Stormix

Software Engineer.

Tweets are my own and should never be taken seriously

[Stormix @stormix_dev]

@marckohlbrugge @Hetzner_Online Expect 2-3 more price changes in the upcoming months

[Wes Bos @wesbos]

the four horsemen of the apocalypse

[Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko]

In case you are in the camp of “Andrew Tridgell is vibefucking rsync” please read this.l and adjust your priors. https://t.co/gyUvFNma1T

[Stormix @stormix_dev]

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[Stormix @stormix_dev]

@aurorascharff @dillon_mulroy Yess!!! Thank youuuuu

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

The fallacy of this is that more creates more. More hours, more hiring, more something.

And it is true in a sense. If you put in more work, more work will happen. But I think for most startups, the leverage is really in how differently you approach the problem, how well you cultivate your team, and the strategy.

Any large company can outspend you on hours. They have thousands or tens of thousands more people, spending more hours. If hours worked were the metric, every large company and government organization would always win and do the best work. More hours, better output.

This thinking is often representative of younger founders, where the startup becomes their identity and life. They have a hard time doing anything else, and cannot understand that your work is not the person that is you. But activities outside of work can grow you as a person too and make you do better work.

I’ve never worked this way. As a designer, I always saw the need to take a step back, to take a break. At times, I might work 12 hours or 16 hours, or whatever amount was needed, but it wasn’t the norm. You just can't grind design, you need inspiration. But taking that step away from the work, would give me more perspective, inspiration and I could approach the problem differently or I could just see the solution.

Grinding is never good for any creative problem, and startups or creating new products are often mostly about creative problem solving. Grinding works ok for email jobs, or where you just executing on very clear playbook.

With Linear, we’ve never worked this way. We work reasonable hours, 5 days a week. All of us founders have families. Many of our employees have families. I personally stop every evening, spend time with the family, cook dinner for the family, eat dinner together, and focus on things outside of work. Sometimes I work in the late evenings or weekends, but to me the pride is that I don’t need to. Company should be succesful without it.

My goal is to build a company that is sustainable in the long term, and doesn’t require heroics or personal sacrifices every single day.

There are times when our team is heroic. Launches, incidents, some other work that just needs to be done. They will work late into the night because they know it is the right thing. But we don’t require that every day or every week, and the more this happens, the more I think it is a failure of our company and leadership. The team and the leaders should always keep a reserve to use when something is needed.

Our thinking was also that quality, which we value, doesn’t emerge from working more or stressing people more. It emerges when you create the conditions for it to emerge. Often it is the appreciation, space, time, and how the person feels. A person who is rested will do better work.

I wouldn’t attribute much of our success to working a lot. The success came from having clear thinking, ideas, and focus to do the right things.

I sometimes wish we could move the culture more toward a Zen master.

Real mastery is not exerting the most effort. It is achieving the outcome with the least necessary effort.

[Cursor @cursor_ai]

Power users account for a large share of AI activity, and the gap is widening.

[Stormix @stormix_dev]

@theo @ryanvogel weren't you building this for OC ?

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

https://t.co/0DyFIXJueI

[Stormix @stormix_dev]

Another price increase @Hetzner_Online ?

[Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko]

This is such a good post. https://t.co/IdmAnh18Nt

[Stormix @stormix_dev]

@pontusab Gave it a try, ran into some small hiccups, I have a workaround in the meantime, nice work

https://t.co/yatOCMvPxx

[Nicolas Grilly @ngrilly]

rewriting Bun to Rust was faster than writing the blog post about it

[Stormix @stormix_dev]

This migration will be one for the books, excellent work 👏

[Jarred Sumner @jarredsumner]

It also passes their entire test suite on all platforms

I had to ask Claude to inspect the binary to verify I was actually running the Rust port and there wasn’t some mistake that made it use the Zig version instead

[Stormix @stormix_dev]

@theo @SteveMoraco Y'all should check what @FirassaAI has been doing 👀

[Stormix @stormix_dev]

https://t.co/8IRH2Iajco

[Stormix @stormix_dev]

This was a nice gem from youtube

[Stormix @stormix_dev]

@kitlangton Excellent.

[Stormix @stormix_dev]

Honeypots for Clankers, WP!

[Andras Bacsai @heyandras]

We made a fake repo with fake bounties, and the bots are applying fake PRs, so we know who is fake, and we can ban them from the Coolify repo.

IQ over 1000