Zeus Lalkaka

Design thinker and JavaScript enjoyer.

Previously: @Lever (YC12) @Pixate (YC12), @Ensighten

Learning 🦀
🐪 curious

[Zeus Lalkaka @distracteddev]

Take a minute and read this thread. And then read the last paragraph twice.

[Charity Majors @mipsytipsy]

In 2023 we saw several rounds of quality conversation around engineering productivity, thanks to McKinsey, @GergelyOrosz and @KentBeck and others.

It moved the industry forwards. 🙌 But it also felt fairly inside baseball to me. Deeply technical, lots of metrics.

[Zeus Lalkaka @distracteddev]

@boringmarketer Glad to see you are on the road to recovery! It’s crazy how bad sitting can be for your hips after working for a decade.

[Wes Bos @wesbos]

🔥 Node just keeps on dropping new goodies.

The styleText util gives us styled logs without a package like Colors or Chalk

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@swyxio Def need to be active about it. But the amount is growth I’ve seen from you, I feel like you’re closer than you realize.

These things often fall in to place when we least expect it.

[Zeus Lalkaka @distracteddev]

@swyxio All in time friend. When you do find them, it’ll be worth the wait

[Zeus Lalkaka @distracteddev]

Will also say that although previous success doesn’t bring happiness, it made it much easier to prioritize and make space for the things that do.

[Zeus Lalkaka @distracteddev]

💯

I hope what people take from this is that success won’t make you happy. Sadly, I heard that line my whole life but still wasted yrs learning it.

The grind is necessary, but the outcomes for you, your team, and your product, will improve if done mindfully

[@levelsio @levelsio]

One counterintuitive thing about seeing all these entrepreneurs going to gym etc:

I never went gym when I started doing startups, I didn't eat particularly clean

But I did have lots of anxiety, depression then

So I don't think it has any correlation with success in business, it's more like an after effect

In fact I think the anxiety/depression can be a great fuel for your ambition, you trick yourself that when you're succesful and rich you'll be happy

But of course you won't be when you reach success

But that's when you finally do start gym and good nutrition and you actually get happy I think

[Zeus Lalkaka @distracteddev]

@dawescc @structured_app Love the direction. Waiting for a clear winner to support both Office and GSuite without the bloat of Notion.

[Ridd 🤿 @ridd_design]

I've been on a mission lately.

The more that I talk to designers working on ultra-high-quality products...

The more I want to understand what it takes to establish a culture of craft.

After months I'm starting to notice some clear patterns 👇

[Zeus Lalkaka @distracteddev]

@SandroMaglione @EffectTS_ This looks cool but extraordinarily convoluted for the basic functionality being provided.

There are so many levels of indirection here that I’m not sure the trade off between type safety and simplicity is the right one for most projects.

[Zeus Lalkaka @distracteddev]

@_buildspace Toronto, Canada

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@afonsolfm @vascoabm How are your costs atm? Given how expensive compute is, I’m always worried about unattainable payback periods. But your cac could be low enough due to early-mover advantage.

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@swyxio Watching the glow up has been inspiring. From fitness to business, you are killing it my friend!

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@izs Eagerly awaiting this

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@leostera Great thread. Thanks for bringing us along.

Was this the root cause of the bug?

Curious why the flags object affected the mailbox impl.

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@sindresorhus Nice to see more focus on the watch. It seems greatly under utilized by the ecosystem.

Curious what your preferred stack / set of libraries is for iOS/macOS/watchOS development?

[Zeus Lalkaka @distracteddev]

@swyxio Your new home after Smol AI acquisition.

[lex @lexbyanyname]

some of you don't know what it's like to have someone who will make your coffee every morning, prepare every meal, keep the house clean-ish, remind you to shower, and not complain that you haven't had time for more than work or parenting in years

[Zeus Lalkaka @distracteddev]

@adamdotdev basically a luddite

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@kenwheeler Don’t leave us hangin bruv