Richard W

I’m a former classically trained musician, turned airline pilot, turned software developer, turned entrepreneur.

[Richard W @CtrlAltIdeate]

My job application tracking platform is open for sign-ups. And it's completely FREE!

https://t.co/yqTCW1sUnK

[Richard W @CtrlAltIdeate]

I just received a coffee from Adam Lantz on @buymeacoffee! https://t.co/2tR4Zc5cnl

[Richard W @CtrlAltIdeate]

I just received a coffee from @diarrhio on @buymeacoffee! https://t.co/7W985LzNWF

[Richard W @CtrlAltIdeate]

The rental market in Zürich is nuts. Looking for an apartment is a full-time job.

[Richard W @CtrlAltIdeate]

@dougdecker21 @tobyliiiiiiiiii bot

[Richard W @CtrlAltIdeate]

Porting @applybaseapp over to vanilla React with a Hono backend is taking longer than expected, but I'm liking the results so far.

[Richard W @CtrlAltIdeate]

NextJS just gets too bogged down and messy with server files, client files, action files, etc.

I've learned over the past few years that I want things to be separate. Frontend app does client stuff. Server app does server stuff. I've been really liking @honojs on Cloudflare workers.

[Richard W @CtrlAltIdeate]

Ok, I've officially had enough. 2026 is the year of vanilla React and a separate backend. No project that I start will be NextJS.

[Richard W @CtrlAltIdeate]

@abhitwt COBOL

[Richard W @CtrlAltIdeate]

@dmiiiitrii wittle fwog

[Richard W @CtrlAltIdeate]

@katedeyneka @danielkempe Easy fixes! Good luck

[Richard W @CtrlAltIdeate]

Oof

[Wise @trikcode]

I am doing a project about elderly programmers.
If you are a programmer and over 25 please DM

[John Rush @johnrushx]

I used to love coding

I could spend days and nights doing it

I’d discover new library or a framework, sit for 20 hours straight until I rewrite my app with it

I was proud of my code, UI, db schema…

I’d sit with a problem for hours or days and the moment I figured out great solution, I felt euphoric

Today, I lost this joy. AI can do it all better than me. It’s almost like food. I used to love cooking, but today I simply go to the best restaurants and their food is amazing.

I don’t enjoy my work anymore as I used to do. The only thing I still enjoy is twitting, because AI sucks at it, for now…

I miss old good days, when I went to sleep thinking about a architecture, a function or an elegant code I will write tomorrow morning as soon as I wake up

AI is like a shopping mall, I go there and buy anything I want

I loved the old days when I had to do most of the things with my own hands

AI is the greatest invention of my lifetime. I know how to monetize the sh*t out of it��but I lost the child like joy I used to experience at work and I feel really sad about it

[Richard W @CtrlAltIdeate]

@nomalex_ Here's the thing - they don't. Believe it or not, people don't tell the truth on the internet 😀

[Richard W @CtrlAltIdeate]

@fullstackmiguel I recently completed a coding challenge for a consultancy I was thinking of working for, and I had to build a bunch of React stuff from scratch. It reminded me how much I love writing code without tab completion.

[Richard W @CtrlAltIdeate]

First day working in Zurich. I'm working on @applybaseapp marketing and trying to hit my signup goal of 150 by the end of February.

[Richard W @CtrlAltIdeate]

@fullstackmiguel I think it all depends on whether you're ok with these corporations exploiting all of your ideas. Remember - when products are free, you're the product.

[Richard W @CtrlAltIdeate]

I walked through a café yesterday and peeked at 5 laptop screens. 5/5 had some sort of AI tool pulled up.

[Richard W @CtrlAltIdeate]

We start our drive from Lisbon to Zürich today. It’s been an amazing 2.5 years in Portugal. Now for the next chapter.

[Richard W @CtrlAltIdeate]

2026 is going to be the year @applybaseapp hits 10,000 users. It’s the year of marketing for me.

Applybase is a completely free job search tracking tool. Check it out and submit some feature requests 💪

[Richard W @CtrlAltIdeate]

@RevenueCat Runna is Strava. Did they really have App Store approval problems? 🤔