Ex-React team dev explains the four reasons his data library is named fate
cnakazawa · x · 2026-10-29
Ex-Facebook engineer cnakazawa explains why his data library is named fate: he spent 10 years at Facebook (f8 was its first dev conference), the React team liked f-codenames, data arriving like fate is a fun riff, and the original infinity logo read as f8 — until sebmck kept pointing out it looked like a dating app.
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