26, Ex-SWE → Solopreneur 📈Working on #Canvograph ($0 MRR) 🗺️Submitted #Luxiom for Appstore ($0 MRR) ✉️Blocked @Minmailist due to CASA
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DevDiary retweeted
GPT-6.1 Terra just launched. Main pitch is fast computer use at lower cost. It can see what’s on screen and take actions across apps.
Still too early for real tests, but the interesting part is the everyday stuff that used to need a human clicking around. Filling forms, moving data between tools, basic research then acting on it, editing things inside actual apps.
If it holds up, a lot of the small repetitive work that eats time could finally get cheaper and less fragile.
"But Opus can do it better" - yes ofc, but Opus isn't cheap. Low end models are enterprise favourites for a reason
xitter.cf/OpenAI/status/21147807…
DevDiary retweeted
People were dissing about Terra that it should be removed.
But I think Terra & Anthropic's Haiku will have a user base. Low end models need to find the right adaptive use cases.
But yeah, it shouldn't be for these flashy video-graphic demoes.
Hope this has a reasonable consumption of credits.
DevDiary retweeted
X ALGORITHM UPDATE 🚨
X just stopped cutting new posts first, and that should help small accounts (I check it daily with Claude and share updates worth sharing with you)
tl;dr:
- X can only check 2,800 posts each time you open your feed
- new posts used to be last in line, so they got cut first
- now everything gets cut equally, new posts included
- posts labeled low quality or misinfo now show a warning, and people can't like, reply or share them
- no score changes this time
lesson learned: your new posts now get a fair chance to be seen. Your first 2 hours still matter most.
full details:
- How it worked until this week
Every time someone opens For You, X collects around 3,700 posts it could show them: posts from people they follow, popular posts, posts liked by similar people, and brand new posts.
But X only has time to check 2,800 of them.
So it just took the first 2,800 in line. Brand new posts were at the back of the line. When there were too many, they were the ones left out... and a post that never gets checked can't be shown.
- What changed
Now everything gets cut by the same amount. 25% too many? Every type of post loses 25%, new posts included. Nobody goes first.
- Why small accounts should care
Those brand new posts are under 2 hours old, with under 8 likes and under 500 views. That's where most posts from smaller accounts are.
My read: they now get a fair chance instead of being cut first. How often X actually hits the 2,800 limit isn't in the code, so I can't tell you how big the difference is.
- Low quality and misinfo posts now show a warning
If X labels your post as low quality or misinformation, people who don't follow you see a warning on it, and they can't like, reply, repost, bookmark or share it. The code doesn't say what gets a post that label.
Here's a recap of what you should be doing:
- a new post gets its extra push only in its first 2 hours and first 200 views, so post when your people are online
- likes carry more weight than ever at 0.66 each
- people sticking around pays, the time-spent score is 50% higher than two weeks ago
- a read of 10+ seconds after someone opens your post adds 0.4
- the boost favors the post with the best like rate from its first viewers
- accounts up to 50K can get one fresh original lifted to roughly 16th
- nothing beats a copy link share, it scores 20
- replies, quotes and DM shares each score 5
- talk with your mutuals, replies between you score 20 instead of 5
- originals are the only posts that travel outside your follower base
- the 1st and the 32nd like each open a new route to strangers
- your 2nd post in the same feed is worth 62% of the first, so pick your best one
- videos still need 10+ seconds to qualify for the video lists
- earning a follow adds 4
- a pinned post with a bad link can flag the account for 7 days, worth a quick check
What you should NOT be doing:
- posts that get labeled low quality or misinfo now carry a warning, and nobody outside your followers can like or share them
- video alone won't carry you, an open counts 0.02 and the watch 0
- hide-worthy posts cost more, "not interested" sits at -52.27
- a post at 3am burns its 2 hour window before anyone sees it
- a tap that turns into a bounce is worth only 0.3
- replies and reposts don't get past your followers
- insults get your post hidden from anyone who doesn't follow you
- adult media in 3 of your last 5 posts puts a label on your account
- disguised content in videos gets checked from 64 likes, harder at 512
- self-reply chains under big accounts risk being zeroed
- one account label and non-followers stop seeing you entirely
- low-rated links don't belong in your pinned post
- recycled wording can get tagged as copypasta spam
- strangers tagged plus a low quality link is a pattern X flags
- engagement bait has no size exemption
- several posts in a row end up competing with each other
- hashtag stacks add nothing
- bookmarks are still worth 0
- 48 hours in, For You is finished with a post
DevDiary retweeted
Post your heart out !
Your biggest fear is that someone will see how much you care and find it fucking ridiculous.
So you reread what you wrote, remove the sentence that feels too personal.
Add a joke so nobody thinks you’re taking yourself too seriously.
Eventually, it’s safe enough to post. You’ve removed everything you wanted to say.
The same thing happens with niches.
At first, the niche helps people find you. Then, slowly, it becomes a character you have to keep playing.
You post about the same topic, in the same tone, from the same angle. Not only because the algorithm rewards consistency, but because people have started to expect a certain version of you.
And once people know you that way, breaking character can feel like letting them down.
You wonder what will happen if you talk about something outside your niche. Will people unfollow? Will the post perform badly? Will they decide you’re no longer credible? Will the algorithm stop knowing where to place you?
But underneath those questions is often something more personal…
What if people see that I’m more than the image I built?
So you edit yourself back into the role.
You remove the story that doesn’t fit, turn the opinion into a lesson, make the post useful enough to justify its existence.
Eventually, it’s safe enough to publish.
You’ve removed everything that made it yours.
I think this is why people stay trapped in their niche long after it stops feeling alive. The niche is no longer just a content strategy but a protective shell.
If you stay predictable or keep speaking from the same position, nobody can question who you are. Then people praise you for being consistent.
But consistency can quietly become self-abandonment.
You’re allowed to talk about something that doesn’t fit neatly into your content pillars. You’re allowed to have interests your audience didn’t subscribe for. You’re allowed to change your mind, try a new voice, or post from a part of your life that doesn’t support the character you’ve been playing.
You can keep parts of your life private. You can also let one honest sentence through without explaining why it belongs in your niche.
Your audience may have found you for one thing.
That doesn’t mean you have to remain only that thing.
Let people meet you while you’re still changing.
DevDiary retweeted
Can we hit 700+ today?
I'm interested in connecting with people working on:
> Backend
> Marketing and distribution
> Hardware
> UI/UX and Design
> AI / ML & LLMs
> SaaS & Startups
> DSA & App Development
> Building in public
Basically anything cool and awesome 😎, I love builders and I want my TL to expand
If you're building, learning, or experimenting, would love to #connect 🍻
DevDiary retweeted
Maintaining the streak
My growth has stalled a bit, but still I'm happy that I breached 400 (I was stuck for months lol) and now on my way to 700🚀
With #Canvograph launched, and with #Luxiom finally seeing some progress, here's the plan
#1: Marketing. I'll try to talk about the boring work, my plan and show the ugly metrics. Not the "woohoo I made 10k$" but how I hunt for people and groups on reddit. I'll also show SEO from scratch, literally, canvograph.com has NO SEO right now. And I'm a total noob, ffs I'm a coding guy lol
#2: Tech Study. In my portfolio site, I have attached a notion doc. I wanna get back to the industry(Yer boi is running out of runway) so I wanna study seriously. I'll learn and showcase the fundamentals - System design, Algorithms(companies still ask this) and AI (all my projects are messy, I wanna do it the clean, controlled way)
#3: Some memes. I'm honestly not really good at this, but this is also a content strategy
DevDiary retweeted
Today, I get a chance to be THAT senior who everyone turned to for help at their college.
The Lecture on Embedded lInux that I am supposed to deliver starts in 90 mins lads, and I am nervous as fuck when it comes to this. Because this is a chance for me to introduce my students to concepts and topics that their college keeps telling them are "way too advanced" for them to learn.
After the general pleasantries and the introduction about linux and how it's actually NOT an OS and is just a kernel; and the customary differences between Desktop Linux and Embedded Linux, here is what I plan to talk about.
I am walking then through the journey of booting Linux on a Single Board Computer (SBC). The board of choice - a BeagleBone Black. Based around a Texas Instrument's AM335x Processing unit, it follows a 3-stage booting process.
Stage 1 has the BootROM, SPL, and the MLO.
The BootROM is what runs when you power on the board. It brings the board to a point, where it effectively scans 3 different address points from where the next stage of the booting process shall arrive from. Those can be USB, SDCard, the on-board eMMC, or even network booting too!
In secure boots, it also scans the incoming images and performs authentication on them BEFORE letting it run.
Then, the SPL (Secondary Program Loader). This piece runs on the SRAM of the processor, and it's only job is to ensure that the much bigger DRAM (or DDR) is initialized, and ready to pick up the next batch of images called the MLO. This is necessary because the SRAM may not be big enough for the incoming images, and proper, flawless init of the DRAM is important for the boot to happen. Imagine your un-initialized / unverified DRAM bricking DURING your boot process - it can very well be rendered unrecoverable. The SPL is then discarded once it runs.
Finally, we have the MLO or Memory LOader. This includes a basic U-boot, zImage, and the Device Tree Binary for the processor. These binary files are loaded onto the memory pre-emptively for the kernel. When the kernel init occurs, it uses these files to initialize what is essentially the configured hardware.
Stage 2 has the U-boot proper and the kernel itself.
The stage 1 ensured that all hardware and memory elements are initialized and ready. This stage, is where the bootloader (often U-Boot) and the kernel itself are loaded onto the memory of the board.
First, we have the U-Boot. It loads the kernel onto the memory, the DTB onto the memory, and holds env variables and scripts. It enables the storage and network accesses for the device, and tells the kernel where to find the rootFS.
The kernel itself, holds code that controls the CPU subsystems, the memory management unit's control ssoftware, the scheduler, init controller, device drivers, and then the specific drivers from the DTB - along with so much more.
At this point, the SBC is all initialized, memory elements holding all pieces of software, CPU fully up and running, network interfaces ready to be accessed - all that is missing, is the link between the user and these interfaces to interact. What might that be?
Stage 3 - the RootFS.
This is the link that ties the user to the world of the SBC. It holds the Directories, the app data, package managers, dev tools, userspace tools, the Window manager and the Desktop environment, and quite literally anything else that we can think of, when we imagine a linux based system.
If you are still reading this, I shall conclude today's lecture with implementations of the communication protocols that are commonly seen in Microcontrollers. A very short look at the UART devices - dev/tty, the SPI devices - dev/spidev, and the I2C devices - dev/i2c-0(or 1).
This is supposed to be an hour long lecture, but I don't think they'll have an issue if I take a bit longer than that! Finally, I shall leave them with books, and links to additional resources to explore more - should their hearts wish for.
All in all - this is about to be blast for me, and I shall do my best to spark a passion for this in my students too, so that they can learn on their own, and do some cooler things than what I could in my college days. If you have read so far - I can only thank you for listening to my ramblings.
Now back to your regularly scheduled scrolling!