Charlie Barker

Coder, Serial startup junkie – thrives on early-stage chaos, short runways, and zero-to-one building.

[Charlie Barker @Porkstone]

@samlambert I'm spending $60 a month on Cursor and very happy with the results. I do wonder what I could achieve with a $200 a month claude/codex sub.

[Charlie Barker @Porkstone]

@steipete AI leading to smaller development teams and reduced lines of communication will be the biggest long term win that AI delivers.
A team of 3-4 builders will be able to acheive what 20-30 people were needed pre-AI.

[Charlie Barker @Porkstone]

Microsoft should sell Minecraft to Steam before they completely ruin it.

[TANSTACK @tan_stack]

Our official post mortem on the security issue earlier today: https://t.co/m1CuiGy30b

[Charlie Barker @Porkstone]

@rauchg @v0 @vercel @github Setup an open source git foundation that has the singular purpose of hosting open source code and making collaboration easy. Get all the major software companies to pledge money each year. It will benefit everyone.

[Charlie Barker @Porkstone]

@samlambert To be fair it took them longer than expected.

[Charlie Barker @Porkstone]

@tqbf Being named Alexa would be worse

[Charlie Barker @Porkstone]

@samlambert In the UK finance industry companies have jointly invested to create non-profits that benefit the industry as a whole.
I don’t see this happening much in the tech world. Maybe the cross border nature of technology is the issue.

[Charlie Barker @Porkstone]

I see this a lot.
SaaS startup gets traction, builds a customer base, starts to raise prices, neglects the product, new entrants come and start taking their customers.
The only way to prevent this is keep your prices at a level where potential competitors think its not worth it

[Charlie Barker @Porkstone]

Twitter really sucks, where are nerds migrating to?

[Charlie Barker @Porkstone]

@pcshipp Talk to your users and ask them what would they value enough to give you some of their $$$

[Charlie Barker @Porkstone]

@neerajjj6785 Having access to lots of data does not automatically mean you can create the best coding model. Having access to lots of high quality source code would be an advantage but MS haven't produced any models worth talking about yet.

[Charlie Barker @Porkstone]

@systemdesignone Kubernetes solves container orchestration, if managing your containers is not a problem then you don't need it. There lots of other tools that mask the complexity in k8s like Rancher. This should give you some insight into how complex k8's is.

[Charlie Barker @Porkstone]

@jamesacowling Awesome, and you were not kidding about the young part!!

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@samteic To tell the AI what to write.

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@mattpocockuk That is awesome and well deserved

[Charlie Barker @Porkstone]

@kapilansh_twt No real clue, I hope Sam's team wins as they seem to have the best culture.

[Charlie Barker @Porkstone]

@S_N_SH_E_ Smart + Driven ppl win doesn't matter how you get started.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Ghostty is leaving GitHub. I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008. I've visited GitHub almost every single day for over 18 years. It's never been a question for me where I'd put my projects: always GitHub. I'm super sad to say this, but its time to go. https://t.co/DQDemHdytV

[Charlie Barker @Porkstone]

@thdxr I feel like a product developer more and more each day. It hurts my brain trying to think like a product developer but it does make me have a deep admiration for the product developers I have worked with in the past.