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Kent C. Dodds 🏹

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Kent C. Dodds 🏹

@kentcdodds

Husband, 6x Dad, Latter-day Saint, Dev, Educator 🏹 EpicProduct.engineer ⚡️ EpicAI.pro 🌌 EpicWeb.dev 🚀 EpicReact.dev 🏆 TestingJavaScript.com

Highland, UT

Joined October 2011

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Kent C. Dodds 🏹
@kentcdodds
Jun 11
Boss, I'm tired. I'm tired of trying to keep up with AI models, developing workflows and pipelines that are soon invalidated by improvements to AI coding agents, feeling like my career is just one AI advancement from smithereens. You too? Join me. Learn **Durable Skills**.
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Kent C. Dodds 🏹
@kentcdodds
Jan 9, 2019
You 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 it's 𝒸𝓊𝓉ℯ to 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 your tweets and usernames 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖜𝖆𝖞. But have you 𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙙 to what it 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 with assistive technologies like 𝓥𝓸𝓲𝓬𝓮𝓞𝓿𝓮𝓻?
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Kent C. Dodds 🏹
@kentcdodds
Jan 9, 2019
Replying to @kentcdodds
For those of you who don't know, those are not characters that have a special font, those are actual mathematical characters that are being abused to make the text look like it has a special font in an effort to be "cute." The screen reader is doing its job correctly.
Kent C. Dodds 🏹
@kentcdodds
Dec 3, 2018
Netflix: This video for your kids is 20 minutes. Me: But I need just a few more minutes to keep them occupied while I finish something... Netflix: Sorry. Me: document.querySelectorAll('video').forEach(v => v.playbackRate = 0.8) Netflix: Sssooouuunnndddsss gggoooddd.
Kent C. Dodds 🏹
@kentcdodds
Jan 9, 2019
Replying to @kentcdodds
And for those using screen readers who understandably skipped or not understood the original tweet, here's what it says: You this it's cute to write your tweets and usernames this way. But have you listened to what it sounds like with assistive technologies like VoiceOver?
Kent C. Dodds 🏹
@kentcdodds
Jan 29, 2022
Tonight I got t-boned by a guy running a stop sign in a residential area going 80-100 mph. The seatbelt broke my collar bone and the airbags broke my front teeth. The dashboard trapped my feet and knees in the car for 20 minutes while they ripped the top of the car off to get me.
Kent C. Dodds 🏹
@kentcdodds
Oct 26, 2025
My family
Kate Deyneka
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Oct 26, 2025
building doesn’t stop on sundays. what are you working on today?
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Kent C. Dodds 🏹
@kentcdodds
Jan 9, 2019
Replying to @kentcdodds
Please do continue sharing and reminding people in the thread that empathy is important. This isn't about whether screen readers/twitter should be fixed. It's about what the experience of people is really like today and that by using characters like these you're harming people.
Kent C. Dodds 🏹
@kentcdodds
Feb 12, 2023
Unless I'm teaching you JavaScript fundamentals, everything I teach will be taught with TypeScript going forward. TypeScript has won, and it's only a matter of time you're using it whether you like it or not.
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Kent C. Dodds 🏹
@kentcdodds
Sep 15, 2023
Using this feature has made a huge improvement to my ChatGPT experience. The answers it gives are so much more useful. Great feature add! Here are my custom instructions in case it helps/inspires you: My name is Kent C. Dodds. I live in Utah, USA. I'm an experienced Web
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Kent C. Dodds 🏹
@kentcdodds
Apr 11, 2019
I once choreographed and executed a fight scene with myself. youtube.com/watch?v=h695PI…
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Kent C. Dodds 🏹
@kentcdodds
Nov 15, 2021
I'm thrilled to announce that I'm moving into the next phase of my goal of making the world better by helping you create quality software: I am now the Director of Developer Experience at @remix_run!
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Kent C. Dodds 🏹
@kentcdodds
Oct 25, 2019
"If you take 30 minutes to do something that took you 10 years to learn, make sure you get paid for the 10 years and not the 30 minutes" - @therealjdash 👏 #ReactConf2019
Kent C. Dodds 🏹
@kentcdodds
Aug 25, 2023
Xfinity (1200 Mbps plan) on the left. Starlink (internet from space) on the right. WAT.
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