Software Engineer | Dog lover | Bike commuter
San Francisco, CA
Joined February 2015
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Ashley Watkins retweeted
I have spent my career learning how to #practicelikeachampion. I’ve teamed up with the world’s largest interviewing company, @Karat, so YOU can do the same. Calling all Black software engineers… this #BrilliantBlackMinds movement is for you!! karat.com/
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Do i know any engineers who have dyslexia? I would love to ask question about some common workflows
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Santa Clara University security just harassed me and my brother and forced me (a faculty member) to show my campus ID to prove I live in the house WHERE I OPENED THE DOOR. A thread. (1/n)
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As part of our Facebook.com redesign, we took advantage of React improvements to build accessibility into the foundation. The new site includes automatic focus management, dynamically scalable font sizes, contextual keyboard commands, and more. engineering.fb.com/web/faceb…
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White people:
We gotta talk about burn out. You aren’t conditioned to be thinking about race this much because of your privilege. We need you to do all you’re doing today, tomorrow, and until the end of time.
Let’s talk about ways to focus on current & systemic change.
👇🏽
Ashley Watkins retweeted
This is what my feed looks like. All 3 of these people are so incredibly talented and accomplished. I think about what they could do if they weren't carrying this weight.
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I published my first blog post today. It's about when to and when not to useMemo and useCallback.
Originally posted it internally at FB in September, but I was encouraged to share it publicly, so enjoy! royi-codes.now.sh/thousand-u…
Ashley Watkins retweeted
In celebration of #GAAD and in partnership with @gbla11yday, Facebook is the first tech company to take the Global Accessibility Awareness Day pledge, committing to making @ReactNative fully accessible: facebook.com/accessibility/p…
#GAADPledge @fbaccess @joedevon (tip @Techmeme)
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This isn't a photo. It's a pure CSS-only landscape bit.ly/css-landscape by @ivorjetski 🤯Quick video on process: bit.ly/css-landvid
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New accessibility feature in @ChromeDevTools: simulate vision deficiencies, including blurred vision & various types of color blindness. 🔥
Find out how people with vision deficiencies experience your web app, and resolve contrast issues you didn’t even know you had!
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Today, we're excited to share the first early community preview of Concurrent Mode. It offers new composable primitives to help you orchestrate delightful user experiences. reactjs.org/concurrent
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React Conf '19 is starting! Tune in to the livestream now: youtube.com/watch?v=RCiccdQO…
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Would you like to help test new React features *before* they are released?
To share upcoming changes with our partners in the React ecosystem, we’re establishing official prerelease channels.
reactjs.org/blog/2019/10/22/…
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"In the field of urology, doctors regularly discuss the possible sexual side effects of surgery on the male reproductive organs—and Dr. Irwin Goldstein says this should happen in gynecology too" cosmopolitan.com/health-fitn…
Ashley Watkins retweeted
I remember that moment clearly.
I was sitting in front of a psychiatrist, explaining to him how I’d wound up in the ward.
“And I’m transgender,” I explained hesitantly. “I use he/him pronouns.”
“Interesting,” he said.
🧵
Ashley Watkins retweeted
.@ReactRally day 2 is off to an unbelievably strong start. @AnjanaVakil and @soylentqueen have me just completely blown away, I think that's the most I've learned this early in the morning since... maybe college?
Ashley Watkins retweeted
in v0.106.0, we're starting to bring some long-awaited fixes to our spread model. Read more about our spread model and what to expect in our latest blog post: medium.com/flow-type/coming-…
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Today Facebook is open sourcing Hermes, a small and lightweight JavaScript engine optimized for running React Native on Android. We are currently publishing a new patch release for React Native which will contain Hermes as opt-in. github.com/facebook/hermes
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Houdini’s CSS Paint API (also known as “Custom Paint Worklet”) is going to be enabled by default in Chrome 65!
I wrote an introduction for ya: developers.google.com/web/up…
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If you company depends on babel, you should consider donating too.
You don't want to cry if the team stops working on it. nitter.cf/left_pad/status/923710…
