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Ben Awad
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Ben Awad
@benawad
Voidpet cofounder • ex-youtuber
San Francisco, CA
voidpet.com
Joined March 2017
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    Ben Awad
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    Sep 18, 2021
    every job will be automated until one remains: programmer
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    Ben Awad
    @benawad
    Nov 17, 2021
    there's justice in the world
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    Ben Awad
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    Aug 21, 2022
    You're 25. You work on legacy code at a startup with founders who are 28. You haven't seen a single unit test since 2014 and daily standup takes an hour. You stick around for a few years and learn nothing. Company eventually dies and you're almost 30 still coding angular.js
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    Ben Awad
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    Nov 16, 2021
    Replying to @voxdotcom
    On Twitter, even average news outlets can write articles on you 😤
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    Ben Awad
    @benawad
    Oct 30, 2020
    Introducing VSCode Stories, the extension you've always wanted but been too afraid to ask for
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    Ben Awad
    @benawad
    Dec 9, 2020
    Say hello to VSCode Tinder aka VSinder: stop swiping on bodies and start swiping on code :)
    GIF
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    Ben Awad
    @benawad
    Jun 12, 2021
    deleting dating apps because I want to meet someone the old fashioned way (by making a pull request on their GitHub repo)
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    Ben Awad
    @benawad
    Dec 13, 2022
    programming used to be about how well you could google search now programming is about how well you can write prompts for an ai system to generate code for you
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    Ben Awad
    @benawad
    Sep 18, 2020
    I'm trying out this new framework called HTML, I'm really enjoying how blazing fast it is
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    Ben Awad
    @benawad
    Oct 6, 2020
    ok let's try this again, but on a better platform my name will update every minute based on the number of likes this tweet gets
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    Ben Awad
    @benawad
    Dec 6, 2022
    you become a senior dev when you realize you can't rip out every piece of legacy code that annoys you and you just have to live with it
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    Ben Awad
    @benawad
    Dec 12, 2022
    You don’t need therapy, you need - typescript - node.js - postgresql - react - vscode then you will feel cool even if your code has bugs 👍
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    Ben Awad
    @benawad
    Sep 19, 2020
    them: redux is great for complex projects me: redux is great for making projects complex
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    Ben Awad
    @benawad
    May 17, 2022
    so if you're a "developer" why haven't you "developed" a relationship??

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