Thāni

Polyglot Engineer • Rust · K8s · Dist. Systems • Retired gamer • Small minds can’t comprehend greatness • 🛠️ @tranqbay. AI-proofread my tweets

[Thāni @thanipro]

When I have money, there are some hobbies I will like to pick up, star gazing, wine tasting and playing golf. Till then, need to lock in like mad.

[Thāni @thanipro]

Languages I have actively written in and love, ordered by preference

Rust > Typescript > PHP > Go > Python > Java > Dart > Lua > Ruby

[Ryan Dahl @rough__sea]

languages i'm reasonably proficient in - ordered by preference

Rust > Go > TypeScript/JavaScript > Ruby > Python > C++ > C > Java > PHP > Shell

(I wish I could favor TS/JS more - but it's such a mess - still)

[Thāni @thanipro]

@Dominus_Kelvin Not totally true. You can have 12 dev teams working on a monolith app, split it into 3 microservices, and have 4 devs take ownership of each service. Seeing as you have a lot of dislike for architectures like this, do you want to host a space where we dissect this topic?

[Thāni @thanipro]

Over 2 years ago when we started @tranqbay, I had the idea of naming repositories after Greek gods. 135 repositories in our organization later, the tradition still continues.

[Thāni @thanipro]

Smelling toxic companies has become a superpower I’ve acquired recently. Since I registered my business here, I’ve been on the lookout for part-time consulting roles. I found an interesting one on Upwork last week and had the first call today.

Midway through the conversation, the client asked if I had an extra 30 minutes to spare. I asked why, and he said he wanted to fast-track my application. “Nice,” I said.

Then he mentioned that he had just saved me from two additional interview rounds I would have had to go through before finally technical interview and reference check with 3 of my previous managers.

He repeated it like three times during the call, like he was expecting me to say thank you.

Bro, we saved each other time, why should i tell you thank you.

The moment a company starts acting like they’re doing you a favor by hiring you, that’s usually a red flag. The best companies understand that hiring is mutual value exchange, you are evaluating them just as much as they are evaluating you.

[Thāni @thanipro]

@domthegeek I know right

[Thāni @thanipro]

@nnvictory001 🙂‍↔️

[Thāni @thanipro]

Someone should host a space about business logic in databases. I’d really like to spend an evening understanding the thought process of engineers, so I can learn one or two.

@TosinOlugbenga, I know you’re a busy man, but help us with the space sir.

[Thāni @thanipro]

@varsilias @echo_vick I shared this on a different tweet https://t.co/7nvvjUVdaX

[Thāni @thanipro]

@AdikeKizitoDev @echo_vick I accept

[Thāni @thanipro]

@mypathseeker @TosinOlugbenga Would have love to go back and forth with you but fortunately or unfortunately, I have to start work, but I found an article that captures my thought on this topic, please give it a read https://t.co/7nvvjUVdaX

[Thāni @thanipro]

@TosinOlugbenga Okay, I think some people might misinterpret “db logic” here and assume everything should live there. I know triggers can be useful for audit trails, and stored procedures can help automate critical DB operations. But aside things like this, everything else should live in code

[Thāni @thanipro]

@jayhemz Okay , I will tell them when next I speak with them

[Thāni @thanipro]

I hit my claude code limit on a max plan until next tomorrow, what am I supposed to do until then ?

[Thāni @thanipro]

Even more interesting, it connects to linear tickets for more context, checks that acceptance criteria, it also does a cross service check to be sure dependencies are not broken. Given time, I might throw in a knowledge graph so it learns over time and have good business context

[Thāni @thanipro]

Milking Claude in every way possible. Devin switched to paid plan, can’t afford it. So yesterday I set up a repo connected to my Mac Studio + Claude Max plan to auto-review all PRs across all 130 repos on TranqBay.

Even if you open a PR at 2am, it gets reviewed automatically

[Thāni @thanipro]

@jola_adebayor Thanks boss, btw, nice product you are building

[Thāni @thanipro]

Really surprised that I was able to register a company here within a month. With the bureaucracy craze here, I would have thought it would have taken much longer. While small, this is a big step toward my goals, and I’m happy it happened.

[Thāni @thanipro]

In the last months of software engineering as a career, I’m showing up every single day this year, so that in the future my son won’t ask me what I was doing when people were pivoting away. Son, I was grinding to buy myself out.