4esop

Ships code for a living.
Thinks too much for free.
Running for Reply Guy of the Year

todoglow:

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Under 100 followers for 16 yrs. Next 16 yrs — who’s coming?

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@Nithya_Shrii The best losers never make it personal either. Composure cuts both ways.

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@RobertGreene Since you can't govern their nature, govern your circle. Who you let in is the only variable left.

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@tailopez My favorite framing of the same idea:
"think of yourself as dead. you have lived your life. now, take what's left and live it according to nature." — same Marcus

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@unkonfined Respect 🫡

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@Nithya_Shrii The moment they remind you of the gift, it was never a gift. It was an invoice with a delay.

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@ysuckme een quiet on X for 16 years under 100 followers, still haven't won.

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5/
one icon. three decisions. probably 30 more i didn't write down.

and this is just the icon.
the backend. the conflict resolution. the auth flow. the "what if two Macs edit the same todo in the same second."
none of that shows up on screen.
most of the work is the part nobody sees.

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1/
todoglow v1.9 now syncs across your Macs.

building an app is just a chain of micro-decisions.
take "show sync status" alone:

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4/
states?
idle / syncing / just-synced.
"just-synced" stays for ~1.5s, then fades.
long enough to feel confirmed, short enough not to nag.

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Built our storefront solo at a 4-person company.
Picked the colors, fonts, card layout myself.

Traffic came in. Nobody bought.
Everyone started hunting for a culprit, and UX got blamed.
The card I'd kept clean got stuff bolted onto it.

A designer joined last month.
First meeting: a committee to pick the favicon.

Surprising how few people know to pass
when they don't have an opinion.

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@PhilOfLife_ Becoming better is more of a filter than a magnet.

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@Nithya_Shrii The same position you couldn't find for 7 hours.

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@ysuckme And watch who smiles when you go broke.

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@dickiebush More options doesn't raise the quality of the choice. It just raises the doubt about it.

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@unkonfined Genuine reply guys don't do this. We shout the same truth in public and in DMs.

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@Markmanson Sometimes you're just tired in a way you don't have a word for yet.

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@unkonfined Reply guys are at war with the bots.

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@Nithya_Shrii It's not just wealth. The anxiety of being structurally unneeded is its own kind of poverty. Most knowledge workers I know carry it.