BrianGetsBinary

Software Engineer. When in doubt, make it immutable. Builder of

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Angular 12 and SSL is much easier than you think. Want to know how it's done? Check it out right here - https://t.co/MaTQe7Js91

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@HedgeyeComm @TikTokInvestors Computer is massively constrained so this makes total sense for both companies. Of course this is good news from an IPO perspective but I don’t understand why anyone can be so negative about it.

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@AntonMartyniuk Automapper is a cancer in most code bases and now it’s a disease you pay for

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@SilveradoLegion @valigo I do it all the time. I’ll build on windows, write scripts in powershell and it just works on Linux. The portability is great. I still use shell scripts too but overall the tool optionality is fantastic.

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@LyalinDotCom Very cool and nice work!

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@m2jr GitHub project that’s installable via a npx?

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@johnarnold We do know how this will play out and we won’t need UBI, insurance or more taxing - we can look to the Industrial Revolution and understand what market dynamics and societal changes will synthesize. AI will be an Industrial Revolution more than most realize

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@_yiyuan_ @johnarnold This is fundamentally not true - the release of Claude Opus 4.5 will go down in history as a seminal moment in computing. We gained a new superpower and can now do things previously unimaginable.

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The fallacy of this is that more creates more. More hours, more hiring, more something.

And it is true in a sense. If you put in more work, more work will happen. But I think for most startups, the leverage is really in how differently you approach the problem, how well you cultivate your team, and the strategy.

Any large company can outspend you on hours. They have thousands or tens of thousands more people, spending more hours. If hours worked were the metric, every large company and government organization would always win and do the best work. More hours, better output.

This thinking is often representative of younger founders, where the startup becomes their identity and life. They have a hard time doing anything else, and cannot understand that your work is not the person that is you. But activities outside of work can grow you as a person too and make you do better work.

I’ve never worked this way. As a designer, I always saw the need to take a step back, to take a break. At times, I might work 12 hours or 16 hours, or whatever amount was needed, but it wasn’t the norm. You just can't grind design, you need inspiration. But taking that step away from the work, would give me more perspective, inspiration and I could approach the problem differently or I could just see the solution.

Grinding is never good for any creative problem, and startups or creating new products are often mostly about creative problem solving. Grinding works ok for email jobs, or where you just executing on very clear playbook.

With Linear, we’ve never worked this way. We work reasonable hours, 5 days a week. All of us founders have families. Many of our employees have families. I personally stop every evening, spend time with the family, cook dinner for the family, eat dinner together, and focus on things outside of work. Sometimes I work in the late evenings or weekends, but to me the pride is that I don’t need to. Company should be succesful without it.

My goal is to build a company that is sustainable in the long term, and doesn’t require heroics or personal sacrifices every single day.

There are times when our team is heroic. Launches, incidents, some other work that just needs to be done. They will work late into the night because they know it is the right thing. But we don’t require that every day or every week, and the more this happens, the more I think it is a failure of our company and leadership. The team and the leaders should always keep a reserve to use when something is needed.

Our thinking was also that quality, which we value, doesn’t emerge from working more or stressing people more. It emerges when you create the conditions for it to emerge. Often it is the appreciation, space, time, and how the person feels. A person who is rested will do better work.

I wouldn’t attribute much of our success to working a lot. The success came from having clear thinking, ideas, and focus to do the right things.

I sometimes wish we could move the culture more toward a Zen master.

Real mastery is not exerting the most effort. It is achieving the outcome with the least necessary effort.

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@raimeyuu @Aaronontheweb To that end, I think the architecture of these agents and agentic experiences is fascinating and only want to spend more time understanding them. Juniors have to have that curiosity and not just get stuck on Vibe Code Island

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@raimeyuu @Aaronontheweb Foundational skills are more important than they have ever been and will be more valuable in the future. I think the senior engineers are self selecting into AI because it’s incredibly exciting. The junior looking to upskill is stuck because he just had an off to the AI

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@xoofx Nice work. Been waiting for something like this. Will definitely try it out

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@KarenPayneMVP Copilot is pretty much unusable in VS2026. I’ve gone full time VS Code because due to those product failures. I only use Big Boy Visual Studio if I must

[Kara @UTDKarra]

🚨Breaking: Patrick Dorgu wins Manchester United goal of the season and will win premier league goal season too

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@kristijan_kralj Don’t take my IRepositoryService away! How else am I going to query the database!

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The advent of agents causes you to think much broader and bigger in scope of features and deliverables. Classical workflows are not going away but the real alpha is in how you can design those with latent tools and agentic applications

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Where were you at the on April 27th, the day of the great token pricing reset?

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@awakecoding For deep dive problems and things that I need its advanced tooling for, I use it. Beyond that I avoid it because vs code is so much faster and has better AI tooling. Still a fan but VS code is becoming my daily driver

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Azure Functions + OTEL = the red headed stepchild of the .NET ecosystem

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@tomasz_ducin @gregyoung I will die on this hill with you. If you don’t know the proper guard rails or aren’t capable of understanding critical components and know when to course correct you won’t vibe code for long. People with strong fundamentals will be more valuable than ever