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Mar 23 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
It’s important to drive your own work-life balance. You only have the cognitive load to juggle so many balls. Can you drop some?

What *worked* for me was taking 2 weeks off to just staycation and work on my health, then shortening my week by taking Fridays off. #DevDiscuss
Not everyone can afford to destress by travel, and traveling is a logistics nightmare for me (kids, dog, chickens, plants, pandemic). However I do have plenty of PTO, so I use them up by just being a dad and husband 100% of the time. Cooking, running, biking, reading. #DevDiscuss
I often link people who say the B word to two burnout talks I resonated a lot with, and I hope you do too.

This one by @ashleymcnamara at AllThingsOpen:

This one by @jesslynnrose at DjangoCon US 2019:

Please watch. #DevDiscuss
I digress- eventually your staycations aren't going to fix your source of burnout, it's just a bandaid to help you diagnose. You'll realize that what is helping is not doing a specific thing anymore.

Sometimes the fix is a new role, sometimes it's a new company. #DevDiscuss

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Mar 23
Hey, look at that! I went from 0 to 5K followers in...14 years 🥳😂😂

Here is my growth strategy and some observations about some of my most popular tweets:
I use Twitter as a way to document my life.

I'm a parent, runner, saas builder, engineer, former engineering director, cook, violinist. I tweet about all of it. This may not a good strategy if you're a small account wanting to grow.
Outrage is addicting. The engagement from outrage tweets is like consuming empty calories.

This viral tweet came with hundreds of followers. But the people who followed me did so for a response slamming someone else, they weren't there for me.
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Mar 4
How do you build a fullstack app from scratch? I see this question here all the time.

The answer is something like:
- next.js
- python
- sagemaker
- tailwindcss
- C++
- typescript
- java
- sql

Makes 0 sense.

Here's a guide on building a fullstack JavaScript app in 15 mins 🧵
We're going to use Remix for this project.

Get started with:
❯ npx create-remix@latest

This will set up a directory with code and run npm install for you.

Start the site to see it:
❯ npm run dev
Idea: We're going to track our water and coffee drunk in a database.

Set up Prisma so we can talk to the db. Prisma is a database client for TypeScript and Node.

I install it, then add a new model. Now I can push my new table to SQLite. We can switch to something else later.
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Mar 3
💯 You can tell an engineer why something won’t work based on your experience but they are far more likely to retain a lived experience.

My thing in those situations is to say “let’s see what happens if we try that approach”.

Don’t say “do it & you’ll see why it’s wrong”.
It’s also entirely possible that their suggestion will work, and you the senior engineer is going to learn something invaluable.
I am not trying to infantilize anyone here, but those of us with kids immediately see the parallels.

My 7yo is riding her bike. I say don’t slam the brakes when you’re going over dry leaves, coz physics. She does it anyway, gets a bloody knee.

She’ll retain this experience.
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Jan 6
The most valuable skill for a junior dev to learn is "communication".

I've been interviewing engineers for 15+ years, and maybe this advice will seem obvious.

A quick thread of great communication in an interview to help you land that software dev role.
The interview intro

Your interviewer will intro themselves and rundown how the next 30+ mins will be spent.

When they ask you to introduce yourself, remember that this is part of the interview!

You're not a prisoner of war, don't just state your name and rank, and go quiet.
Practice your intro beforehand

When an interviewer says tell me a little bit about yourself, please tell them about yourself.

Tell them where you're from, what you currently do, what kind of things interest you.
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Nov 19, 2021
Casually browsing SaaS startups on @microacquire this morning to see if I want to buy one in the 5-10K range that has a low but steady MRR.

These are validated ideas with momentum and can shave several months to years off of your early founder journey.

Anyone else into this?
There's more interest in this than I expected. Here are a few other marketplaces I browse from time to time:

Flippa lists domain names, iOS/Android apps, blogs, ecommerce sites, SaaS, Amazon FBA.
I am also a *huge* fan of exchangemarketplace.com, which is run by Shopify, and no surprise, is a place to buy and sell Shopify businesses only.

You get a TON of verified information about a store's revenue, profit, profit margin, and sales.
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Nov 18, 2021
Weirdest use of Airtable today?

✨ I made a no-code feature flag system with Airtable and am using that to hide or display sections on a Next.js site. ✨

That's one way to help a client who can't decide when exactly something should go live on their site. 🤷🏾‍♂️
Here's how I did it. First I have a table that looks something like this. This is what the client sees when they edit the "Features" table (base, in Airtable lingo).
Airtable gives you an automatic API for each base. In the case of the Features base, I click into the API documentation and see that it looks like this.

This is a test base, I am not worried that you see my base ID in the screenshot.
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