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

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

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  [social networks](/list/social-networks)  [finance](/list/finance)  [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  [stocks](/list/stocks)  [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  [gaming](/list/gaming)  [currencies](/list/currencies)  [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) 

**Social topic influence**
[taiwan](/topic/taiwan), [javascript](/topic/javascript), [linkedin](/topic/linkedin), [new zealand](/topic/new-zealand), [china](/topic/china), [money](/topic/money), [iran](/topic/iran), [youtube](/topic/youtube), [zig](/topic/zig), [in the](/topic/in-the)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft) [IBM (IBM)](/topic/ibm) [GrokCoin (GROKCOIN)](/topic/grok) [Cloudflare, Inc. (NET)](/topic/cloudflare)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@JungleSilicon Ok so I'm on the right track (except for my absolute ignorance of OT - worth looking into)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1678932519008235520)  2023-07-12T01:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Having a look at the deterministic simulation testing code in @TigerBeetleDB"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1685432367639638016)  2023-07-29T23:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"I hope ChatGPT isn't lying to me about Futures because this makes a lot of sense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1689469422745034752)  2023-08-10T02:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@gregyoung How would you even tell the difference"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1694906419617865792)  2023-08-25T02:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@conor_power23 @ShadajL @alvinkcheung @joe_hellerstein @mbpmilano @siobhcroo I really like the concept of CRDT querys having the additional property of being monotonic or non-monotonic That's a very useful distinction. Feel a bit confused that in this paper "strong consistency = sequential consistency = safety". Or have I misread it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1696344942132809975)  2023-08-29T02:12Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@eatonphil Basic REPLs often end up becoming the default one that gets shipped - just look at node.js (spice level: 2)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1697371094309806223)  2023-08-31T22:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@headinthebox Typescript is a fantastic achievement but it has been bolted on to a very dynamic language and it shows. It's not always seamless. Feel it's better to just use 'ts-ignore' from time to time rather than throwing the baby out with the bath water but each to their own"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1699508619468001437)  2023-09-06T19:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@dubya_brian @headinthebox Right but we should not expect the type system to be as water tight as one that was designed with a language from day one. I used to spend hours trying to type one tiny of my section of the code that typescript couldn't reason about. Now I just use ts-ignore"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1699570775416836109)  2023-09-06T23:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@jorandirkgreef I have to ask - did the "no dynamic memory allocation" thing come from game programming IIRC this used to be a huge thing in gamedev you'd figure out how much space you need up front and that's what you had to work with (or for consoles - what the systems gave you.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1699598340567298110)  2023-09-07T01:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DominikTornow Checked the papers. Something like if two replicas have received the same set of updates their states will be the same. Emphasis on set - can be out of order repeated updates etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1702069069984481652)  2023-09-13T21:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@founderYonz LMAO flashbacks to when I was trying to 'help' some programmers with react native build issues. Every time they compiled they'd get an error in a file in a different programming language. Sometimes it was the ruby config file or a shell script or objective C or swift"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1702780717393228108)  2023-09-15T20:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"It's for the best. My mind just isn't "rusty""  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1702781941458890910)  2023-09-15T20:30Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@tantaman In the realm of non-GC'd languages with good C interop IME Zig had much better C interop and was simpler overall. Had its own quirks but it was much more productive. Also fully realise this could be a 'me issue' YMMV"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1702791188036858284)  2023-09-15T21:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@jorandirkgreef New meta for compiling react native"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1705140184210370687)  2023-09-22T08:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Which has better interop with C libs - #fsharp or #ocaml"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1707670667636908128)  2023-09-29T08:16Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@croloris The C interop thing is huge. Not just extending the project but all the C libraries you can use without wrappers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1708922624594887121)  2023-10-02T19:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DominikTornow Thanks TIL about google spanners "TrueTime""  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1709035202490872207)  2023-10-03T02:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@tantaman It's very tilted towards B2C SAAS and collaborative apps. Industrial solutions (that don't run on a phone) are what still excite me. We're still so far away"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1711549378417352878)  2023-10-10T01:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@adymitruk I don't usually write the tests first but I definitely rely on them. Property based testing is incredible for finding bugs - you can do a poor mans version by seeding your tests and doing your asserts in a loop over random inputs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1711859309032931453)  2023-10-10T21:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@DominikTornow Not sure if it's your cup of tea but Martin Fowler had a great talk on this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1712211059162128595)  2023-10-11T20:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Small example of how expressive the @ziglang type system is. I want a buffer of Events but don't know what kind yet. so I pass in B which is a compile time function of type - type. I've only seen this kind of type expressiveness in OCaml. Definitely not in rust"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1714203983420813463)  2023-10-17T08:57Z [----] followers, 16.6K engagements


"@senyeezus @ziglang It's a subtle difference. In your rust code you are always dealing with Vecs. You couldn't pass a generic parameter in to represent the thing holding the events itself. Rust generics can't themselves be generic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1714217635737743377)  2023-10-17T09:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Kaneko79952396 @ziglang It is Not sure it's worth reading yet though. It's an incomplete zig re-write of the DB sync protocol in the fsharp directory. The BST is homespun and very naiive (believe it will degrade into a linked list)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1714360275774947781)  2023-10-17T19:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@FilasienoF I don't know that I love any of the LISPs but I love s-expressions and macros. Every other languages hodgepodge mix of prefix and infix functions - oh I mean "operators" - just feels like a hack. I would be very happy if every new lang was sexprs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1714417015761535255)  2023-10-17T23:04Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Unfortunately Zig is not all sunshine and rainbows :/ Compiler error messages are usually pretty good but sometimes you get some real mysteries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1714467397720216034)  2023-10-18T02:24Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@iavins @MadhavJivrajani Is this talk online Fun fact - in the famous amazon dynamo white paper they actually describe a database based around CRDTs - some [--] years or so before the term was coined"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1715076844549222822)  2023-10-19T18:45Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"When I was younger and tried to learn new things I panicked a lot. Oh I don't understand it I didn't do grad school it's beyond me blah blah. Now that I'm older I know that it takes a while for the train to leave the station but eventually it will. And I can enjoy it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1716589567099416793)  2023-10-23T22:57Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@FilasienoF Yes Papers are a game changer. Related rant:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1716673176284147900)  2023-10-24T04:29Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"And so it begins - the original LSM tree paper all [--] pages. Doubt I'll make much of a dent in it tomorrow but one has to start somewhere"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1720353535857180784)  2023-11-03T08:13Z [----] followers, 10.5K engagements


"@DominikTornow Hmm. when the reason it failed as transient"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1723420139973194178)  2023-11-11T19:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"This is a good approach to have across the board. I used to maintain graphical software used by factory and distribution centre workers many of them doing night and grave yard shifts. Made it Dead Simple because they were Dead Tired Few features done really well is the way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1728509521755336826)  2023-11-25T20:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@emnudge I appreciate this perspective but it's just completely foreign to me. You can step through code but I find it really hard to reverse engineer a 'why' or 'wtf were you thinking' from it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1729779246287982991)  2023-11-29T08:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@IroncladDev I prefer javascript to typescript. I also love Ocaml. AMA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1730490219529683089)  2023-12-01T07:33Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@DanielWalm60394 Damn it Jim I'm a coder not a starship commander"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1730839529924567232)  2023-12-02T06:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@alankatona There's so many interesting smart and friendly people online that it seems a waste of time for me to 1) not mute the noisome ones and 2) get upset if they mute (or block) me. A lot of the grumpy people on social media who would be a lot happier if they hit that mute button"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1731600788722684173)  2023-12-04T09:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@shantanugoel So somewhere in Iceland there's a meeting room called "Eternal Ashvatta""  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1738268394682503553)  2023-12-22T18:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Merry Christmas Twitter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1739009351657095396)  2023-12-24T19:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Today I bought some in ear phones and kept asking if they had a 3.5mm jack. All the young salesman were confused about why I wasn't buying bluetooth. My sony mp3 walkman doesn't have bluetooth Damn whippersnappers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1740163895078326504)  2023-12-28T00:12Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Does anyone ever see this screen and basically decide "you know what I don't need to use github today""  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1740838226011861022)  2023-12-29T20:52Z [----] followers, 56.8K engagements


"@divyenduz this looks like the background stage for a playstation [--] fighting game"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741378364378931652)  2023-12-31T08:38Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@iavins LOL I know this feeling. Not sure if it's stockholm syndrome but I feel as if I like it now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1742385476739461585)  2024-01-03T03:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@DanielWalm60394 down south of where I'm in the west coast"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1742981828120870912)  2024-01-04T18:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DanielWalm60394 It's not queenstown but we do have a holiday house + boats + lake town nearby. The food there is OK but honestly I think I'd rather head eat at the inland pub all the farmers go to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1742997903080370507)  2024-01-04T19:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@joshbedo1 If you think it's bad here don't go to LinkedIn. There's a still a big community of people that genuinely love software and make content from the heart. The other thing I follow is supply chain and god that content is awful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1744286769959584095)  2024-01-08T09:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@geofflangdale I see where you're coming from but my hazy vision is something like slow single core processors communicating over a network. Cheap low power draw and easy to deploy anywhere. I'm somewhat biased to the industrial side of things. But automatic data capture is big"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1744465554503864511)  2024-01-08T21:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"You ever see the same term pop up in a few places and think "hmmm" @TigerBeetleDB often talks of "fault models". Wonder if theres more to this idea than I think. (Paper is "A Transaction Model" Jim Gray IBM Research Laboratory 1980)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1744552635116789861)  2024-01-09T02:52Z [--] followers, 32.4K engagements


"@vaibhaw_vipul How on earth are Taiwan & South Korea "emerging markets" but Greece isn't Very strange groupings. But yeah how soon until everyone rushes to teach their kids Hindi In my day it was Japanese these days it's Mandarin every generation gets very excited about an asian economy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1744997567564480604)  2024-01-10T08:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@paul_snively The only time I start hating static typing is when I use typescript. But to be fair they did make a static type system after the fact for a language never designed for one and 95% of the time it's really good"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1745168574271140011)  2024-01-10T19:39Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@paul_snively Yeah my rule of thumb is to never sacrifice satisfying typescript for expressiveness and to for give myself for the odd ts-ignore rather than spending hours on it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1745170943591473552)  2024-01-10T19:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@divyenduz Hmmm is this some situation where Russia does not allow flights from countries that are sanctioning them to traverse their airspace"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1745222553843720549)  2024-01-10T23:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@criccomini I don't even know what that icon means"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1746009130937295356)  2024-01-13T03:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@abbe_hyde 50% opacity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1746273597239550083)  2024-01-13T20:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Rust has a reputation for drama but I have to say the people on the "Rust Programming Language Community Discord" have been nothing but courteous helpful and knowledgeable. Maybe the elder council of rustacean wizards or whatever has drama but I'm not in that council"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1746810925120958970)  2024-01-15T08:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@csheridan162 Congrats Christian You're a very talented young man and it was only a matter of time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1746833049676026329)  2024-01-15T09:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@vaibhaw_vipul In a good chunk of the world a bachelors degree is only [--] years (jurisdictions in blue). So I kind of doubt that's the reason unless France Germany and Australia all have a low D-index as well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1747356670106411036)  2024-01-16T20:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@matthew_linkous LOL the funniest thing to me was how many different languages you'd get errors in when compiling react native projects. I counted C C++ objective C swift ruby shell and javascript"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1747427923139965427)  2024-01-17T01:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DanielWalm60394 @dissproportion It's literally the default git branch name when you do "git init""  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1747439710979633418)  2024-01-17T02:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@fredine @emil_priver Which bit of the syntax And what's your background"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1747506360995160278)  2024-01-17T06:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"If [--] bits is a 'nibble' and [--] bits is a 'byte' then [--] bits should be called a 'snack'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1748428643246997986)  2024-01-19T19:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"4096 byte block Nay tis a Feast"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1748429119824789684)  2024-01-19T19:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@lambdapriest type classes are a cope for people who don't know about object composition ( am I doing it right)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1749283552951521294)  2024-01-22T04:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DanielWalm60394 oh god. I was in a student suburb in palmy during the 'adult onesie' era. I think that's a big reason why I over compensated and my twitter profile pic is me wearing a tie"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1750294836387934690)  2024-01-24T23:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DominikTornow @resonatehqio Is P-Lang in the same space as TLA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1750658475498360871)  2024-01-25T23:14Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@samwillis I'll say this until I'm blue in the face. Typescript is a fantastic achievement but at the end of the day retrofitting a static type system onto a language never designed for one is never going to be seameless. Be 95% typechecked then move on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1751392328672276752)  2024-01-27T23:50Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@vaibhaw_vipul I had one class at uni that was like a whirl wind tour of bits of discrete math and abstract algebra. so none of the notation is alien but my understanding is so shallow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1751815636031029571)  2024-01-29T03:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@_Felipe I think if there existed something like Ocaml with unboxed records or F# with higher order modules I'd be in programmer Nirvana"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1755123383413723459)  2024-02-07T06:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi Minecraft eSports. I'm not kidding I think it would be huge. I'd watch the fuck out of competitive man hunt on a neutral server live with commentary etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1755124816603140553)  2024-02-07T07:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi No wait I changed my mind. I'd go to Maria Place Wanganui and install a vortex wormhole to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1755124952452464754)  2024-02-07T07:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@threepointone Have you read the paper from the 70s *swirls wine glass*"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1755126685866025157)  2024-02-07T07:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi 20USD is [--] NZD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1755132970913104204)  2024-02-07T07:34Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DominikTornow @ziglang @TigerBeetleDB They've influenced me a lot. I'm starting to do static memory allocation in rust (or at least heap allocate everything up front which I think is what TB does). It actually simplifies a lot as long as you can let don't think that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1755687656397414412)  2024-02-08T20:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@tantaman One thing I've noticed in react is it's very html template centric. But isn't the heart of a web app user actions I wonder if there's some methodology where these are defined up front and you specify whether they hit the server or indexedDB or in app state or what have you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1756806809166430250)  2024-02-11T22:25Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"I think I'm going to start posting my interlog (append only DB) work. Todays update: working with raw byte arrays is surprisingly subtle. I've got to align structs all nicely and deal with off by one errors then put enough meta data in them that I can read them back out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1757703902643048682)  2024-02-14T09:50Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@ChShersh @hmemcpy @sabine_s_ No cellphones or social media everyone just being present in the moment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1760037496698900554)  2024-02-20T20:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi Twitter is the least "toxic" social media because of this. Reddit 4chan and to a lesser extent HN all kind of hurt the soul because it's just a deluge of everyones bullshit. But following / muting means you just get the vibes you want to get"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1760563389347385385)  2024-02-22T07:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@vaibhaw_vipul I never liked that quote because there's so many counter examples of a country having an army and a navy but still not claiming their dialect is a separate language. Like Morocco. Or Argentina. Or the United States"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1760576900609794183)  2024-02-22T08:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi @chris_stura Oh I kind of remember this. Deterministic Finite Automata Non-Deterministic Finite Automata"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1760580721859801189)  2024-02-22T08:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi Our wives threatened Elon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1760883141156467095)  2024-02-23T04:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ThePrimeagen The Marvin Minsky / Epstein thing was a big disappointment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1762006900202484079)  2024-02-26T06:49Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@sunbains Doesn't the social media algorithm simply show you things you'll engage with - whether positively or negatively So if you like to tweet quote political stuff even to just say "omg isn't this person dumb and immoral" it will show you more and more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1762196130685931588)  2024-02-26T19:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@emnudge @AstroNvim the reason my neovim is "hand rolled" is because I don't want to deal with changing dependencies and packages. Basically I don't want to turn using my text editor into maintaining a front end project (sick burn) Is AstroVim on bundlephobia ;)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1763060425464348682)  2024-02-29T04:35Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi Or what about when you're on a site and they list prices with $ but you're not sure if they've converted the prices to NZD or not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1763134266475692277)  2024-02-29T09:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@fredine I've always been pretty rubbish at data structures but I think proof by song lyrics/doodle is the way to go"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1763412289204768806)  2024-03-01T03:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"It's Friday Night fever By which I mean our little toddler has had her first fever. She's back down to normal temperatures now which is good"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1763503098226757868)  2024-03-01T09:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@FilasienoF Came at this from the other end - saw issues IRL with data capture in the field (ask me about weighing cattle) - had a vision of the sort of log shaped DB that would solve this - saw no existing KV store was a good fit; "it's just an append only file how hard can it be""  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1763770609778237824)  2024-03-02T03:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@iavins "You read Lamport '78 implemented a few CRDTs just like the papers showed you and now you're writing "dist sys" in your HN profile. You feel like an imposter because you are one brother.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1763779363039047860)  2024-03-02T04:12Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@AlexMillerDB @jorandirkgreef @nevgeniev @DominikTornow Pushing a lambda. like "x = x + 1""  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1764867199192445199)  2024-03-05T04:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@caesararum If reddit was a library I would burn it down too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1765188926627881445)  2024-03-06T01:33Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"If AI will really program computers for us - of what use is a high level language In this future the AI need only generate optimized assembly in as many varieties as we wish and generate flowcharts and comments on demand when we want clarification. HLLs = redundant bloat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1768195303440859432)  2024-03-14T08:39Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"Python C html the web All meaningless trash to burned and the ashes cast to forgetful winds. SAP consultants jumping off buildings like wall street bankers during the great depression"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1768205556790214726)  2024-03-14T09:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi is there no decent online vietnamese dictionary I always found that more useful than google translate but fill disclaimer I've only ever reached conversational in a foreign language not fluent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1768913817914986639)  2024-03-16T08:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@fredine @fox_artix the "no compiler warnings" philosophy opinionated formatting etc. I'm mostly over it :)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1771992052240355676)  2024-03-24T20:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@fox_artix The word may be sanskrit but the symbol itself is found all over history all over the world. Bronze age petroglyphs in the Caucasus mountains iron age Germanic inscriptions medieval churches in Ethiopia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1772179745225969888)  2024-03-25T08:32Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi I'm wary of older people giving younger people life advice. Could I give a teenager advice I'm not a teenager I don't have teenager concerns I'd be giving them an older mans view of what a teenager should do. Is that helpful I'm not in their world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1772192182675358127)  2024-03-25T09:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi yeah I mean sure *we* can see that's true but. wtf does that meant to a teenager with a teenagers time horizon and motivations It may be true but I don't think it's useful actionable advice. (not meaning to pick on your advice specifically but you gave me an example)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1772195196828066043)  2024-03-25T09:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@FilasienoF I mean sure. implementation is great. but so is theory. I guess I don't get the complaint. You need both"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1773251850348666999)  2024-03-28T07:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@caesararum yeah I guess I'm just lazy and view the "bits I already know" as kind of relaxing or reinforcing like re-reading a favourite book. Also I listen to them while playing truck sims"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1773478261269663972)  2024-03-28T22:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@caesararum What does that even mean Their coordination would somehow improve a government without "throwing it off" how"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1773594966251483402)  2024-03-29T06:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@fenil_jain_ Basically had a [--] byte uuid and an [--] byte position in a single struct. under the old rules under repr(c) it took [--] bytes but then ballooned out to [--] bytes. Actually bytemuck warned me about it. Which was nice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1775048206709387388)  2024-04-02T06:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@BasBuller @p1xelHer0 Teach embedded C engineers javascript by convincing them the DOM is a sort of messed up domain specific microcontroller"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1775106905507295408)  2024-04-02T10:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi Twitter is good for me because I am free to follow unfollow mute whatever. Talked to a lot of very smart and nice people learned a lot. I do not do so well in places like reddit or HN where it's very hard to 'curate' LI is a mixed bag"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1775455929150193897)  2024-04-03T09:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi I didn't know who the prime minister was for about [--] months. I wouldn't recognise him in the street. wait it is a him right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1775466794221973805)  2024-04-03T10:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Aron_Adler @DanielW_Kiwi I can remember teaching OO to someone whose career was mainly in F#. They were an experienced dev but didn't really grok objects. So yeah I agree"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1775673500247949388)  2024-04-03T23:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@sabine_s_ Is Saarland a bit of a compsci hub I watched a few of Jens Dittrichs DB Lectures from Saarland uni. And then I think you're from there Ok that's two points of reference. The evidence isn't as great as i thought it was when i first started asking this question"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1775688989103759522)  2024-04-04T00:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@divyenduz When I was a kid everyone wanted to teach their kids Japanese. Now it is Mandarin. Will it be Hindi next We're rapidly running out of large asian countries to get excited about though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1776078303558050011)  2024-04-05T02:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@jsensarma SAP is not an example of how to do anything"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1776483725305585697)  2024-04-06T05:35Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@jamonholmgren My assessment is that you're just using it to claw back the competitive advantage react native took from you ;)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1777109383249527204)  2024-04-07T23:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@midnucas @paulgb Mastodon is that way ---"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1778284746684137767)  2024-04-11T04:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi @Google what's with all the polls"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1778380807985594520)  2024-04-11T11:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi Why are you writing like this. what happened"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1778524743395905563)  2024-04-11T20:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@samwillis @tantaman @adamdotdev I can't believe I didn't know this. It's enough to make me not want to use typescript"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1778721904880447493)  2024-04-12T09:48Z [---] 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/anyuser/status/1778912158404997494)  2024-04-12T22:24Z [----] followers, 632.8K engagements


"@mrp @chamath @theallinpod In Taipei I saw people leave their phones on their table while going to the toilet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1778978609925161012)  2024-04-13T02:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@paulg "Bad writers and especially scientific political and sociological writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones" - George Orwell There's also this from Nineteen Eighty-Four:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1779083160032284868)  2024-04-13T09:44Z [----] followers, 35.1K engagements


""Far far below the deepest delving of the Dwarves the world is gnawed by nameless things." The Lord of the Rings is so beautifully written. Tolkien was a wonderful writer. .I mean not compared to famous essayist Paul Graham no one is. But definitely above average"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1779095450131513620)  2024-04-13T10:33Z [----] followers, 13.1K engagements


"@mkaleel LOL that's right he calls his blogs "essays" doesn't he. The man lecturing us all on not trying to sound smart calls his blog posts "essays""  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1779101084017156221)  2024-04-13T10:55Z [----] followers, 33.8K engagements


"@threepointone Is anyone using low bitrate mp3 sound effects yet I don't think I could ever get used to that as an artistic choice. It just reminds me of the frustration of only being able to find a rare in kazaa at 96kbps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1779255906766881182)  2024-04-13T21:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@6foot8cdngooner @simongerman600 Canada's fertility rate is [---] but your two biggest source countries are at [---] and [---] respectively. You'll have to deal with it eventually"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1779319327742980154)  2024-04-14T01:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@arthur_spirling Is the prime minister of the UK really that important a person I'm not being glib here. They've had three PMs in the last [--] years. The civil service seems more like the actual seat of power since it's so much more stable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1779357907290857700)  2024-04-14T03:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@HumanoidHistory No social media no cellphones everyone just computing in the moment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1779735933929361530)  2024-04-15T04:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@LarryKellogg @unclebobmartin Did Java even have much Smalltalk influence I feel it came from the Simula and C++ tradition not the Smalltalk one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1780066041403699405)  2024-04-16T02:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi @iSeiryu I was legit confused for years why all my mates were typing "Aye". I was like. wtf are we all scottish now Then I realised it was "eh""  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1780837049622528404)  2024-04-18T05:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@gdelujo @getnormality Exactly the same completely Americanised. Not sure if we're doing Blut und Boden style land acknowledgments yet but we have our substitutes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1781491461151965390)  2024-04-20T01:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@yquansah_ @thegeeknarrator I really only ever see it used as a shorthand for "using MongoDB in line of business CRUD software""  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1781805486767259666)  2024-04-20T22:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@watthedoodle @fredine My daughter broke my Leopold topre keyboard before she was one years old so she'll be fine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1782636881064386567)  2024-04-23T05:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@lan8ach Are the tech stacks so convoluted that being a junior just isn't viable anymore you need [--] years experience trawling stack overflow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1784833381525848194)  2024-04-29T06:33Z [---] followers, 10.5K engagements


"@jchris @jquery @codesandbox @Replit @JavaScript @partykit_io @awscloud @tldraw 3am here :'( make a recording if you can"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1785146530539974779)  2024-04-30T03:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@FeanorsKarma @TheAnkurTyagi I wish you all the best. Genuinely. The world will absolutely be better place if the worlds most populous country is cleaner and more prosperous"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1785223836889489763)  2024-04-30T08:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@anerdguynow Do programmers not know the term "statically typed" anymore A bunch mention "strictly typed". Which is. just a odd phrase. Others say typescript is a "typed language". Right but. so is Javascript I mean are we comparing it to Forth or what"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1787810023739211912)  2024-05-07T11:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@gregyoung @Quora I don't think it's a troll. It's more a reaction of some people when they realise they don't like or respect the regime they're in to just believe the opposite of everything it stands for. A lot of things make a lot more sense if you view it through that lens"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1788298193828290752)  2024-05-08T20:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@_Felipe It was a reference in DDIA. Liveness makes less sense but I'll figure it out eventually"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1788298481519796536)  2024-05-08T20:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@nayibbukele No one ever cares about the human rights of crime victims"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1788299217372684345)  2024-05-08T20:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@gregyoung @Quora yeah true. but why DOES king charles want us to think the earth is round"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1788407888580657435)  2024-05-09T03:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@loftwah It's weird I can still enjoy new music but my video game tests are stuck around the turn of the century"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1789383918178750838)  2024-05-11T19:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"I love western style sushi. Cream cheese beef avocado spicy chicken - YUM. You call it inauthentic I call it fusion. More california rolls please"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1789400706568376648)  2024-05-11T21:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Anthony_Bonato Sometimes peoples names aren't pronounced the way their language is said. Like "Chaucher" which people will pronounce "Chaw-sir". But any Middle English pronounciation guide will say those letters make "Shau sir". So is Euler really "Oi ler""  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1789761839246532870)  2024-05-12T20:57Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@hardeep_gambhir I was going to make snide comment about "maybe they should be discussing basic sanitation" then I remembered SF also has a human shit epidemic. So maybe this is the grim future. Entepreneurial tech hubs that are filthy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1789808311451484413)  2024-05-13T00:02Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@codepetence Awesome pics. Great size. Look thick. Solid. Tight. Keep us all posted on your continued progress with any new progress pics or vid clips. Show us what you got man. Wanna see how freakin' huge solid thick and tight you can get. Thanks for the motivation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1789875695566373228)  2024-05-13T04:29Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@loftwah You've set a precedent by stating the price in your local currency. Now everyone is going to respond in their own currency and meaningful comparison will be impossible. anyway [--] NZD but it's on special. Looks like it's usually around [--] NZD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1790546056423645358)  2024-05-15T00:53Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@tritlo I'm jealous of those people who can sit on piano benches etc and be comfy. I spent a lot of money one of those ergo chairs (shipping to NZ is not cheap) and it started falling apart after a year or so. My primary chair was a lawn chair for a while. That was comfy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1790551155401257086)  2024-05-15T01:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@generativist I'm just waiting for India to discover this post"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1790553453573591482)  2024-05-15T01:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@skryerofcyberia @kalin_t @airkatakana Where do you find them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1790618664498270254)  2024-05-15T05:42Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Rainmaker1973 Does no one else realise how easy it would be for him to learn French with that foundation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1790889578418909255)  2024-05-15T23:38Z [---] followers, 16.9K engagements


"@tantaman I do this with video games. I think I average about two new games a decade"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1790915775286628481)  2024-05-16T01:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@TheDevilOps @DanielW_Kiwi We are as close to the eastern edge of Australia as Morocco is to Germany. That distance is almost all ocean"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1790919892193231251)  2024-05-16T01:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@whyamiherewut @TheAnkurTyagi I remember as a kid I used to think people from the third world who immigrated here were poor. Then I'd talk to them and they all had maids and stuff back home. And then it dawned on me. oh this is their upper middle class lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1791066164053049453)  2024-05-16T11:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AlokShar1 @whyamiherewut @TheAnkurTyagi Is that why Switzerland Austria and Scandinavia are wealthy Their African colonies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1791181914046611768)  2024-05-16T19:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@orhunt Not everyone wants to hear your music. I know this is hard for musicians to comprehend but often you're a net negative on the ambiance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1791217813329150302)  2024-05-16T21:23Z [---] followers, 17.4K engagements


"@Deepaksunny4 @AvinashP6969 @TheAnkurTyagi Maybe advanced isn't the right word. "Developed" Though of course what a lot of developed economies in Asia tend to do is have a two tier immigration system so that they can still source cheap menial labour from the lower tier (see Singapore Taiwan UAE etc)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1791224167326441539)  2024-05-16T21:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@oddismcard . did you follow me here Shoo this is distsys twitter not mouth-breather twitter. Get thee hence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1791236358281081056)  2024-05-16T22:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Alright who's interested in coming to a meetup in Greymouth New Zealand There's now a little world-straddling group of Systems-oriented meetups. Munich Database Meetup: https://t.co/fy5zkZOkfc Berlin Systems Group: https://t.co/E7hr2yFYYB SF Distributed Systems Meetup: https://t.co/s4XchSGW7A NYC Systems: https://t.co/CMMEQhQ0gk There's now a little world-straddling group of Systems-oriented meetups. Munich Database Meetup: https://t.co/fy5zkZOkfc Berlin Systems Group: https://t.co/E7hr2yFYYB SF Distributed Systems Meetup: https://t.co/s4XchSGW7A NYC Systems: https://t.co/CMMEQhQ0gk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1791579011514323329)  2024-05-17T21:18Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@JFriedensreich Now I'm really interested in what other systems you've tried have done"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1791581369795297494)  2024-05-17T21:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@JFriedensreich This makes me feel very vindicated for not finding the "complex" CRDTs that interesting. Because with a more simple CRDT you'd get: "TODO in conflict is it A B or do you want to make a C". I guess the emphasis now is on avoiding conflicts even if the merge makes no sense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1791586677804450232)  2024-05-17T21:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@aryanbaburajan @andreasklinger The four biggest cities in Europe (London St Petersburg Moscow Constantinople) aren't even in the EU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1791684305959395647)  2024-05-18T04:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@db_witch They had to do "the toothbrush moustache having austrian man" on a video a few days back. Though they did say he died by "checking to see if his skull was bulletproof" which made up for it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1791748681139691991)  2024-05-18T08:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@paulgb Those anchorage to barcelona direct flights get so busy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1792169344233079115)  2024-05-19T12:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"This seems like a more likely reason why Tiktok was banned. As a foreign company it's hard to put pressure on Tiktok to "partner" with the ADL in the same way you can with Google Facebook and Twitter all of whom are members of their "Cyberhate Problem-Solving Lab". https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/10/tiktok-faces-renewed-calls-for-a-ban-amid-pro-hamas-anti-israel-claims https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/10/tiktok-faces-renewed-calls-for-a-ban-amid-pro-hamas-anti-israel-claims"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1792286311879200782)  2024-05-19T20:08Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"LMAO what there was no way I was ever B1 level at Mandarin. Stop trying to butter me up language learning apps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1792483933436915752)  2024-05-20T09:14Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"If I ever got A2 in this I would feel like a genius. Hardest language I ever attempted. [--] tones extensive tone sandhi [--] bilabial stops [--] velar stops. Fantastic romanisation system but every native speaker is basically illiterate in it. It's dying which is very sad because I do like it aesthetically"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1792485788573409697)  2024-05-20T09:21Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@fasc1nate Former British colony here. I'm so proud we sacrificed a generation of men so we could (checks notes) help the USSR occupy Central and Eastern Europe and give birth to North Korea"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1792514926143275285)  2024-05-20T11:17Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@iowahawkblog What do you personally have against Iran Genuine question. They haven't done anything bad to me. Nor are they constantly asking me to 'stand with' them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1792656998850494609)  2024-05-20T20:41Z [---] followers, 164K engagements


"@percy_gryce @iowahawkblog Maybe you shouldn't have backed Israel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1792669913766891844)  2024-05-20T21:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@KhanKrumGaming @iowahawkblog Wouldn't it be a strategic advantage to make friends with them You're willing to ignore human rights violations when it makes sense geopolitically (Saudi Arabia) or even when it actively harms you geopolitically (Israel). You made amends with Vietnam despite. Why not Iran"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1792670439879401809)  2024-05-20T21:35Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@GhostPournelle @KhanKrumGaming @iowahawkblog They probably would if you'd treated them like you treated Iran. Also go on youtube and search for American tourists visiting Iran. No one tries to kill them lol. It's state rhetoric"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1792671252592959883)  2024-05-20T21:38Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"We're getting somewhere Why does the US need to build an aid dock in Gaza What's happening that they need aid Is the US maybe funnelling billions of tax dollars to the entity that has caused a humanitarian crisis in Gaza Are you performing military operations on their behalf"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1792673871520465183)  2024-05-20T21:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@MontyDelray I studied computer science we didn't write term papers like that. I'd be fascinated if you could find me a historian who thinks Operation Sea Lion had any chance of success. Doesn't have to be mainstream. PS: I love The Original Series What's your favourite episode"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1792709025718784097)  2024-05-21T00:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Question - if the British Empire conquers Palestine forces the Ottomans out allows Zionists to immigrate en masse takes their side consistenty in their bloody ethnic conflicts with the local Arab population and they repay us by using terrorism to drive us out so they can declare "independence". what does the Golden Rule say about that Because I feel like you'd have to be a massive cuck to still love Israel after all that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinai_and_Palestine_campaign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinai_and_Palestine_campaign"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1792756035381547063)  2024-05-21T03:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi @zeta_globin Yeah maybe it would talk and you could go on adventures to find honey and there'd be a brief musical piece"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1793016244595224964)  2024-05-21T20:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@dotnetschizo I like Australians but they're also very annoying. Partly jealously. Everything they complain about - and my god do they love to complain - is worse in New Zealand. "it's cold" "groceries cost so much" "housing is expensive" I guess it's good they have high standards"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1793203573112905863)  2024-05-22T08:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi @kenthecowboy_ how did it get from there to politics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1793241792374317544)  2024-05-22T11:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@whyamiherewut Israel was built on the blood of other nations. Australian British New Zealand and Indian troops in Palestine circa 1917"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1793338017828295132)  2024-05-22T17:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@devYonz You can use typescript to typecheck your javascript code today without transpiling anything. You define the types in comments eg: /** @ type (n: number) = number */ const square = n = n * n Then tsc acts as a kind of linter but it's still just JS under the hood"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1793342898383245522)  2024-05-22T18:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@devYonz I thought ES Modules worked everywhere now NodeJS: Web: Or am I misunderstanding or missing something https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Modules#applying_the_module_to_your_html https://nodejs.org/api/esm.html https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Modules#applying_the_module_to_your_html https://nodejs.org/api/esm.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1793359781924901170)  2024-05-22T19:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Are there type systems out there able to encode things like associativity and idempotence My gut says you probably can't do it with Ocaml or Haskell but maybe something like Idris. (and yeah I could just search but this is more fun)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1793419711943999686)  2024-05-22T23:12Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@loftwah Let me know if you get into dist sys. Definitely not an expert yet but levelled up so much by reading papers old and new"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1793430327467364753)  2024-05-22T23:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi Yeah I use it for everything now. No "framework" or whatever the hell they're called just a handful of plugins. Sublime text is still the best graphical editor but I love the terminal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1793792674363007302)  2024-05-23T23:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@GangaSi29825413 @DrClaytonForre1 Yes even in West Africa. Name a nation and I'll show you a declining fertility rate projected to decline even further"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1793795426887630992)  2024-05-24T00:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@unusual_whales The analytics on this could be really fascinating. IE which accounts get liked a lot more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1793818331906257096)  2024-05-24T01:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"I'm convinced RPN is superior notation and if we'd been taught it at a young age we'd find PEDMAS quaint and a bit awkward like Roman Numerals. [--] [--] + [--] * [--] / OR [--] [--] + [--] [--] / * 😳🤔 https://t.co/leDl2s8kLx 😳🤔 https://t.co/leDl2s8kLx"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1793821284360679935)  2024-05-24T01:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@callmegiorgie @amuse LMAO owned"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1794252538889523318)  2024-05-25T06:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@codemon18429317 I stopped following local news. I was dimly aware there was an election but did not know who our Prime Minister was for [--] months. Actually I am still not 100% sure what his name is. Don't know if I'd recognise him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1794879936672707049)  2024-05-26T23:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@StatisticUrban I don't get it. Pretty women handsome men. What's stopping them It's not like they have our anti-natalist propaganda"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1794920334719852717)  2024-05-27T02:35Z [----] followers, 43.8K engagements


"@SuperDog_18 @StatisticUrban Generations ago they worked less hard and had more time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1794925538336981034)  2024-05-27T02:56Z [----] followers, 12K engagements


"@ITStudiosi @DanielW_Kiwi 50k NZD in [----] is disgusting. That's a bad junior salary [--] years ago"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1794945646224720295)  2024-05-27T04:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi @ITStudiosi 30k USD = 48.95k NZD. still less than minimum wage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1794946195930193968)  2024-05-27T04:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@makehilloutXXX That colour combo feels really early-mid 90s to me. Given the PS2 release date of [----] it would have been in that uncanny valley period of being "dated' instead of "retro". Or is this some aftermarket thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1795184292617687510)  2024-05-27T20:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@functi0nZer0 I went [--] satisfying months without knowing who the prime minister was here. I'm still only 90% sure and not sure I'd pick him out of a police line up. Try it. You'll realise how dramatically nothing changes in Yes Minister style democracies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1795185264064651684)  2024-05-27T20:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ChShersh Just teach them directed acyclic graphs they'll learn git by osmosis111111111111"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1796097003413283028)  2024-05-30T08:31Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@brgsays How accurate are Indias GDP numbers I remember a scandal a few years back when a whole chinese province (100s of millions of people) were caught just making them up. I also remember a whole series of years where Chinas GDP growth number had an [--] in it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1796668966850728292)  2024-05-31T22:23Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@functi0nZer0 I slept there once. It was part of my [--] day journey from provincial Ireland to provincial New Zealand featuring: blizzards"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1796669642565685322)  2024-05-31T22:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@gorunmane @_Felipe This is my pingtest to various locations around the world. All of Europe the Middle East and Africa is 300+ ms. South Africa and Poland are above 400ms. The world's a big place"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1796701075480981599)  2024-06-01T00:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/231112.html https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/231112.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1796729739421659245)  2024-06-01T02:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi The internet is full of people having emotional breakdowns over office work. I could not imagine the sort of stress and fight/flight response a police officer has"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1796737959510864138)  2024-06-01T02:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@_Felipe @yawaramin Australia/Japan A flight from Sydney to Tokyo is [--] hours. You might as well say Denmark/USA. Actually that'd be more accurate as the flight is over an hour shorter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1796769949505237446)  2024-06-01T05:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DanielW_Kiwi I'm kind of considering a twitter break as US election season ramps up. It's that or I tell everyone how voting doesn't matter aka bipartisan shitposting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1797036344876880346)  2024-06-01T22:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Horusiath Aren't there a few places that do this I never stream music but I do buy digital files. I'm sure I've done it from a couple of places; bandcamp maybe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1797122888300175575)  2024-06-02T04:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@penberg I've been involved with software in some weirdly deployed places. Remote parts of Papua New Guinea Australian farms Canadian ranches. 5G is basically science fiction. Not to mention shipping mining oil"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1797865595540824081)  2024-06-04T05:38Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"What *exactly* are microservices Where did they come from They got a lot of hype. Then a lot of backlash. But I have to admit my mental model of them is basically "HTTP Server is too tightly coupled to another HTTP server" Or is it more like the Actor Model for slow learners"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1797866291119997099)  2024-06-04T05:41Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"People in tech love to hate on the idea of Software Architects. But aren't they needed You need someone to come up with a broad outline of a technical solution that will achieve a strategic business outcome. Is that same person then supposed to sit around arguing about how people format their code & git merging strategies & FP vs OOP vs Imperative As someone who has worked on doomed projects where the business and tech is clearly not in alignment I would loved to have had a good architect to make sure the programming I did had meaning"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1798504245664374880)  2024-06-05T23:56Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@_Felipe Are consumer startups statistically significant in terms of number programmers therein employed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1798855952713801750)  2024-06-06T23:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

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