# ![@thdxr Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::2870102861.png) @thdxr dax

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

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### Social Influence

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**Social topic influence**
[ai](/topic/ai) #611, [if you](/topic/if-you) #1159, [money](/topic/money) #2840, [cloudflare](/topic/cloudflare), [$googl](/topic/$googl), [lambda](/topic/lambda), [llm](/topic/llm) #15, [open ai](/topic/open-ai) #2650, [in the](/topic/in-the), [slack](/topic/slack)

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Server side real-time virtual DOM + diffing with Nori in #Elixir. No more javascript https://github.com/ironbay/nori https://github.com/ironbay/nori"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1040685534778220545)  2018-09-14T19:35Z 42.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@louispilfold Looking to try out Gleam on AWS Lambda. Every try this out before"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1340062408560308224)  2020-12-18T22:32Z 41.6K followers, [--] engagements


"What would the @coinbase IPO look like if regulation wasn't keeping out competitors Fees should be near zero"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1382114744518246403)  2021-04-13T23:33Z 42.3K followers, [--] engagements


"OK I'm starting to feel like maybe MongoDB is good now and I should look into it again I guess their last strategic hire is having the desired effect"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1478854656407257091)  2022-01-05T22:23Z 42.2K followers, [--] engagements


"probably a good thing that the world doesn't run on permissionless uncensorable money right now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1498291486798061568)  2022-02-28T13:38Z 42.3K followers, [--] engagements


"don't get a CS degree don't join FAANG don't join a series B "startup" "but it'll give me valuable experi-" no it won't - it's all procrastination join a company that has nothing will something into existence it'll fail but you'll have moved the needle try again and again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1525098574949675009)  2022-05-13T13:00Z 42.3K followers, [--] engagements


"twilio My [--] year old cousin met his dream girl at a bar and it's going pretty well https://t.co/ZrHB8rYuoV My [--] year old cousin met his dream girl at a bar and it's going pretty well https://t.co/ZrHB8rYuoV"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1616193472431812610)  2023-01-19T21:58Z 42.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@devagrawal09 think there might just be something to be learned don't really know what it is every project optimizes for this to varying degrees but if you look at some of the most popular ones they don't necessarily bother too much cannibalizing might actually be the winning strategy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1631302417923858432)  2023-03-02T14:36Z 42.3K followers, [----] engagements


"new video been talking a while about how Prisma doesn't work well in serverless environments finally there's a complete alternative that I'm obsessed with - check it out https://youtu.be/3tl9XCiQErA https://youtu.be/3tl9XCiQErA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1632825770321100803)  2023-03-06T19:29Z 42.2K followers, 144.5K engagements


"vision pro demos are cool but they highlight activities i would never do solo so the killer thing to do is to make all of it hyper social"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1665871635000307713)  2023-06-06T00:02Z 42.3K followers, [----] engagements


"when typescript came out it was a very important for adoption to be very compatible with existing JS libraries today the ecosystem is developed enough that you can make stricter design decisions and get to a better place really excited for Ezno to explore that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1672214359416754177)  2023-06-23T12:06Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"post a picture of your pet and their job description at your startup this is Zuko hes a founder who raised $100M before having a product"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1672620688740343808)  2023-06-24T15:00Z 42.3K followers, 72.3K engagements


"midjourney: wait i thought you said i shouldnt be generating stuff like this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1672710431574568960)  2023-06-24T20:57Z 25.6K followers, [----] engagements


"stop posting about how much you hate some technology neg it instead example:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1673027086876016642)  2023-06-27T20:15Z 25.6K followers, 14.1K engagements


"gave this library a try to relive some elixir glory days and the amount it cleans up my code is ridiculous: pattern matching and pipes need to be added to JS ASAP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1673500717594873857)  2023-06-27T01:17Z 25.6K followers, [---] engagements


"we have an older product that funds our work on SST our new product will get us to a place of comfortable sustainability weve intentionally stayed lean and all of our work is open source and self hosted still not a slam dunk but were modeled more like Tailwind and less like a typical company"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1673679565497987074)  2023-06-27T13:07Z 42.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@AdamRackis interest rate impacted decision"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1673688777867382785)  2023-06-27T15:59Z 25.6K followers, [----] engagements


"this is how you get performance deep effort in architecture this is the worlds best feeling web app and its a react SPA youre all focused in the wrong place"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1674383891740622848)  2023-06-29T21:57Z 22.2K followers, 51.6K engagements


"jokes aside this could be interpreted as a real life case of nash equilibrium"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1674492158894657536)  2023-06-29T20:59Z 25.7K followers, [----] engagements


"🚨🚨EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE 🚨 🚨 🚨MILK IS TECH TWITTER🚨"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1674495344720113673)  2023-06-29T21:00Z 25.6K followers, 25.1K engagements


"@iltimasdoha better than supporting BIG OAT"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1674506938543927328)  2023-06-29T20:45Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@OCamlAndrea @htmx_org alan kays definition of OOP is pretty different from what people think of nowadays youre both right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1674561295520079872)  2023-06-30T01:48Z 25.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@devagrawal09 zero chance in hell you have a girlfriend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1674598391836295170)  2023-06-30T01:59Z 25.6K followers, [--] engagements


"people saying things like twitter is bad lately understandable to want to externalize bad feelings but twitter just reflects you back at yourself if youre having a bad time hanging out with the mostly wonderful people here might want dig deeper into where your head is at"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1675842735155052545)  2023-07-09T01:46Z 25.6K followers, 27.5K engagements


"if youve never deployed Zookeeper youre still a junior engineer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1676966834472652800)  2023-07-06T15:21Z [--] followers, 50.8K engagements


"@adamdotdev you should know by now im very good at pretending to be an expert in anything also invisibility requires 3x the energy as 80% translucency so is often not worth it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1678100227037831168)  2023-07-09T18:02Z 25.6K followers, [---] engagements


"every once in a while a big company moves off a technology and people take it as way too strong of a datapoint"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1678372599204552704)  2023-07-10T11:56Z 25.6K followers, 12.8K engagements


"the funniest thing about tailwind vs write my own css is im doing a third thing that no one every bothers me about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1678432630092754944)  2023-07-10T16:28Z 25.7K followers, 45.7K engagements


"@anthonysheww i find the majority of nodejs applications are bloated with tools trying to push towards a more conservative approach"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1678436881728413696)  2023-07-10T16:27Z 25.6K followers, [---] engagements


"who should hire me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1678455859439968266)  2023-07-10T17:43Z 25.7K followers, [----] engagements


"poll results highlight how many people conflate being an investor with being a builder diversification is for when youre done building"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1678530735152459778)  2023-07-11T07:06Z 25.6K followers, [----] engagements


"do you have all the skills needed to go from zero to a system in production with significant traffic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1678588892964872192)  2023-07-11T13:46Z 25.6K followers, 47.9K engagements


"having gone through hiring a lot of people at a hyper growth company the real number is probably 10% and even smaller if you consider all devs and not just my bubble the majority of peoples experience is in environments where some aspects of this was someone elses problem"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1678728748865077248)  2023-07-11T18:50Z 25.6K followers, 11K engagements


"@teej_dv @MelkeyDev if melkeys code leaked that would only hurt someone trying to clone twitch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1678731242991243265)  2023-07-11T11:48Z 25.6K followers, [----] engagements


"how the The Verge still a thing these people never know anything about tech This is technically impossible to know as a third-party app on either iOS or Android This is technically impossible to know as a third-party app on either iOS or Android"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1678739169428766720)  2023-07-11T12:13Z 42.3K followers, 66.1K engagements


"@ryanflorence @remix_run is there any truth to the rumor that the skateboard was sabotaged in an attempt to prevent remix v3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1678815935736496128)  2023-07-11T17:20Z 25.6K followers, [----] engagements


"im a senior software engineer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1678918308509147136)  2023-07-12T08:09Z 25.6K followers, 88.5K engagements


"70% of you work on applications but the current obsession is with frameworks optimized for e-commerce websites we need a big readjustment on what a good application looks and feels like"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1679193333325877248)  2023-07-12T18:50Z 25.6K followers, 106.6K engagements


"making a thread of common replies that i can link people to later"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1679202130488336384)  2023-07-12T22:06Z 25.6K followers, [----] engagements


"say something nice about this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1680010724599291904)  2023-07-15T06:40Z [--] followers, 101.4K engagements


"@mattbonig @PaliagoAlvin @astuyve @kopertop if using lodash use lodash-es or better yet use remeda for date time use luxon for now eventually temporal api will be a good native option aws sdk v2 is bundled isnt it either way im using v3 with esbuild and none of my lambda functions are over 5mb"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1680728843949162502)  2023-07-16T23:59Z 19.5K followers, [---] engagements


"what are some technologies you know youre supposed to say are good but you dont really use ill go: - laravel - rust - htmx - tailwind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1681064176062480384)  2023-07-20T21:39Z 21.2K followers, 73.4K engagements


"i love @EffectTS_ its the exact mental model i want but regrettably ill never put it in a serious application libraries that make your code look non-standard always ends up creating pain down the road hardest part about js is convincing devs to use fewer tools"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1681145294078066688)  2023-07-18T03:34Z 19.5K followers, 37.1K engagements


"here is the package.json for our frontend: it's under [--] lines for an extremely complicated web app if yours is significantly longer you should ask yourself why"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1681324060897157125)  2023-07-18T15:24Z 19.5K followers, 57K engagements


"were trying to have the most toxic workplace culture we already do weekly sunday night meetings what else can we do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1681453289643339776)  2023-07-18T23:57Z 44.9K followers, 212.4K engagements


"@kentcdodds @AdamRackis @JLarky @flydotio fly themselves cautions you from thinking of them as a managed database provider"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1683457614045233153)  2023-07-24T12:42Z 25.6K followers, [---] engagements


"c# has a concept called extension methods basically libraries can add methods to existing types for example importing group-by.js and would allow for .groupBy() might hate the sound of that but it allows for treeshakable deps while retaining a chaining APIs miss it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1683884727290277892)  2023-07-25T16:59Z 19.5K followers, 44.6K engagements


"@paulg the way school is structured makes you believe it goes from understand - application but the plane was invented before much was understood about flight tinkering wins"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1684911229905559552)  2023-08-02T09:29Z 25.6K followers, [----] engagements


"weird coincidence people were like "well ackchyually DDOS" this morning and we got hit by an attack on our sign in flow today they hit email login and AWS SES detected it and shut it down so they gave up 600K request in [--] min no uptime issues and got a surprise bill of $1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1685065499577606144)  2023-07-31T22:03Z 25.7K followers, 27.8K engagements


"the reason the JS ecosystem is janky has nothing to do with tech its a lack of talent JS historically attracted mediocre engineers good engineers are finally showing up to JS world and fixing it previous generation of leadership couldnt even get a package manager right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1685163815954939904)  2023-07-30T00:58Z 25.6K followers, 531.6K engagements


"should have clarified the original tweet was about js on the backend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1685246031699509249)  2023-07-29T11:08Z 19.5K followers, 14.8K engagements


"given @PlanetScale exists i think people assume the equivalent for postgres is a similar effort that's inevitable but there's a few major differences that make it quite different ran into one of them when doing a slightly non-standard deployment of postgres once - details below"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1686399711245156353)  2023-08-01T15:33Z 25.7K followers, 253.5K engagements


"you can't completely ignore margin maximizing but it should come with the question of "do we have no better higher leverage ideas to make money" tldr opportunity cost is really hard to intuit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1686792467272658955)  2023-08-02T17:33Z 25.6K followers, [----] engagements


"JS challenge: - you have a list of [----] items - you have an async function process(item) - you need to process all items - it needs to be done concurrently but not more than [--] at a time - collect items with errors what's the cleanest way to do this libraries allowed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1686856181745111040)  2023-08-02T21:47Z 53.1K followers, 427K engagements


"its kind of curious how few founders there are in tech twitter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1687080537297506304)  2023-08-04T00:39Z 25.7K followers, 19.6K engagements


"results: - most answers lost errors - clean answers needed one off libraries - correct answers needed a decent amount of code let's run it back - now do it in whatever language you want here's elixir - no libs even works for CPU bound tasks doesn't handle timeouts but could"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1687101748157284352)  2023-08-03T14:02Z 25.6K followers, 252.9K engagements


"@OAsapchi @aidiin it's fairly common when you're doing bulk work in my case i needed to a heavy operation on every row in a table could have done them one by one but it would have taken an hour running it fully parallel would have overwhelmed the DB so limiting to [--] was a good middle ground"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1687204376790929408)  2023-08-03T21:25Z 25.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@AymericBouzy - the docs do not say - so you try creating the same user twice - and it gets created twice so no can't assume idempotency"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1687570021281640448)  2023-08-04T23:15Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements


"for the more hardcore stuff study the architecture of different databases and what tradeoffs they make to achieve their advertised properties look at DynamoDB (google the dynamo paper also) Cassandra Riak Mongo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1687692805819211776)  2023-08-05T11:40Z 25.7K followers, [---] engagements


"theres also consensus protocols like RAFT (which to this day i dont get) checkout peer to peer things as well like bittorrent kademlia even blockchain theres really only a few basic rules and there are a large number of projects playing with different combinations of them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1687693324809838593)  2023-08-05T11:40Z 25.7K followers, [---] engagements


"what are technologies you like that youre supposed to say are bad ill go - typescripts type system - SPAs - kubernetes - AWS - css-in-js - nosql"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1688409735572193280)  2023-08-07T04:40Z 25.6K followers, [---] engagements


"another challenge SQL edition suppose you are building a b2b application with the concept of workspaces you have a column on most tables called workspace_id eg. the user table would have workspace_id id email how could you structure primary keys/additional indexes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1688599824889745425)  2023-08-07T17:15Z 25.8K followers, 238.1K engagements


"check out our new github: now you'll never know what sst stands for https://github.com/sst https://github.com/sst"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1688616531662454784)  2023-08-07T18:22Z 42.4K followers, 11K engagements


"hate when engineers complain about the requirements not being clear your responsibility includes figuring out what the requirements should be - the fact that some parts are unclear is information no good product has ever been built by outsourcing that process to someone else"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1689255703318335488)  2023-08-09T12:41Z 25.7K followers, 207.5K engagements


"how has everyone read "Designing Data Intensive Applications" but no one knows anything still doesn't that mean the book is bad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1689325901580836881)  2023-08-09T17:20Z 25.6K followers, 97.7K engagements


"check out our new landing page https://sst.com/ https://sst.com/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1689424628358262785)  2023-08-09T23:53Z 42.3K followers, 39.6K engagements


"whenever i make a post criticizing engineers i get a bunch of angry replies assuming im not an engineer it hits them hard and the reason is because not only am i an engineer im an engineer for other engineers thats exactly why i intimately know all the ways you suck"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1689509331631210497)  2023-08-10T05:29Z 25.7K followers, 28.2K engagements


"new challenge: grandma edition you are writing a letter to your grandma to be delivered by the post office and you want to know for sure she received it design a protocol between the two of you - make sure to articulate the trade offs and edge cases that can occur"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1689616333678223361)  2023-08-10T12:35Z 25.6K followers, 29.4K engagements


"did not expect open source to be on the list of ZIRPs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1689752945565331457)  2023-08-10T21:37Z 42.3K followers, [----] engagements


"heres my take on the @HashiCorp licensing change its kind of a weird situation it looks like some of the other headlines weve been seeing but i think the details here make it pretty different read below"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1689802142842822657)  2023-08-11T00:53Z 25.7K followers, 17.3K engagements


"a typical setup for an open source project is to offer the main product fully open source and have a complementary SaaS product that offers some added value a lot of times this is a hosted version but it could be something else entirely"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1689802144973549568)  2023-08-11T00:53Z 25.6K followers, [----] engagements


"this is particularly important if your SaaS product does hosting if your product does become widely successful it becomes an attractive target for someone like AWS to offer hosting with margins you cannot compete with but the hashicorp situation is different"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1689802148110811136)  2023-08-11T00:53Z 25.7K followers, [----] engagements


"hashicorp didnt restrict a clear SaaS product they restricted the parts that usually stay open source - low level tools like terraform or nomad theyre primitives you could use to build anything and so a lot of companies build on top to create an ecosystem"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1689802149683695616)  2023-08-11T00:53Z 25.7K followers, [----] engagements


"i suspect investors are looking at the crazy level of traction hashicorp products have and looking at the revenue and saying this doesnt add up so Hashicorp is being told to enter squeeze mode and its hard to justify keeping all your IP out in public for free"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1689802161830404096)  2023-08-11T00:53Z 25.7K followers, [----] engagements


"we hoped SST would support terraform under the hood but were now going to need a lot more clarification before we consider it hopefully im wrong about all this and it turns out they stay pretty generous with what is allowed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1689802163420086272)  2023-08-11T00:53Z 42.3K followers, [----] engagements


"if youre building a booking system you may have the concept of an appointment you want to support rescheduling so you simply update the timestamp but you lose a bunch of information for example if you want to understand how many times a customer has rescheduled in reality rescheduling is the act of marking an appointment as canceled and making a new appointment this is a stronger model so if you think purely in terms of the product you end up with something less correct vs if you think about whats actually going on simplified example"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1690000116906688516)  2023-08-11T14:00Z 25.6K followers, 81.7K engagements


"when i was a consultant weak data modeling skills were the #1 source of problems they cause technical problems which cause business problems which cause bad solutions put in the wrong places a lot of pain can be avoided with a little more effort thinking about data models"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1690000918341648385)  2023-08-11T14:03Z 25.6K followers, 78K engagements


"@VicVijayakumar dont you work at twilio aka the company that sends messages around if you didnt win you should be fired"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1690003057768095744)  2023-08-11T14:11Z 42.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@AdamRackis looking forward to svelte weirdos yelling at you not realizing youre also a svelte weirdo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1690018893275009024)  2023-08-11T15:14Z 25.7K followers, [----] engagements


"never post anything about hiring it is an extremely random process everyone is proud of their own approach and they all somehow result in an incredibly talented team reality is more like you luck into working with someone special and hope to cement that relationship"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1690079583553392640)  2023-08-11T19:15Z 25.7K followers, 16.6K engagements


"@FilipPyrek to address both these issues we added this concept of DeferredTask and we put all heavy or async work in there we run them after the tree is built doesnt fully solve the problem because some cdk constructs we use still have side effects but at least were not adding to it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1690092216016855040)  2023-08-11T20:05Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"will conclude with a valuable lesson one row is his programming era next row is his trading era mastering multiple things and combining them is what rockets you to a special place"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1690747754618712065)  2023-08-13T15:30Z 34K followers, [----] engagements


"zero interest rate era was so wild that i invested in a company where one founder is this guy and the other founder eats silica gel packets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1691264534256713729)  2023-08-15T01:44Z 21.4K followers, 28.2K engagements


"i want to get something off my chest that might be unpopular but its been bothering me i find complaining about return to office annoying its not what you think - ive been working exclusively remotely for almost a decade i believe in it and really value it but im a bit salty back when i decided that i wanted to commit to working remotely it meant accepting that 98% of job opportunities were unavailable to me i had to go to companies get them extra excited about working together and then negotiate remote sometimes this meant taking a cut on salary and also making sure i worked extra hard so"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1691433085504495616)  2023-08-15T12:54Z 42.3K followers, 185.1K engagements


"@astuyve i still cant figure out what bedrock is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1691481631847022592)  2023-08-15T16:07Z 25.8K followers, [---] engagements


"you break your arm you ask the doctor when itll heal dont be ridiculous that cant be measured in time oh sorry it will take [--] points to heal uh what does that mean doesnt matter its not accurate anyway - engineers are so far up their own butt sometimes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1691668772757664048)  2023-08-16T04:30Z 25.6K followers, 187.1K engagements


"i'm not a huge fan of the "T shape" concept if you go deep in something you learn meta-truths and meta-skills that apply to everything that makes it easier to go really deep into the next thing occasionally you'll see someone who's weirdly good at everything that's the goal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1692001883328741491)  2023-08-17T02:34Z 25.7K followers, 19.9K engagements


"pet thread post a pic of your pet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1692157423182594132)  2023-08-17T12:52Z 25.7K followers, 11.9K engagements


"is there anything more annoying than a tailwind user anyway live now come yell at me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1692174919445148101)  2023-08-17T14:01Z 25.6K followers, [----] engagements


"i found my final form"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1692538907986964977)  2023-08-18T14:08Z 42.3K followers, 14.1K engagements


"people see controversial posts doing well so they try to emulate that but miss the point what works are genuine contrarian ideas that provide insight challenge people to think and maybe offend some thats different from a shallow opinion meant to annoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1692905308270498225)  2023-08-19T14:24Z 25.7K followers, 12.1K engagements


"databases should not have a lot of features"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1692973444608958701)  2023-08-19T18:54Z 23.4K followers, 95.8K engagements


"@BenLesh @ken_wheeler thats only true if you spent your whole paycheck inflation is effectively a consumption tax not to take away from your larger point though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1693022169108767180)  2023-08-19T22:08Z 25.7K followers, [---] engagements


"inflation measurements are a rate of a rate and also like all metrics they dont scale down to individual experiences but i agree for my consumption habits things are crazy bought a car last year and i cannot believe what im paying - doubly whammy with low supply + high auto interest rates"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1693022780688572637)  2023-08-19T22:11Z 25.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@trashh_dev @adamdotdev @andrii_sherman @danielcroe you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1693316177001390560)  2023-08-20T17:36Z 25.6K followers, [---] engagements


"a lot of you sound really confident i dont exactly understand why"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1693412609381249446)  2023-08-21T00:00Z 25.6K followers, 32.8K engagements


"aws has a new feature that automatically stops lambda functions when they might be in a runaway loop the implementation is kinda crazy basically when an event comes into your system and triggers a lambda function (api request eventbus etc) a unique ID is generated the client sdks were modified to pass along this ID to calls you make to other aws services (eg putting something in a queue): those services then pass the ID along to any lambda functions they invoke (eg a function consuming from the queue) this lets aws track the chain of effects that were triggered by the original event - if this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1693462940991524998)  2023-08-21T03:20Z 25.7K followers, 146.7K engagements


"so far ive - ran stuff off my laptop - racked servers in my basement - racked them in data centers - rented dedicated servers - spun up VMs in the cloud - ran containers on VMs - ran containers without dealing with infra - now doing functions and its only been [--] years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1693698608778838385)  2023-08-21T18:56Z 25.6K followers, 14K engagements


"i actually use generators a lot - particularly when turning a paged resource into a singular stream that can be consumed: it's under utilized because the APIs around iterators are really terrible https://github.com/sst/console/blob/dev/packages/functions/src/poller/fetch.ts#L86 What's the one JavaScript feature you've never used and why is it generator functions 😮💨 https://t.co/wL4JoDwzw3 https://github.com/sst/console/blob/dev/packages/functions/src/poller/fetch.ts#L86 What's the one JavaScript feature you've never used and why is it generator functions 😮💨 https://t.co/wL4JoDwzw3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1693737830198001732)  2023-08-21T21:32Z 42.4K followers, [----] engagements


"new challenge continuing from our grandma scenario last week when your grandma receives letters they contain a unique sender name and an incrementing number that specifies the ID of the letter she does so she can identify duplicate letters (sent from retries) and discard them instead of re-reading the same contents how should she write in her notebook so that she can efficiently lookup whether or not a letter has been seen before"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1693784478374617104)  2023-08-22T00:37Z 42.3K followers, [----] engagements


"people seem to need to believe in hyper specialization talk about backend - i must suck at frontend talk about frontend - i must suck at backend talk about product - i must not be an engineer the difference between me and them is they're seeing limits where there aren't any"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1694019849729790033)  2023-08-22T16:13Z 25.7K followers, 101.2K engagements


"@archieedwds you cant be sure unless you setup product analytics its important to be data driven and know for sure you have [--] users"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1694068763966976113)  2023-08-22T19:27Z 25.7K followers, [---] engagements


"can JS world agree on a way to do errors and stick to it we're all underhandling errors and writing crappy code right now want to start a conversation - remember it's more important to have consistency than a specific flavor you like my suggestion is to return Error ActualResult unions reason is it's somewhat easy to use this pattern with existing libraries that might throw const result = await stripe.doThing().catch(e: Error = e) narrowing would be a check like if (result instanceof Error) .  if i see any golang devs snickering in the replies i will come to your house and slap you new"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1694698366821691609)  2023-08-24T13:09Z 25.7K followers, 148.1K engagements


"@code_e_pendant @tautologer he's saying that's a good thing - you're forced to narrow the union"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1694739247121535222)  2023-08-24T15:51Z 21.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@MelkeyDev "Concurrency in go is awesome" - says user who has only ever used concurrency in go"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1694741699484868940)  2023-08-24T16:01Z 42.3K followers, [---] engagements


"in js you have a function User.fromID(string) theres a chance the user is not found in that case do you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1694755268091859312)  2023-08-24T16:55Z 25.6K followers, 14K engagements


"we'd have AGI already if data scientists would stop using python"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1694870454740062577)  2023-08-25T00:33Z 25.6K followers, 15.6K engagements


"you have a function called Session.verify that verifies and decodes a JWT it might fail because the input is bad or its expired what do you do please dont respond trying to teach me about Result or Either that you learned about last week - im asking something very specific"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1695041781493014802)  2023-08-25T11:53Z 25.7K followers, 11.3K engagements


"@trashh_dev i am honored but imagine if i actually sounded like that more realistic: "implementing pick is in typescript is hard if you're an idiot""  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1695216928652968157)  2023-08-25T23:29Z 21K followers, [---] engagements


"1. hashicorp locks down terraform license [--]. this forces a bunch of companies to get together to fork it into OpenTF [--]. its on track to be part of CNCF and has more resource allocated to it than Hashicorps version at this point Hashicorp should just use OpenTF themselves"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1695494422291456091)  2023-08-26T17:52Z [--] followers, 217.1K engagements


"@assertnotnull not so much extended as embedding our product currently uses CDK to orchestrate resources - tf is a much better choice to build on top of and allows us to offer resources outside of AWS similar companies are @spaceliftio and @DiggerHq"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1695622881680515189)  2023-08-27T02:22Z 25.6K followers, [---] engagements


"the reason i didnt mention this is it goes both ways some companies deal with this problem by externalizing everything other companies have the reverse policy where everything must be self hosted - you can see this reflected in how a lot of SaaS products have a managed self hosted option"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1695819585499361752)  2023-08-27T15:24Z 42.3K followers, [----] engagements


"were hiring not you though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1695975766347927758)  2023-08-28T01:45Z 42.4K followers, 90.9K engagements


"the SST Console now identifies errors and lets you see where in your code they happened the best part is there's zero setup no libraries to install no source-maps to fiddle with no custom loggers - it just works check it out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1696265362877386949)  2023-08-28T20:55Z 21.8K followers, 16.4K engagements


"haha no worries i think its a fine and productive approach but i think mid to long term maintainability is better achieved when you force people to do what they love avoiding with inline styles - naming things i think i found a decent balance between some utility components to not make that so tedious (Stack Row Text etc) but still have extremely readable jsx where most of the markup is related to application logic not styling if i did use tailwind id be using it with something like cvaat which point i just kind of have the worst of both worlds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1696300738421383439)  2023-08-28T23:16Z 26.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@agilecoder as to tailwind vs inline stylesi think people just have never seen a properly organized set of design tokens so they conflate tailwinds approach with tailwinds well organized design token file and think you cant get it elsewhere"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1696301075249177009)  2023-08-28T23:17Z 26.9K followers, [--] engagements


"i have less experience with js on the backend than any of the other languages ive used professionally there are parts that suck but its mostly fine and often good convinced the constant repeating of js sucks is coming from people needing to signal they know other languages"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1696491858384335138)  2023-08-29T11:55Z 25.6K followers, 36.9K engagements


"everyone should study aws-sdk v3 its an example of why building dev tools is tricky - its optimized to minimize the burden of keeping it up to date for the maintainers which seems like a good goal but it results in complexity explosion and performance issues for the end user"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1696508967541788770)  2023-08-29T13:03Z 22.2K followers, 45.9K engagements


"three weeks since launch we're at 1000+ AWS accounts connected"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1696549646682787856)  2023-08-29T15:45Z 19.5K followers, [----] engagements


"i hate github issue templates i don't want to fill out a giant form i want to give a brief description of my issue and get asked relevant follow up questions before everyone yells at me for being entitled i spend all day maintaining OSS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1696588417780331007)  2023-08-29T18:19Z 23.4K followers, 65K engagements


"@jayair @charlesjavelona @fanjiewang is such a dork"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1696632420932440428)  2023-08-29T21:14Z 19.5K followers, [---] engagements


"the two options are [--]. adding a throws keyword to functions to indicate what they can throw [--]. static analysis magic to figure out what can be thrown automatically people ask for [--] but i think its actually a bad feature - theres some history of it in other languages and it seems like a good idea but doesnt work out well and [--] is just way too hard in JS where anything can be thrown - ultimately i dont think the language will be able to solve it as much as i want it to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1696872576243437884)  2023-08-30T13:08Z 25.6K followers, [---] engagements


"benefit of hiring junior engs is they can be molded into what works well for your team benefit of hiring experienced engs is they can run on their own problem with mid-level is they don't have enough experience to be independent but enough to have opinions this is you btw"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1697331920621723825)  2023-08-31T19:33Z 42.3K followers, 101.2K engagements


"it's insane how much code would be cleaned up if JS got pipes and pattern matching i often do this since it's the best way to make use of TS inference and pattern matching would make it less hacky"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1697349989104550285)  2023-08-31T20:45Z 42.3K followers, 81.9K engagements


"am i the only one who doesn't like JSON logs i prefer if they're human readable with simple key=value tags if i need to include structured data i also don't like logging libraries because every project uses a different one tell me why i'm wrong"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1697382758786482466)  2023-08-31T22:56Z 25.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@WallisDev yeah but why cant you parse the key=value format is it worth the full power of json even in cw insights i think id stick to a simple key/value obj at the beginning of a line"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1697390771240837316)  2023-08-31T23:27Z 25.7K followers, [---] engagements


"average research paper experience: [--]. see provocative claim [--]. hunt for flaw in study [--]. its always there academia is broken people apply the scientific method to things that it makes no sense for authors have limited world experience and no understanding of complexity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1697975343368323090)  2023-09-02T14:10Z 25.6K followers, 13.2K engagements


"@jcdiprose is there a native way in nodejs to deal with multipart form data useFormData() just runs it through new URLSearchParams(body) probably isn't appropriate of us to add a library for more sophisticated formdata parsing - should just make your own hook"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1698373932615696740)  2023-09-03T16:34Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"AsyncLocalStorage in nodejs lets you store some state with the current async execution context when you retrieve the data it'll return the value set by the closest context in the chain - similar to React Context what do you expect this to return poll in reply"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1698408414290813208)  2023-09-03T18:51Z 21.6K followers, 115.3K engagements


"only 17% of people got this right it's a tricky scenario and highlights how async/await obscures what's actually happening i don't think it's a big deal most of the time but i miss languages with more direct concurrency can rewrite it to make it more clear why the answer is 2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1698716528227619141)  2023-09-04T15:15Z 25.6K followers, 76.9K engagements


"i want a game where i can operate a spaceship with my friends it should be first person and there should be various tasks to be done inside the ship i want to float around and run into other ships and engage in combat think this is called multi crew does this exist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1698853933337227565)  2023-09-05T00:21Z 25.6K followers, 48.2K engagements


"these are difficult things to get right and i'm struggling to see the value in having duplicate efforts much of the ecosystem is consolidating on vite+esbuild+rollup with a diverse set projects building on top painful that a large part of the ecosystem is on a different track"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1699427881439330808)  2023-09-06T14:22Z 25.7K followers, 20.1K engagements


"i really struggle to have certain conversations on here because people will use a lot of words and not realize theyre saying nothing a lot of phrases sound good and familiar but prevent conversations from getting anywhere relevant might as well talk to ChatGPT"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1699465450373972285)  2023-09-06T16:51Z 25.7K followers, [----] engagements


"discriminated unions ADTs whatever you want to call them are the most common data modeling concept i see you often have a group (shape) where each member looks different (rectangle triangle) it's painful most databases apis (like GraphQL) don't support this scenario well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1699485014700744907)  2023-09-06T18:09Z 18.7K followers, 14.6K engagements


"almost 50% of all frontends deployed through SST are NextJS being the default for react is a ridiculously good position"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1699564045869723945)  2023-09-06T23:23Z 25.6K followers, 15.2K engagements


"@heyImMapleLeaf the thing is i like to define boundaries and not leak internal details our product you import components from ui - if the internal file structure of that changes over time i dont want to fix imports everywhere"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1699595637833019398)  2023-09-07T01:29Z 19.2K followers, [----] engagements


"i have a hard time seeing how most SaaS particularly devtools wont eventually need to be self hosted our biggest users will not consider anything thats not running in their own AWS account if you dont architect for this on day [--] it seems pretty painful to do later"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1699762317959807112)  2023-09-07T12:31Z 19.5K followers, 20.6K engagements


"@trashh_dev @james_r_perkins @ClerkDev i'm the reason they're hiring so many devrels"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1699987866485432624)  2023-09-08T03:27Z 25.7K followers, [---] engagements


"the best thing you can do with a dhh take is understand why you feel the overwhelming urge to respond to it with real arguments if you can conquer that youll be a lot happier everywhere in life"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1700140484604080386)  2023-09-08T13:34Z 25.7K followers, 21.2K engagements


"i mean you have to pick fights with the incumbent of whatever you're trying to supplant that's different than randomly blowing stuff up - feels weird he would change how this library is built solely to gain attention think he genuinely believes what he's saying a large part of him is biased to believe in it because it is pretty contrarian so falling into this:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1700150366942204238)  2023-09-08T14:13Z 25.7K followers, [---] engagements


"aiming to launch a new feature next week we turned it on silently for our whole userbase and it jumped our database traffic from [--] to [---] writes per second here we go again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1700267636591132678)  2023-09-08T21:59Z 25.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@MatthewRideout findIndex is slow do better"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1700274633864266039)  2023-09-08T22:27Z 19.5K followers, [----] engagements


"@fideloper none first day back since knee pop stretched a lot and was nervous but was completely fine next step is kite surfing into that hurricane thats approaching"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1700579573417598996)  2023-09-09T18:39Z 23.4K followers, [---] engagements


"people asking how bun will make money - theres actually no proven model for them they will have to invent one with all these new runtimes it's important to remember they're facing the challenge of discovering a new business model the only runtime that's been monetized that I can think of is .NET and that's a fairly special case and we have Docker to demonstrate how difficult this is with all these new runtimes it's important to remember they're facing the challenge of discovering a new business model the only runtime that's been monetized that I can think of is .NET and that's a fairly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1700864074907521195)  2023-09-10T13:29Z 39.5K followers, 81.6K engagements


"@shellscape that's why i brought up the docker case it became ubiquitous but the company behind it struggled to capture value while others made a ton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1700876793375293664)  2023-09-10T14:20Z 25.6K followers, [--] engagements


"with bun's [---] launch there's going to be the inevitably cry of "but it's VC funded" - hope i can provide some perspective don't get me wrong - i am not a huge fan of VCs i have spent my entire career building early stage companies and the majority of VCs provide negative value i think a lot of companies should have never gone down that path but i think people miss why many companies absolutely should building a business is hard - you have to wake up every day and try to push it forward while the world largely ignores you the entire struggle is about staying motivated and the reality is it is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1700888238100021309)  2023-09-10T15:05Z 21.8K followers, 82.5K engagements


"people brought up deno deploy a lot but that product imo is kind of irrelevant its built on top of GCP even with slack and netlify using it i wouldnt be surprised if it was losing money the more granular your billing model the higher scale you have to be to make it profitable oven in their style will do it hard mode where theyre managing dedicated servers like Fly this will provide much better margins and serious performance benefitsbut i personally dont know if thats really enough theres a lot that needs to come together and outmaneuver existing players the thing though is if they do find a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1701229044711194885)  2023-09-11T13:39Z 25.7K followers, [--] engagements


"with all the excitement around bun let's not forget to recognize none of this would have been possible without the creator of node roald dahl"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1701242006536589454)  2023-09-11T14:31Z 25.7K followers, 30.3K engagements


"@StefanTMD @boymolish @sofiarivero_15 i've been following your account for a while now and i still haven't learned anything about startups"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1701249141613973702)  2023-09-11T14:59Z 25.7K followers, 80.1K engagements


"got @bunjavascript functions deploying through SST cold starts aren't pretty - looking like 500ms which isn't bun's fault just the reality of needing to use a custom runtime since AWS won't support it natively will try to get it into @_maxday's benchmarks now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1701335615118164367)  2023-09-11T20:43Z 25.7K followers, 196.5K engagements


"@jarredsumner @awscloud to sweeten the deal if @awscloud adds bun support I will stop talking shit for one entire year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1701338047873204573)  2023-09-11T20:52Z 25.6K followers, 10.6K engagements


"the frontend brain cannot comprehend the satisfaction of this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1701379202933543257)  2023-09-11T23:36Z 42.3K followers, 98.5K engagements


"the last two years working on SST our advantage comes from the fact that well do the upfront work of reading all the boring docs its the most accessible way to build leverage and create value i started to be seen as an AWS expert fairly quickly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1701558231741391081)  2023-09-12T11:27Z 22.4K followers, 35.7K engagements


"@zeeg i mean i think we all just try to YOLO head first and figure it out then most people give up and a small percentage will sit down with the docs and im talking about aws docshighest levels of confusion and tedium"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1701559277012340920)  2023-09-12T11:31Z 18.5K followers, [---] engagements


"the smartest thing vercel did was ensuring all their bills are usage based by building on top of lambda this means profit off every single request from day [--] instead of the typical up front capital and break even at large scale like most hosts but bun creates a problem everyone is asking when bun support as though its just a matter of time lets assume bun gains traction and its all worth it (still big questions) - vercels current architecture does not have a clear path to supporting it AWS Lambda does not support bun natively so they cant ride on top without performance problems that defeat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1701570542510191029)  2023-09-12T12:16Z 25.6K followers, [----] engagements


"imagine being the guy who thinks serverless actually has servers is a good point to make"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1701666357102694593)  2023-09-12T18:37Z 25.7K followers, 27.7K engagements


"clerk must be stopped"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1701710764753485990)  2023-09-12T21:33Z 21.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@ryanflorence shit when did every single one of us get those chairs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1701711776616771809)  2023-09-12T21:37Z 42.3K followers, 41.4K engagements


"@aarondfrancis @PlanetScale @FlipMediaProd is both a video editor and a principal level engineer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1701715039927812238)  2023-09-12T21:50Z 25.6K followers, [---] engagements


"is no one going to talk about how that guy from the @bunjavascript video had the exact same mannerisms speaking rhythm and voice as @BHolmesDev where do i get me one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1701715472444527038)  2023-09-12T21:52Z 25.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@aarondfrancis i thought obsidian was for building your second brain aren't you still working on your first"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1701720177790890269)  2023-09-12T22:11Z 25.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@_alexblokh this limitation causes so many problems"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1701914973121687743)  2023-09-13T11:05Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"i make fun of frontend engineers a lot but majority of backend engineers are just people who couldnt also get good at frontend yet simultaneously suck at architecture the full stack is a lie thing is a perfect example of the fake tradeoffs i mentioned in my career advice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1701921264250548398)  2023-09-13T11:30Z 25.6K followers, 50.1K engagements


"yeah we encourage granular stacks for this reason but this "stack" concept shouldn't even exist you should organize your resources into boundaries for organization but these boundaries should disappear at deploy time otherwise it creates problems for example if you start with one stack and it has a stateful resource and later want to reorganize moving that to a different stack is too hard to be worth it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1701966636058608033)  2023-09-13T14:30Z 25.7K followers, [--] engagements


"if you need a product idea: i use this product solely for analytics: this stats page is designed well and has everything i need - i don't use any of this product's other features rebuild this charge me $5 per account per month and you have a customer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1701969894953160911)  2023-09-13T14:43Z 25.7K followers, 14.5K engagements


"@andrew_barba @jarredsumner @_maxday @bunjavascript nice - i initially saw the layer was only [--] or so mb so i assumed they did some slimming work confused why it gets inflated to 90mb when deployed think the speed benefits you're seeing are the 31mb vs 90mb difference - not inherently due to the layer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1701996122451894775)  2023-09-13T16:27Z 25.6K followers, [--] engagements


"it's public - udacity (a real site with users) is hosting their NextJS application through SST and OpenNext on AWS they're not the only ones - we've seen huge deployments going this route seeing a path where this becomes how the majority of NextJS projects are deployed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1702003663026151656)  2023-09-13T16:57Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@mag_devo of course not all vercel wants is what's best for nextjs users and will support them in whatever decisions they make"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1702015152181092488)  2023-09-13T17:43Z 25.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@devagrawal09 that's what i thought too and then i measured it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1702016535924011100)  2023-09-13T17:48Z 25.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@thomasankcorn @sa_uros what an incredible way to describe my entire career"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1702096061404152082)  2023-09-13T23:04Z 21.2K followers, [---] engagements


"every man dreams of riding his horse horizontally in front of a standing army before battle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1702142741847646401)  2023-09-14T02:10Z 25.7K followers, [----] engagements


"give me more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1702145241166344624)  2023-09-14T02:20Z 25.6K followers, [----] engagements


"in your current codebase do you have a function already defined to do a distributed lock"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1702170423629107257)  2023-09-14T04:00Z 25.7K followers, 21.2K engagements


"the learning curve is too high oh so you couldnt figure it out no not me i meant for other people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1702280235482337588)  2023-09-14T11:16Z 41.6K followers, 14K engagements


"node maintainer claims @ThePrimeagen shit on his work for 5min straight people who saw the clip saying that did not happen but the people who enjoy scolding others running with it and making their shame on you threads who is the source of the problem here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1702298458655240537)  2023-09-14T12:29Z 25.7K followers, 94.5K engagements


"more seriously it's probably one of the most complex topics - there's interest rates and supply disruptions on the inflationary side but also theoretically deflationary things going on (as they always do) - but some of those create inflation in other places then all the various cost diseases that are all paradoxical i think for me the only thing i have clarity on is the COVID policies lasted way too long and the economic disruption they caused does not seem worth it was extremely annoyed at the time at how irrational it got and turned into a moral thing so people could feel good about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1702314660156862783)  2023-09-14T13:33Z 41.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@wagslane that's not emotionally damaging - try this: if avoiding JS is frequently improving your performance you are bad at architecture"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1702372012746817583)  2023-09-14T17:21Z 25.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@rcoundon @program_counter the decoupling is nice publisher is just emitting an event and unaware of how it's processed subscriber chooses to consume it via a FIFO queue"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1702411950313881893)  2023-09-14T20:00Z 25.7K followers, [--] engagements


"just launched Issues on the SST Console track errors across your application see the code causing them and view full logs of the invocation everything you need to fix problems with zero setup we've tracked over 4M errors in the last few days - go fix them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1702413724626075873)  2023-09-14T20:07Z 25.6K followers, [----] engagements


"i thought of the most annoying sentence ever are you ready for it if you don't use serverless you don't care about the planet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1702460056724214059)  2023-09-14T23:11Z 25.6K followers, [----] engagements


"deeper dive into how we built zero setup issues: SST is in an interesting position because we handle your build and deploy process so we can do all kinds of things automatically on deploy we make sure we generate and ship sourcemaps to a bucket in your AWS account the console also checks for any new functions youve deployed - if we find one well add a log subscription for anything that kinda looks like an error these logs get delivered to a kinesis stream and handed off to a lambda function for processing this is a place where serverless really shines - people send us a lot of logs and we"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1702666503244398757)  2023-09-15T12:51Z 25.7K followers, 19K engagements


"infra people building products that simplify infra usually fail by making the infra details too important good solutions come from application developers who learn infra without any love for it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1702682620268519629)  2023-09-15T13:55Z 25.7K followers, 23K engagements


"@GrunkleJP were working on that next"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1703042226828312890)  2023-09-16T13:44Z 25.6K followers, [--] engagements


"it will never stop surprising me how shamelessly unreasonable people become when they believe their cause is moral"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1703048520830259349)  2023-09-16T14:09Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@pbertrand_dev its crazy how bad you can feel but it goes away pretty quickly stick through it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1703057729802158247)  2023-09-16T14:46Z 19.2K followers, [--] engagements


"nothing feels better than writing tests after you ship"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1703071010721767558)  2023-09-16T15:39Z 25.7K followers, [---] engagements


"found this tweet from [--] years ago think @Cloudflare durable workers came out in [----] still hasn't really caught on - even with myself even though i apparently wanted it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1703115316698493024)  2023-09-16T18:35Z 25.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@cloudkommand @jeremy_daly if you're saying "they want" instead of "i want" that might be the point to reflect on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1703115708735897886)  2023-09-16T18:36Z 21.8K followers, [--] engagements


"@VicVijayakumar this is a great example of "fake tradeoffs" for some reason people have this story in their head that people are typically good at solo work OR communicating implicitly excuses not being good at both - except there's so many people who are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1703116371205173419)  2023-09-16T18:39Z 25.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@VicVijayakumar oh and even worse people start to form identities around this so at a low level they're proud of being bad at communicating because they feel like it implies they're good at the other thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1703116927814541676)  2023-09-16T18:41Z 25.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@isamlambert i dont"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1703119482095337845)  2023-09-16T18:51Z 25.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@RyanCarniato @solid_js this is one of the biggest selling points - often times the framework just disappears and youre just doing normal browser stuff - reminds me of jquery days"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1703425739305984507)  2023-09-17T15:08Z 25.8K followers, [---] engagements


"we did an analysis on our build servers for SEED on average theyre used 16% of a month were paying 6x more than we should to be ready for peak traffic makes you appreciate lambda the numbers are always shocking when you do the math"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1703754173823562026)  2023-09-18T12:53Z 25.7K followers, [----] engagements


"this thread bombed but i think about it every day and i think it's the most important realization i've ever had every company i ever build will be built on this lesson"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1703870047897153858)  2023-09-18T20:34Z 25.6K followers, 13.9K engagements


"@webdevcody the idea of CDK is fine the implementation is the problem (along with cloudformation) weve worked around it as much as we can at this point everything that sucks about sst is coming from cdk well have to support other execution engines if we want to realize our vision"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1703872448892948575)  2023-09-18T20:43Z 25.7K followers, [----] engagements


"i think historically this has been true but theres plenty of understanding that the moment you start squeezing thats when youre going to be displaced plenty of companies now understand their own path to longevity is to destroy their margins - those are the ones i like partnering with"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1703915172648112435)  2023-09-18T23:33Z 25.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@rvramesh in this case it was the core of the business which generates revenue"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1703948164280045646)  2023-09-19T01:44Z 25.7K followers, [--] engagements


"these [---] lines are the most confusing code i have written in years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1703959246696599755)  2023-09-19T02:28Z 25.6K followers, [----] engagements


"most real-time services use a room abstraction outside of chat or collaborative applications this feels like an awkward abstraction most things i build i think in terms of things that should stay synced not rooms each thing can be a room but it usually feels like a hack"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1704114256315052048)  2023-09-19T12:44Z 25.7K followers, 19.6K engagements


"shadcn looks great when material UI came out it looked great when bootstrap came out it looked great when something stops being scarce it starts to look bad - we can't help it good design signals effort (even subconsciously) and when it loses that it becomes less effective"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thdxr/status/1704160687075823993)  2023-09-19T15:49Z 25.6K followers, 59.4K engagements

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