# ![@LewisCTech Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1594452432867950592.png) @LewisCTech Lewis Campbell

Lewis Campbell posts on X about new zealand, bit, in the, this is the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1594452432867950592/posts_active)
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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  10.17% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  7.63% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  5.08% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  2.54% [stocks](/list/stocks)  2.54% [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands)  0.85% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  0.85% [finance](/list/finance)  0.85% [currencies](/list/currencies)  0.85%

**Social topic influence**
[new zealand](/topic/new-zealand) #402, [bit](/topic/bit) 4.24%, [in the](/topic/in-the) 4.24%, [this is](/topic/this-is) 4.24%, [if you](/topic/if-you) 3.39%, [linkedin](/topic/linkedin) 2.54%, [business](/topic/business) 2.54%, [javascript](/topic/javascript) 1.69%, [llm](/topic/llm) 1.69%, [hong kong](/topic/hong-kong) 1.69%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@danielwkiwi](/creator/undefined) [@khamchanh](/creator/undefined) [@darthsquig](/creator/undefined) [@dioscuri](/creator/undefined) [@tk512](/creator/undefined) [@ponny1](/creator/undefined) [@dripgrillionair](/creator/undefined) [@fredrikaurdal](/creator/undefined) [@0tushard](/creator/undefined) [@jtregunna](/creator/undefined) [@lispexmachina](/creator/undefined) [@altweltaffe](/creator/undefined) [@ferng6ferng](/creator/undefined) [@coalaie](/creator/undefined) [@vanilagy](/creator/undefined) [@usgraphics](/creator/undefined) [@ptrtojoel](/creator/undefined) [@edandersen](/creator/undefined) [@paulgb](/creator/undefined) [@danielw_kiwi](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[IBM (IBM)](/topic/ibm) [Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER)](/topic/$uber) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Your entrees come with "Fries Coleslaw and Hush Puppies" That is a fucking meal. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019622205605237234 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019622205605237234"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2019622205605237234)  2026-02-06T04:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi Vanilla JS user here. This post is confusing me to as what he shows is not valid HTML and will not render properly on browsers. I suggest he learn HTML"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2020676700259189230)  2026-02-09T01:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@shadadzaii That's a lamborghini WTF I used to idolise lamborghinis as a boy. Had so many diecast laborghini models. Now they make something that literally looks worse than a mazda cx5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2020777963541963070)  2026-02-09T08:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@TK512 @DanielW_Kiwi typescript the javascript linter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2020805609562501466)  2026-02-09T10:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"One thing LLMs are really useful for is quickly getting you up and running with new tools and libraries. If you are an experienced new tools in your ecosystem are difficult because of their interface not what they actually do. Saves a lot of time to have an LLM get you started"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2021002959556050998)  2026-02-09T23:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi Casio dumb watches never did this to me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2021017404315402304)  2026-02-10T00:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@ponny1 @escapefrommelos When it's 0c outside in New Zealand people are wearing jackets indoors"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2021048259335291267)  2026-02-10T02:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@dripgrillionair @derseelander @_chloeswarbrick @MaramaDavidson As a bit of background in the 1980s in NZ dirty hippies decided we should be "nuclear free" which meant USN vessels could no longer make port calls in New Zealand because as a protocol the USN will refuse to say whether a vessel is carrying nuclear weapons or not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2021079343540408377)  2026-02-10T04:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@n4v1g8 Agreed These tools have come such a long way. Great for test harnesses for legacy web apps. I now have no excuse not to do this LOL"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2021326887163977846)  2026-02-10T20:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@FredrikAurdal does not work as well as people think it does. the primary issue is almost always architectural. or rather the architecture is what holds back any migration"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2021384711256539493)  2026-02-11T00:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@KHAMCHANH @SeanMcCarthyCom You are just completely ignorant of the right. Wide spectrum of anti-Israel voices from libertarian (Massie) far-right (Fuentes) normie right (Tucker). MAGA basically split after the Iran bombing nonsense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2021389711030518242)  2026-02-11T01:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@wylfcen It's always striking to me [--]. how much nicer everyone is dressed and [--]. how much worse they drive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2021391909466579331)  2026-02-11T01:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@alth0u Ah the mysteries of the Orient"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2021434109789425893)  2026-02-11T04:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@0tusharD Confucius"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2021449557285142574)  2026-02-11T05:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Mads_on_X @tekbog As a free speech advocating you are accurately describing Hong Kong but completely glossing over the freedom of speech restrictions in many western european jurisdictions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2022114250425250073)  2026-02-13T01:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@sabine_s_ I hate insomnia so much lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2022226740693914109)  2026-02-13T08:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@BohunkSupremacy It used to just be British. This from a former NZ PM about Edmund Hilary: "Hillary has climbed to the top of the world. He has put the British race and New Zealand on top of the world." He certainly did not mean Hilary was Welsh English or Scottish"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2022407193686049224)  2026-02-13T20:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@DarthSquig @dioscuri LMAO I know that feeling. In Taiwan everyone says BAI BAI on the telephone when the call ends. I mean everyone even mean. BAI BAI in a high flat tone. I did that coming back from there once in English and it was very awkward"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2023178100155253157)  2026-02-15T23:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@jtregunna You must be more down with the kids than I am. I have not seen this. What memes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2022398539889041791)  2026-02-13T19:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@lispexmachina @Ranos2716 @altweltaffe Huh apparently before that we called it "eye door" (eaduru). That's a way better way to sell windows; it's a door for your eyes man VS it will get very drafty in here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2022796826274074786)  2026-02-14T22:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"What's that Noted software Thought Leader (TM) Lewis Campbell has updated his consulting website And he's got capacity for new clients WOW that is BIG NEWS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2019428047011868715)  2026-02-05T15:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@flag_posting All the flags in that referendum were awful. None of them looked like serious flags. It's then I realised that New Zealand doesn't really consider itself a serious nation. It considers itself to be a kind of brand which is why the designs looked like beach towels"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2023302780623245392)  2026-02-16T07:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi What if I am really passionate about fence setting and saying "it depends""  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2023333090626802100)  2026-02-16T09:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Ferng6Ferng @FuckKoroks I'm not much of a racialist I'm afraid. I want advanced civilisation to succeed and since I would rather people of my own race behave more like the people of Japan I cannot claim superiority here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2022962312815198685)  2026-02-15T09:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@CoalaIE @nonregemesse Then do a fucking border poll. My god you people moan about this so fucking much and at any moment you could call border polls and - if the people want - Ireland would be under one jurisdiction. But you can't even be bothered doing that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2023186952825241762)  2026-02-16T00:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@HughGriffin2 @brutalkind_ Yeah Melbourne does not get nearly enough rainfall to be tropical"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2023267045870362789)  2026-02-16T05:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@zxq9_iwao @spirodonfl You have put a thought I have had before very clearly into words. LLM is useless for a lot of my problems because I am actually solving a problem. It's very good at quickly filling in gaps in a standard library though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2023321652327813535)  2026-02-16T09:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@PolitlcsGlobal @guardian Hamas maintained the graves of our war dead for [--] years before the Israelis came in and started bulldozing them. Without the conquest of Palestine by the British Empire there would be no Israel. We conquered. They migrated. And now they desecrate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2019224173185531976)  2026-02-05T01:38Z [----] followers, 85.8K engagements


"@sporadica They are so insecure they think having different timezones will encourage separatism. I am not joking look it up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2022403292924698717)  2026-02-13T20:11Z [----] followers, 56.6K engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi The weirdest thing to me is that they basically never do. I drive [--] hours and I don't even get a different accent. They drive [--] hours and they get a whole new language and cuisine and they just can't be bothered. It's so weird to me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2022521172047614321)  2026-02-14T03:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@altweltaffe All Germanic languages use compound words. I could just as well point out cases where English has a compound word and German does not: dragonfly - libelle keyboard - tastatur window - fenster Or maybe I have missed the point of your post"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2022788544272494989)  2026-02-14T21:42Z [----] followers, 23.8K engagements


"@dioscuri I will never understand why Germans find this such a confusing concept. I see their replies; all of them think they understand and 0% of them do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2022919711915413877)  2026-02-15T06:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Spock quietly questions the long term viability of vibe-coding:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2022954668998201811)  2026-02-15T08:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi I guess human beings aren't good at web dev either so the LLMs have a low bar to clear. (hmm does being a code janitor make one cynical)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2023183435817480462)  2026-02-15T23:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@htmx_org I pay it gladly with both hands"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2023187713483264299)  2026-02-16T00:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I'm having to be conscientious about closing browser tabs like I'm back in [----] because a lot of websites just start busy looping if you leave them open too long. To be fair it's mostly indy websites made by tiny companies with not many resources like X Claude and LinkedIn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2023293785875296444)  2026-02-16T07:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Kiwi_Paul_B @TheHughAnthony @EerykMcRae Do you know that one of the few Mandarin words invented in New Zealand is a racist term for Polynesians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2023298847691477076)  2026-02-16T07:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@vanilagy @dioscuri Theres a continuum. You can offer absolutely nothing and just give a "fine". But you can also test the waters a bit and see if they want to talk. "Tired had an early flight its my first time here" and maybe they decide to engage with that and you have a nice chat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2023354916140667294)  2026-02-16T11:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Confession: for the longest time I valued the opinions of Hacker News commenters. The typical HN commenter always sounds incredibly confident and sure of themselves holding forth on technologies software methodologies and even business. I thought that how they thought were important indicators a sort of finger on the tech world's pulse. I regret this very much. Reading HN now I realise most popular comments do not show much insight or knowledge at all. It's mostly just some dude's opinion that other people like. I won't say the average popular HN commenter is particularly stupid but there's a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1921898699955061064)  2025-05-12T12:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Roy Fielding responding to one of Alan Kay's pithy quotes. I feel like he's been sitting on that one for a while. (I am not taking sides on this. Just thought it was a cool bit of computing history clashing)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1929106786801561961)  2025-06-01T09:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@_Felipe What a depressing diagnosis for a whole field"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1929689076875382923)  2025-06-02T23:58Z [----] followers, 11.3K engagements


"@tomfool1978 how would that change anything People would just immediately rush to port Unix SQL and HTTP into quantum computers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1929772237504368702)  2025-06-03T05:28Z [----] followers, 23.6K engagements


"@dimitar_nonov I'd argue that there's more intelligent people in computing now than in the 70s. As a total percentage much smaller but as raw numbers many more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1929818186830303568)  2025-06-03T08:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@usgraphics Can the opacity be altered or is that not part of the Apple Experience"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1932212953585197090)  2025-06-09T23:07Z [----] followers, 18.1K engagements


"@Slvrhndst @NobleQAli I don't have baggage or guilt :)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1935187140830548086)  2025-06-18T04:05Z [----] followers, 54.7K engagements


"@splinedrive The idea of going back to C++ in a world that has Zig and Rust is just laughable. Why torture yourself to impress. well no one the average C++ enjoyer is too old to be on X it's for cool middle aged people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1936737043775996149)  2025-06-22T10:44Z [----] followers, 24.5K engagements


"I'd love to build real interfaces for real people who do real work. But would anyone buy them Is a renaissance of COMMERCIAL keyboard driven quick information dense interfaces financially viable IBM AS/400 is what they use to process billions of dollars of wafers in semiconductor manufacturing. I was an engineer there for [--] years. Yes that's exactly what it looked like. Entirely keyboard driven. Fast af. No Electron JS. No aesthetics. No design. And it's beautiful. https://t.co/STXZ6jLwat IBM AS/400 is what they use to process billions of dollars of wafers in semiconductor manufacturing. I"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1938025256394101008)  2025-06-26T00:03Z [----] followers, 14.3K engagements


"@wagslane yeah it's weird how don't roll your own crypto morphed into don't roll your own auth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1938294259914039339)  2025-06-26T17:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@GergelyOrosz I haven't bought these sorts of things for a bout [--] years - please tell me there are still "dumb" washing machines fridges etc in the market"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1942153721032712597)  2025-07-07T09:28Z [----] followers, 13.4K engagements


"Doing more systems programming is really making me re-evaluate the higher level (garbage collected etc) languages I use on the server. Suddenly "big ecosystem" is lessening in importance and "interop with C ABI" is growing an importance because that's the true gateway out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1945257316711792658)  2025-07-15T23:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Vanilla JS is by far the most sensible thing to build your web app in. The mild discomfort of manual DOM manipulation absolutely pales in comparison to the endless grind of transitive dependency and tooling updates. I will die on this hill. The front-end emperor has no clothes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1945599802957611276)  2025-07-16T21:41Z [----] followers, 461.5K engagements


"If anyone would like to hate read my bad front end takes in a longer form. I wrote this a month and a half ago"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1945986288194404508)  2025-07-17T23:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


""Most data is akshually relational" says the NoSQL hater as he smashes the document shaped data coming into his system into hundreds of tiny pieces carefully placing the broken remnants into tables too small for useful queries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1947757027910197446)  2025-07-22T20:33Z [----] followers, 18.7K engagements


"I'm writing a little report for myself from the ground up (what exactly *IS* a container etc). Basically the strategic overview of the modern cloud I couldn't find online. May publish it but I'm not sure it's wise to have on public record the sheer scope of what I don't know. Confession: my serverless/deployment/ops knowledge is completely out of date. Usually I'm not involved with that side of things at all. Searching on youtube it's all vendor slop and tutorials. This suggests no one else knows why they're doing anything either so that's a relief. Confession: my serverless/deployment/ops"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1948503610167357729)  2025-07-24T22:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Turns out I've once again let the internet give me imposter syndrome. 95% of managed database offerings are on a single machine with no replication or failover meaning they are no more reliable or available than just embedding SQLite in your webserver. I'm writing a little report for myself from the ground up (what exactly *IS* a container etc). Basically the strategic overview of the modern cloud I couldn't find online. May publish it but I'm not sure it's wise to have on public record the sheer scope of what I don't know. https://t.co/iUUDNr0RtL I'm writing a little report for myself from"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1949594189274230967)  2025-07-27T22:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@LukasHozda I've muted the guy now people are screenshotting him. Is there no escape"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1950870512223301995)  2025-07-31T10:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I don't rate people who take static typing too seriously. It's great DX great for getting fast feedback on your mental model and great for compiler code gen. I prefer it. But if you cared about correctness you'd talk about advanced randomized testing not type disciplines"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1951774440129540172)  2025-08-02T22:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@sudo_goreng you would be HUGE on linkedin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1953741599445336353)  2025-08-08T08:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@ptr_to_joel Three words; No SQL"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1955177938430894458)  2025-08-12T08:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"BTW the speccy little prick has me blocked because I made a harmless joke and his culture has no concept of sarcasm. So I'm not exactly a fanboy. But facts are facts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1955757980798083315)  2025-08-13T22:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Javascript is a perfectly alright language. It's reasonably expressive has good implementations a huge ecosystem and a pretty decent bolt-on static type system. People really do get a bit melodramatic over it like they'll sully themselves if they touch it. It's fine. Relax"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1956280556091818415)  2025-08-15T09:03Z [----] followers, 10.8K engagements


"@edandersen I did C# for [--] years straight and I 100% cannot remember the syntax off the top of my head for (var num of list) sum += num;  I think you could just do list.sum() with LINQ or did you have to call list.enumerable().sum() or something"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1959876202711404585)  2025-08-25T07:11Z [----] followers, 22.2K engagements


"Does anyone else spend a lot of their life throughout the day thinking about key value stores"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1961918138137915688)  2025-08-30T22:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi what if it was a paper from [--] years ago and it was fortran 77"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1962813272924840320)  2025-09-02T09:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Does anyone ever write a little library that you think might be useful for others but you decided not to open source it because you think "SHIT what if other people like it and they raise issues I don't want to deal with that""  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1963023835923677392)  2025-09-02T23:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Working on a project where the backend is sqlite and it's been a delight to develop against a local database that's just a file. SQLite should be the default for every B2B SaaS apps IMO. SSD's + WAL2 + Cheap RAM has completely changed the calculus wrt scaling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1976343980398018589)  2025-10-09T17:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I'm so tired of listening to former drug addicts and their brave stories and their new positive life choices. What about us people who never got addicted to drugs in the first place - aren't we the real heroes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1976576573915721864)  2025-10-10T09:12Z [----] followers, 10.1K engagements


"Trying to go over a massive json file with rust is way slower than the equivalent jq one liner. What a remarkable piece of software"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1985105353667977667)  2025-11-02T22:02Z [----] followers, 51.4K engagements


"Rust-Analyzer is timing out on my [----] member enum. Pathetic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1987367994591428669)  2025-11-09T03:53Z [----] followers, 17.1K engagements


"My entire feed is political rage-baiting and prompt coding. I need more technical content"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/2014825200408527240)  2026-01-23T22:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Is the universe telling me to become a systems programmer I spent hours today reading and discussing a paper about a unix syscall. My brain is pretty spent this was the very edge of my understanding. And yet I didn't stop. Is it time to give up business software consulting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1725026938480386335)  2023-11-16T05:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@paulgb This kind of pedantry warms my heart. Also chimpanzees are not monkeys English lacks an informal 'you' not a formal one // comments came from BCPL not C++ and no I am not "close" to East Asia just because I am far away from you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1778146008771534977)  2024-04-10T19:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@paulgb Are you broadly familiar with the tu/vous distinction in French or du/Sie in German or tu/usted in spanish English had that to it was thou/you. So it's not that we lack a 'formal' 2nd person pronoun; we lack an informal one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1778146886521921879)  2024-04-10T19:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


""Delve' is not a fancy word. It's one syllable. It's been used continuously for [----] years. It's a word a child would know. Shakespeare used it. This is unacceptable for an educated native English speaker. I've noticed a lot of people complaining jokingly that they now pause when they're about to use a fancy word. That's great. That's exactly what one should do stop and think "is there a way to say this more simply" I've noticed a lot of people complaining jokingly that they now pause when they're about to use a fancy word. That's great. That's exactly what one should do stop and think "is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1778912158404997494)  2024-04-12T22:24Z [----] followers, 632.8K engagements


"@martinlyncroft "delve" is a direct descendent of Proto Indo-European *delb. *delb - *delban - delfan - delven - delve"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1779084286240641123)  2024-04-13T09:48Z [----] followers, 18.5K engagements


"@RiverTamYDN I envy the life that you've lived if you haven't met people who would struggle with that question"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1789809614697222606)  2024-05-13T00:07Z [----] followers, 18.1K engagements


"@LucyXIV There's no one I sympathise with more than Harvard PhDs who run million dollar companies that are micro-aggressed by their Uber Black drivers. Truly the real victims"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1791596189982605605)  2024-05-17T22:26Z [----] followers, 74.8K engagements


"@kitten_beloved @moonbeamdreams_ Bullshit. Loads of conventially ugly people date. All the time. And get into relationships. And have kids. You think every dad is attractive Yes they will get rejected more than someone who is conventionally attractive. Still worth it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1793868046853144646)  2024-05-24T04:54Z [----] followers, 27.1K engagements


"I contracted at a place with this very problem - needed to send big lat long pairs to a mobile app and it was too slow. I suggested just sending a binary array of floats and chunking it and they were not happy about the suggestion. As an aside is using an object for each element meaningfully shorter after gzip compression"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1810769418626158641)  2024-07-09T20:14Z [----] followers, 27.6K engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi CURL + google how the hell to pass in JSON to an end point"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1828349081942647164)  2024-08-27T08:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@UNIVERSE_FEEDS @Alphafox78 She could have just said "sorry I can't" when he first approached her to do the voxpop. She could have gotten to the bathroom way sooner"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1845958733693964417)  2024-10-14T22:43Z [----] followers, 16.8K engagements


"You know systems programmers always love to rag on web devs. But have you sen what happens when systems programmers try to make a web app"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1848263113499689398)  2024-10-21T07:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I miss Joe Armstrong. I'm not even an Erlanger but I've listened to all his talks on youtube countless times. It's very rare that someone so technically clever is also an engaging speaker. He's opened so many doors in my mind. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=cNICGEwmXLU https://www.youtube.com/watchv=cNICGEwmXLU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1854779692911645025)  2024-11-08T06:55Z [----] followers, 20.2K engagements


"Making a distributed database is really forcing me to level up in areas of computing where my knowledge is shallow. Right now it's networking - I took computer networking at uni but all I really learned is how to pass an exam about computer networking"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1867338146117300525)  2024-12-12T22:38Z [----] followers, 15.6K engagements


"I think I am going to start "mini blogging" - if we think of a tweet as a "micro blog" then something between that and a regular sized one. @dadgumjames site was my favourite tech blog ever and a lot of them are 8-12 tweets long. Maybe that's about right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1872133666580898303)  2024-12-26T04:13Z [----] followers, 29.1K engagements


"One way Martin Kleppmann red pills you is that you realise there's absolutely nothing fundamental or central about RDBMs. He shows you they're all clones of one system from the 70s that "ACID" is more marketing than technical and that they disagree on what "consistent" means"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1877976370438914511)  2025-01-11T07:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@M3Po2 @TicTocTick I am definitely not a fan of chinese censorship. HOWEVER 1) it's open source 2) it was made by chinese people in china they 100% need to put that stuff or they can get in all sorts of trouble by their government. So it's hard for me to blame the engineers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1883771921520796010)  2025-01-27T06:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I love Zig but it does drive me a bit nuts how they unintentionally made this sophisticated mechanism for creating Ocaml-style higher order modules but they have no concept of Module Signatures because they're former Go programmers and don't think "Interfaces" are a good idea"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1892333157317230720)  2025-02-19T21:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@vaxryy PEWDIEPIE SWITCH TO LINUX HOLY SHIT THIS IS HUGE WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1893132591907401931)  2025-02-22T02:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@ds_rajput_2000 @Memeulous big ups big ups this is the kings essential dj mix"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1898479921963676130)  2025-03-08T21:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@iavins There's an agritech company that makes a collar for livestock. The idea being that instead of making expensive wire fencing you program the area you want them to graze in and if they stray outside of it they get a mild electric shock. Kind of what Rust has done to me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1899732523762200606)  2025-03-12T08:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@davepl1968 I can't go back to C++ after Rust. It's not even a safety thing it's an ergonomics thing. Real sum types real option types hygienic macros faster compilation times more expressive code less language complexity no template errors. C++ is like going back to the dark age"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1904458160678821918)  2025-03-25T08:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@scrypto_ Because he's embarrassed. I once met a woman I did this to (though in my defense it was ONE party I tried it) years later when I had a long term gf. I pretended I hadn't met her before. Felt easier"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1905537762847006945)  2025-03-28T08:29Z [----] followers, 10.4K engagements


"Prediction: Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST) will completely change the way reliable software is written. In any program there's a core of it under your control. Given the same inputs you get the same outputs always. This part is deterministic. And then there are the things you cannot control. The speed and performance of your network. The time on your machine. The time on the machines you're communicating with. The data you receive from those machines. The data you receive from users. A thousand monkeys on a thousand typewriters with a thousand network topologies. With DST you test"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1916407192946938076)  2025-04-27T08:20Z [----] followers, 23K engagements


"This is a hard pill for many devs to swallow: - Static analysis (including static typing) finds theoretical bugs - Dynamic analysis (fuzzing advanced testing) finds actual bugs Or to put it in clickbait terms - static types won't save you from tests"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1922781641056891363)  2025-05-14T22:30Z [----] followers, 15.9K engagements


"Did you guys know that multi-threaded programming is actually pretty complicated ok well maybe it's easy now what with async runtimes atop thread pools but of course being me I can't be satisfied with that and have to figure out wtf is going on. any thread magicians here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1927629879236837395)  2025-05-28T07:35Z [----] followers, 15.9K engagements


"HTTP - [----] SQL - [----] Unix - [----] I fully get the amount of industrial equity built by all the above technologies. But I must ask. is this it Are we as an industry just going to build off of these things forever Do we not dare imagine anything else"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1929653595680747600)  2025-06-02T21:37Z [----] followers, 379.6K engagements


"@kenn I sometimes think what a great benefit it is to just natively speak the world's international language. Sometimes it's annoying though. People think they have the right to force us to change the way we spell words like Turkey or Kiev"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1929811666373693831)  2025-06-03T08:05Z [----] followers, 21.2K engagements


"@loftwah Master. I create my repos using git and master is the default name. Also I'm obviously a huge proponent of the trans-atlantic slave trade and chattel slavery in general. And I need every sensitive American I might collaborate with to know this about me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1939569502376894744)  2025-06-30T06:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi @eigenrobot I bought what i thought was a safety razor. Turns out the blades were proprietary making disposable plastic razors actually cheaper"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1940149971673895121)  2025-07-01T20:46Z [----] followers, 59.1K engagements


"What matters in testing: - simulation - fuzzing - determinism What people talk about: - the exact delineation between "integration" and "unit" - whether to test first or last - assertion libraries - Uncle Bob"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1941248560739254335)  2025-07-04T21:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@michael_timbs So wrong. - I get to use the browser on debugger - I can use the repl to test out changes - less complexity because manipulating the DOM is easier than redux saga or whatever the fuck - easier to maintain because I won't be using an old library"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1945789621914542436)  2025-07-17T10:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Hey it's The Primeagen's junior dev friend guy who thinks his blog is a web app guy who thinks his blog is a web app"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1945794564704645244)  2025-07-17T10:35Z [----] followers, 13.3K engagements


"Here's what hitting the front page on HN looks like. The server costs me [----] USD a month"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1946254639944638630)  2025-07-18T17:04Z [----] followers, 27.9K engagements


"Was open source maximalism a mistake I feel like a world where you get paid for your software products directly is much better than getting street cred when big tech uses it (w/o paying you). Selling desktop apps to local businesses used to feed a lot of families"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1953632141738467752)  2025-08-08T01:39Z [----] followers, 14.3K engagements


"Great book I don't see people talking about much these days. TL;DR "given an existing codebase without automated testing how can we add tests add features and fix bugs without breaking it for users" Very applicable to basically every existing codebase I've seen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1954666371985646013)  2025-08-10T22:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Tsoding has demonstrated - time and time again on live video - that he is an excellent programmer in a wide variety of domains and languages. Deriding him because he doesn't stream boring maintenance work on some infrastructure project misses the point entirely. Last one on this. People still trying to make me think I am wrong and tech influencers are really valuable and meaningful. I disagree. Id rather listen to people who have actually tackled real problems than those who just complain and rant about everything without taking any https://t.co/mhpI9niKK3 Last one on this. People still"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1955756019809968636)  2025-08-13T22:19Z [----] followers, 102.4K engagements


"@ptr_to_joel what the hell are requirements all I've ever received since day one are vague hand gestures and vibes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1956564112156082408)  2025-08-16T03:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Make shorter blog posts Often I click on peoples posts and I it's interesting for [--] paragraphs starts slipping in the 4th I think "where are they going with this" I scroll down and it's multiple pages. Thing is - assuming you're just some rando on the internet like me and not a big name - it's a big ask to expect people to read a big article by you. You're an unknown quantity. This isn't a high school essay you're not being judged on word count. Tighten that shit up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1958276400185798796)  2025-08-20T21:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@usgraphics US Graphics Company has a new LinkedIn Page. Wow. This is huge. But they seem unaware of the [----] LinkedIn meta. It's about tiny sentences. Fragments. With massive new lines. Only then can you excel in B2B shitpost marketing. Agree #business #b2b #monospace #authenticity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1959499360137297932)  2025-08-24T06:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@edandersen No I get it - if it's a C# shop and you're rusty brush up on your C# before the interview. Just pointing out I couldn't remember if it was for or foreach "of" or "in" etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1959877019417633232)  2025-08-25T07:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@EOSTrucking Now now don't jump to conclusions. Maybe Raj Transport has a DEI policy and they hired a white guy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1960438753690050961)  2025-08-26T20:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi They can leave out details that would clutter up a paper. They can also avoid favouring any one particular language. Usually it's the algorithm that's important implementing is is trivial. I don't know why so many people get hung up on this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1962811658742702200)  2025-09-02T09:35Z [----] followers, 55.9K engagements


"@ChingteLai ROC Flag at the liberation of Hong Kong 1945"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1963167471873204657)  2025-09-03T09:09Z [----] followers, 25.2K engagements


"Martin Kleppmann's "A Critique of the CAP Theorem" is a fascinating read. He points out that no one agrees what "availability" means and instead proposes a "delay sensitivity framework" which is how sensitive to network delays reads and writes are in a distributed system"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1964789702256676938)  2025-09-07T20:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"half of buns team is here on visas. its already very difficult to find great engineers. please dont make it harder half of buns team is here on visas. its already very difficult to find great engineers. please dont make it harder"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1969875778017067317)  2025-09-21T21:25Z [----] followers, 228.5K engagements


"@vikhyatk We're sick of it too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1970213582098047258)  2025-09-22T19:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Rust is one of my favourite object oriented languages"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1986886267020423577)  2025-11-07T19:59Z [----] followers, 22.4K engagements

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