The replies under every engineer tweeting they've just been fired from Twitter are filled with newly verified and incredibly divorced men gloating the engineer will never work again, and tech leads from giant companies offering them jobs.
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wait until he discovers the twitter codebase is full of WEAK references and LAZY vals, send tweet
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Man I just have to be real for a second: what's happening at/to Twitter is making me deeply sad on multiple levels. I spent a lot of my formative years helping to build this thing, trying to do my little bit along with so many other great ppl to improve the code and the culture.
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I've run the numbers and this is my best tweet.
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The Loser
Despair
Fear and Trembling
Misery
If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript twitter.com/Twitter/status
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Goodfellas (1990)
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COWORKER: we need to find the root cause asap
ME: *takes long drag* the root cause is that our processes are not robust enough to prevent a person from making this mistake
COWORKER: amy please not right now
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Really enjoyed talking with about our TypeScript migration. If you want to hear more about the project check out the recent podcast where we discuss our tools, road bumps, and more! devtools.fm/episode/33
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Last month, @tylerkrupicka and I got to chat with @kyliebytes about the weekend we migrated Stripe's largest JS codebase from Flow to TypeScript. Very happy to see this article come out! businessinsider.com/stripe-migrate
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We open-sourced the tooling we used for the migration–please reach out to us if you need help adapting it for your team 😀
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I’m most excited about open-sourcing the tool we built to convert Flow to TS at scale, building on the work of @calebmer and Airtable. github.com/stripe-archive
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Last month, and I got to chat with about the weekend we migrated Stripe's largest JS codebase from Flow to TypeScript. Very happy to see this article come out!
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How do you transform millions of lines of flow into TypeScript? Join us this Friday with from to hear about their journey
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I’m most excited about open-sourcing the tool we built to convert Flow to TS at scale, building on the work of and Airtable.
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Over one weekend, my team at Stripe migrated our largest JavaScript codebase—containing 3.7 million lines of code—to TypeScript with minimal disruptions. Here’s how we did it:
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Happy spot prawn season y’all
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I don’t have a SoundCloud but check out my dogs instagram.com/jello.pup/
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We work in North American timezones but Stripe has teams across the globe; I'm happy to redirect anyone who's interested.
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Folks from under-represented groups are encouraged to apply; if you have any questions about the team or the role, my DMs are open.
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If doing boring work over a long period of time to improve the lives of your fellow engineers sounds appealing, we're hiring! stripe.com/jobs/listing/f
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My personal role was to go to meetings and ask "But could we do it sooner?" All the credit goes to the amazing team @partyfists and some other folks too smart to be on Twitter.
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There are still several codebases to tackle, but this milestone puts the single biggest one behind us, and makes life better for hundred of our coworkers.
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We're very fortunate to be in an organization that lets us take on gnarly problems and drive them to a solution, even as we had to shift focus a few times along the way.
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End to end, it took us about a year from initial plans to shipping, including adding TS type definitions to our shared design system.
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On Sunday we locked the repo, merged the change and… everything worked? (well okay, some things broke, but we fixed them quickly)
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We knew we would want to lock the Stripe monorepo to merge such a huge change. Since we're a global company, the only feasible time was at the weekend, before our coworkers in Tokyo and Singapore would come online Monday morning.
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And then the unenviable task of updating other dependencies–Jest, ESlint, webpack–to play nicely with the TypeScript code. And a lot of manual testing in QA to be safe.
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We then took on the painstaking work of writing patch files, update code generators, and fixing new errors, while continuing to rebase and merge against the moving target of the Flow codebase.
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Because of the size of our codebase, we had to introduce project references into a monolithic and entangled codebase, to keep tsc memory usage somewhat reasonable.
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Why suppress errors? We want to improve the developer experience for Stripe engineers; the biggest win was to start using TS's superlative tools. Once the big jump to the new tooling was behind us, we could ramp up strictness, performance, coverage as needed.
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Our biggest tweak was to run the codemod in two passes: once to generate ts{,x} files, and second time to auto-suppress errors.
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We were heavily inspired by and 's migration at Airtable medium.com/airtable-eng/t
We used their codemod as the basis for the migration.
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Why? Flow had served us well since 2016, but TypeScript had clearly won over the frontend community, and the TS team has done a fantastic job with tooling and support. We want new developers at Stripe to write TS from day one.
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Over the weekend, my team at converted the company's largest JS codebase from Flow to . We modified about 3.5 million lines of code, and then hundreds of developers came in Monday morning ready to write TS.
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How to make caramelized onions:
* it’s too late, you should have started an hour ago
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Me watching Old:
When are they gonna get old?
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