Romulo Alves

Software Engineer at a Fortune 500 · Searching my way to Freedom Through Software · My opinions might be useful, but not truths

[Romulo Alves @romuloalves]

@nathan_covey Agree

But the dumb aspect is easier to control on the user's side, not their assembly

[Romulo Alves @romuloalves]

I hope they really did

Cause Apple stopped the mini iPhones because they didn't sell

I miss my iPhone 12 mini

[Nathan Covey @nathan_covey]

I hope @Apple is paying attention to these posts.

The people want a dumbphone.

[Romulo Alves @romuloalves]

And the people who "don't like" meat usually have been eating it "wrong"

They cook it way too much that it becomes a solid brown block you can't enjoy chewing

[@levelsio @levelsio]

My favorite thing about Brazilians is that they still really respect eating meat

And they know the extreme health benefits of it

Lots of nutrients, vitamins, iron, magnesium, and essentially eating whole meats is a great anti depressant

We should all be eating more whole meats not less I think

(Not processed meat though!)

[Romulo Alves @romuloalves]

No calorie deficit is worth cutting out red meat

[Ryan J. Shaw @RyanJamesShaw]

@levelsio I unintentionally stopped eating red meat for 3mo (calorie deficit diet) and felt so low energy and down. Within a day of eating a steak I felt like my old self again.

[Romulo Alves @romuloalves]

@thekitze @robj3d3 "Ordering" from my mom crushes any soup in the world, I'm sure

[Romulo Alves @romuloalves]

Created a webpage to render today's task from @WorkFlowy on Kindle

I don't need to check any distracting devices anymore

[Romulo Alves @romuloalves]

@CoachDanGo Reading this in the For You tab lol

[Romulo Alves @romuloalves]

That's good parenting.

Taking notes to do it for my children.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

So I don't know if this is a thing in other countries (probably?)

But Dutch do a thing called dropping, if you're like 10 to 15 years old your parents drop you with friends in a forest with no phone, but maybe a compass and map and you have to find your way back to a city

[Romulo Alves @romuloalves]

I love being a maniac!

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Just saw a guy at Munich airport code completely without AI like some kind of maniac 🤯

[Romulo Alves @romuloalves]

One more thing Anthropic can learn from xAI

[Romulo Alves @romuloalves]

Anthropic has a few things to learn

[Romulo Alves @romuloalves]

Anthropic has a few things to learn

[xAI @xai]

Thank you so much for all the feedback on the Grok Build Beta.

Some of you reported hitting limits quickly. Our team found areas to improve caching, so we've reset Grok Build usage limits for all accounts.

Please keep sharing feedback - the team is here to help.

[Romulo Alves @romuloalves]

@ted_ryce 14%

[Romulo Alves @romuloalves]

@peduarte Many apps in one

Worth every penny

[Romulo Alves @romuloalves]

An ad for a CAR that's NOT DRIVEN in the video

Fantastic.

[@jason @Jason]

Apple should have released this car for a $100,000

Steve Jobs and Ivy would have made something unique… sigh 😔

[Romulo Alves @romuloalves]

I can finally give up Claude and Codex

[xAI @xai]

Grok Build is now available in Beta for all SuperGrok and X Premium+ users.

Use Plan Mode, create images and videos with Imagine, and build automations or orchestrators with the CLI.

Visit https://t.co/bpTHpjivWD to get started.

[Romulo Alves @romuloalves]

That's great and terrifying at the same time

Coding used to be a leverage. Not anymore

15 years of hard work to become a great developer are now 80% useless

Now we know how people have been feeling since the 18th century with the Industrial Revolution!

[@levelsio @levelsio]

This is super interesting

You now have non-tech normal people outship tech people in terms of reaching revenue fast

I have lots of techy software engineer friends and they have been trying for years to get any MRR for their sideprojects and they still haven't

Here's an Indonesian girl, who's tapped into TikTok culture, knows what to ship, can't even code but ships it fast thanks to AI and gets to $800 MRR in the first month

So we're officially in a new time now: it's now literally just a competition of being as tapped into the culture as possible, to then be able spot a trend and rapidly built and launch a site/app/biz around it, and make money

There is little to any benefit being in tech now over normal people, maybe even the opposite as tech people are very up to date on tech things but often quite out of date on many non-tech cultural trends

This is a great thing, but a bitter pill to swallow: another gatekeeper wiped out and every tech builder has to now stop putting effort into tech skills, and instead put effort into understanding culture trends to see what to build next

And build it fast!

[Romulo Alves @romuloalves]

@sobedominik That's amazing, congrats to her!

Good luck!!

[Andrii Romasiun @andrii_rom]

This perfectly illustrates software development with and without AI

Coding without AI is less efficient, but so much more fulfilling

[Romulo Alves @romuloalves]

@heniuro How would you approach someone who has gained weight by eating meat to satiety?

I've restricted food in the past, then switched to carnivore and gained 10kg in 3 months.

I couldn't lose weight by eating to satiety. It didn't matter whether I ate fattier or leaner meat.

[Romulo Alves @romuloalves]

It can be challenging to make the optimal environment.

Bedroom door open for ventilation and AC at 18ºC.

AC will be less efficient, with more lights and noise from outside.

Gotta figure out a way at home.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

🌡️ Sucking the CO2 out of my bedroom turned out to be the final thing improving my already good sleep to great

My weekly sleep is now 1st in Los Angeles, 5th in California and Japan and 9th in Amsterdam, so really good

Most people have way too high CO2 in their bedroom (1500 to 2500 ppm) because that's what you breathe out and it doesn't get refreshed, I discovered this after getting an @airthings sensor (unaffiliated, I just like it)

There's a lot of confusion about CO2, you can't "air purify" CO2 out, it doesn't work like that, also it's not CO, it's CO2, it's what you breathe out, slowly a room will fill up with it and your brain and body will start struggling. You realize CO2 high when you feel a room is "stuffy", too many people breathing out, not enough fresh air coming in

If you sleep as a couple the CO2 will be double because you both breathe out for 8 hours. Americans who think HVAC will save them: no most HVAC recirculates air it does not refresh air (very new houses do though), also outside US: regular AC just recirculates air, for CO2 to be removed you have to bring in fresh air from outside (like a bathroom fan sucking out air to create pressure to bring in new air, or an actual refresh air system). Opening a window is a nice idea but these days (?) almost everywhere is loud and you'll wake up from stuff to also slowly destroy your sleep

Most people also sleep WAY too hot around 23°C/73°F but don't realize it, because that's a good temperature for a living room in the day, but way too hot for good sleep. Most studies show the ideal bedroom temperature is around 15-18°C / 59-65°F. Above that your body will not enter deep sleep meaning 8 hours of sleep in a hot bedeoom might just be 5 hours of actual sleep (I see people from warm countries consistently not accept this, so my rebuttal is: if you sleep so well, why is your GDP so low). The fix is installing a powerful AC, not blasting it in your direction (that's bad for your nose), and cleaning it regularly. I run my AC at 17°C/62°F with fan on 3/4 strength directed downward so we don't feel the air hitting us directly (important). Many ACs suck, we had Daikins and they suck, they go on and off repeatedly after hitting their target temperature, which wakes you up too, you need an AC that has constant cold air flow, we got Mitsubishi Electric which is great

One other thing that I like and use every night is the @curaofsweden weighted blanket (also unaffiliated), it's 9kgs/20lbs (related to your body weight so buy the right one) which creates deep pressure and compression on your body which calms your nervous system, I think this is also related to modern bed sheets/blankets: they used to be made of organic materials like cotton etc and were way heavier than modern lightweight polyester/plastic sheets so you don't get that effect anymore, with a weighted blanket you do

On top of that weighted blanket, I have a blanket that I put over it usually around 5am when my core body temperature hits the lowest point, of course this makes a good argument for those temperature regulating beds (but that's too much even for me for now)

Outside of bedroom what also really helps my sleep is exercise, I lift weights about 3-4x per week and try hit 30min gym cycling for cardio 2-3x per week too. Especially the lifting puts me in a coma. Yesterday I squatted 120kg for example and you just feel like falling into your bed after that, also deadlifts and benchpress etc

Anyway this is how I made my already good sleep great, I hope it helps! 😊