Anthony D. Mays

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[Anthony D. Mays @anthonydmays]

My grandmother used to say "may the work I've done speak for me."

Realize I've met soo many people this year that many of you might not be familiar with my work.

So here's a thread to help guide you through some content that may be helpful to you (🧵)

[Anthony D. Mays @anthonydmays]

Just finished Two Sum on the NEW @mockrr_ai 🎉. Try it: https://t.co/HScye06uOt

[Anthony D. Mays @anthonydmays]

@JBerri0s Amen brother!

[Anthony D. Mays @anthonydmays]

New work laptop, new stickers. Let's go! 😂

[Anthony D. Mays @anthonydmays]

@DustinKirkland 🙌🏾 excellent! I want to do more to contribute to the community, I should look at some bugs myself

[Anthony D. Mays @anthonydmays]

Claude Code + NeoVim + LazyGit + Byobu = 💪🏾

It's incredible how much has changed since I was last a full-time SWE exactly 4(!) years ago.

Yet I keep coming back to Vim. Why not Cursor or just VS Code?

For one, I'm training myself to better think in constraints and systems and less about code. I don't need a robust code editors and refactoring tools like I used to. I'll spend even more time reviewing code than I will ever spend writing it by hand.

Instead of crafting curly braces, I'm more focused on giving the agent everything in needs to be successful at what I ask it to do so that I can focus on what the software is supposed to DO and less about how it DOES IT.

Vim has always made it incredibly easy to navigate large and complex code bases.

But with AI driven development, sometimes I just want to open up LazyGit and look at what was produced that I can confirm the results are what I desire.

Most of all, this setup works anywhere I can get to terminal. I enjoy a consistent experience that's highly performant no matter what computer I'm on.

What's your tool stack? Curious about what y'all are working with.

[Anthony D. Mays @anthonydmays]

@LawrenceDCodes Hit that groove in the vamp. Yes sah!

[Anthony D. Mays @anthonydmays]

NBA 2K28

[Angry Tom @AngryTomtweets]

Seedance 2.0 is crazy

[Anthony D. Mays @anthonydmays]

How do my kids guess ARCHIPELAGO in Pictionary???

What in the privilege is going on here? 😂😂😂

[Anthony D. Mays @anthonydmays]

@TechFishBbq HBD!

[Sukhada @appadappajappa]

This is what happens when someone genuinely loves their work.

[Grace Community Church of LB @GraceChurchofLB]

You are invited to join us for an evening of worship through hymns and carols as we celebrate the birth of Christ through music.

Please reshare and invite a friend!

📅 December 21, 2025
📍Los Alamitos Community Center, 10911 Oak Street
⏰ 6:00 - 8:00 pm

https://t.co/Pr513ypEYl

[Anthony D. Mays @anthonydmays]

@ekkiet @SavagelyAvg My first car was a Mark VII. I can confirm (after pushing my car up a slight incline with a friend), that these cars were CRAZY heavy 😭

[Angie Jones @techgirl1908]

Today is a big day for agentic AI! Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI have founded the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) and have donated goose, MCP, and AGENTS․md to the Linux Foundation - ensuring a neutral governance model for these open source projects! 🎉

[Anthony D. Mays @anthonydmays]

If you're in the LA area or visiting, come through!

Great time of encouragement for the saints remembering the birth of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

PS: Yours truly is honored to be on keys this year!

[Grace Community Church of LB @GraceChurchofLB]

You are invited to join us for an evening of worship through hymns and carols as we celebrate the birth of Christ through music.

Please reshare and invite a friend!

📅 December 21, 2025
📍Los Alamitos Community Center, 10911 Oak Street
⏰ 6:00 - 8:00 pm

https://t.co/Pr513ypEYl

[Anthony D. Mays @anthonydmays]

@engineering_bae Better than I deserve, by God's grace!

[Anthony D. Mays @anthonydmays]

I accidently misspell "accidentally" all the time

[Mark Techson @marktechson]

WOWOWOWOWOW! The streets loved it - we had almost 1000 people waiting to watch this video and thousands have seen it since launch!

You can too! Tune in now, you won't regret it

https://t.co/5YianoUqrv

[vas @vasuman]

Gemini 3.0 just refactored my entire codebase in one call.

25 tool invocations. 3,000+ new lines. 12 brand new files.

It modularized everything. Broke up monoliths. Cleaned up spaghetti.

None of it worked.
But boy was it beautiful.