Connor Forsyth

Development, Product & Design 👨🏻‍💻 Building bootstrapped products 🚧 Consulting @randomstatedev ™️

[Connor Forsyth @cforsythdev]

Getting stupidly excited about this SaaS app I'm working on 🎉 If you are interested in financial forecasting for businesses/startups or the process of iterating on a startup product, I'll be logging my small wins here 💪

Too many good steps forward not to share 👨🏻‍💻🤗🙈

[Michael @_britmonkey]

Another all time greatest UK government consultation moment. They ask me my opinion on downranking my own videos in the youtube algorithm in favour of established networks like BBC and ITV...

and they don't give me the option to disagree!!

[Golden Handcuff Breaker @BreakerGol80811]

Yes. But your perspective needs to change.

You’re tired and burnt out all the time because you’re looking for personal time to do the things you did before kids. Or “the good stuff”.

The thing is now that you’re a dad, the kids time is “the good stuff”. You just need to realize that. This is the stuff you’ll remember, not the time you spent melting into the couch watching sports or playing video games.

Also you need to be way more efficient. Get up early, work out before they wake up, eat REAL food, get sleep when you can, and work hard.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Repeat after me:

The best software engineers pick up a new language in a few weeks. They can become pretty good in a month or two.

The best devs also don’t get bogged down with one language.

ESPECIALLY not today when AI makes onboarding to new languages so much easier

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say".

My thoughts are with Charlie Kirk's family.

[Connor Forsyth @cforsythdev]

@adamwathan Have you looked at them to know if the quality is up/down, or is that just for number of applicants?

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Unconfirmed reports that Hamas has slaughtered 40 babies, beheading some, increasingly and sadly look like being true. Major news outlets now carrying the reports. The English language does not contain the vocabulary for an adequate response to this.

[Connor Forsyth @cforsythdev]

@DeveloperTea This episode audio is choppy on my Spotify and pocket casts app. Recording issues or just me?

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Things are just going to get crazier and crazier from here.

[Sarah Mei @sarahmei]

The most common “presenting” pathology in the hoarded codebases I’ve seen - by far - is that developers don’t feel they have time and/or permission to refactor code.

[Luke de Pulford @lukedepulford]

Jimmy Lai has a full British passport.

Where is the U.K.? @DominicRaab @UKinHongKong

[Connor Forsyth @cforsythdev]

@r00k Why not just “on time”? I’m always ready (99% of the time) but usually press join on the dot.

[Helen Dale (not on your team, but always fair) @_HelenDale]

Internet arguments work like this. You don’t persuade your opponent, but you can persuade third parties.

[Stephen Knight 🎙️ @GSpellchecker]

If your political insight is as basic as "all the other people are evil" then you simply just aren't very smart. I've had reasonable & enlightening conversations with Democrats and Republicans. It's the ideologues like this that ruin the discourse.

[S.E. Cupp @secupp]

Biden just now: "To make progress, we have to top treating our opponents as enemies."

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

Pollsters, economists, epidemiologists. They are the mediaeval physicians of our age: clever at coming up with explanations for what has already happened, useless at forecasting the future.

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

I've been involved in devtools focused on making software easier to build for more than a decade now, and the best early predictor of success is the emergence of a professional hater class. It threatens their position as experts in arcane complexities, so they fear and loathe it.

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

People screaming VOTE always leave out the most important part of their bullshit message: THE WAY I TELL YOU.

[Connor Forsyth @cforsythdev]

@GeorgeKerevan I get the downside of tech transfer lost to US, but what is the downside of not engaging with China?

[Mothers for Nuclear @moms4nuclear]

Hilariously accurate