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sophie alpert
@sophiebits
(find me on bl**sky)
san francisco
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    Jan 14, 2022
    logging lets you travel through time debuggers let you travel through space
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    sophie alpert
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    Nov 19, 2018
    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 clearly I'd hire someone with these skills any day.
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    sophie alpert
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    Apr 24, 2020
    no I actually did not want to search google for `localhost:8080`, thank you
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    sophie alpert
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    Nov 2, 2018
    life hack: console log function that auto-indents based on the depth of your call stack
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    sophie alpert
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    Apr 18, 2021
    Knuth check
    photo of a signed check from Donald E. Knuth made out to Sophie Alpert for 0x$5.20 (or ā€œFive and 32/256 hexadecimal dollarsā€)
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    sophie alpert
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    Oct 27, 2018
    To the YouTube commenters saying me being a ā€œthing in a dressā€ takes away from the content of my keynote: I was React’s #1 committer for its first 5 years, and now I manage the team. This content wouldn’t _exist_ without me. Would be cool if you respected me as a person too.
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    sophie alpert
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    Jan 1, 2022
    365/365
    screenshot of my apple watch fitness rings showing all three rings closed every day this year
    screenshot of Apple Fitness app showing that I’ve won each monthly challenge award this year
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    sophie alpert
    @sophiebits
    Jul 8, 2022
    concept: german bakery named Gluten Tag
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    sophie alpert
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    Oct 1, 2019
    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.)
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    sophie alpert
    @sophiebits
    May 31, 2023
    I have 10 years of react experience
    A pull request from me to facebook/react, merged on May 30, 2013. Titled ā€œChange TodoMVC to not modify state in place #31ā€, it changes an array .push preceding a setState call to use .concat instead.
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    sophie alpert
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    Sep 3, 2020
    Last week, I was promoted to head of engineering at work!
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    sophie alpert
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    Jan 11, 2019
    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.
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    sophie alpert
    @sophiebits
    Mar 11, 2018
    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 appreciative of processes that aren't garbage to trans people.
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    sophie alpert
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    Jul 11, 2018
    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!

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