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Harry Horton @HarryHorton_dev

Contract software engineer ( Toptal): ♥️ all things Typescript, aspiring 🧙‍♂️, recovering cowboy coder, senior yak shaver, bugs are my own.

Joined July 2015
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All component libraries are wrong, but some are useful #javascript
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While they’re always great to get going with, the deeper I get into a project, the more I start replacing things, reading their source code, and creating workarounds. In the end, there is only the theming, layout, and icon systems.
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In the real end, there is nothing left but custom code and tears.
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Harry Horton@HarryHorton_dev
13 Jun 2024
"Oh boy, here I go rewriting everything again" Why are we like this? #programming
An obsessive neophyte raging about benign things they used to love.

ALT An obsessive neophyte raging about benign things they used to love.
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Harry Horton@HarryHorton_dev
2 Jun 2023
Hey @keepersecurity Really annoying that your desktop app grabs some really common shortcuts for other tools, and doesn't allow you to just disable the use of shortcuts... I'm trying to code and navigate the browser and have to discover your desktop app is interfering.
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Harry Horton@HarryHorton_dev
17 Apr 2023
My food is officially room temperature @netflix 😢 #LoveisBlind #LOVEISBLINDreunion

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Harry Horton@HarryHorton_dev
17 Apr 2023
People saying they’re canceling Netflix over this #LoveisBlind

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Harry Horton@HarryHorton_dev
17 Apr 2023
Pay us more money and we’ll spend it on making things better! #LoveIsBlindLIVE #loveisblind #LOVEISBLINDreunion

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Harry Horton@HarryHorton_dev
11 Mar 2023
If you convert your popular NPM package from CommonJS to ESM, and don't provide fallbacks, then FUCK YOU. There are too many varied situations to be a fucking purist. #typescript #javascript #NodeJS
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Harry Horton@HarryHorton_dev
18 Jan 2023
Designers: "Let's use a component library!" Devs: 🙌 Designers: "We're going to make a few modifications, but make a design system in Figma!" Devs: 👍 Designers: "We're going to totally ignore the existing component library and tokens and do what we want!" Devs: 😱😭🔫
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Harry Horton@HarryHorton_dev
24 Oct 2022
PHP is pronounced FFFP. It's a reference to it being like a fart. #programming
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Harry Horton@HarryHorton_dev
27 Sep 2022
Programming is just solving problems with more problems.
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Harry Horton@HarryHorton_dev
26 Sep 2022
🖕whoeveer debugs this #programming
Catch block that only has a comment "smells like a problem for future me"

ALT Catch block that only has a comment "smells like a problem for future me"
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Glancing at @Kurz_Gesagt thumbnails recently feels like: "Why you became a disappointment to yourself and others"
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"The origin of consciousness - why you're unaware of being unlovable"
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"Social polition: How your opinions are turning the world into shit"
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