Aaron 🇨🇦

coder. prev @ibm SWE. building things

[Aaron 🇨🇦 @MatterSignal]

Congratulations Chris!

Never understood the hate that the language gets.

PHP puts food on the table.

[Aaron 🇨🇦 @MatterSignal]

You can’t plan for what you don’t know.

Refactoring is far, far, far cheaper than duplication or wrong abstraction.

https://t.co/CUa8RYk6wz

[Aaron 🇨🇦 @MatterSignal]

@farazamiruddin Can’t argue with that

[Aaron 🇨🇦 @MatterSignal]

Why do you code?

[Aaron 🇨🇦 @MatterSignal]

@irtimid_harding Code never ceases to amaze me!

[Aaron 🇨🇦 @MatterSignal]

@A_Kei_KI Haha. Hit me up when it’s out. I love games!

[Aaron 🇨🇦 @MatterSignal]

@realToTheMoon Nice! Like sustainable tech?

[Aaron 🇨🇦 @MatterSignal]

@helloEngineur Love this one!

[Aaron 🇨🇦 @MatterSignal]

@mark_bonne I can relate 😂

[Aaron 🇨🇦 @MatterSignal]

Not that I think we should go back, but I do miss the wildwest days of web development when it was still acceptable to FTP untested code straight to production.

[Aaron 🇨🇦 @MatterSignal]

Retail investors choices are limited

- keep money in the bank at negative interest
- buy stocks at high prices
- lock cash in bonds at risk of inflation
- buy real estate at high prices

Then there’s this...

[Aaron 🇨🇦 @MatterSignal]

Other remote first companies hiring

- GitLab

- Bandcamp

- Zapier

- Ghost

- Toggl

- Stripe

- Airbrake

- HotJar

[Aaron 🇨🇦 @MatterSignal]

Some companies hiring remote:

- Heap

- DigitalOcean

- Basecamp

- Canonical

[Aaron 🇨🇦 @MatterSignal]

Everyone who uses VIM uses a different subset of it.

It's common to watch another Vim user do something and be like, "how did you do that!?!?"

It's in their muscle memory, not their conscious memory: they need to repeat it and watch which keys they hit.

[Aaron 🇨🇦 @MatterSignal]

Here's the full article -
https://t.co/hDYawoNUdr

[Aaron 🇨🇦 @MatterSignal]

Aged Like Milk

10 people who don't matter (2006) as foretold by CNN

1 Steve Ballmer, Microsoft
2 Jeffrey Citron, Vonage
3 Reed Hastings, Netflix ⬅🤦‍♂️
4 Ken Kutaragi, Sony

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5 Warren Lieberfarb, HD-DVD promotion group
6 Rob Malda, Slashdot
7 Aurun Sarin, Vodafone
8 Jon Schwartz, Sun Systems
9 Linus Torvalds, Linux
10 Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook

[Aaron 🇨🇦 @MatterSignal]

@florinpop17 Congratulations Florin!!!

[Aaron 🇨🇦 @MatterSignal]

@brunoraljic Joking aside, how do I get in on those points?

[Aaron 🇨🇦 @MatterSignal]

6 months / $500 MRR

Congrats Noah!

Follow @noahwbragg on his journey to building potion - create websites using notion

[Noah Bragg 🔥 @noahwbragg]

. @potion_so reached $500 MRR!

If I can reach $500, I can reach $1,000!

Some of my thoughts about how it's gone. 🧵👇