Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

Engineering Manager . JavaScript, TypeScript, GraphQL, Serverless, APIs, SDKs. Previous life: physics research at the South Pole

Chicago, IL
Joined April 2009
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    15 Sep 2020

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  2. 16 hours ago

    Make more national parks!

    Visitors to the most popular national parks this summer are waiting more for access. “Anywhere you go, there’s going to be a line,” said one tourist on a visit to Utah.
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    Jun 13

    Visitors to the most popular national parks this summer are waiting more for access. “Anywhere you go, there’s going to be a line,” said one tourist on a visit to Utah.

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  4. Retweeted
    Jun 11

    I just wanna shout out my cofellow cause the gave her the award for Outstanding Fellow of the Year and I am not surprised!

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  5. Retweeted
    Jun 10
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    I'll bite. Inheritance is bad. Classes are not inherently bad but they enable inheritance. Inheritance is the alcohol and classes are the shot glasses. If your kitchen cabinets are full of shot glasses don't be surprised when you discover your programmers are drunk.

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  6. Jun 10

    Is this a reverse NFT?

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  7. Jun 10

    My favorite episode of Chef's Table is now available to purchase in real life

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    Jun 9

    I spent the first half of the 2010s railing against low quality. But sometimes a mess is fine; it's a difficult line to walk. It's easy to end up with an app full of "NaN days ago". It's also easy to build the perfect test runner or DI framework or whatever instead of your app.

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  9. Jun 7

    Much easier to find 20 different blog posts about how you are using TypeScript enums wrong

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  10. Jun 7

    Its hard to find really good *specific* detailed advice as an engineering manager. But makes sense! No one is going to blog publicly or discuss in the open about their team

    It’s been hard to tweet about work since moving into management. It’s so people-focused and you can’t just be airing your team’s dirty laundry to all your followers, ya know? I miss talking tech with my community here. Curious if other managers have experienced the same.
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    Jun 7

    Announcing: Shiki-Twoslash, a system for creating best-in-class code samples for describing JS/TS. Mixing info with VS 's syntax highlighting. Provide the best parts of an IDE's developer experience in static HTML sites. JS optional.

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  12. Jun 4

    Breakfast – at SingleThread Farm, Restaurant, and Inn

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  13. Jun 4

    my kayaking tour guide tried to sell me cryptocurrency

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  14. Jun 3

    I would like to thank the exodus of techies from the bay area for making It possible to get this reservation – at SingleThread Farm, Restaurant, and Inn

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    Jun 1

    In my own work, I find myself instinctively--almost subconsciously--battling any named process implementation as a result. OKRs, Holacracy, BDD, "Agile", etc. More (or less?) about that here

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    Jun 2

    Every time I accidentally become a React apologist my soul splits again and another horcrux is created. I'll be selling these as an NFT soon.

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  17. Jun 2

    Every time I accidentally become a React apologist my soul splits again and another horcrux is created. I'll be selling these as an NFT soon.

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  18. Jun 2

    To be clear I'm 💯 with extracting app logic and unit testing it when it makes sense. It's perfectly possible with react. Make a function. Call it from your react components. Done.

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  19. Jun 2

    Insert "all unit tests passed" meme

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  20. Jun 2

    Why is splitting UI and app logic desirable? I often see this treated as an axiom but it's not obvious to me. Modularization on the dimension of UI components can be good thing. It's aligned with how users actually exercise the application

    React encourages app logic inside UI code, making app logic units difficult or impossible to exercise. With no accessible logic, React devs redefined or rejected "unit test". Then they rejected the testing pyramid based on that. But it's not about testing; it's about React.
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  21. May 29

    The rental car shortage is real. Tried to book for several possible summer trips and literally zero cars available

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