Emīls Pļavenieks | emplv

💻 Lead software engineer
🧙 JS | Go | SQL
🏍️ Motorcycle track rider
☕️ Coffee shop co-owner
🧑‍💻 Hacking at hackathons
⚡️ Energize by coding indie-apps

[Emīls Pļavenieks | emplv @empdotlv]

"Burn all your bridges" is a phrase I was told few years ago. To dare try to risk. Now this phrase is stuck in my head, and I understand it does always mean "ALL bridges" per se, but the ideology behind.

[Emīls Pļavenieks | emplv @empdotlv]

I used to think that idea is everything.
Now, few years later, I know that execution is everything, and idea can even be generic.

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@shalevhvs AI

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@better_auth Thank you! Looking forward for what it will bring in 2026

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@vivaangandhi_ video

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Looking at the briefs and thinking... @RevenueCat #Shipyard2026

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@Starlink on @airBaltic is the best thing with the airline right now.

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Painting walls in the house today. Making good progress.

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Ready to reset the count, and make it worth for the next o e.

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The Warsaw hack is over! 20h of straight coding - I did push myself quite a bit this time. But I managed to built everything I planned right at the 19h30m mark.

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@tomeromrix @base44 How to prompt like a pro?

[Emīls Pļavenieks | emplv @empdotlv]

Starting my trip to Warsaw. 1h20m is too short of a flight, so I will fly through Helsinki just to have some working time in air.

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Two days until I will hack away at @ProjectEurope_ & @elevenlabs hackahon in Warsaw!
Quite excited!

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@tomcrawshaw01 SEARCH

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I’ve been coding for 2 straight days from 9am to pm.
I am getting close to have fully working PoC.
Talk about getting excited 🤩

[Emīls Pļavenieks | emplv @empdotlv]

@jackfriks Imo, you can’t just make your 240h/mo as default for your calculation.
I mean, I get it, it is your hourly income rate, given the 5k and those hours.
But full time work is 40h/w, which is 5000/160=31.25. And that my friend is close to 2x minimum wage.
So, 5k is NOT close.

[Emīls Pļavenieks | emplv @empdotlv]

🤯 I think I am on to something

[Emīls Pļavenieks | emplv @empdotlv]

I am done for the main refactor of codebase, switched out previous user + multi tenant system for @better_auth .
On the API side I removed -2550 lines. 🤯
Next is UI…

[Emīls Pļavenieks | emplv @empdotlv]

I just discovered @better_auth . 🤯
I am just blown away with everything it includes. Huge chunk of boilerolate can be simply removed and replaced with it.

[Emīls Pļavenieks | emplv @empdotlv]

Today I am starting to build small new side project.