Joe Maffei

🎸 My most favorite thing about using Typescript! ~ When you have a reusable component and it's a massively overwhelming codebase, while using those components, it is highly likely that you won't remember the required fields. ~ Maybe you provide the fields that instantly comes to your mind, but the component required some other props to be provided based on different scenarios. ~ Using Typescript with a pinch of ESLint, just solves this problem so beautifully. ~ This actually helps fasten up a progressive static frontend engineering phase. #typescript #ihatetypescript #illovetypescript #softwareengineering #frontend #frontendengineering

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If you're a C# dev wanting to contribute to a great product and join a truly sick team I've been curating for the past few months let's chat. From CEO, CTO to Architect you will love the folks you're working for and they will unleash you. Product is a game-changer! Need a great C#/BE so this team can cook!!! 👨‍🍳 *US/GC only & continental U.S. is a must. #Csharp #dotnetcore #dotnet #backendengineer #rabbitMQ #postgreSQL #redis #docker #angular #typescript

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🚨 Question for all developers! 🚨 I’m particularly reaching out to the JavaScript/TypeScript and Dart communities. I'm curious about the tools you're using for gathering analytics/KPIs in your projects. What are your favorite analytics tools and how do they work out for you? Do you opt for the paid versions? Please share your experience, I’m really curious to hear from all of you! #JavaScript #TypeScript #Dart #Analytics #KPI #WebDevelopment #SoftwareDevelopment

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Lately, I'm running into an issue with senior devs not being able to pass coding screens. I'm NOT talking multi-day take home projects or leet code style questions that require dynamic programming. I'm talking the equivalent of fizzbuzz. -- tic tac toe in react -- pulling data from a data store in python -- using types in typescript ... Anyone noticing the same thing? How much prep should a senior dev really need to do these tests?

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I stopped using Lodash because I only needed a few methods from it. It’s easier for me to create a small utils folder in my project with the functions I need instead of installing the entire Lodash library. Lodash also includes many outdated functions that are already part of JavaScript, and you still have to install @types/lodash since it doesn’t have built-in types. But recently, I found the es-toolkit library, and it’s amazing! It’s similar to Lodash and has many useful tools, but has built-in TypeScript support and works with tree shaking out of the box. It's constantly maintained, and there’s no legacy code that should have been removed a long time ago. I hope this library will help you in your projects as well 😊 Check out es-toolkit here: https://lnkd.in/e8aCKQVq.

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Yesterday two of my consult calls shared that they didn’t know that Developer Relations was a thing. When you’re in it, in the depth of the industry and knowledge, it’s easy to think everyone knows what you do. I sort of fell into this bucket a little, but I should have known better. This means I may need to change my messaging and approach if I plan to target these prospects. I can’t use the term DevRel until I’ve introduced it first. Do you listen to your developer customers to know that your messaging or approach needs to shift?

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Another side project: https://lnkd.in/gcqPiKPr Have you ever wonder how hard it is to display 200+ events per day in a way that makes any sense? Turns out is pretty hard

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If you've ever had any interest in the prospect of software development but don't know where to start, here's a blog written up on Skillsoft by the very talented Alec Olson detailing a little bit about the overall gig, the tools we use, and what makes us tick. It even features a couple of quotes from yours truly! Thanks again Alec for the opportunity to share some of my experiences. https://lnkd.in/gECfjYen #coding #development #softwaredevelopment #fullstack

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👀 The Great Job Hunt Chronicles: A Vue.js Developer's Tale 🎢 🚀 So, it's been a looooong time since I embarked on this epic journey called "Job Hunting." My weapon of choice? Vue.js! 🛡️ Yes, that elusive tech with opportunities rarer than unicorn sightings. 🦄 But guess what? Despite the odds, I've been landing interviews! 🎉 Nailing them, even! 🎯 However, there's this curious phenomenon where HR seems to have forgotten basic human decency. 🕵️‍♂️ Imagine this: you prepare, you ace the interview, you wait...and then...crickets 🦗🦗 Dear HR folks, a quick tip: the suspense is not thrilling. It's agonizing. 😩 At least have the courtesy to let a person know where they stand. Thumbs up? Thumbs down? Something? Anything? 🤷‍♂️ For all those in the trenches with me, keep pushing forward. And to those HR magicians, please, a little transparency would go a long way. If you can't help, at least don't leave us hanging. 🙏 #JobHunt #Vuejs #Transparency #HR #TheStruggleIsReal #JobSearchChronicles

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Y'all, I had a short conversation with a developer looking fr work who is deciding whether or not to put up a photo on LinkedIn and social media in general because he's worried people will judge him because he "looks" religious. Folks, this is 2024. We know ignorance is rampant in the world today, especially on college campuses and places where people are supposedly taught critical thinking skills. Hiring managers and HR/recruitment teams, from one hiring manager to another: If you're more concerned about what's on a candidate's head than what's under it, then they're not going to want to work for you anyhow. If you're more concerned about how a candidate presents themselves, or who they love, then how they do their job, and how dedicated and talented they are- check yourself. #loveislove #pridemonth #a11y #dei #inclusive #hiring (Photo credit: Nili Auerbach)

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Quick question... If someone passes a folder path that does not exist to #wplizard as their plugin root, should I create that folder or throw an error?

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Hot take : there’s no such thing as a 10x dev or engineer.  There are juniors and seniors. There are people who work faster or slower. If someone on your team is producing 10x what someone else is producing, it’s either poor quality or you have someone massively underproducing. 

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I can’t find it now but our team not long ago had a good laugh at a cartoon panel about a software engineer so exasperated at some syntax heavy quasi-code (Terraform, Webpack, Redux?), they quit and took up wood carving. It was our little joke in the Slacks for a minute. Now that the universe has blessed us with an opportunity for reflection (mass lay-offs), we might revisit that theme a bit more seriously. What does a set of wood chisels cost, anyway? I have been consistently surprised, over a couple decades of interviewing software engineering candidates, at how many are unable to demonstrate real interest in the field. Oh sure, there are platitudes; there’s the performative stuff that is the lifeblood of LinkedIn. But there’s less evidence of internally motivated, quiet, continuous self-improvement. What (software engineering things) did you do in the months since you left your last job? What new things are you currently exploring in the field? If the answer is “nothing,” congratulations, you sound like a normal person. But maybe it also means this is an opportunity to realign if not pivot to find what does spark curiosity for you, what you would love exploring. Maybe more UX programming; or more algorithmic. Few things will make your next job more enjoyable than having enthusiasm for the work.

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Every senior developer knows about DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself), but how many of you knows about YAGNI (You Ain’t Gonna Need it)? Effeciency is one step closer to perfection. - don’t write the same code twice (better code readability) - don’t hold/pass what you don’t need (better code readability, better performance, better battery consumption, lower memory usage)

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Being a historian by original trade I find that going over the old articles when learning about a new area (studying as a front-end developer) is so paramount to an overview of understanding. A recent find that I have enjoyed learning about is the misunderstood meaning on what front-end developer does. Ivan Codesido (2009) (coincidence of name, I think not!) claims that they: "Create clear, easy, fast pages and interfaces that will make people understand and care about the information, by putting it in context, expose its legitimacy or lack thereof, and reveal [the information's] implicit or explicit interconnection." Thoughts? If you are a start-up or scale-up business looking to expand your technology team, please do get in touch as we can connect you with top-notch talent. [email protected] 📧 +447483 095 573 📱 #Technology #Front-End #WebDevelopment #Talent #Meaning #GetInTouch

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Ok, so the next developer who says LLM is "game-changing" will get smacked in the face by me. Well, maybe not smacked in the face, but certainly get their skull crushed in by an oversized blunt weapon. People who never wanted to learn much about programming will continue to never want to learn much about programming. Those who wanted to learn about programming and were never quite 100% satisfied by Google, StackOverflow, and other online material, will continue to be never quite 100% satisfied by LLM. The game hasn't changed at all. The only people who can legitimately say LLM is a game-changer are venture capitalists.

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