yeah so you’re a feminist? go ahead, name three women	1.3×	0	532	71	1
77	Nov 4, '18	luv 2 find a stack overflow answer I wrote 7 YEARS AGO that tells me exactly what I want to know	1.3×	0	666	30	1
78	Jul 17, '18	Making your code unnecessarily general can really hurt maintainability because it's less likely to fit your future needs. Corollary: Third-party libraries, unless supremely well de	1.3×	0	483	96	8
79	Oct 14, '19	ah yes, the six genders	1.3×	0	595	51	3
80	Oct 25, '18	when you try out React 16.7 alpha I think you‘re gonna be totally hooked	1.3×	0	577	54	1
81	Jun 3, '18	Why does everyone claim GitLab is the obvious GitHub alternative? My mind goes to BitBucket.	1.2×	0	468	63	1
82	Oct 30, '18	feeling grateful this weekend for all the amazing devs on my team. in alphabetical order:	1.2×	0	586	27	8
83	Dec 12, '18	I wonder if React should warn against <button> without a type. it's type="submit" by default but that's often not what you want!	1.2×	0	497	37	10
84	Jun 25, '20	@dan_abramov	1.2×	0	557	42	5
85	Feb 16, '20	is there anything worse than a mobile website that scrolls horizontally (just a little bit)	1.2×	0	577	14	3
86	Feb 9, '19	I’m really enjoying my new job, but I miss working on React a lot	1.1×	0	616	4	0
87	Feb 2, '20	What if React errors had the full props objects in each component stack?	1.1×	0	553	17	4
88	Mar 11, '20	I used to say "I believe in capitalism" to mean "I think markets are sometimes good at optimizing for things" but then I realized that most other people who say that mean closer to	1.1×	0	516	32	9
89	Jul 3, '19	¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ that's how you shrug in markdown	1.1×	0	502	46	3
90	Dec 15, '17	My evening hack: speeding up Babel by 40% on some inputs.	1.1×	0	489	51	0
91	Jul 27, '21	tell me you use z-index without telling me you use z-index	1.1×	0	527	21	12
92	May 2, '19	if you watch the position of the blue bubbles here, you can see they lag behind the window resizing 🙈 if you can, make your 'resize' handlers 60fps so you don't need to throttle!	1.1×	0	471	39	15
93	Mar 8, '19	good day to be a woman	1.0×	0	584	2	2
94	May 24, '21	new profile pic! photo credit @emilymhorsman	1.0×	0	557	1	6
95	Jun 9, '19	Email in my inbox. Think I should take them up on it? 🤔	1.0×	0	494	17	3
96	Aug 29, '18	I can’t believe I missed the date but: as of this past weekend, it’s been a year since I came out as trans! I’m much happier now. 💖 (Supporting trans folks is good and saves lives	1.0×	0	543	5	1
97	Oct 12, '19	the jar of pickles I just bought says Serving size: 1/2 pickle so I’m not convinced the person who wrote it actually knows what a pickle is	0.9×	0	467	21	1
98	Nov 11, '19	is this what it feels like to be an influencer	0.9×	0	509	3	1
99	Dec 31, '18	1. first full year of being a manager (imo it went pretty well)! 2. first full year of being a lady (or rather, being treated as one)! 3. made some new friends (whom I love a lot)!	0.9×	0	462	5	2
100	May 7, '21	shot 2 ✅ please get it if you can – and I’m hoping that our government decides to offer help to folks in India and elsewhere who desperately need it	0.9×	0	463	3	2

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