Luke Foster ⛵

Crafting easy to use software 🛠 Software developer for SaaS startups ⛵ Escaping the 9 - 5 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 On an adventure with our 4 little boys

[Luke Foster ⛵ @FosterNZ]

@MattP1Tommy We were listening to your predictions and my son followed your instructions to draw a picture of Tommy.

Unfortunately you seem to have driven a bus onto the circuit.

[Luke Foster ⛵ @FosterNZ]

It’s someone who takes pride and ownership of the software being developed.

In lots of ways titles don’t matter. But it also helps to have clarity about what someone’s job is.

I think product engineer should be a title we commonly use for roles at startups.

[Luke Foster ⛵ @FosterNZ]

Software engineer (or developer) never felt like it accurately described my role at startups.

Then on Twitter I saw people talking about product engineer, which sounds like the job I actually do.

[Luke Foster ⛵ @FosterNZ]

This saves a bunch of costs, but also makes them more nimble and cohesive. They can do user research and then design features in a way which is efficient and achievable, then they can dive into the code to get the job done.

[Luke Foster ⛵ @FosterNZ]

Software engineer/developer has always felt like a poor description of my role at startups.

Then I saw the term “Product Engineer” and that sounds much more like what I end up doing, and what I love to do.

I’ve been trying to see if this is a term many people use or understand.

[Luke Foster ⛵ @FosterNZ]

@simonsarris We chatted online for three months. 10 year wedding anniversary today.

[Luke Foster ⛵ @FosterNZ]

Whenever I'm wondering why the tweets are garbage, it's because I accidentally ended up on the "For you" tab.

[Luke Foster ⛵ @FosterNZ]

@MicheleRivaCode True power!

[Luke Foster ⛵ @FosterNZ]

You're asking AI to generate your alt tags, but I just ask my three year old.

It gets extremely factual descriptions.

[Luke Foster ⛵ @FosterNZ]

Finally CSS nesting is native in CSS!

*Well in Chrome only. But hopefully everywhere soon.

[Luke Foster ⛵ @FosterNZ]

Spun up a new React project with Vite. It's hard to tell with an empty project, but right now it seems crazy fast.

Will be interesting to see what it's like with a big project.

[Luke Foster ⛵ @FosterNZ]

Happy New Year!

[Luke Foster ⛵ @FosterNZ]

@willstew 🥶

[Luke Foster ⛵ @FosterNZ]

@willstew Yikes! That's uninhabitable.

[Luke Foster ⛵ @FosterNZ]

So proud of my clean up - down to 80 Firefox tabs on my phone. 😛

[Luke Foster ⛵ @FosterNZ]

There should be a name for this.

Surely everyone has the same thing?

[Austen Allred @Austen]

My wife was asking me why I have a pile of clothes next to the dirty clothes hamper.

I had to explain to her.. those aren’t dirty. They’re *not quite* dirty.

I wore them, yes, so you can’t put them back on a hanger.

But I didn’t wear them enough for them to be dirty.

[Luke Foster ⛵ @FosterNZ]

@willstew 😆

[Luke Foster ⛵ @FosterNZ]

There's nothing quite like using a new piece of software that's well-designed.

You try and do something new with it, and it just works beautifully.

It inspires me to do good work building software myself.