Zach Vaillancourt

Software Engineer

[Zach Vaillancourt @zachvaillan]

Consumption that does not fuel creation is poison

[JT @jiratickets]

now i have become pseudoemployed

prompter of models

[Zach Vaillancourt @zachvaillan]

@GodPlaysCards I'm still in doubt that humanoid robots are the next progression

[Zach Vaillancourt @zachvaillan]

Starship is about to fly all of Trump's Golden Dome assets into space $SPCX

[Beaver 🦁 @beaverd]

"you're absolutely right! I shouldn't have launched those nukes -- that's on me."

[Noah @NoahKingJr]

Coders in 2030 be like:

[naiive @naiivememe]

Me in WW3 fighting on China’s side because I accepted Temu’s terms of use without reading them

[Abhishek Singh @0xlelouch_]

If you:

1. Do 2-3 hours of deep work with notifications off and one clear outcome (ship a feature, fix a perf issue, close a bug cluster)

2. Write code daily, but also read code daily (your codebase, open source, PRs) and learn how good engineers structure systems

3. Get strong at debugging: logs, metrics, traces, reproducing locally, bisecting, writing the smallest failing test, then fixing root cause

4. Learn one core backend topic every month and apply it at work (SQL indexes, query plans, caching, queues, concurrency, rate limits, idempotency, timeouts)

5. Write design notes before big changes (tradeoffs, failure modes, rollout plan, observability) instead of rushing into implementation

6. Improve one system every quarter (reduce p99 latency, lower error rate, cut cloud cost, simplify a service, remove a cron hack)

7. Communicate like an adult: crisp updates, clear PR descriptions, asking good questions, and documenting decisions so others do not suffer later

8. Build a small project on the side that teaches you real things (auth, payments, rate limiting, background jobs, CI, deployments)

9. Protect your health because this job is long-term: 8k-10k steps, strength training, and sleep so your brain stays sharp

10. Save and invest consistently, because financial stress makes you a worse engineer and a worse decision maker

Believe me, you are ahead of most of the software engineers!

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Libgen, Sci-Hub, and Z-library had millions of pirated academic books and papers.

So, they were shut down. We shouldn't use them anyway.

We should help billion-dollar academic publishers get richer.

Anyway, here's how to access these libraries:

Don't do this!

[Zach Vaillancourt @zachvaillan]

@dagorenouf AWS secret manager?

[Zach Vaillancourt @zachvaillan]

@davidmiedz How are you surviving without npm? Are you talking about relying on CDN edge functions?

[Zach Vaillancourt @zachvaillan]

@ozcagomer Moving out of the city 10x'ed my mental state. I do miss it though, would love a condo or something and go back and forth

[Zach Vaillancourt @zachvaillan]

@ozcagomer Anywhere outside of a rural town. Bunch of US states are beautiful when you get out of the city.

Upstate New York is underrated for one

[Zach Vaillancourt @zachvaillan]

@jeel_dasvani @Njuchi_ Hey Jeel. Check this out

[Zach Vaillancourt @zachvaillan]

Save 50% migrating from Datadog to eBPF.

Full article: https://t.co/e8xopiBn0b

[Zach Vaillancourt @zachvaillan]

@DentesLeo Want to be on the side of who controls the AI probably.

The solopreneur won’t be able to access the same level of ai as a ~trillion dollar company can. Especially when the arms race is over and the gates go up.

[Zach Vaillancourt @zachvaillan]

How many here use no-code options for their web app?

[Zach Vaillancourt @zachvaillan]

@alliekmiller @karpathy I want to vibe engineer a car wash

[Zach Vaillancourt @zachvaillan]

@grant_ejimone Builders buy from other builders.
Legos. Legos. Legos.

[Zach Vaillancourt @zachvaillan]

@datadoghq @Azure Using eBPF-first observability can save you 50% of Datadog costs

[Zach Vaillancourt @zachvaillan]

@zanbuilds It lets you safely run tiny programs inside the Linux system without slowing things down.

SaaS teams are replacing tools like Datadog with eBPF to save money and get faster insights.

Here's the full article I wrote if you're interested https://t.co/e8xopiBn0b