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✨ Jean Yang ✨
@jeanqasaur
Dev tools all day all night. Founded @akitasoftware, acquired by @getpostman. Former programming languages professor @CSDatCMU.
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    Nov 2, 2021
    In the last few years, I've talked with hundreds, if not thousands, of software developers. What I've learned: there's a HUGE gap between what developer-influencers are writing about, versus the daily reality of most developers. BUT PEOPLE DON'T TALK ABOUT THE OTHER STUFF. 1/
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    Dec 6, 2019
    Two important lessons I learned in my twenties: - If you think everyone hates you, you probably need to sleep. - If you think you hate everyone, you probably need to eat.
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    ✨ Jean Yang ✨
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    Aug 5, 2020
    Ok I couldn't resist. Taylor Swift as classic programming textbooks, a thread.
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    ✨ Jean Yang ✨
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    Apr 5, 2021
    Problems people on Twitter think women in tech face, vs the problems women in tech actually face
    Problems people think women in tech face, a pie chart
    Problems women in tech actually face, a pie chart
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    ✨ Jean Yang ✨
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    Apr 25, 2019
    Taylor Swift as iconic computers, a thread
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    Jun 6, 2022
    Software developers looking at logs
    Royal children looking upset
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    ✨ Jean Yang ✨
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    Sep 11, 2018
    Today I discovered an unfortunate consequence of GDPR: once someone hacks into your account, they can request--and potentially access--all of your data. Whoever hacked into my @Spotify account got all of my streaming, song, etc. history simply by requesting it. 😱
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    ✨ Jean Yang ✨
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    Aug 3, 2023
    In software engineering, there's what people think of as "docs" and then there's "the information I needed to debug that thing that took to days of my life." The second thing is different and should be called something other than "documentation." But what should we call it?
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    ✨ Jean Yang ✨
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    Nov 2, 2021
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    To start shedding unattainable software standards, let's: 🛑 Stop thinking of software as homogeneously represented by a small number of unrepresentative companies 🗯 Start being more honest about "real software process" 🛠 Demand more solutions to the real problems!! end/
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    ✨ Jean Yang ✨
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    Sep 6, 2023
    Today, I made a curious discovery: Javascript, Typescript, Python, and Java all follow the same cyclical pattern on Google Trends. Rust, on the other hand, does not. My theory: weekends. You know a dev tool is primarily used at work when you start seeing the Weekend Drop.
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    ✨ Jean Yang ✨
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    Aug 4, 2023
    Programming Programming in a dynamically in a statically typed language typed language
    Barbie vs Oppenheimer
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    ✨ Jean Yang ✨
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    Apr 26, 2018
    The TAs for the class I'm teaching, Principles of Imperative Computation, got me a "Functions are Pointers" jacket. (These jackets are in opposition to the "Functions are Values" jackets from the functional programming TAs.) I now wear it to point at functions.
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    ✨ Jean Yang ✨
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    Oct 18, 2020
    When I was and undergrad and junior grad student, I regularly burned myself out on deadlines. I actually work WAY harder now. And I'm able to do it because I learned to manage my energy better. Here are some lessons I learned. Thread. 👇
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    ✨ Jean Yang ✨
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    Nov 2, 2021
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    But the solutions that engineers at a Netflix or LinkedIn or Facebook come up with aren't for the vast majority of software shops: they're often best for big companies that can afford to set a high engineering bar, that can afford large infrastructure teams and ops teams. 3/