[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @potetm Tim Pote Tim Pote posts on X about cas, rates, nat, $4mo the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::28938094/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXX +362% - X Month XXXXXX -XX% - X Months XXXXXX +78% - X Year XXXXXXX +24,586% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::28938094/posts_active)  ### Followers: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::28938094/followers)  - X Week XXXXX +0.87% - X Month XXXXX +4.70% - X Months XXXXX +52% - X Year XXXXX +72% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::28938094/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::28938094/influence) --- **Social category influence** [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [finance](/list/finance) **Social topic influence** [cas](/topic/cas), [rates](/topic/rates), [nat](/topic/nat), [$4mo](/topic/$4mo), [insurance](/topic/insurance), [$foo](/topic/$foo), [finals](/topic/finals), [happened](/topic/happened), [bitch](/topic/bitch) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::28938094/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "* dispatch * cache * state machine * compiler * engine * index * queues * backpressure * transactions * atomic values (CAS) * databases * durability guarantees * stability patterns * backoff * retry * circuit breaker * bulkhead * rate limiting * data structures/algorithms"  [@potetm](/creator/x/potetm) on [X](/post/tweet/1948151226379710691) 2025-07-23 22:40:21 UTC 1042 followers, XXX engagements "@sudo_goreng yeah that. even without spot you can run on demand at very reasonable rates if youre willing to engineer accordingly"  [@potetm](/creator/x/potetm) on [X](/post/tweet/1948725515113648347) 2025-07-25 12:42:23 UTC 1043 followers, XX engagements "ok I've heard this before but I've never had a problem with it. walk me through it. I get the expense if you're running a lot of egress (e.g. to replicate cross region) but given a single AZ setup how does a NAT run up massive charges traffic coming from an LB doesn't count as NAT traffic does it your instances have to initiate everything running through the NAT yeah"  [@potetm](/creator/x/potetm) on [X](/post/tweet/1948737079241760947) 2025-07-25 13:28:20 UTC 1042 followers, XX engagements "inability to run aws cheaply is XXX% a skill issue"  [@potetm](/creator/x/potetm) on [X](/post/tweet/1948723524371182051) 2025-07-25 12:34:28 UTC 1045 followers, 1175 engagements "@onehappyfellow agreed. never seen a bridge fall a chemical processing plant leak or a nuclear reactor melt down before. only software has big mistakes"  [@potetm](/creator/x/potetm) on [X](/post/tweet/1948951646731456798) 2025-07-26 03:40:57 UTC 1047 followers, 3100 engagements "@kerckhove_ts lmao +$4/mo doubled your AWS bill. you proving my point"  [@potetm](/creator/x/potetm) on [X](/post/tweet/1948745074164011448) 2025-07-25 14:00:06 UTC 1043 followers, XX engagements "@PixelCanuck @onehappyfellow imo many website backends involve a ton of engineering. front end/view rendering tends to involve less engineering just due to the resource/risk profile. (this isnt a knock on difficulty. front end is hard. but the risk profile is much different.)"  [@potetm](/creator/x/potetm) on [X](/post/tweet/1948963723068031007) 2025-07-26 04:28:56 UTC 1047 followers, XX engagements "1) this is really an observation of societal norms. non-life-threatening outcomes dont get regulated the same way as life threatening outcomes. same holds for financial institutions insurance companies etc. youre mostly observing that downside risk of software failure tends to not be life threatening. 2) whether or not a field is real engineering is surely judged by the field itself and behavior of practitioners rather than societal norms. not all programmers are engineers but that doesnt mean there are NO software engineers"  [@potetm](/creator/x/potetm) on [X](/post/tweet/1948956852571488727) 2025-07-26 04:01:38 UTC 1047 followers, XXX engagements "@Shreyassanthu77 @onehappyfellow I dunno about other langs but in clj you can write property based tests that catch exceptions and check that the exception message/params are correct. e.g. "as long as keywords are in an incorrect order you get an error message like $foo""  [@potetm](/creator/x/potetm) on [X](/post/tweet/1946636389384126761) 2025-07-19 18:20:56 UTC 1047 followers, XX engagements "@traits_reality or is the argument just: they charge you an arm and a leg for getting *off* AWS (which is true.)"  [@potetm](/creator/x/potetm) on [X](/post/tweet/1948737407316029531) 2025-07-25 13:29:38 UTC 1042 followers, XX engagements "In high school I had to take not one but two finals in the office. The first was for chemistry class. I wouldnt stfu and totally deserved it. The second was for speech class. On the first day of class we covered a communication diagram with four steps: sender encodes message sender sends message receiver receives message receiver decodes message. When I got the final the first question was the same diagram. It had XX fucking steps. I was confused. I went to the teacher and asked what was up. She replied Well if youd have shown up for the final review yesterday you would know the answer. I was"  [@potetm](/creator/x/potetm) on [X](/post/tweet/1948145813584298060) 2025-07-23 22:18:51 UTC 1041 followers, XXX engagements "is that tdd tho yeah you _happened_ to know the inputs/outputs ahead of time but did they significantly impact the design of the program I would have used this in the final deliverable for sure but in cases where the logic is complex I usually write tests to pin down behavior as I gonot to discover a design based on usage. so _when_ I write the test varies based on when I find out about some new behavior"  [@potetm](/creator/x/potetm) on [X](/post/tweet/1949101106279198862) 2025-07-26 13:34:50 UTC 1045 followers, XX engagements "@bostonou tbh I've grown much more patient in some dimensions since I became a parent. but waiting for someone to make a decision that impacts me remains painful. (I suspect this is part of why people avoid entrepreneurship.)"  [@potetm](/creator/x/potetm) on [X](/post/tweet/1948504342325330294) 2025-07-24 22:03:31 UTC 1045 followers, XX engagements "@traits_reality yeah but if your goal is to exit AWS entirely"  [@potetm](/creator/x/potetm) on [X](/post/tweet/1948749552057455058) 2025-07-25 14:17:53 UTC 1043 followers, XX engagements "@slimjimmy_dev Chairman of the Board correction: you *were* the CEO. bitch. i'm the CEO bitch"  [@potetm](/creator/x/potetm) on [X](/post/tweet/1948461371785404531) 2025-07-24 19:12:46 UTC 1047 followers, XXX engagements
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@potetm Tim Pote
Tim Pote posts on X about cas, rates, nat, $4mo the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Engagements: XXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXX +362%
- X Month XXXXXX -XX%
- X Months XXXXXX +78%
- X Year XXXXXXX +24,586%
Mentions: XX #
Followers: XXXXX #
- X Week XXXXX +0.87%
- X Month XXXXX +4.70%
- X Months XXXXX +52%
- X Year XXXXX +72%
CreatorRank: XXXXXXXXX #
Social Influence #
Social category influence technology brands finance
Social topic influence cas, rates, nat, $4mo, insurance, $foo, finals, happened, bitch
Top Social Posts #
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"* dispatch * cache * state machine * compiler * engine * index * queues * backpressure * transactions * atomic values (CAS) * databases * durability guarantees * stability patterns * backoff * retry * circuit breaker * bulkhead * rate limiting * data structures/algorithms"
@potetm on X 2025-07-23 22:40:21 UTC 1042 followers, XXX engagements
"@sudo_goreng yeah that. even without spot you can run on demand at very reasonable rates if youre willing to engineer accordingly" @potetm on X 2025-07-25 12:42:23 UTC 1043 followers, XX engagements
"ok I've heard this before but I've never had a problem with it. walk me through it. I get the expense if you're running a lot of egress (e.g. to replicate cross region) but given a single AZ setup how does a NAT run up massive charges traffic coming from an LB doesn't count as NAT traffic does it your instances have to initiate everything running through the NAT yeah" @potetm on X 2025-07-25 13:28:20 UTC 1042 followers, XX engagements
"inability to run aws cheaply is XXX% a skill issue" @potetm on X 2025-07-25 12:34:28 UTC 1045 followers, 1175 engagements
"@onehappyfellow agreed. never seen a bridge fall a chemical processing plant leak or a nuclear reactor melt down before. only software has big mistakes" @potetm on X 2025-07-26 03:40:57 UTC 1047 followers, 3100 engagements
"@kerckhove_ts lmao +$4/mo doubled your AWS bill. you proving my point" @potetm on X 2025-07-25 14:00:06 UTC 1043 followers, XX engagements
"@PixelCanuck @onehappyfellow imo many website backends involve a ton of engineering. front end/view rendering tends to involve less engineering just due to the resource/risk profile. (this isnt a knock on difficulty. front end is hard. but the risk profile is much different.)" @potetm on X 2025-07-26 04:28:56 UTC 1047 followers, XX engagements
"1) this is really an observation of societal norms. non-life-threatening outcomes dont get regulated the same way as life threatening outcomes. same holds for financial institutions insurance companies etc. youre mostly observing that downside risk of software failure tends to not be life threatening. 2) whether or not a field is real engineering is surely judged by the field itself and behavior of practitioners rather than societal norms. not all programmers are engineers but that doesnt mean there are NO software engineers" @potetm on X 2025-07-26 04:01:38 UTC 1047 followers, XXX engagements
"@Shreyassanthu77 @onehappyfellow I dunno about other langs but in clj you can write property based tests that catch exceptions and check that the exception message/params are correct. e.g. "as long as keywords are in an incorrect order you get an error message like $foo"" @potetm on X 2025-07-19 18:20:56 UTC 1047 followers, XX engagements
"@traits_reality or is the argument just: they charge you an arm and a leg for getting off AWS (which is true.)" @potetm on X 2025-07-25 13:29:38 UTC 1042 followers, XX engagements
"In high school I had to take not one but two finals in the office. The first was for chemistry class. I wouldnt stfu and totally deserved it. The second was for speech class. On the first day of class we covered a communication diagram with four steps: sender encodes message sender sends message receiver receives message receiver decodes message. When I got the final the first question was the same diagram. It had XX fucking steps. I was confused. I went to the teacher and asked what was up. She replied Well if youd have shown up for the final review yesterday you would know the answer. I was" @potetm on X 2025-07-23 22:18:51 UTC 1041 followers, XXX engagements
"is that tdd tho yeah you happened to know the inputs/outputs ahead of time but did they significantly impact the design of the program I would have used this in the final deliverable for sure but in cases where the logic is complex I usually write tests to pin down behavior as I gonot to discover a design based on usage. so when I write the test varies based on when I find out about some new behavior" @potetm on X 2025-07-26 13:34:50 UTC 1045 followers, XX engagements
"@bostonou tbh I've grown much more patient in some dimensions since I became a parent. but waiting for someone to make a decision that impacts me remains painful. (I suspect this is part of why people avoid entrepreneurship.)" @potetm on X 2025-07-24 22:03:31 UTC 1045 followers, XX engagements
"@traits_reality yeah but if your goal is to exit AWS entirely" @potetm on X 2025-07-25 14:17:53 UTC 1043 followers, XX engagements
"@slimjimmy_dev Chairman of the Board correction: you were the CEO. bitch. i'm the CEO bitch" @potetm on X 2025-07-24 19:12:46 UTC 1047 followers, XXX engagements