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I make $50-60K a month and my wife cuts lotion bottles open to get it all out.
She’s the best and we should all be more like her. 🌍
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wife and i started wearing continuous glucose monitors a couple weeks ago just to learn more about our metabolic health and we've both learned so much!
going to share the most basic takeaways and then get more and more specific
most basic:
- eat less
- move more
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people use caffeine so wrong
if you're consuming it every day (ie, coffee), you depend on it to get to a baseline level of consciousness
if you only consume it once a week (or less), on days when you want to be extra effective, it's a superpower
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devs make fun of google, but google makes a ton of money at their main job and then spends a bunch of time on dumb side projects before they eventually abandon them WHO DOES THAT SOUND LIKE
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oh you're a frontend engineer?
name one thing that actually matters
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google wasn't satisfied killing their own products, had to start going after their customers products, too
Google Cloud accidentally deleted a company's entire cloud environment (Unisuper, an investment company, which manages $80B). The company had backups in another region, but GCP deleted those too. Luckily, they had yet more backups on another provider.
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helping a friend from my gym get started with web dev
he just sent me this, how do i reply?
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this is the tech stack big javascript doesn't want you to know about
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i'm just an app dev, so take what i say with a grain of salt
i wish tsconfig didn't exist; i wish TS just worked the same for everyone and made people conform to its ways
tsconfig and package.json and esm/cjs and eslint and... too many options and too many people's opinions
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I built a startup on AWS and have advised dozens of startups doing the same.
This is a practical thread with advice I wish I'd been given early in my startup journey.
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the irony of software devs freaking out over technology replacing some jobs
when as a collective we've been replacing jobs in other industries for decades
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if you're not regularly blown away at how lucky you are to program computers, i highly recommend spending a few minutes just considering the luck of it all, the timing, the circumstances, everything
(this is a sincere tweet)
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if you're going to build something valuable on the web, that value will live in your backend
frontends are throwaway
don't put your backend in your frontend
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it's actually incredible how effective a post meal walk is at regulating blood glucose
my wife and i have very different bodies and different learnings from this process but that's been consistent for both of us
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might be time to cash out that nvidia stock folks, starting to feel like we all got a little carried away
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fixed it
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more specifically, eat smaller meals and move immediately after
anytime i eat a meal i would have called "normal" sized before, i'm in for a big spike
if i sit after a meal (usually at my desk for work), that spike is exacerbated (and the insulin dump is going to be intense)
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😱 omg, next 14 leak!
don't ask how i got these details:
Next.js 14
◆ `site` directory w/ opt-in RSCs ("use server")
◆ AI powered router (GPT-4)
◆ Turbopack now in Beta*
◆ Turboformat (Rome Tools acquisition)
◆ `next/favicon`
◆ `next/centered`
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I’ve grossed more than $200,000 in three months of full-time freelancing.
I’ve also put most of that cash into a new home build. 💸🏡
Don’t be me.
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an open letter to vercel
when you, as an employee or leader at vercel, come on twitter and say things that are objectively false
things like, "our functions are faster than the lamba functions they run on!"
you need to understand that there's a ton of collective knowledge here
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frontend isn't hard it's just dumb
Guys you don’t get it. HTMX is so the backend people can stop complaining about React
We want it to win just so backend devs will shut up about frontend getting too hard
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April is my first month of full-time freelance work.
Revenue so far: $60,427.41 (USD).
It's just me; no agency, no subcontractors.
The "expert path" is valid. Become an expert in something and learn to sell that expertise.
The reward? No upper limit on your rates.
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turns out styling cli apps is nothing like styling web apps 🫠
but we're getting there
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If you're a developer that doesn't use AWS, what are the main reasons you avoid it?
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Earlier this year, I prepared for and passed 12 AWS certification exams.
This thread is an attempt to distill my learnings into a practical guide for others that are pursuing AWS certs.
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been writing a lot of vanilla js lately (to feel something)
really wish there were a shorter syntax for document.getElementById
maybe an opportunity for a library to provide a more convenient and terse syntax for common cases like this
spitballing: `!(#<element id>)`
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also, eating a bunch of veggies before each meal has worked really well for both of us in terms of "flattening the curve"
but our responses to various foods are very different
and she has super low levels at night while mine stay pretty steady in the middle
super interesting
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our users: you added a paywall? nobody's paying for that
also our users:
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giving away a new m2 macbook pro (16"), right meow
retweet this for one entry 🎟️
star the github repo below for another entry 🎟️
READY GO
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software startups should build on aws
serverless by default, few exceptions
everyone thinks they're the exception
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retrain your weak mind to stop being scared of AI devs and start getting excited about everything you could build if you had something like this at your disposal
Today we're excited to introduce Devin, the first AI software engineer.
Devin is the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies, and has even completed real jobs on Upwork.
Devin is
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My path:
- College dropout @ 19
- $22/hr freelance dev "job" @ 22
- $800k+/yr running a small dev shop @ 26
- $0/yr co-founding a startup @ 28
- $225k/yr salary after VC funding @ 29
- $175k/yr salary at a larger startup @ 33
- $500k+/yr as a cloud freelancer @ 35
My path as a developer:
- HS dropout @ 17
- College dropout @ 19
- Started coding @ 29
- Fired from first job @ 30
- Landed $60k job @ 33
- Told $80k was too high @ 34
- Landed $120k consulting contract @ 36
- $400k as independent consultant @ 37
- Doing cool shit at FAANG @ 39
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frontend v backend isn't a debate
it's a gang war
neither is "harder", what would that even mean?
value is generally created on the "backend"
(see google, amazon, facebook, netflix, etc)
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to answer a few recurring questions...
- "what sensor do you use?"
we're using the signos app with dexcom g7 sensors, the prescription process is all done through signos
- "why does monitoring glucose matter?"
metabolic health is hugely important in terms of overall health,
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the dumbest myth in web dev is the idea that CI/CD is too hard and a reason you should choose some startup's expensive subset of the cloud
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“But it didn’t even affect me because I only deploy into us-east-2.”
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"vercel should limit who can tweet on behalf of the company"
that's just dealing with symptoms
the underlying issue is a company culture that fosters the belief internally that they're god's gift to web dev, here to save the day
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I get a lot of DMs from people looking for mentorship early in their cloud career.
I try to share my learnings as I go, but I’ve put very little out there that would be useful to newcomers.
Here’s my advice/response to those just getting started:
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go outside, right now, get off this gd app and go outside! or read a book, inside is good too
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your app going viral should be a super exciting time, but if you build on a reseller charging a 300% markup the economics might not make sense and that sucks
worse, imagine if your 500k new users were costing you on a "managed auth" saas 🤢
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wife having photography skills paying off for this e-commerce venture
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you should largely ignore:
- those that have never built anything but are obsessed with the "how" ("RSCs fix this!!")
- those that say "just ship, that's all that matters!" ("indiehackers")
there's a middle ground where you balance pragmatism, productivity and care for your
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There are *so many* early startups with ~5-15 engineers lacking AWS expertise internally.
I can’t yell this from the rooftops loud enough: AWS experts needed 📣
If you’re passionate about the cloud, keep going. So much demand!
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web devs that want to learn aws:
i just published the first free tutorial over at ProAWS:
this is the resource i wish i had when i started building on aws nearly a decade ago
get your dev env setup and a working understanding of building web apps on aws
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AWS & serverless are the best.
I’ve got an AppSync GraphQL api deployed in a handful of regions around the globe, ready to respond to anybody from anywhere in <200ms, and it costs me $0 at rest.
Bananas. 🍌
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reminder that "roll your own auth" doesn't mean "learn cryptography" lol
it's a few db tables, you got this
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$5 vps people, you shouldn't be taking a victory lap bc of the vercel bill thing lol
if you had ever experienced a jump in traffic like that you would know that the theoretical req/s limits of the hardware/vm are irrelevant
it's your dumb code that's the bottleneck
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is some of the pushback against vercel narratives emotionally charged?
sure
but when you raise $300m and spend literal years pushing narratives that confuse the industry you serve
the people left cleaning up the mess are going to be annoyed, and bitter, and exhausted
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omg, cloudfront supports swr now, ISR FOR EVERYONE
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Here's the breakdown of my freelance revenue to date. 16 clients, $401K.
I'll start up a space at 1PM ET (in an hour) to talk through my journey and answer some questions. If you can't join the space, go ahead and reply to this tweet with any questions!
Putting together a spreadsheet with all of my freelance revenue from a busy summer (~$250K, iirc), broken down by customer/industry/scope/etc.
Will publish next week some time and do a short AMA live on Twitter Spaces! 🤗
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I don’t know where it’s all headed, but I think “backend dev” is going the way of the dodo.
That role is getting eaten from both ends.
Frontend devs going full-stack (graphql, trpc, api routes, etc.) and devops/infra folks leveraging managed services to build low-code backends.
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giving 2 people that retweet this $1000 in AWS credits
also go sign up at if you're a web developer that wants to learn aws, some free training materials dropping soon!
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anyone have any tips for convincing your boss and team to use tailwind?
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"you'll wish you had strong types when it comes time to refactor"
easy, just don't refactor
write it correctly the first time, problem solved
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becoming a father made life 10x harder
but also, 100x better
(little one slept in today)
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an average dev at an early stage startup is better than you at frontend and backend
let that sink in
or join a startup and get good
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Who’s interested in a cohort-based course on full-stack serverless with AWS?
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Bruh, If 8 years later I'm just some indiehacker making an ai app, I failed at life.
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i'm learning how to teach
(and how to use screenflow)
anyway, stop making this AWS mistake!
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It's been less than 48 hours since Zuckerberg released the world's most advanced open-source AI model: Llama 3.1
And people have been busy executing incredible tasks with it.
Here are 10 wild examples:
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there are definitely different types of devs, we have almost the whole range on the
@terminaldotshop
team
i'm an app dev
dax is a framework dev
teej is a tooling dev
david is a laravel dev
and prime is whatever this is
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@t3dotgg
it's possible to both know that this isn't vulnerable to injections AND hate it with the fury of 1000 suns 😅
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had a little health scare last night that landed me in the emergency room
as i lay on the hospital bed writhing—in the most pain i've ever experienced—i had to type my debit card pin into one of those handheld payment devices
(had to pay the $300 copay for self pay patients)
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it's one thing to give people the ability to do dumb things with your framework
it's another to feature them on a slide 😅
(i know this isn't vulnerable to injection, don't @ me... it's still A Bad Idea™)
(also not shaming sam, he's great; i just think this direction is bad)
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last night our security system went off at 2:32am. it only triggers on outdoor camera intruder detection (active monitoring) or one of our doors opening.
wife is out of town so it's just me home with my two boys. siren is in my bedroom.
i literally flew out of my bed and
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If you’re the person on your small team that manages the AWS account(s) because nobody else wants to, lean into it.
You just might change the trajectory of your career.
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I turn 35 years old on Friday, which is significant because it's divisible by 5!
To celebrate, here's a list of my 35 favorite AWS services. 🥳
As Mario would say, "Here we gooooo!"
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capitalism didn't ruin the web, that was the EU and all their privacy theater
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you can blame "haters" for any pushback against vercel, but at least have the intellectual curiosity to ask
where are all the netlify haters? render haters? railway haters? fly? where are they??
it is, in fact, possible to resell cloud infra without having an anti-movement
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recorded this today and i don't want to spoil it but HOW ARE LARAVEL STARTER APPS BETTER THAN MY FINISHED APPS?!
"javascript dev tries laravel for the first time" who would watch this? (i'm the javascript dev)
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