copynpaste, 7 weeks in - 6,300 people in the last 90 days - 4 paying users - 12 integrations shipped, every one from a user email - $0 on marketing built it because pasting between apps kept wrecking my formatting. turns out it wasn't just me

what's one thing in software engineering that people pretend is easy but absolutely isn't? i'll start: authentication.

if your protocol needs constant incentives to convince people to use it, you might not have product-market fit. you might just have expensive users.

we're giving AI agents access to terminals, credentials, cloud infrastructure and wallets. but the question isn't just "how smart is the agent?" it's "what can it do when it gets something wrong?"

unpopular opinion: knowing how to use AI tools doesn't make you a good engineer. knowing when their output is wrong does.

the bug was supposed to take 10 minutes. it's now a core contributor to the project.

side projects usually die the week the first bug report shows up

AI won't make good engineers irrelevant. but engineers who refuse to adapt might make that argument for everyone else.

most people don't want to build in crypto. they want to be associated with something that succeeds.

ethereum delaying an upgrade because of a security concern is a good reminder: shipping on schedule is nice. not breaking existing contracts is better.

gm! gm!

what's a side project you keep almost starting

weekend plan is to fix one thing and somehow rewrite three

friday deploys are fine until you feel confident about them

good error messages are the cheapest devrel you'll ever ship

build the thing that annoys you first. you already know it's a real problem

a flaky test is worse than no test. it teaches the team to ignore red

what's shipping this weekend, even if it's tiny

what's one thing you wish your favorite dev tool would just delete

Compliments are nice, but hearing "recommended you because you're amazing at what you do." just hits different.

senior engineer energy is saying 'it depends' and then actually explaining what it depends on