Nikhita Raghunath

@TheNikhita

contributor, dev , prev w/ .💛 distributed systems & open source. opinions and tweets my own.

Bangalore, India
nikhita.github.io
Joined September 2016
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  1. Retweeted
    10 hours ago

    If you’re involved in some part of the OSS world, I have a higher expectation of politeness when you open an issue. Don’t be that person that is rude in an issue tracker just because it’s not *your* project.

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    Jun 29

    I think I figured out why coding interviews stress me out so much my natural mode of problem-solving is very exploratory & experimental, testing ideas & building up but interviews feel like you have to KNOW the right approach right away & execute perfectly on the first try

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    Jun 28

    I don’t think people realize how much time contributors work in the background. Things that may not be in the public light. Thank you to each and everyone, no matter the project, paid/unpaid, no matter. It bleeds into personal life.

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  4. Retweeted
    Jun 29

    One of the most under-appreciated aspects of open source is that it gives you a way to maintain your most treasured collaborative relationships, even as people change jobs and locations.

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  5. Retweeted
    Jun 29

    Due to my elite programming skills, I figured out how to shave off THIRTY SECONDS from my app's startup time. Here's some optimization tips: 1. Remove the sleep(30) call you added a month ago and forgot about

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  6. Retweeted
    Jun 29
    Replying to

    Kudos to for having done most of the heavy lifting in this client-go release 👏

    client-go v8.0.0 is released!! 🎉 This is my favourite release because it comes with an awesome dynamic client! Checkout the changelog for more details. 😎
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  7. Jun 29

    client-go v8.0.0 is released!! 🎉 This is my favourite release because it comes with an awesome dynamic client! Checkout the changelog for more details. 😎

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  8. Retweeted
    Jun 27

    that thing ur working on matters. even if it never sees the light of day, it will change you, and you matter, so that matters. even if it sees the light of a thousand days, its most important thing may still be that it will change you, and you matter, so that matters. keep going

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  9. Retweeted
    Jun 27

    An awesome comparison of 2nd gen options to build controllers: kubebuilder, operator sdk and metacontroller by

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  10. Retweeted
    Jun 25

    Today is the first day at a software engineering internship for my little brother. HIS FIRST JOB EVER. My friend, who works there, just texted me… “Your brother just asked to use the bathroom 😂😂”

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  11. Jun 25

    It has also helped me be clearer about the changes I request! Especially in open source, where folks might not specifically know each other, it's easy to be misinterpreted as "the reviewer doesn't like my patch and my code is horrible". Emojis help a lot in avoiding this! 🙂

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  12. Jun 25

    I have started adding more emojis in my code reviews (inspired by ) and someone reached out to me saying that they felt welcomed to the community because of it. 😍 ✨USE MORE EMOJIS IN CODE REVIEWS, PEOPLE! IT FEELS AMAZING!✨

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  13. Retweeted
    Jun 24

    Please don’t ask your female engineers to help you with diversity or recruit other female engineers. That isn’t their job, they are engineers.

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  14. Retweeted
    Jun 24

    Here's some of my hard-earned lessons learned from interviewing for a senior go developer position last year

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  15. Retweeted
    Jun 24

    tfw you track down the problem with your side project to a standard library issue, and there's an open bug about it... and it's assigned to you

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  16. Retweeted
    Jun 14

    remember when you wanted what you have now

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    Jun 22

    Darling open source nerds: what are you best resources or tips for managing and growing open source projects?

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  18. Jun 21

    Woot, kubebuilder now has subresoures support! 💃💃

    Added support for status subresources to kubebuilder, scale coming next
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  19. Jun 21

    😂 TheNameOfThisTypeIsExactly255BytesLongSoWhenTheCompilerPrependsTheReflectTestPackageNameAndExtraStarTheLinkerRuntimeAndReflectPackagesWillHaveToCorrectlyDecodeTheSecondLengthByte0123456789_0123456789_0123456789_0123456789_0123456789_012345678

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  20. Retweeted
    Jun 20

    The Anti-Schrödinger Rule of Testing: if you don't expect a test to pass 100% of the time, don't include it in your acceptance suite.

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