serving from both ends is why I’m the life of the party. you wouldn’t understand.
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It’s rare I’d want to post a picture of me. But for Halloween, I’m dressing up as @ThePrimeagen
Thanks for the laughs and fun, Prime. I’m not as muscular or as tall (or as cool) but my mustache trimming skills is on point and the shoes are nice too.
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Today was my last day at LinkedIn after 11 years. 🥹
As a kid, I learned HTML so I could run my "e-zine". When I turned 18, I didn't think to get a CS degree because "it's just a hobby." This "hobby" is more than I ever imagined.
Childhood dream, achieved. ✅
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I don’t like rust. I have written about 3000 lines. And I’m frustrated.
I don’t like it.
I don’t want to talk about it.
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Step 1. Create bug.
Step 2. Wait for someone to report it.
Step 3. Remove bug.
Step 4. Be a hero.
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If this happens, I’ll fly @aylacroft to SF to 1) meet me and 2) tour the Framework office.
I really want to meet her. This is a great excuse (not that we need one).
Hey @FrameworkPuter ... if my post gets 10k likes, can you guys send me a semi beast mode diy setup?
I'd buy one, but I'm broke atm & my current Asus is complete ass for my workflow.
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I crochet the Go gopher cuz I like Go and I like crochet. Looks like a bit psychopath, doesn’t it?
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Probably saw it on everyuuid.com/.
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I can't believe I made this. From wiring, soldering, drilling, programming and more...
Place your @terminaldotshop coffee on the scale, set your auto-reorder threshold, and never run out again. Bonus, you can manage your cron membership as well! ☕⚡
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Husband: Are you playing your game again?
Me: What game?
Husband: Neovim? I saw on discord that you were playing Neovim.
Me: Oh. Yeah.
Husband: I've been meaning to ask you if it's fun to see if I should download it.
Me: You know it's not a game right?
Husband: ....
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I got the hang of Strudel now. I wrote out the intro to Never Forget from Halo 3.
Timing is a bit off bit I'm done with this now.
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I just like how you tickle my ears with your voice while I’m working. Tickle me daddy. And that one time we got together and ate meat with a bunch of dudes. Oooh la la.
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I look at slack and pick a random person to huddle with. I don’t give any notice. I just press the huddle button and see what happens. Usually people are up for a chat if they’re not busy.
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My kid today: “I hate Python.”
Me: “ you hate python?”
Her: “and Lua.”
Me: “and Lua?”
Her: “yeah. … but it could be worse. It could be Java.”
Someone is grumpy.
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There are people that are paid 6 figures and do not flush the toilet at work.
I strongly dislike those people.
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What a great episode this was (worth the 5 hours of listening). I love hearing from/about people that have so many facets to their being and that have such strong convictions on their life / world view. Well done, @ThePrimeagen .
Here's my conversation with @ThePrimeagen, a programmer who has educated, entertained, and inspired millions of people to build software and have fun doing it.
It's here on X in full, and is up everywhere else too (see comment).
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:42 - Love for programming
10:15 - Hardest part of programming
12:31 - Types of programming
20:08 - Life story
30:12 - Hardship
31:44 - High school
37:30 - Porn addiction
47:16 - God
1:02:59 - Perseverance
1:12:55 - Netflix
1:25:23 - Groovy
1:30:27 - Printf() debugging
1:36:49 - Falcor
1:46:19 - Breaking production
1:49:04 - Pieter Levels
1:53:34 - Netflix, Twitch, and YouTube infrastructure
2:05:36 - ThePrimeagen origin story
2:20:52 - Learning programming languages
2:29:55 - Best programming languages in 2025
2:34:50 - Python
2:35:30 - HTML & CSS
2:36:20 - Bash
2:37:00 - FFmpeg
2:43:42 - Performance
2:46:15 - Rust
2:51:03 - Epic projects
3:04:27 - Asserts
3:13:41 - ADHD
3:21:49 - Productivity
3:26:13 - Programming setup
4:01:43 - Coffee
4:08:47 - Programming with AI
4:51:31 - Advice for young programmers
5:03:03 - Reddit questions
5:10:35 - God
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I had to interview a candidate for work. She appreciated all the thoughts I gave her about programming. She ended with "I really want to try the backend now but I hear once you go backend, you never come back to the frontend and I really enjoy React."
I didn't know what to say.
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I'm so proud of @ThePrimeagen for sitting on stream taking 43 levels to get a mullet. Also he has an amazing sweet wife. You deserve it!
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I think most people don’t work on complex projects because programming is a job to them and most companies don’t solve complex problems.
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DHH, Pewdiepie, you and Teej all on the standup talking about Linux. I feel like one or all of you can make this happen.
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I’ve been at my company for 11 years now. I think it’s a rare thing in the tech industry to stay so long.
I remember hearing many say that if you’re at a company for more than 2 years, you’re missing out on compensation.
But at the same time, I chose to miss out (if I did) to work with people I enjoy working with.
At the same time, there’s a lot of mixed emotions (not related to money) as well that I cannot articulate in this ramble. But they are weighing on my mind quite a bit.
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I think I’m weird in the sense that I get post project blues. Like when I work really hard on something and when it is complete, there’s this feeling of “what do I work on now?”
Is this why we have project graveyards?
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Canceled our Netflix subscription. The end of an era.
I never watch TV. There's so many other things I'd rather do than watch TV.
So bye, @netflix. See you around.
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After almost 4 months of building my own projects (most largely not shared with the Twitter-verse), streaming on twitch, and freelancing, today I can say that I joined a startup as part of their data, tools and AI org (I’m the first on my team in fact).
It does mean I’m ending my very short twitch career (might still stream some early mornings). The freelancing/project building/mvp-ing will mostly stay the same but during my off hours.
It’s been a fun time and while I could have kept going with what I was doing, this decision felt more right. It’s a two way door. I can always go back.
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You shouldn’t rely on security through obscurity. It’s not smart. Had this been more widely exploited, it could have done much more damaging to your brand. Do better, be better.
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I never felt so much pain using someone else’s keybindings until Omarchy.
I really just wanted to go with the defaults but man I’m dying here.
I also have never really had to use someone else’s keybindings so my brain is a bit hardwired.
I will probably set my own.
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Friends don’t let friends work on shitty laptops. Likes for Ayla.
Hey @FrameworkPuter ... if my post gets 10k likes, can you guys send me a semi beast mode diy setup?
I'd buy one, but I'm broke atm & my current Asus is complete ass for my workflow.
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Help guys. @keyladelslay is driving again. Holding on for dear life.
She’s not even looking where she’s going. wtf.
(No we were in traffic)
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While learning is great, it doesn’t have to be everything. Competitive programming can help you sharpen skills and also just be fun. Sometimes using skills in different ways can help you solve harder problems more efficiently.
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This reminds me of something someone told me years ago. Technical debt is just borrowed time that you’ll need to pay back in the future.
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This is happening.
Another talk & amazing speaker.
Stephanie Gredell (@codegirl007) will be presenting "From Human To Bots" at BSDC 2025
👏👏👏
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Keep the monitor. At this point, changing it is saying the internet wins. The internet must not win.
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I don’t know how this happened but I found a selfie of @teej on my phone. Starting the bid at 50 dollars for a canvas of this photo.
Do not steal. Copyright will be enforced.
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1 day post leaving LinkedIn.
I feel relieved that I exited a toxic environment.
I’m in disbelief that I can choose my own work now. That’s such a new freedom.
I’m lucky to have the support and encouragement of my friends and family.
I don’t take any of it for granted. ♥️
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For the first time in many years, I had to introduce myself in a team meeting. Someone asked me what I do for fun and I literally said “yeah I like to program stuff and build things” and gave this whole inspirational speech on this side project I’ve been working on.
I’m a dork.
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My kid's lua is looking legit. A little crazy on the zeros but still. She's definitely my kid. Proud of her.
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Working on my Rust NES emulator. It’s the most commented code ever and I’m fine with that. Just accept it.
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Indeed’s job postings is also not a good reflection of the world. It’s not a graph about hiring at all. I’m not saying hiring isn’t down but this graph is not the correct thing to measure against.
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I asked gpt for you. Seems hard or impossible to do. I don't think the inventor knew what they were talking about either.🤷♀️ Maybe they killed a lot of trees.
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One of them days.
I really miss my mom, Internet. She died in 2023. And every time I drive alone or across a certain bridge, I think of calling her only to remember I can't.
It sucks. That's all I'm trying to say.
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My husband came home yesterday, telling me how he hurt his hand at work. I took one look at his hand and was like "Yeah that's broken." He was in denial.
I'm always right though. X-rays agree. His hand is definitely broken. Should always listen to your wife.
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We made it to Twitch con. @LowkeyAbu will be the only person to witness me struggle with driving a Tesla.
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Happy Veteran’s day.
This is from a long time ago taken when I was at the end of boot camp. I was so dorky and happy.
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I was catching up with a friend (also fellow a software engineer). When telling her about my New York trip, she thought it was amazing.
I am glad I was able to be around these wonderful humans before, during and after the show. I’m so lucky.
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Two years since I quit soda. One year since I quit caffeine (tea).
I still remember how bad that headache was when I quit caffeine. Lasted 9 days.
Now my head rarely hurts. And when it does hurt, it’s usually because I didn’t drink enough water.
Life is better this way.
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I finished the first part of my Rust project. It's an NES emulator (well, right now just the CPU part that I fed the instructions to). It took a lot of hours. A LOT.
This book really helped. amazon.com/Classic-Game-Prog…
Also I suck at Snake apparently.
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I’m sorry. I wasn’t impacted but I lost many close people I’ve worked with for years. It was a rough day for sure. I wish you the best.
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Hello Python my old friend
I’ve come to code with you again
All the code I wrote at 1am
Has crashed everything yet again
And the vision of the stacktrace in my brain
Still remains
Within the code of silence
I don’t enjoy Python.
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Her: “Mama, you know that weird thing you do? I did that today.”
Me: “What weird thing?”
Her: “Coding. Like scripts and stuff”
“Oh…”
My kid learned some python and Lua today at camp apparently. She was so excited to tell me about it.
I cherish these times.
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For a time, I worked from home with a 1 year old and 3 year old with my husband working outside the home (he’s a plumber).
I programmed with kids on my lap. I programmed with one hand when my kid fell asleep on my other hand. I had many meetings with kids around. I made lunch for them every day. I sat outside so they could play while I worked. I had many late nights and early mornings until they got older.
Every evening after my husband came home from work and showered, I would grab my car keys, tell him “they’re your kids now” and go out for an hour. Usually to a book store. Come home, family time, put kids to bed, and work a few more hours.
During that time, I had some of my best performance reviews and got a promotion too. I like to attribute it to the grit managing such chaos involves.
They’re only young once. The chaos won’t last forever. One day in the future I’ll be working and just wishing my kids would come bother me. I try to keep that in mind to keep a good perspective.
Dad developers.
How can you even work at home when you have a kid and a pregnant wife who are always interrupting you?
Yes, I have my own office. But it seems like they are mistaking it for a hallway or something.
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Yeah that was rough. It's sad to think that this is what the world is coming to.
"Everyday we stray further away from God" is being reflected more and more after LLMs came along.
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I think I'm at the point where I don't want to do java anymore. It's becoming really obvious to me.
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I’m proud of you, Prime. It’s weird for me to say that given most of our interactions are on twitch through a seductive TTS voice named after myself (which I love btw). But that phrase “never meet your heroes” (not that you’re my hero cuz ew 😛) isn’t true for you. I’m so glad I met you (multiple times). I’m glad we’ve shared meals together and hung out. Thanks for all you do and being who you are. You (and everyone you surround yourself with that I’ve met) are pretty hamazing.
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The last time I joined a team (back in December of last year), I was so unhappy and miserable for 6 months. I spent 4 months working solo after leaving the job because I didn’t want to risk feeling that way again.
Now I have a great team. It’s awesome.
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I just did my first twitch stream that was about 4 1/2 hours long. The first half was doing 3D modeling for a unicorn in Minecraft. And the second half was talking to chat.
While this isn’t my long game, I can see how it’s quite fun.
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I parental controlled my time on X during the holidays. I see this screen more often than I should. I think my time limit is like 15 minutes a day.
Now I’m publicly shaming myself as punishment.
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Today I had a 30 minute call with someone and I got so excited talking about things I build in my spare time. We stayed an hour over the schedule time.
Side projects are the best.
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I’m losing my mind.
Went inside the gas station to get a drink. Cashier says hello to me. I responded with “I love you.”
Then followed up with “uh, sorry. Forget everything I just said.”
He was so confused. I don’t know what I was thinking.
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Today while I was talking to someone, they said "very few programmers actually do programming in their spare time. Most have a clear separation that programming equals work. It's refreshing to hear that there's still people that consider it their hobby."
Interesting, isn't it?
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It’s really great. And if you ever have to work on a remote server, you can use vim and it’ll feel just like home.
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Dear lady, I worked for a large company before and I can tell ya, I took down production all on my own. It’s not the size of the company that caused it. It was that missing comma in the configs.
If a company can break the entire internet, they are too big. Period.
It's time to break up Big Tech.
Community note
AWS is not a monopoly. It represents 30% of the web.
Sen. Warren also overlooks the fact that many providers went down because their services relied on a single AWS region, a malpractice that is not Amazon's fault.
It did not affect Google, X, and many others.
statista.com/chart/18819/wo…
nitter.app/gergelyorosz/s…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundanc…
docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/la
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