Bwana Maina

software developer && farmer

[Bwana Maina @bwanamaina]

In accordance with the ancient traditions of developers, we must first build an app that does nothing except say 'Hello world'.

[Rene🧚🫧 @sheisafairyyy]

I will never understand a "free trial" needing my debit card information.

[avrl ☘ @avrldotdev]

Step-1: Learn Go
Step-2: Master structs, interfaces & pointers
Step-3: Learn goroutines & channels
Step-4: Build an HTTP server with std-lib
Step-5: Read the Go runtime & standard library source. Embrace humility
Step-6: Build a production-grade backend (REST/gRPC, DB, caching, etc)
Step-7: Make it load-bearing
Step-8: Learn profiling & optimization (pprof, trace, benchmarks)
Step-9: deploy with Docker (& K8s)
Step-10: Ship it

[Word @umarfof]

selective and private

[Hazel Kotu @aclasshazel]

You can deactivate, be mysterious, quit alcohol and still fail to achieve anything.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

[Firefox 🔥 @firefox]

We promise not to sell Firefox to a billionaire.

[Pubity @pubity]

Facebook is down globally

[🗣️ @vzzeo]

Corporate life is mostly pretending you didn’t see that email until you’re emotionally ready

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“One of the most underrated skills you can learn is the ability to ignore your mood and stick with the plan.”

[KABUGO @Kabugo_]

A man can forget many things, except the day he was looked at differently for having no money. ~Unknown

[Puneet Patwari @system_monarch]

I've been a backend Engineer for 12+ years. Today, I'm a Principal Engineer at Atlassian.

I've designed systems that handle millions of requests. Sat on both sides of system design interviews.

Reviewed more architecture docs than I can count.

Starting today, I'm breaking down the fundamentals of scaling for the next 25 days.

If you're learning system design bookmark this thread, you're going to get a lot of learning from this.

[Aanya @xoaanya]

This stuff could've landed me a $10k/month job in 2016 😭

[blue @bluewmist]

The older I get... the more I understand why people disappear into cooking, art, music, gardening, books and quiet lives.

[Blissful✨ @ghostinheel]

Last night I was listening to an Afrikaans song and cried so much. Today I Googled the lyrics turns out the song is about agriculture 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[Unhinged @unhingedfeed]

This button scares me so much

[Wes Winder @weswinder]

fable 5 just refactored my entire codebase in one call

67 tool invocations. 1M+ new lines. 24 brand new files

it modularized everything. broke up monoliths. cleaned up spaghetti

none of it worked

but boy was it beautiful

[miia @miiagarro]

i randomly hate everyone once a month

[Morgan @simplymorgn]

The promotion path for many jobs is:

- Become good at the work
- Stop doing the work
- Attend meetings about the work

[Goke🍹🇫🇷🇦🇷🇵🇹 @gokehq]

😭😭

[trash jones @jzux]

i’m actually stealing AI’s job (wasting resources and making up stupid shit)