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3 Mar, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Udemy is a bad company.
I wouldn't say this if this were the first time this sort of thing has happened. But this isn't the only thing that makes them terrible. It's one of a list of things.
To be clear, a bad companies can also help a lot of people but that doesn't mean it's not a bad company. It's exploitive of both learners and educators, implements dark patterns, and expects its users to vet the content for thievery.
Udemy is a bad company, despite people managing to learn something (at a 90% discount for a "limited time only"!!) on their platform.
Years ago I was invited to work with them. I didn't know better and almost said yes. I'm so glad I didn't.

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14 Dec 20
3 hours... @etrade what the heck.

On hold for three hours. This is ridiculous. Screenshot of phone app showing an ongoing call of being in
@etrade I guess this is normal? reddit.com/r/etrade/comme…
@etrade THEY ANSWERED!!!! 3.5 hours of hold.

We chatted for a bit... And then he had to put me on hold again. 🤦‍♂️

Luckily, the hold music is new and he said if we get disconnected he'll call me right back. I think this journey (of leaving etrade forever) is almost over. 😌
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6 Dec 20
Hey folks, just want to remind you of the 40% off deal going on at TestingJavaScript.com. Here's a thread of what some folks have said about it recently:
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18 Apr 20
Tools I love to build web apps with:
React
React Router (v6)
react-query
React/Cypress @TestingLib
Reach UI
@emotioncss
msw
react-error-boundary
@fbjest
@Cypress_io

And a framework like react-scripts or Gatsby or Next.

And that's pretty much the main/common stuff.
I just use colocation for state management (that includes composition and sometimes context when necessary). Don't need anything else even in "large enterprise apps." react-query manages server cache/state super well 👍
Maybe throw in a styled-system in there for teams/consistency a well.
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29 Dec 19
Ok, so let's talk about this for a second.

First, I apologize for not being more clear in the original question. I did try to clarify in following tweets. I was asking about United States Federal Income Taxes. And it was a bit of a trick question.

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Before getting into it, I just want to make it clear that I'm not demonizing Amazon for how many taxes they pay. They do pay all the taxes they're legally required to pay. The problem does not lie in Amazon (or all the other big companies this applies to), but in the US tax code.
Oh, and yes, I acknowledge that these companies are doing stuff with the money they're not giving to the government, but the fact remains that Amazon (and similar companies) are closing other tax-paying businesses which results in overall less tax revenue for the US.
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26 Dec 19
A company should not require you to work extra hours (I think even a 40 hour work week is too much).

If you want to work *for yourself* on weekends and evenings to level up then sure, do it.

I wouldn't have the freedom I have now without doing that in my 20s.
I still do that sometimes, but not nearly as much. I overdid it a bit occasionally (at the expense to my personal health and family). I probably could've made it fine by being more balanced.
If you just want to clock in for work, get stuff done, then clock out having given good work for your company in a reasonable amount of time and be done with it, that's great. Do that.

I just wouldn't have the career success and freedom that I have today if I had done that.
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25 Jul 19
This pattern:

test('whatever', () => {
const foo = someThing()
// use foo
})

makes for a WAY simpler testbase than:

let foo
beforeEach(() => {
foo = someThing()
})

test('whatever', () => {
// use foo
})

Avoid mutable variables. Your tests will be easier to understand
To be clear, you can see what I recommend in kcd.im/aha-testing
Mostly what bothers me is sharing variables and nesting of `describe` blocks. I've written a lot of tests, and nesting makes them so much harder to follow.
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