@VicVijayakumar Vic 🌮

Vic 🌮 posts on X about money, if you, javascript, costco the most. They currently have [------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [----------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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Social Influence

Social category influence technology brands finance stocks social networks countries travel destinations automotive brands celebrities musicians gaming

Social topic influence money, if you, javascript, costco, north carolina, ai, $googl, insurance, twitter, remix

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @thdxr @kenwheeler @onetimefax @ryanflorence @maiab @adamrackis @ramit @jacobmparis @lauraflowd @kevinespiritu @jackellis @gergelyorosz @jhooks @aarondfrancis @threepointone @xgigglypuff @dvassallo @avindrafernando @mountainwesttax @pitdesi

Top assets mentioned Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL) Cloudflare, Inc. (NET) DoorDash Inc. (DASH) Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) Apple, Inc. (AAPL) Dell Technologies, Inc. (DELL) Toyota Motor Corporation (TM) Robinhood Markets, Inc. (HOOD) Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)

Top Social Posts

Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"NextDoor telling me to not call my neighbor a dick for being a dick"
X Link 2019-10-25T16:11Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements

"when voters know nothing about the incoming city council #ralpol #nextdoor"
X Link 2019-11-05T03:49Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements

"5: why is it called apple-cado anyway me: no reason"
X Link 2020-06-24T22:02Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements

"Heres one cool trick to save tens of thousands of dollars. Refinance your home mortgage to a lower interest rate And/or do a cash out refi + buy cash flow assets. Like a profitable SaaS for example. Either way interest rates are low and inflation is rising. Go do it now"
X Link 2021-11-14T19:16Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements

"I have some exciting news I want to share"
X Link 2022-01-27T17:43Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements

"AFAIK my role is not directly impacted by the layoff at Twilio. There is a Google Form attached to this LinkedIn post which links to affected individuals and if your company is hiring please reach out to these folks directly. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jakemkanter_twilio-914-layoffs-impacted-employees-activity-6975840855513317377-vZid https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jakemkanter_twilio-914-layoffs-impacted-employees-activity-6975840855513317377-vZid"
X Link 2022-09-14T16:18Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements

"I genuinely dont understand why so many people hate PHP"
X Link 2023-01-20T02:42Z 21.4K followers, 87.5K engagements

"Twilio is laying off 17% of our friends & coworkers. Not yet sure if I'm affected. I'm going to walk the dog"
X Link 2023-02-13T15:11Z 21.5K followers, 666.6K engagements

"This is unfortunately round [--] for us at Twilio"
X Link 2023-02-13T15:27Z 21.4K followers, 70.1K engagements

"I really really really appreciate all the messages I've been getting over texts/whatsapp/slack/DMs. I'll relay all the open positions you have shared with me with those that are affected and I urge you to do the same as well when you run into these folks on LinkedIn or here"
X Link 2023-02-13T19:15Z 21.4K followers, 24.4K engagements

"An incredible talk on load testing Slack simulating millions of clients from @QcMaude at #StaffPlusNYC"
X Link 2023-03-16T21:19Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements

"@dqmonn @bhanuv3 @peer_rich Noooope maybe this works well in a tech-centric world but I build software for marketers and preschools. Its far more secure to let them do magic login than user/pass weirdly enough"
X Link 2023-04-19T13:46Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements

"If both these developers were on the same team & the PRs were for stories that were comparably scoped & one was allowed to wallow in [--] PR all month this was a failure for the entire team. Onboarding failure mentorship failure code review process failure EM/PM failure. Hard truth: Some devs are WAY more productive. As a consultant I work with dozens of teams. I see massive differences in developer output. Here's an example on the same team: Dev 1: [--] PRs/month Dev 2: [--] PR/month I did code reviews. Dev [--] had higher code quality too. Hard truth: Some devs are WAY more productive. As a consultant"
X Link 2023-04-26T22:58Z 21.4K followers, 92.2K engagements

"Ive never thought about this before but a really good gift is paying for a house cleaner. Im just going to put this out into the universe so someone sees it and does something with it. Gonna do it for my mom"
X Link 2023-05-25T22:57Z 17.9K followers, [---] engagements

"I think Netflix may technically be including RSUs in their math as they allow you to take a portion to all of your stock as cash"
X Link 2023-05-26T14:15Z 23.7K followers, 51.7K engagements

"@CodexHere @trashh_dev @kishorelive I wrote a covered call on my $PLTR position to reduce my cost basis today. Working on slowly simplifying my portfolio as well until everything is either VTI or AAPL"
X Link 2023-05-26T21:34Z 17.9K followers, [--] engagements

"One time a realtor was showing us a house and he said so you should know this HOA has a rule you cant grow tomatoes. I didnt ask why. I didnt go into the house & removed houses with HOAs from our search. HOAs are made up of hall monitors who grew up but couldnt let go"
X Link 2023-05-29T01:23Z 21K followers, 1.7M engagements

"@maiab also- twilio app huh"
X Link 2023-06-11T04:09Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements

"@shaukivillar They only take WHALECOIN and theres a waitlist"
X Link 2023-06-19T22:47Z 20.6K followers, [---] engagements

"just did a friday deployment & spending the rest of my afternoon watching datadog dashboards AMA"
X Link 2023-06-23T18:53Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Gotta agree with this 100%. Tailwind classes imo are self-describing and save me a whole lot of cognitive effort"
X Link 2023-06-28T01:24Z 16.8K followers, [----] engagements

"just thinking about that time I was the last person on earth to realize that a16z is short for andreessen horowitz"
X Link 2023-06-29T01:10Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Ten yrs ago I enrolled in a high-deductible health plan and opened an HSA. I maxed out that account every year & invested it in index funds. Didnt pay a single medical bill from it. Any bill went on credit cards and got me points. If youre young & healthy HSAs are amazing"
X Link 2023-06-29T01:56Z 16.8K followers, [---] engagements

"@AlleycatBruno If you are able to invest it instead (through your HSA bank) it will grow tax free. There was a proposal a while back to increase the contribution limit to the out of pocket max. I think mine is something outrageousI havent looked recently"
X Link 2023-06-29T02:04Z 17.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@jasonbosco Yeah I woke up today and made my peace with it. Less stress but still am happy about it haha. That being said what I did today was the most important things my team needed me to do"
X Link 2023-06-30T00:28Z 15.7K followers, [--] engagements

"@alexpotato I get the first three hours of every day for that :) (I'm on EST team's on PST) Unfortunately I had to meet today with several non-team members in that slot"
X Link 2023-06-30T00:29Z 17.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@patienceisalpha I can easily agree with this point. For the sake of this exercise I just did the math and I incurred $20K in medical expenses over the last [--] years (and have receipts for). So your recommendation would be to sell that stock (😭) and move that money into the brokerage"
X Link 2023-06-30T00:36Z 17.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@DonaldBough yes but they have an allow-list which doesn't include anything risky"
X Link 2023-06-30T00:44Z 15.7K followers, [--] engagements

"When was the last time that you used Quora and didnt hate it"
X Link 2023-07-08T01:23Z 22.9K followers, [----] engagements

"me: what a lovely day Ill take the kids out on a bike ride north carolina in the summer:"
X Link 2023-07-09T18:42Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@kefimochi @Liberal_in_Bama Its hard. The managers job is to ensure holistic team success not to help individuals be better. Both people will be given advice on how to play better with the other and the manager will pick the stronger teammate and the subjectively weaker one will have to leave the team"
X Link 2023-07-09T22:29Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements

"You need to build a new static website. It will be the marketing site for your app. What do you use to build it"
X Link 2023-07-10T01:10Z 17.9K followers, 159.3K engagements

"I already pay for Carrd but this site is multi-paged. No. Checked out Webflow. $14/mo hm. Checked out Wordpress. Found a theme I liked $25/mo. wtf. I think I want to reuse CSS classes / styles so gonna stay away from site builders"
X Link 2023-07-10T05:15Z 17.9K followers, 13.7K engagements

"@rleggos The "app" portion is html and tailwind. I suppose the marketing site doesn't have to look identical"
X Link 2023-07-10T05:53Z 17.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@pvukovic @sanity_io It's a side project. I had never heard of Framer before today"
X Link 2023-07-10T05:19Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@PSaezT @jones_spencera No idea. I block them immediately"
X Link 2023-07-11T00:31Z 17.9K followers, [--] engagements

"In college I walked across campus to get to class and the concrete pavement would have these horizontal lines. I'd get a thought that I can't step on the lines or I'd fail a test or whatever. Which is stupid. So I bought a bike. I also just step on them to dare the universe"
X Link 2023-07-11T15:38Z 21K followers, [----] engagements

"Oh I have another fun one. Anytime I enter a room which is tiled with square tiles the only valid way to move across the room is like how a knight piece would in Chess. But only if I look down so I just stop looking at the floor. Nothing bad happens if I don't do this"
X Link 2023-07-11T17:39Z 17.9K followers, [---] engagements

"My current monthly mortgage payment (PITI) is $1770. There is a house I like in my neighborhood. At todays interest rate and inflated home prices my mortgage (excl insurance and taxes) would be at least $4428/mo. Thats ridiculous. Well stay in this house. (Is good thread)"
X Link 2023-07-22T05:26Z 14.9K followers, 14.3K engagements

"If you say mysql doesnt scale as a complete sentence I immediately know youve never worked on anything serious. For that matter substitute mysql with any other tech. RDBMSes dont scale JavaScript doesnt scale PHP doesnt scale Mongodb doesnt scale Junior dev energy"
X Link 2023-07-30T02:51Z 17.9K followers, 318.5K engagements

"@sweatystartup This is good non-inflammatory advice. Whats your angle here"
X Link 2023-07-30T05:41Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@AdamRackis Home prices are getting up to a million dollars here in Raleigh if you want a SFR on a good patch of land in a walkable neighborhood + good school. Otherwise you can get away with spending a lot less"
X Link 2023-07-30T12:53Z 17.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@realEstateTrent Sadly this is a misreading of that graph. The median price is lower because people are buying less expensive house thanks to the interest rates. Home prices are up 3% year over year"
X Link 2023-07-31T01:58Z 17.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@realEstateTrent Would you prefer I called it misinterpretation The government graph shows median sale price is coming down but home prices arent actually coming down. Meaning more homes left of median are selling. Happy to be told Im wrong"
X Link 2023-07-31T02:19Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Let's say you have a $150k salary in Raleigh: - After medical/dental/vision insurance maxing out 401k maxing out HSA you're at $117000 - After taxes (married filing jointly) your take home is $84264 - After rent ($1500/mo) you're at $66264 - After utilities ($261) internet"
X Link 2023-08-01T20:15Z 16.4K followers, 110.8K engagements

"Most of y'all have no business having a mortgage. Please just rent your home until you figure out how to budget. $90K a year in California is only $5428/mo in takehome pay so I really hope she means their takehome after taxes is $90K"
X Link 2023-08-02T20:27Z 17.9K followers, 22.9K engagements

"Worse- I know very talented people who went into the funnel as an employee referral did super well at the onsite they think theyre getting an offer and then shockingly get rejected because there were SO MANY applicants that there was someone a tiny bit better. Unheard of. Today is a tough market You may have gotten an interview if you met 50% of the qualification in the past. Today - even if you meet 70%+ of the qualifications you still may not get an interview b/c of the strong candidates you're competing against. This is the time to upskill Today is a tough market You may have gotten an"
X Link 2023-08-03T17:49Z 21.5K followers, 33.6K engagements

"Browned butter peach dutch baby pancake with cinnamon sugar for breakfast this morning coz I brought home a ton of peaches from the farmers market 🍑🍑🍑"
X Link 2023-08-04T13:54Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@Andercot Check out @researchsquare"
X Link 2023-08-06T14:56Z 17.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@thekitze 😂 winning at life the best time to plant a bunch of fruit trees is today"
X Link 2023-08-06T15:35Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@astrodotbuild Just deployed the Astro site to @cloudflare pages with one arm WHILE a baby is sleeping on me. This was my first time using Pages and wow what a really really cool product"
X Link 2023-08-06T18:47Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@astrodotbuild @Cloudflare Why did I pick Astro over all the other options recommended to me - Tons of people recommended it - The docs are really good - I wanted to be able to copy paste some React code Ive written elsewhere - Im authoring in mdx for now and Astro has integration guides for [--] CMSes"
X Link 2023-08-06T18:51Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements

"I built a site. It does not have dark mode. I am not going to spend time building dark mode"
X Link 2023-08-06T21:39Z 21.5K followers, 113.6K engagements

"@Stefcodes @codesnippets_ai - remix tailwind fargate mysql The rtfm stack"
X Link 2023-08-08T16:53Z 15.7K followers, [--] engagements

"@OlsenTorfinn backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Navy"
X Link 2023-08-08T18:17Z 17.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@LauraFlowD The assumptions here are of course that [--]. code is being committed to a shared feature branch being worked on by multiple people and [--]. the code is integrated and deployed for product & design to look at Im not objecting to those just stating them"
X Link 2023-08-08T23:15Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements

"@MartinDoms Depends on objective really. Is it to check that theyre working or to prevent merge conflicts in a shared feature branch or to keep product & design appraised on progress"
X Link 2023-08-08T23:17Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements

"How is Jira still the best project management tool Startups have been trying to take their market share for decades"
X Link 2023-08-09T13:26Z 15.7K followers, 77.4K engagements

"@cjohnson318 you gonna try for another girl"
X Link 2023-08-10T02:00Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements

"@GergelyOrosz GitHub Twilio Eventbrite"
X Link 2023-08-10T11:23Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@thdxr It looks like I won"
X Link 2023-08-11T14:10Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Build tiny side projects with other stacks Add them to your LinkedIn Interview for roles not languages"
X Link 2023-08-11T18:22Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Recruiter: I see from your LinkedIn that youve used Rust You: yes Recruiter: excellent -- Interviewer: What language would you like to do your interview in You: my Rust is a bit rusty Ill use JavaScript Interviewer: nice pun no problem"
X Link 2023-08-11T21:30Z 17.9K followers, [--] engagements

"Im proud to tell you that I have changed about [--] diapers in the last [--] hours. Be an involved father not just a sperm donor. This person is just the worst version of a trad-wife account. Theres no faster way to lose the love of your family than to listen to idiots like her"
X Link 2023-08-12T12:15Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Q: how do you know you changed [--] diapers in the last [--] hours A: obviously there is an app for that. youre welcome"
X Link 2023-08-12T12:27Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"To ship fast learn PHP. To write code you'd be proud of learn Go. To make a crap ton of money learn JavaScript"
X Link 2023-08-12T21:49Z 15.7K followers, [--] engagements

"More accurate: To ship fast learn PHP To make a crap ton of money learn Go To gain a large twitter following from tweeting about all the different wtf moments in your day learn JavaScript"
X Link 2023-08-12T22:13Z 16.8K followers, [--] engagements

"you may know pain but do you know the pain of dropping an open box of cous cous on the floor"
X Link 2023-08-13T22:22Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@Stealx I'm sorry what. Do you not own the property at the end of the mortgage term like it works in the US"
X Link 2023-08-16T00:50Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@paisleyboxers @IrreverentDave what would you rather be doing"
X Link 2023-08-16T00:58Z 17.9K followers, [--] engagements

"This is part of my goal to consume way more protein. For about a month now my lunch has been chicken salad. I make a different one every day so Im not bored. Today I made a quick Asian peanut sauce: hot water peanut butter rice vinegar sriracha sesame oil soy sauce lime. Added 170g of chicken and two diced radishes 14g of roasted peanuts cilantro and its ready to eat. Thats about 52g of protein 26g of fat and 8g of carbs. You can buy this bagged rotisserie chicken from Costco for $12.99 or so"
X Link 2023-08-16T17:27Z 17.9K followers, 20.7K engagements

"@pilkoids What makes it faster is Ive never used Vue. And I have lots of personal React code I can copy paste from. I bought this project from someone else. Re: job opportunities - this is irrelevant to me as I dont even use JavaScript professionally"
X Link 2023-08-16T17:32Z 17.9K followers, [--] engagements

"Other chicken salads I have enjoyed: - madras curry - caesar - southwest - thai red curry - greek lemon & oregano - butter chicken - korean chicken with cabbage slaw - traditional southern Whats important is to not end up with a bunch of sugar in your meal from the sauce"
X Link 2023-08-16T22:05Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"If youre making 50K a year and your goal is to save a million dollars focus a bulk of your energy on making more money not on slashing your phone plan by $20. My god so many personal finance accounts here are intolerable"
X Link 2023-08-18T15:30Z 17.9K followers, 407.8K engagements

"working on my app as my kids fall asleep and my older one is like "dad your laptop is too bright" and of course this wouldn't be a problem if i had implemented dark mode 🙃"
X Link 2023-08-19T01:19Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@ken_wheeler Many things are up many things are the same. We're definitely being taken advantage of by businesses claiming their raw goods are more expensive"
X Link 2023-08-20T00:37Z 17.9K followers, [--] engagements

"I make it a point to talk about my side projects in interviews. I think they showwhat a well rounded candidate I am compared to the heap of applications in front of them. Yes Im applying for a backend position with your company but look at this SaaS app I made from scratch. I wrote the frontend backend infra as code I talk to customers and prioritize features. I know the value of legacy code and dont chase shiny rewrites. I am good at balancing customer needs with long term goals. Do you know how many software engineers know ZERO outside of their area of work Its a big number. Your side"
X Link 2023-08-20T17:53Z 17.9K followers, 192.5K engagements

"Tutorials are always like look this new library is so easy Look at us demo the simplest use case and now were going to use it everywhere The moment you need to handle any more than that though its fml now you need to dig through the GitHub issues"
X Link 2023-08-20T23:30Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Payment processors are the worst. Its been many years now but I integrated Payflow Pro (PayPal) a long time ago and needed to chat with a VP level engineer at PayPal because their docs didnt cover what imo was basic use cases we had. Then years later we switched to Braintree and went through the same nonsense again. Wanted to add support for Brazilian processors and all the docs were in Portuguese. Great times"
X Link 2023-08-21T03:03Z 19.6K followers, [--] engagements

"I cant tell you the number of times Ive ignored a problem and its just gone away. Obviously I cannot reveal this to my kids"
X Link 2023-08-22T02:46Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements

"It doesnt matter if your API uses restful verbs or not. It doesnt matter if you return an empty array or null if youre consistent. It doesnt matter if you never use PUT or PATCH. But god have mercy on your soul if you return [---] with a not found message. I will find you"
X Link 2023-08-24T12:53Z 17.9K followers, 225.6K engagements

"I live for the day I return a [---] to someone. On that note I hope y'all know about"
X Link 2023-08-24T16:32Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"My favorite architectural pattern is when an upstream API provider tells you to throttle your own requests so you don't kill their system. Story time: a little while ago we needed to talk to an api that accepted async requests did a bunch of slow processing then hours later you could query for the status of your work. If it was complete you could then ask for the deliverable. So one fine day I fired off [-----] requests. They immediately returned a [---] OK for all of them excellent. I left for the day. Came to work the next day to multiple angry emails about how we crashed their production"
X Link 2023-08-25T12:29Z 21.4K followers, 192K engagements

"This is probably the best example of when I broke someone elses prod. My manager asked for a postmortem and my RFO was basically vendor is bad at software. Lessons from this: [--]. rate limits are the responsibility of the server [--]. ask about soft/hard limits get it on record"
X Link 2023-08-25T17:27Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@KevinEspiritu This is incredible. Youre never moving are you. What does your HOA think"
X Link 2023-08-27T02:42Z 17.9K followers, [---] engagements

"I think because I used the word upgrade many of yall are conflating I dont want to switch form libs / state management libs / framework features with I dont want to do security updates. Dependabot auto-updates is still a thing non-breaking security patches are a thing"
X Link 2023-08-27T12:10Z 17.9K followers, 15.4K engagements

"@dejavucoder bro what the hell is this and does haldiram sell it in a can"
X Link 2023-08-27T17:48Z 21.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Is it just me or does this look ridiculous (I built this)"
X Link 2023-08-29T00:45Z 17.9K followers, [--] engagements

"I was thinking today about people who are stuck in their careers. They ask questions like how many years til I become a senior but they don't look at their company's career development framework they don't go talk to their managers / mentor / coach and ask: What do I need to do to get better at this Its really amazing how you can continue to put the bare minimum effort into something or actively do deliberate practice to get better at it. Take running. You can just "go out on a run" every day and you'll get your exercise and steps and that's okay but your growth will plateau. But add in"
X Link 2023-08-29T21:54Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@ryanflorence Ill let you rewrite my saas for me so you can make sure it all works"
X Link 2023-08-31T22:24Z 17.9K followers, [---] engagements

"If youre a web developer over [--] youre basically self taught. I have a computer eng degree and web development wasnt touched in colleges before like [----]. Ignoring that- Ive worked with a ton of non-engineering grads dropouts bootcampers bootcamp dropouts. All good. Ive of course also worked with college graduates that are bad at their jobs"
X Link 2023-08-31T23:56Z 16.4K followers, 94.5K engagements

"Programming languages I was taught in college courses: C C++ Java Assembly"
X Link 2023-09-01T00:20Z 17.9K followers, [---] engagements

"lol my mortgage company emailed me ONE WEEK AGO that my taxes & insurance are going up so my monthly payment is going up $100 then withdrew that new amount yesterday. what if I didnt have a buffer in my checking account"
X Link 2023-09-02T17:55Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Books are such a life hack. You get decades of someones wisdom distilled for you into a few hours. Went on two runs today so I could keep listening to @robwallings new book. It has already helped me answer multiple SaaS questions Ive been pondering this week"
X Link 2023-09-04T04:01Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"the shakshouka lady is causing a tomatoes and eggs shortage"
X Link 2023-09-04T13:20Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@lmcarter621 I go for a very smoky base of onion canned whole tomatoes quick-blended add lots of bell peppers garlic chick peas spinach. I serve with smoky eggplant dip. I dont have a recipe in mind right now"
X Link 2023-09-04T15:39Z 17.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@travofoz @elchefe Shakshouka is a North African dish of poached eggs in a mixture of tomatoes peppers garlic onion and spices. Big footer thing:"
X Link 2023-09-04T16:34Z 17.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@kasvith @nextjs Really I dockerized it and stuck it on Fargate and its been running multiple sites like a champ"
X Link 2023-09-04T17:51Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"the developer urge to rewrite your entire blog before you can write a new [---] word article"
X Link 2023-09-04T20:42Z 17.9K followers, 10.4K engagements

"I think roughly the same skills make you both a good partner/parent as well as good staff+ engineer. Mid level: - what should i do next - i didn't know that was going to become a problem Staff+: - i've automated our air filter replacement - kids are smelly going to wash them"
X Link 2023-09-05T15:25Z 16.1K followers, [---] engagements

"@_ianlowe It doesnt come naturally on the parenting side. I think Im a better parent now than I was even [--] years ago because I didnt take ownership of things until my wife was overloaded. Am the oldest child but I was coddled at home"
X Link 2023-09-05T15:53Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"I want to become good at SEO / content marketing. I signed up for a Semtush trial and compared my SaaS to a competitors website and hooooly crap shall we just say- theres a lot of room for improvement. Are there any semrush / ahrefs alternatives for a lower budget 😭"
X Link 2023-09-06T00:06Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@Brent_m_Clark Semrushs lowest plan is $129.95/mo. What am I looking to get- validation that Im doing the right things I guess"
X Link 2023-09-06T00:37Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements

"@StroutMotivateU @katlinks_ @robertodigital_ Not yet"
X Link 2023-09-06T02:51Z 17.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@_swanson fml isnt this exactly right and csv exports. but those are just background jobs"
X Link 2023-09-06T03:11Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@semrush Thank you"
X Link 2023-09-06T13:09Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements

"@emilykmay They changed this in my kids preschool a few years ago because divorced parents / or because sometimes grandpa wants to come to it"
X Link 2023-09-06T13:39Z 17.9K followers, 12K engagements

"Just heard an ad on the radio for a jeweler offering [--] year flexible financing starting at 9.99%. Of all the things a young couple can spend money on jewelry is the biggest waste. Gift your fiance a bunch of $VTI instead. I backtested how much we'd have today if we had invested what I paid for my wife's ring into the stock market instead"
X Link 2023-09-06T23:52Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"My wife has no idea what I paid for the ring but also she's the person who ordered our wedding rings from Etsy for a total of $210.00 so.she'd have been okay with this"
X Link 2023-09-07T00:23Z 16.8K followers, [---] engagements

"Okay I need to come clean about something. I dont use typescript at work either. Its slow and cumbersome. Your build images are massive. Every build is so massive look at your container registry bill. Go is a far superior language"
X Link 2023-09-07T02:20Z 21K followers, 12.1K engagements

"_ .) 📣 typescript is good actually"
X Link 2023-09-07T04:59Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"I (a Go developer) was so close to giving Ruby on Rails a shot until Turbo (a package I had not heard of before yesterday) dropped TypeScript support and now I have been turned off forever"
X Link 2023-09-07T13:18Z 17.9K followers, 99K engagements

"Everyone who asked me for code review today got asked to jump on a call. You get: - my undivided attention - quick review I get: - face time - to ask dumb questions in private - to skip writing nits and have u considered comments - to not have to write performative public essays - accountability & timeboxing Honestly a super good use of my time even though I was on calls back to back. Im going to do it again tomorrow"
X Link 2023-09-07T20:19Z 17.9K followers, 122.4K engagements

"@dug_miller @parsnips451 @sweatystartup what page is that on"
X Link 2023-09-08T11:18Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements

"@dug_miller @parsnips451 @sweatystartup Buffalo blast sounds like a smoothie made of buffalo sauce + Mountain Dew"
X Link 2023-09-08T11:21Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements

"+1 NEVER work on side projects on your work computer Have yall even watched the show Silicon Valley"
X Link 2023-09-09T23:01Z 17.9K followers, 54.4K engagements

"This is the funniest thing Ive seen this weekend Im crying"
X Link 2023-09-10T13:42Z 17.9K followers, 21.7K engagements

"I know a guy when youre 20: drug dealers when youre 30: bouncers at clubs babysitters when youre 40: plumber electrician specialists who take your insurance"
X Link 2023-09-11T17:05Z 21.4K followers, 15.4K engagements

"My favorite kind of video games are the ones that are safe for my kids to watch me play but they have ZERO interest in"
X Link 2023-09-11T22:32Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@LeadershipAcad1 You don't need an ID to fly. You can tell them you don't have it on you and they'll just search all your body cavities but let you through. And if you have TSA precheck they can pull you up on their screens"
X Link 2023-09-14T01:30Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"can I show you something without people getting mad"
X Link 2023-09-15T17:40Z 17.9K followers, 18K engagements

"I also came here to buy tomatoes get this incredible fried chicken sandwich and holy crap I found a $30 fig tree. My HOA is not going to be happy about this"
X Link 2023-09-15T18:12Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"you guys are getting paid to shitpost"
X Link 2023-09-15T22:26Z 16.8K followers, [----] engagements

"Some people buy wine based on the label I choose my programming language based on the mascot"
X Link 2023-09-16T15:33Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements

"This week has taught me that so many of yall simply dont have a clue how to communicate. Youre just not cut out for the real world. Leave your keyboard home go talk to someone out in the real world how you talk on here and see how far you get"
X Link 2023-09-16T18:00Z 17.9K followers, 14.1K engagements

"@aarondfrancis MySQL is named after co-founder Monty Widenius's daughter My. He has three kids: My Max and Maria. (Their names inspired MySQL MaxDB and MariaDB) That trivia having been shared- I bet this person says EN AY ES AY"
X Link 2023-09-16T18:06Z 17.9K followers, 45.6K engagements

"PostgreSQL is named after creator Michael Stonebraker Gress son Post Malone Gres"
X Link 2023-09-17T01:20Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@aarondfrancis PostgreSQL is named after creator Michael Stonebraker Gress son Post Malone Gres"
X Link 2023-09-17T01:21Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@DudeWhoCode @championswimmer Yeah man invite me. I wont get half of it but the other half should be juicy"
X Link 2023-09-17T13:07Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"If youre shocked that the USMC lost an entire F-35 fighter jet youre not ready to learn about the missing 7600-pound nuclear bomb that fell into the waters by Tybee Island GA and is [---] times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Nagasaki"
X Link 2023-09-18T03:47Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"All jokes aside dont let others opinions of your hobbies ruin them for you. I met a guy this weekend at a popup who made me an espresso & tonic using something far more complicated than this. Cost me $6 incl tip and we chatted the whole time"
X Link 2023-09-20T02:03Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@essobi Yeah that's why I want to distinguish between "you can spend good money making good coffee" and "you can spend a lottttt of money too if it's a hobby you enjoy". My gear isn't crazy but if I were starting all over today I can come up with ways to drop mad bucks"
X Link 2023-09-20T15:42Z 23.9K followers, [--] engagements

"Anyone else try it and get off the intermittent fasting train I did IF for a year. I did what is called a 16:8. Stopped eating dinner by 6pm ate breakfast again at 10am. This is a [--] hour fast followed by [--] hours to eat. IF led to several new habits Ive maintained to this day: - stopped drinking after dinner - stopped snacking after dinner - stopped adding milk to my coffee led me to stop buying cheap coffee beans Its hard to know what its complete effects really were but I didnt feel any different. I didnt lose any weight. Ultimately I stopped because any late dinners meant really late"
X Link 2023-09-21T02:36Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@mkhundmiri what if I disagree with what someone is saying"
X Link 2023-09-21T04:04Z 17.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@kishorelive Whats going on currently that Im missing"
X Link 2023-09-22T11:28Z 15.7K followers, [--] engagements

"@hnshah dropbox carfax olive garden"
X Link 2023-09-23T05:37Z 17.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@adrelanine_ @ramit Sure. The math really just comes down to how long you keep your phone for if you didnt upgrade every year. fwiw apple has this as well:"
X Link 2023-09-23T12:28Z 17.9K followers, [--] engagements

"This is a solved problem outside of Silicon Valley where everyone has been forced to go into an office for decades. Its the hybrid approach. Create local hubs for people to meet at optionally. Allocate budgets for team bonding"
X Link 2023-09-23T22:23Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@johnhfio Theyre not that expensive here but to answer the question- they are delicious. Its not just gin and tonic or whiskey soda but with fake gin/whiskey"
X Link 2023-09-23T23:57Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements

"the european mind (and david brooks) cannot comprehend this"
X Link 2023-09-24T00:47Z 21.4K followers, [----] engagements

"I found myself in some non-hypothetical situations a few years ago. Startup [--] wanted me to come build their engineering team. Their COO (ex IBM) did not believe in remote work. I did some back of the napkin math and added $30K to my base comp for the [--] minute commute"
X Link 2023-09-24T19:35Z 17.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@jonfitzsimon North Carolina has a lot more than four seasons"
X Link 2023-09-24T20:29Z 17.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@Austen Why this is surprising Two scoops of chocolate whey protein from Costco is 48g of protein 6g of carbs and [---] calories. And tastes exactly like chocolate milk"
X Link 2023-09-25T03:51Z 17.9K followers, 46.8K engagements

"@Austen boom [--] grams of protein"
X Link 2023-09-25T13:00Z 21.4K followers, 18.6K engagements

"Engineering teams are often faced with competing paths forward and they cant choose one. Multiple discussions may have already happened and they have analysis paralysis. Its important then for a leader to help them choose by breaking the tie. Heres how Ive done it: 1/ When faced with two roughly equivalent decisions just pick one and go with it Most* decisions are reversible. You waste more time debating it than just saying we are going to go with XYZ. This is my decision making framework in a nutshell and its not engineering specific. 2/ When you make a call like that though you have to"
X Link 2023-09-25T13:50Z 16.4K followers, 43.1K engagements

"@Bellevegas1923 @dvassallo @Austen To get 48g of protein you need to eat [--] pieces of Dino nuggets by Tyson Foods. [--] servings of Dino nuggets is: - 48g of protein - 48g of fat - 48g of carbs - [---] calories"
X Link 2023-09-25T13:54Z 17.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Hybrid doesnt work My wife went into Costco to get groceries. Meanwhile I placed an Instacart Aldi order for curbside pickup. And thats how we ended up with multiple giant bags of tortilla chips [--] pears and 18lbs of sweet onions"
X Link 2023-09-25T21:36Z 15.6K followers, 21.7K engagements

"lol where do I even start. one time I accidentally saved a typo in the apache vhost config on one of our app servers. logrotate restarted the server at 420am and this one server did not come back up. however the upstream load balancer round robined requests anyway so our web traffic intermittently failed every [--] requests. one time i forgot to clear a variable in a for loop and sent out hundreds of emails to customers. every email contained the PII of the previous customer in the for loop. one time i restarted an entire db cluster all at once instead of one at a time so the cluster had nothing"
X Link 2023-09-27T04:09Z 17.9K followers, 231K engagements

"@mjackson If I took a Tesla to my Target I'd lose it. And every charger is permanently occupied at all times. As it is I lose my minivan"
X Link 2023-09-28T00:37Z 21.4K followers, [----] engagements

"82% of newly built homes sold in [----] have a HOA. This was 66% 10yrs ago. HOAs are a scam. They dont keep property values high - every property value is already high thats why you cant afford to buy a house. HOA management cos are getting filthy rich investing your dues"
X Link 2023-09-28T12:11Z 17.9K followers, 52K engagements

"@edanbenatar 1Password. Moved from lastpass. What bugs"
X Link 2023-09-30T02:14Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Im 100% serious I had no idea who Travis Kelce is before Taylor Swift made him famous. Kelce makes $14M/yr. Kohli makes $24M. Verstappen makes $55M. Ronaldo makes $211M. Taylor has made $345M this year so far. I figured with that salary he was the waterboy or something"
X Link 2023-09-30T15:21Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@tlakomy I can get just a recipe anywhere. I can go to ChatGPT if I want that clinical nonsense"
X Link 2023-09-30T19:20Z 17.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Taking preorders for my new PaaS (pie as a service) now. $50 for one whole pie or $550 for an annual subscription and you get a random pie a month. Call for the custom plan which comes with configurable retention and other enterprise features"
X Link 2023-09-30T20:42Z 17.9K followers, 12.9K engagements

"@heyalexfriedman I hang out with my best friend and his family every week. I know where he works but we never talk work so I only have a cursory understanding of what he does. 🤷🏾♂ None of my friends have ever asked me what I specifically do. They know Im a software engineer thats all"
X Link 2023-10-01T17:15Z 16.8K followers, [----] engagements

"Wish I could go back [--] years and tell myself to just get more steps. Such a health hack. Didnt hit [-----] steps average for the month but- it was my highest for the last [--] months Looking at the month view I clearly have plenty of days with low step counts I can bring up"
X Link 2023-10-01T17:46Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements

"What gets measured gets managed Peter Drucker Get yourself a step tracker- Fitbit or Apple Watch or Garmin Forerunner- whatever the cool kids are into these days. [-----] steps is arbitrary but if you find yourself with [----] at the end of every day thats sedentary af"
X Link 2023-10-01T18:17Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@PstafarianPrice Thats correct. Children are basically assumed to cost nothing for some reason"
X Link 2023-10-01T18:49Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements

"@realchrisebert I was at Costco the other day and looked up an ultra wide. It was so expensive And weirdly not tall enough for me. The asus [----] curved monitor looks really nice though and is well priced"
X Link 2023-10-02T02:10Z 17.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@techsavvytravvy They may be equivalent but they are not equal unless they share the same location in memory"
X Link 2023-10-02T03:43Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@nikitabier The only problem I have with this is what am I supposed to do the other [--] hours a day Im going to be bored out of my mind"
X Link 2023-10-02T03:54Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Calling things dystopian is in vogue. What I would like is for something like this to augment my dad's hearing aids. Listen to everything being said amplify it provide real time captioning in his glasses along with labeling of the voice. Zoom captions for real life convos"
X Link 2023-10-03T16:25Z 17.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@jamonholmgren What do you use it for"
X Link 2023-10-03T18:33Z 17.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@emilykmay My kids ask for that sometimes and will actually eat it. Today I microwaved them an Aldi breakfast corndog and then added half a banana to each of their plates"
X Link 2023-10-04T12:02Z 15.7K followers, [----] engagements

"This happens often when developers build some fun tool that helps a team ownership is not transferred to a TEAM and then attrition happens. A few companies ago one app (and all its infrastructure) traveled with me from team to team and even to another company under the same corporate umbrella. Now that I'm not there anymore it sits abandoned. I tried to buy it from them and they refused"
X Link 2023-10-04T17:56Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@BekahHW For that number of people all the takeout Im getting are going to be Mexican. Every single time. Not Chipotle but El Rodeo"
X Link 2023-10-05T14:41Z 23.2K followers, [---] engagements

"@MerrittBaer @EmIpsaLoquitur This message is fine for people who need to just save money and live for less but not for those comparing the chicken from chipotle to the chicken they're cooking at home. The lesson they walk away is that it costs $5 at home but for just $5 more it's delicious from chipotle"
X Link 2023-10-05T18:15Z 23.2K followers, [--] engagements

"I have no idea what a Rolex costs. Based on this tweet Im going to guess its like $100K. Okay lets go look in real time Oh. You can get a new one for $5K to $50K. I dont want one (Apple Watch Ultra forever) but thats hardly 500K comp territory"
X Link 2023-10-05T22:57Z 17.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@JohnWritesCode_ But it has no step counter"
X Link 2023-10-06T00:28Z 16.8K followers, [---] engagements

"@aarondfrancis @chris__sev @kapehe_ok oh my god aaron thats like student loan territory"
X Link 2023-10-06T20:48Z 17.9K followers, [---] engagements

"pushing app code to prod on friday is a junior dev move senior devs push infrastructure as code to prod on friday"
X Link 2023-10-06T23:03Z 15.8K followers, 33.7K engagements

"indian moms will be like "do you want a sandwich" and then give you a slice of bread with butter & sugar on it"
X Link 2023-10-07T19:30Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@BekahHW Im in a WhatsApp group with [--] guys I went to high school with. Hung out in person with [--] others when I was in London a few years ago. One I talk to only on Twitter. And that concludes all the high school friends I want to hear from"
X Link 2023-10-08T19:05Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Its our [--] year anniversary so my wife bought me flowers"
X Link 2023-10-10T22:06Z 17.9K followers, 41.3K engagements

"@allan_the_great @JimGalanes @letsrundotcom You are incorrect. Both are highly addictive. Ive seen guys like Kelvin walk into a place and slide a banknote under the table and whisper hit me to the bartender and the bartender reaches under the counter for a secret plate with this stuff on it. You pay extra for githeri"
X Link 2023-10-11T05:07Z 21.4K followers, 15.3K engagements

"@josiahwiebe I used to do that. Then I saw the price difference. If you account for peeling the carrots time and discarding the top/bottom baby carrots are less expensive"
X Link 2023-10-11T20:47Z 17.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@shellscape make me a better grocery list"
X Link 2023-10-12T01:13Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@ironmissy Disclaimer: Im not victim blaming your car AT ALL. But Im curious to know what make and model it is. fwiw someone stole my neighbors Nissan Cube and hotboxed it"
X Link 2023-10-12T01:58Z 17.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@onerinas Haha no I shopped on instacart only went to the store to do curbside pickup"
X Link 2023-10-12T12:19Z 17.9K followers, [--] engagements

"The American mind cannot comprehend this. Narendra Modi Stadium where India is playing Pakistan in the cricket World Cup today. Seating capacity: [------] 🤯"
X Link 2023-10-14T13:57Z 20K followers, 30.9K engagements

"@JillianDURM No people in chapel hill dont have many options. I remember when for years I was told that Top of the Hill was the best food in North Carolina by people who didnt own cars"
X Link 2023-10-14T15:32Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Conversely if you only know people making 250K+ you need to get out of your bubble and get to know more people so you dont lose sight of reality. Nobody on this app knows anyone making 250K. Lets kill that topic now Nobody on this app knows anyone making 250K. Lets kill that topic now"
X Link 2023-10-14T15:42Z 21.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@nick_ringelberg @JillianDURM It made no sense they were so inconsistent. You could walk a mile or so over to the edge of Chapel Hill & Carrboro and get either Carrburritos or Spotted Dog both of which were superior"
X Link 2023-10-14T18:39Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements

"@GeorgeMayer The right answer is of course it depends"
X Link 2023-10-14T19:42Z 14.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@MattJamesBoyle @aiddya Yup- I have a Freestyle Libre [--]. It's the only one I've used. I think my mom prefers the Dexcom to the Libre. Yes I hate it that my mom and I use the same medical device"
X Link 2023-10-14T23:24Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@jenwiderberg Running and violin have made deliberate practice really click for me in other areas"
X Link 2023-10-15T03:56Z 17.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@jenwiderberg Oh I already said deliberate practice. Just came back from a [--] which I ran in a tshirt. Kind of warm now"
X Link 2023-10-15T04:00Z 17.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@aarondfrancis @thdxr I want peak arguing about meta frameworks to be behind us. How long til that"
X Link 2023-10-15T22:22Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@OrionSeven @shl @arvidkahl FWIW their stack is primarily Ruby on Rails React and Typescript. They also have legacy code in JavaScript and Flight"
X Link 2023-10-16T15:16Z 15K followers, [----] engagements

"is it weird to go up to someone at a conference and say hi weve never met but Ive refactored your code"
X Link 2023-10-17T02:53Z 15.6K followers, 30.6K engagements

"@maiab Oven used to bake unleavened flatbread:"
X Link 2023-10-17T19:27Z 17.9K followers, [--] engagements

"Im so much less fun at hometown conferences than when I travel. People wanted to go to dinner / coffee / karaoke / etc and Iam hanging out with a book in my living room"
X Link 2023-10-18T02:22Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@ladyleet didn't know you were a Redis fan"
X Link 2023-10-18T14:45Z 17.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@zachmelloh26 - maxing out every investment vehicle - selling the worst performers - talking to a cfp"
X Link 2023-10-20T14:08Z 14.9K followers, [---] engagements

"me an engineering manager at a big tech company handing out retention raises and saving the rest of my budget for new headcount"
X Link 2023-10-21T03:14Z 15K followers, 172.3K engagements

"@the_real_stacie Its that barely-keeping-up-with-inflation raise some companies give out annually along with a giant total compensation statement about how much theyre actually spending on you"
X Link 2023-10-21T03:21Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@hackSultan One camera at the entrance one camera at the exit both scanning license plates. When you pull up to the exit gate the computer checks how long youve been there. Under [--] mins is free else you have to swipe your credit card"
X Link 2023-10-22T03:51Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@phuctm97 I think the hate is limited to tech Twitter. Companies that moved to Next.js years ago / months ago arent suddenly reevaluating whether they should move to the new hotness. They also are very likely still on the pages router and not experiencing early adopter bugs"
X Link 2023-10-22T15:18Z 14.9K followers, 11.7K engagements

"@phuctm97 Itll be interesting to look at the various usage numbers in 3-6 months and see if anything changes. I fully expect Remix usage to have climbed a little. The Shopify acquisition suddenly made it very appealing for larger companies who wanted to see a sustainable future"
X Link 2023-10-22T15:34Z 14.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Long ago I was in a meeting where someone said with a serious face that if we contracted a cheap offshore team to write tests dev velocity would go up & we would save money using our core talent to only work on useful things. Unfortunately I was too flabbergasted to scream"
X Link 2023-10-23T16:12Z 15K followers, 34.2K engagements

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