Nick Khami's Blog

About Nick Khami, a software engineer and entrepreneur, founder of Trieve, and previous work at NelNet Payment Services, zeroDAO, Breezy, and Quai.

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I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

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After joining Mintlify (which acquired my previous company), I finally fixed a search bug that had bothered me for over a year as a user - the debounced search queries weren't being aborted, causing race conditions and poaor search quality. By adding an AbortController to ensure only the most recent search query…