Calvin Yu

Technologist, Loves Startups

[Laura Wendel @Lauramaywendel]

How the twitter timeline feels recently

[DHH @dhh]

"It's surprising to me that there isn't more pressure yet to cut costs at companies paying such princely sums for their SaaS software. But I think it's coming. Someone is going to look at those margins and see an opportunity." https://t.co/iLv7eVbQWu

[Haroon @haroon]

A startup is like a long hallway with countless doors where success hinges on opening the right doors within a given amount of time. You must either work really hard and open lots of doors (hustle), or be really good at discerning which doors to leave closed (focus), or both.

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

After 6 years investing at seed & pre-seed the single biggest determinant of success in finding product-market-fit is speed of execution.

Why?

Most important element of finding PMF; having enough "at bats"/attempts as possible pre-next raise. Faster you are, more you have.

[DHH @dhh]

"[GitHub] is nearly two million lines of code and more than 1,000 engineers collaborate on it daily. We deploy as often as 20 times a day, and nearly every week one of those deploys is a Rails upgrade." 🚀❤️ https://t.co/jLlsOVW4V1

[Calvin Yu @cyu]

@stevenharman @haacked Yet another instance where AI is coming after our jobs

[Aurelie Verrot @LiliVerrot]

Tired: « Ruby on Rails is sooo dying in 2023 »
Hired: RoR is the most in-demand skill in 2023.

Source: HIRED State of Software Engineering 2023

[Kent Beck 🌻 @KentBeck]

The reactions are exactly why this needed to be said.

[Brad Gessler @bradgessler]

Sr Rails devs describe Rails as being the easiest and most productive way to build web apps. Meanwhile @joemasilotti @excid3 & others discuss how we’re losing a generation of Jr Rails devs because its daunting.

Can both be true?

Here’s my story on how Rails is losing Jrs.

📖👇

[Andrew Clark @acdlite]

If you use React, you should be using a React framework. If your existing app doesn't use a framework, you should incrementally migrate to one. If you're creating a new React project, you should use a framework from the beginning.

[Calvin Yu @cyu]

@frankrietta something like this:

git checkout --theirs db/structure.sql ; RAILS_ENV=test rails db:drop db:create db:structure:load db:migrate db:structure:dump

[Calvin Yu @cyu]

First time SDC since remodel. View from where our old office used to be. @switchyards

[Calvin Yu @cyu]

@ngrokHQ You .com seem to be down

[Calvin Yu @cyu]

@robbyrussell You say this, but also note also that active admin has sustained these clients for many years and helped their organization grow. I see it as a success that devs leverage AA so they can focus more on the parts that drive value.

[Calvin Yu @cyu]

Help for Ukrainian Family Friends https://t.co/5AvQmk0BgK

[Calvin Yu @cyu]

Fail

[Calvin Yu @cyu]

How do you turn time travel mode off in Safari?

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

IMO, the days of a one-trick-pony single-skill programmer are over. To be truly effective, you need to know how to program/test, of course, but you also need product skills, & UI/UX skills, & communication/collaboration skills, &c. &c. Programming is becoming a generalist’s job.

[dave payne @davempayne]

I was fortunate to have worked with Oscar at Scoutmob. There was no one like him. A bright light always. Such a loss.