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Mar 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Sent my family a few photos generated using @dannypostmaa's HeadshotPro and they didn't pick up on the fact that they are AI generated... Not sure how to feel about this, but the future is going to be wild 🤯
It is definitely a numbers game though. There are those that look convincing...
Mar 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
After publishing near 100 #TypeScript packages, I just realized that I am doing it wrong, and so are you (probably) 🧵
I looked at dozens of popular TypeScript libraries and virtually all of them have the same developer experience problem:
If you try to command+click the dependency in your IDE, it will take you to the .d.ts file... In this example, it is going to load index.d.ts of Turbowatch
Jun 27, 2022 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
What makes a good / bad commit (message) 🧵:
First, the main goal of a commit is to introduce an atomic change.
Atomic changes contain only one feature, refactor, fix, etc.
A good commit allows to evaluate one change at a time and it contains only/all the changes necessary.
Bad commits happen because of a bad workflow.
Your workflow is rarely a reflection of what should be contained in a good commit, i.e.
9 times out of 10, if you commit using `git commit -a` you are making it a 💩 commit.
Apr 28, 2022 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
We really have come a full circle.
Early 2000s: LimeWire, eMule, Shareaza
Now: Plex, Sonarr, Radarr
What’s in between? Netflix
And whats next… (hint: back to piracy)
For the longest time, we all liked Netflix.
They were the first to the market.
They had a ton of content.
They were easy to use.
Even studios liked it because its popularity reduced piracy.
Sep 22, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I am paying increasingly more attention to what kind of nonverbal cues I display when doing video calls.
Is it 🤩🙂😐🤨or 😡. It matters.
Even if you are not in the center of attention, how you react to what is being discussed affects people on the call.
A deep thought may be misconstrued as disappointment or disagreement etc
Sep 21, 2021 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
Equity for software engineers explained in layman's terms. 👇
(Personal opinions. Founder's perspective. Not a legal advice.)
First things first, equity issued at different stages of venture backed companies is hard to compare.
USD 100k worth of equity at an early stage company (pre-seed, Series A) might increase 5x-1,000x in value over time.
At later stages (Series D, [..]), it is unlikely to 2x.
Sep 21, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Giving out inflated titles does as much harm to the company as it does to the individual.
For a company, it leads to a culture of entitlement, politics, and artificial aspirations not attached to the evolving goals of the business.
Jan 14, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
We've discovered something that has become a major part of our culture overnight 🤯
We've added @loom videos to our workflow & our entire @contrahq is hyppppped 🔥
CONTINUE READING 👇👇👇
If there is one thing I miss about working in an office, it is the moments that we share when we achieve milestones. 🏆
Text cannot communicate the same emotions ❤️ that are seen in our faces and voices when we've _just_ hit a milestone 🏁 & turn to our buddies to celebrate 🎉
Jan 13, 2021 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
#frontend engineers: What is your dream CI/CD pipeline? 🥰
Here is what we have at @contrahq 👇👇👇
precommit and prepush #git hooks are used to catch issues before they are pushed upstream.
* precommit runs only on staged files (takes few seconds)
* prepush runs #eslint#typescript and unit tests (takes up to 20 seconds)
It is definitely a numbers game though. There are those that look convincing... 
