𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚢𝚓𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚗

Looking forward to a future with less code. Building for writers. Previously @canva, @adalohq, @hootsuite

[𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚢𝚓𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚗 @tobyjsullivan]

Acronyms are a great way of telling the world that your time is more valuable than everyone else's. You save a fraction of a second by increasing everyone else's cognitive overhead and wasting actual time if they have to go look it up. Use fewer acronyms.

[𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚢𝚓𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚗 @tobyjsullivan]

We’ve officially moved from a knowledge economy to a speculation economy.

[𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚢𝚓𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚗 @tobyjsullivan]

AI will be the backbone of the next design era. Hope we get to see some of this stuff become reality.

[𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚢𝚓𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚗 @tobyjsullivan]

Prediction: an upcoming iPhone model will feature an always-on camera, giving it the appearance of being a transparent device (window). This will transform iPhone into an AR device.

Liquid Glass is an early step in this plan - a UI concept adopted from Apple Vision.

[𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚢𝚓𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚗 @tobyjsullivan]

2024: “omg, these agents are incredible! The code so fast!!” 🤩

2025: “ugh, these agents are sooo slow!! Come onnnnn!” 😫😭

Suddenly vibing with eng management of the last several decades

[𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚢𝚓𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚗 @tobyjsullivan]

@juliknl @Authy It's so bad 😭 If you're stuck, like I was, try opening settings and editing accounts. Looks like the original logos are still showing there so I can at least update the label to something more useful.

Hope they revert this ASAP.

[𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚢𝚓𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚗 @tobyjsullivan]

@yagudaev @vercel @heroku This is my first time seeing SST but looks awesome. I’m using terraform for https://t.co/xycRnX31Ux and it’s helped me keep my operating costs < CA$5/mo while enjoying all of AWS.

But TF is still complicated/time sync so anything that’s higher level abstraction should be a win.

[𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚢𝚓𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚗 @tobyjsullivan]

I don’t think people appreciate what a flex https://t.co/Irav8weR2u is. You don’t simply get a single-character .com domain. There is no https://t.co/1HbK1bzAqH, there’s no https://t.co/e8sevwrnDO, no https://t.co/blR0juCMPz, etc. How does https://t.co/Irav8weR2u exist?

[𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚢𝚓𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚗 @tobyjsullivan]

@7sniperrrrrrr @nurijanian @FollowChris 2012 was a wild time. Customers have only 24 hours in the day, so most tech execs convinced themselves that getting users addicted amounted to winning market share (of attention). Applied to everything from Netflix to Facebook, Twitter and even Slack.

[𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚢𝚓𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚗 @tobyjsullivan]

No-code platforms need business models that mirror traditional developer infrastructure.

AWS scales bandwidth costs linearly (actually, sub-linearly). Why is it so common for no-code platforms to cut off their customers at the knees?

BTW, 1.2TB costs about $110/mo on AWS 🪛

[Nico Cerdeira @nicocerdeira]

WTF is wrong with @webflow?

They're forcing me to pay $15,000/year, up from $468!

A 32x price increase overnight!

And they gave me 1 week to decide if I want to upgrade or move the whole Failory site to another CMS!!

[𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚢𝚓𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚗 @tobyjsullivan]

Here's my thoughts on publishing.

https://t.co/QDGFJk39ju

[𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚢𝚓𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚗 @tobyjsullivan]

@hulloferries Is it possible to buy gift cards? It’d be great to buy friends and family a trip across, allowing them to book at their convenience.

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

Google AI overview suggests adding glue to get cheese to stick to pizza, and it turns out the source is an 11 year old Reddit comment from user F*cksmith 😂

[𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚢𝚓𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚗 @tobyjsullivan]

TIL: Chrome has a built-in feature for taking full-page screenshots of web pages. Also, a command palette!
https://t.co/Wv4C5XWqNF

[𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚢𝚓𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚗 @tobyjsullivan]

Oh good, there’s still time.
https://t.co/ORST5CpI78

[𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚢𝚓𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚗 @tobyjsullivan]

I need to build an Admin UI for Juicy. Currently thinking of tacking on purpose-specific GraphQL API, then building dashboards on @retool.

The existing app frontend is served from AWS Lambda. I'd serve the new API from a lambda as well.

What would you do differently?

[𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚢𝚓𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚗 @tobyjsullivan]

I had roughly the same thought this week. There’s increasing pressure for developers to go independent, and a vast, untapped ocean of underserved niche markets. How can the two connect? Sounds a lot like book authors and readers.

[Piri @pketh]

I've often thought about how in the 80s there were software publishers like broderbund that worked like book publishers (they'd pay creators an advance, and help with marketing and distribution). I think maybe there's a place again for something like that https://t.co/GWShbx45CV

[𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚢𝚓𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚗 @tobyjsullivan]

One name keeps coming up again and again in my search results. And the content is actually great. Kudos @LogRocket

[Tim Petri @timpetri]

The @LogRocket content marketing strategy goes something like "write literally every conceivable dev tutorial". 3700+ blog posts and counting 🤯

[𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚢𝚓𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚗 @tobyjsullivan]

I finally managed to publish a technical post. It's rough around the edges and has nothing particularly novel.

Nonetheless, I've been wanting to write more and it feels nice to finally ship something. 🎉

https://t.co/qs8dCuV1g8

[𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚢𝚓𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚗 @tobyjsullivan]

Would love to attend @PolyglotConf this year if it’s happening. Anyone heard anything yet?

Happy to help out too.