Aldrich Halim

Founding engineer @ 💻 | Jazz fusion enthusiast 🎹 | Startup, Investing, and Trading 📚

[dax @thdxr]

how to be good at your job

- realize this one thing is actually made up of two separate things
- realize instead of solving the direct problem you can solve a broader problem
- instead of implementing thing, implement other thing that makes it easier to implement thing

[DHH @dhh]

You can’t outwork the whole world. There’s always going to be someone somewhere willing to work as hard as you. Someone just as hungry. Or hungrier.

Assuming you can work harder and longer than someone else is giving yourself too much credit for your effort and not enough for theirs. Putting in 1,001 hours to someone else’s 1,000 isn’t going to tip the scale in your favor.

What’s worse is when management holds up certain people as having a great “work ethic” because they’re always around, always available, always working. That’s a terrible example of a work ethic and a great example of someone who’s overworked.

A great work ethic isn’t about working whenever you’re called upon. It’s about doing what you say you’re going to do, putting in a fair day’s work, respecting the work, respecting the customer, respecting coworkers, not wasting time, not creating unnecessary work for other people, and not being a bottleneck. Work ethic is about being a fundamentally good person that others can count on and enjoy working with.

So how do people get ahead if it’s not about outworking everyone else?

People make it because they’re talented, they’re lucky, they’re in the right place at the right time, they know how to work with other people, they know how to sell an idea, they know what moves people, they can tell a story, they know which details matter and which don’t, they can see the big and small pictures in every situation, and they know how to do something with an opportunity. And for so many other reasons.

So get the outwork myth out of your head. Stop equating work ethic with excessive work hours. Neither is going to get you ahead or help you find calm.

[The Outwork Myth — It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work, 2018]

[arpit @arpitingle]

a week is 2% of the year

[@levelsio @levelsio]

The web development industrial complex has lied to your face:

- auth: yes you can do it yourself
- scale: yes you can do it yourself
- database: yes you can do it yourself
- server: yes you can do it yourself

And no when your site goes viral you don't need to pay a $20,000 bill

[Aldrich Halim @avh0213]

Thanks!

[Alex Xu @alexxubyte]

Life is Short, Use Dev Tools

[Aldrich Halim @avh0213]

Awesome. Thanks for sharing!

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

Node 22.6.0 just added TypeScript support 🔥

if you're planning to use it, you'll need these two lines in your tsconfig.json.

Brief explainer in a 🧵

[Aldrich Halim @avh0213]

🤯

[MIT CSAIL @MIT_CSAIL]

The energy consumption of different programming languages (v/@burkov): https://t.co/tZlI0O1bX5

One finding: Python consumes 76x more energy while being 72x slower than C.

[⁎⁺˳✧༚ 𝚗𝚊𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚒 🎀💛💙🇺🇦💙💛 @hot_girl_spring]

but why

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We’re testing SearchGPT, a temporary prototype of new AI search features that give you fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources.

We’re launching with a small group of users for feedback and plan to integrate the experience into ChatGPT. https://t.co/dRRnxXVlGh

[Aldrich Halim @avh0213]

@ImeldaLizal12 bagus kok mel wkwkw udh tamat gw

[Aldrich Halim @avh0213]

just saw William L. YT channel on his live Google Kick Start C 2020, 4 problems for 3 hours.

First 10 minutes:
Will : submitted 2 questions with perfect scores
Me : haven't even finished reading the questions 😱

[Aldrich Halim @avh0213]

@josuaadrian apalagi klo disuru mixing lagu yg dia sendiri ga demen

[Aldrich Halim @avh0213]

@mikdoro wkwkwk ehhh kaga nyindir gw keinget aja gede 😂

[Aldrich Halim @avh0213]

@mikdoro weh kok gw jd inget jg ada tmn kita yg tempat makannya guedee bgt wkwkw

[Aldrich Halim @avh0213]

@mikdoro iya wey enakan msh anget

[Aldrich Halim @avh0213]

@ImeldaLizal12 gw jg sempet kepikiran weh, pengen peliharaan

[Aldrich Halim @avh0213]

@billybangun sukses bil!!

[Aldrich Halim @avh0213]

@Reynaldaedlne @IndiHome lah kita kan pake @FirstMediaCares ? yg lagi ngambek juga

[Aldrich Halim @avh0213]

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