Jon Low
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Jon Low
@jonlowforever
web developer, ux designer, office b-ball & ping pong dominator, vintage mobile phone collector. Technical lead at https://t.co/52boLKayJZ https://t.co/pDT3NmsFix
Melbourne Katılım Eylül 2010
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So, this is the founder of Zcash.
Zcash 🛡️@Zcash
"Privacy allows people to think freely. There's the space inside your head where you can basically think whatever you want and be fairly confident that no one is reading your mind. You can reason about the world and reason about what should happen in the world. @feministPLT #zcash $ZEC #privacyisnormal
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I don't know the right way to talk about burnout, but here we go.
Helping build a developer community was not something I ever planned on doing. It kind of just... happened. And it's wonderful.
It's a privilege to be part of a community that cares. To share any feedback, good or bad, requires non-zero energy. You could have done a million other things with your day, but you chose to help make a product I work on better. So, for that I'm really grateful.
The way people talk online can really affect your mental state. And it's only online, developers are always so nice in person (even when you disagree).
You might be thinking: just log off brah, delete the X app. And you're right, I could. But it's kind of part of the job. Hard to build an open source community if you don't respond to people on GitHub, right?
It's impossible to build a great product if you're not comfortable receiving negative feedback. So, I try to assume good intent from everyone, stay positive and optimistic, and just keep building.
When you spend years building something (a community, an open source project), it's hard not to let issues with the product weigh on you.
I have a running list of all the things I want to improve with Next.js and Vercel — and working hard to try to do as many as I can.
But sometimes the attacks aren't about the product. They're personal.
And that... really sucks.
It feels like a disservice to anyone who wants to build an open source community, or share things online, for me to not talk more openly about this. So I'm trying.
I've went through phases of "community burnout" over the past four years, and have mostly managed to stay optimistic.
I'm sure my wife is sick of me talking about Next.js 🤣 But yeah, I'm a little burnt out.
The only thing you can really do is time take to reset. Luckily, I have some time off coming up soon. Looking forward to that.
So yeah, if you're in this boat, my DMs are open if you want to talk about it.
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I have 10 promo codes to give away to get @raycastapp Pro for free for 30 days. Will pull randoms from the replies to send them to later today 🤙
I hope you’re already a user and are just lookin’ to try pro 😉
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As difficult as it'll be for Australia to replace Nathan Lyon this series, they have a fine spin deputy in Todd Murphy. Was highly impressive in India. Yes, conditions won't be as helpful, but has control and temperament beyond his years. He won't be daunted at all. #Ashes
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Having an established end-to-end workflow for your site development process with Git version control can seriously level up your #WordPress agency.
Join @dcook next week as he demos how to set up a Git-based workflow with @LocalWP and @github Actions. 👇
wpeng.in/builders-local…
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How I made the Voidpet react native app load instantly and be super responsive
- standard expo
- hermes
- eas build
- AsyncStorage call instead of network call for data
- some buttons use onPressIn which gives the illusion of speed
- native navigation stack from react-navigation
- smaller build size (38.3mb on iOS) (I didn't do anything special to reduce the build size just happened lol)
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@andrewingram @shadcn I prefer using @ because it makes my brain feel happy
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@rajatkapoor @vercel Can you share more why you have two Vercel accounts? A single account (email) can be part of [n] number of teams. But I might be missing something.
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If you could join @vercel for one day and change something about the product, what would it be?
I'm going to ship some quick wins to improve the developer experience during our internal hackathon next week.
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