Simon 🎈

Self-taught 📖 | Sr. SWE 💻 @ Spotify 🎧
I use AI 🤖 to solve problems — but I engineer for real 🧠🔧
Tips for beginner/intermediate devs 🌱

[Simon 🎈 @prplcode]

Self-taught senior SWE @ Spotify for ~10 years.

I share practical software engineering for beginner/intermediate devs:
systems, habits, careers, and “what I wish I knew earlier.”

GitHub 👇
https://t.co/pS3nfPaI7B

[Simon 🎈 @prplcode]

Went from hearing about AI to using AI every day for work and personal things in 6 months 🤯

What's your favorite AI tool? I'm leaning towards Claude.

[Nikkhiel Seath @nikkhielseath]

@prplcode Been a minute, you are back!

[Simon 🎈 @prplcode]

@nikkhielseath I am! Not in the same capacity. Life hit me pretty hard and I've found another hobby I'm obsessing about that takes up most of my time. Thanks for acking my return ❤️

[Simon 🎈 @prplcode]

Self-taught senior SWE @ Spotify for ~10 years.

I share practical software engineering for beginner/intermediate devs:
systems, habits, careers, and “what I wish I knew earlier.”

GitHub 👇
https://t.co/pS3nfPaI7B

[Simon 🎈 @prplcode]

Chrome only keeps 90 days of history. That’s a joke.

I got tired of losing old tabs, so I built Chrome History Exporter — it automatically pulls your cross-device Chrome history and makes it searchable locally with Alfred.

Check it out 👇
https://t.co/QexgPafzOt

[Simon 🎈 @prplcode]

I feel more like a product manager than an engineer working with Claude CLI.

I tell it what features I want and it does the engineering for me. I have mixed feelings about it.. 😄

[Simon 🎈 @prplcode]

Hey friends—this is a non-tech post. Been away from X a few years battling depression. I finally beat it. My doctors agree 🙌 Sooo grateful for my partner and friends.

Never lost my interest for tech so hoping to be more active here. Looking forward to connecting to you all! ❤️

[Simon 🎈 @prplcode]

After 10 years as a software engineer, I wrote the DevOps book I wished I’d had as a beginner: Commit to Cloud.

✅ GitHub Actions
✅ AWS
✅ Real pipelines, not toy examples

Perfect weekend project for your future self. Only $10.

Learn more 👇
https://t.co/hpILXoq8ls

[Simon 🎈 @prplcode]

Need progress feedback in Bash? ⚡️

bash-cli-spinners ⏳✨ Don’t just read — watch the spinners live:
👉 https://t.co/VPPDejEISV (+80 spinners demo website)
Repo: https://t.co/vvRPP3ua8i

[Simon 🎈 @prplcode]

New: git-x. A grab bag of Git subcommands that should’ve shipped with Git: rename-branch, prune-branches, graph, summary, undo.
https://t.co/FSPZTCRQqd

[Simon 🎈 @prplcode]

Been off social a while. Used to blog, now I mostly ship code.

Two projects you might like:
git-x → Git CLI extensions for smoother workflows
https://t.co/FSPZTCRiAF
bash-cli-spinners → Spinners for Bash/Zsh scripts
https://t.co/vvRPP3tCiK

[Simon 🎈 @prplcode]

@JamieTheMashMan FE development has improved a lot even since I started working with it about 7 years ago. So much better today 😌

[Simon 🎈 @prplcode]

I never understood the jQuery hate 🤔 It offers an improved API for managing the DOM (and more!). It powers A LOT of websites. It's great!

[Simon 🎈 @prplcode]

@kidgdzilla I think I'm part of that group of new devs. This make sense!

[Simon 🎈 @prplcode]

@JamieTheMashMan Interesting! Never used it at scale.

[Simon 🎈 @prplcode]

@danielcranney Yeah, not sure. I've used it some and it's really much better than native JS.

[Simon 🎈 @prplcode]

@jdlien @warpdotdev I use iTerm. It fits my needs so never considered trying something else. What do you like about @warpdotdev?

[Simon 🎈 @prplcode]

@noopurstwt Totally agree!

[Simon 🎈 @prplcode]

Attention self-taught developers! 👋 How did you learn, and what's your best advice to people who wants to learn?

[Simon 🎈 @prplcode]

What libraries do you use to test your JavaScript code?