@NMeuleman@ThePrimeagen Oh, nice!
I do recommend switching fully if you can. I found it to be an inverse exponential curve learning it, where I was simply not disastrously slow after a week or two, and then almost as fast after a few months, but the last few kinks took a year or more to work out.
Elon is the worlds wealthiest man, w the ability to pull in software engineers and ad constructs from his other companies.
If he would have gotten away with this successfully: you bet other founders would have followed, treating their staff like this.
Treat people with respect.
We now have the playbook of how not to acquire a company, even when your goal is to cut costs.
Nothing wrong with wanting to cut costs.
A little empathy and planning would have gone a long way. And some - dare I say - leadership that motivates people positively?
twitter employee: you’re back early
elon musk: backend’s haunted
twitter employee: what?
elon musk: *loading flamethrower and going back into the data center* backend’s haunted
This is what micromanaging from the top looks like, when the CEO *thinks* they can tell the source of the problem and how to fix it, just by looking at it.
It’s incredibly frustrating when it happens to you. It’s rare to see it this public.
Good luck to engineers in the weeds.
Many executives fail to understand why tech companies are bloated. They are bloated because everything is held together with duck tape and "task force" teams. And it's due to gross lack of funding when it comes to removing complexity and technical debt.
I actually have a new prediction: Elon musk is going to create a second kind of blue check that will be given to those who already have them. Perhaps it’s not a blue check - or maybe the $8/month isn’t for a blue check. Either way, it’s going to be very funny
After a few weeks of hard work, we've created Vite PWA organization at GitHub for @vite_js and the ecosystem.
You can find here https://t.co/kmmhsl0byV 3 new custom PWA integrations for @astrodotbuild, SvelteKit (@svelte) and VitePress (@vuejs).
After 1 week on #Mastodon, the biggest diff I notice is the way each network makes me feel.
Twitter: “Why are ppl so horrible to each other?”
Mastodon: “There are so many interesting & cool ppl in the world!”
It's changing my perspective of social media. #TwitterMigration
Oh, the app update is a lie. This is not done. The team failed to ship by that original one week deadline (and a good part of them got fired, as promised).
So now they decided to confuse users as they keep on working long hours and eventually ship.
Welcome to the new Twitter.
“So if they built it, why didn’t they ship it?”
Old Twitter did things more careful & slow - both to get early feedback, and to not release half-baked features.
This will clearly change. For the better in speed of release, and perhaps for worse for of quality, bugs, confusion.
No. This is false. I helped to create two different billion-user projects at Apple: WebKit and iPhone. I was on these teams from the earliest stages and I never once came close to sleeping at the office. It’s not an essential part of doing great work.
Yesterday was my last day at Twitter: the entire Human Rights team has been cut from the company.
I am enormously proud of the work we did to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights, to protect those at-risk in global conflicts & crises including Ethiopia,
So I am very enthusiastic about being in a place where there’s no algorithm boosting my dumb tweets and down-boosting my awesome ones (because they’re not about Bitcoin or whatever.) Even if it’s still small. 11/