Serhat Teker

Uomo Universale | Principal Software Engineer @BumperPay

[Serhat Teker @SerhatTeker]

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

― Frank Herbert, Dune

[Marc Randolph @marcrandolph]

I’m Marc Randolph, co-founder of Netflix & 6 other companies.

This is my definition of success:

[Serhat Teker @SerhatTeker]

@testdrivenio PascalCase. camelCase.

[Serhat Teker @SerhatTeker]

Sorry to hear that. Goodbye Legend.

[Frederik Gieschen @FrederikNeckar]

Jim Simons's five principles (RIP):

“Be guided by beauty. Just as a great theorem can be very beautiful, a company that’s really working very well, very efficiently, that can be beautiful.

Surround yourself with the smartest and best people you possibly can. Let them do their thing. Don’t sit on top of them. If they’re smarter than you, all the better.

Do something original. Don’t run with the pack. If everyone is trying to solve the same problem ... don’t do that.

Don’t give up easily. Stick with it. Stick with it not forever, but really give it a chance to get where you’re going.

The final principle is hope for good luck.
That’s the most important principle"

[Serhat Teker @SerhatTeker]

@_nghiatran there is HTTPie.

[Simon Willison @simonw]

TIL Google Chrome has a --headless option you can use to take a screenshot from the CLI that's built into the default installation

[Serhat Teker @SerhatTeker]

@reburn_dev @colineckert yes

[Serhat Teker @SerhatTeker]

@thedankoe Never seen from this point.

[DHH @dhh]

The @Neovim adventure continues. I'm really digging the lazyvim distro. Integrated git management? Check. Great fuzzy-searcher for files? Check. Multi-file search? Check. Tabs? Check. Sidebar? Check. And that whole THIS IS UNIX, I KNOW THIS aesthetic is ace.

[Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @AlphabetWorkers]

This is the exact moment that workers on the @Youtube Music team learned they were being laid off by @Google - as they were testifying in front of their local Austin city council.

[Serhat Teker @SerhatTeker]

True that.

[DHH @dhh]

Cue David Goggins: "It's so easy to be great nowadays. If you have any mental toughness, any fraction of self-discipline, the ability to not want to do it but still do it." https://t.co/PbQ9o7f2LV

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

Patrick Collison, Stripe CEO, on why quality matters:

"If Stripe is a monstrously successful business but what we make isn't beautiful and Stripe doesn't embody a culture of incredibly exacting craftsmanship, I'll be much less happy.

My intuition is that more of Stripe's success than one would think is downstream of the fact that people like beautiful things.

Because what does a beautiful thing tell you?

Well, it tells you the person who made it really cared."

[Serhat Teker @SerhatTeker]

"Stay hungry, stay foolish."

[Kevin Kelly @kevin2kelly]

The legendary publications of the Whole Earth Catalogs — all 20,000 pages — are now available online for free in a hi-res scan almost better than reading the original newsprinted ones. It's a trip. Many thanks to @barrythrew for making this happen. https://t.co/pz6LEtk1vh

[furkanonder @fsyscall]

The video of my presentation "Instrumenting CPython with eBPF" at @europython 2023 has been released!

In case you missed it, you can watch it on YouTube!
https://t.co/nLQ9pXGU3Y

#python #eBPF #europython2023

[mymind @mymind]

"Skills can be taught.

Character you either have or you don't have."

— Bourdain

[Klaas @forgebitz]

"All in all we went from $0 to $100m to $0 because I followed the advice of the VCs."

When you raise from a VC you need to build a unicorn (aka 1B+ company) and nothing else

Doing 10M ARR? You are a failure, 50M ARR? Nope.. You failed

A lot of amazing startups implode because of this model and this is also exactly the reason why I am never that worried to compete with well-funded companies because I know the chances of them imploding are very high

@levelsio said it very well: You are just another 1/100 bet to a VC

Is all funding bad? no, I think there are interesting opportunities and now that the model is changing (I hope) we will see more "boring" investments made in companies that focus more on sustainable business models

[Serhat Teker @SerhatTeker]

@josertorresb @Casey The first scene came to my mind.

[Serhat Teker @SerhatTeker]

@fatih There should be an option to disable 'icons'. I know there is for Nvim-tree.

If you change your mind, there is a clean `docker` way to patch the fonts.

As far I remember you're using the great Berkeley Mono font as well:

https://t.co/yQNv7gkYf8

[Serhat Teker @SerhatTeker]

@RickyPalaguachi Thanks for sharing and the credit Ricky.

[Serhat Teker @SerhatTeker]

Insightful idea.

[Frank Wiles @fwiles]

Have wanted to write this post for well over a year and finally found the time. It's a technique we've been using in new projects that has dramatically improved our velocity https://t.co/LzqRFR4WEt #python #Django