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Tony Ennis

@tonyennis

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Building software teams & mobile apps Prev: Built a bank in Asia YC S21

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Jan 01 I changed how I think about alcohol last year, but I don’t think these particular risk factors are compelling for most people For me brain health is the core thing (apart from mobility) to plan for in old age (who wants to lose their memory and ability to hold a normal paced conversation), and there’s zero doubt that everyone who drinks heavily (cough Ireland), is impairing their brain. @bryan_johnson shouldn’t that be more of a focus in your messaging? 0 0 0 193 459 .
Dec 21 "Don't underthink it" is an underused mantra. Sit down, write down your thoughs, create the spreadsheet, run the numbers. Untangle what makes sense from what doesn't. Go deeper than surface level. Have good answers for yourself and others. 2 0 1 245 240 .
Dec 01 IMO "Every meeting must have an agenda" is a sign of bad culture. If your people aren't smart enough not to schedule unnecessary meetings, or not to have discipline with who they invite & respect for others' time, you have bigger problems. https://t.co/XrwJQeDAni 2 0 0 198 267 .
Nov 24 @zebriez The most succinct I got to was “Professional theory of mind”, bit of a mouthful though https://t.co/ugz6QrDY7I 3 0 0 0 121 .
Aug 28 Don't be the guy who responds to a very reasonable rejection by doing the "I don't understand people who don't think like me" act and labelling the person as lazy. Being a workaholic is a lifestyle choice, not a moral obligation (said as a workaholic). No one will or should care about your business as much as you. 4 0 0 235 317 .
Aug 27 @aarondfrancis Yusssss! Silent Alarm was so good - something about the CD album era that's so nostalgic. Although I'd extend that back to '01 to fit in Is This It! 1 0 0 0 163 .
Aug 20 @AmandaBPerino Gotcha! And am I first in line if any more come through or is there a queue? 0 0 0 0 91 .
Aug 15 There’s a lot of ideas in self development circles which could be argued, but some, like this one - are so obviously important that it’s crazy they’re not taught in school. How is it that 9 out of 10 people wouldn’t be able to notice/call out/explain this pattern 🫨 1 0 0 242 265 .
Aug 13 This was one of my slides at Big Sky Dev Con. The amount of progress in the last 2 years is mind boggling - I know there's been false starts in the past but something has changed. If you still think the future of web dev is adding an npm library because "the browser's not good enough" I've got some bad news for you. 30 4 2 1.9k 317 .
Aug 13 @artillain Haha that was tongue in cheek I know you’re a friendly, although I wasn't familiar with that analogy - I like it! 1 0 0 0 124 .
Aug 03 Just on way home from @BigSkyDevCon - really special conference. Small enough that you get to connect with everyone, and Bozeman is phenomenal. Will be back for sure. 12 1 1 3.4k 166 .
Jul 29 Going through this now and it's put together in such a way that makes me incredibly optimistic for the future of the web - the questions are so on-point when it comes to what's missing currently and how it can be made better. 1 0 1 281 225 .
Jul 10 I'm still firmly in the bracket where for standard crud type stuff, cursor is still slower than simply coding by hand 3 0 1 294 117 .
Jul 02 @pavelsvitek_ Im quoting your tweet in agreement here btw - pointing out the flaws in the tweet you quote tweeted- I should’ve reposted the original tweet though sorry! 1 0 0 0 168 .
Jun 18 When you’re younger and kind of annoying, one of the kindest things someone can do is tell you so in such a way that minimises/avoids shame 3 0 0 268 139 .
May 29 @ryanflorence @remix_run Cleaned it up a little to make it more scannable - is this roughly accurate? https://t.co/oOrYfKhyJo 0 0 0 0 126 .
May 23 Witnessed a new kind of mental illness in the US that makes some people drive extremely loud vehicles down the street very slowly, with music blaring. They seem to not grasp the concept of other humans existing 11 1 2 13.3k 210 .
May 08 If this is true, why do the models still not seem to understand reality? 0 0 0 342 72 .
May 07 The Promise... The Reality... Browser Use agents are still *extremely* rough https://t.co/Z3R1E9lvbJ 1 0 1 189 102 .
May 02 @JosephKChoi @consumerclub_ @lottsnomad 😂 you must’ve been the one person I didn’t chat to. Thanks for hosting though! 2 0 0 0 118 .
Mar 31 I know this is a shitpost, but the first part is categorically true, and the second part *could be true* if we were brave enough to invest in the systems to enable it. 1 0 0 270 167 .
Mar 08 @hernansartorio @pagyco Oh interesting no I just didn't see it - was expecting it over here because that's the default with the other ones (webflow, framer). Thanks though I'll check that out! https://t.co/KCUTvbewBL 1 0 0 0 216 .
Feb 26 @MrNick_Buzz I don’t have enough data points yet but have 7 clients in Europe and 2 in US and would say on avg Europeans are way way more price sensitive, particularly over time. Both our Us clients closed after a single call. Side note but “Europe” as a homogenous classification sounds… 2 0 0 0 290 .
Jan 20 Thought maybe @twilio self serve will have improved. First thing you have to do is filter through a jargon filled list to decipher what numbers you need and how to pay for them. 💩 https://t.co/zPV4fhvi9M 1 0 0 273 204 .
Jan 01 If much of the way we decide to live our lives (health habits etc) is downstream of interpreting statistical data (scientific studies), why is basically everybody really bad at statistics 1 0 0 329 187 .
Nov 30 Both Marc and Joe are ultra-agreeable in this conversation it’s mildly infuriating. Both of them say numerous dumb things and just keep yup yup yupping their way through with neither stopping to correct. 0 0 0 320 203 .
Nov 30 @therealdecross The statements I’m referring to are blanket ones like “x is a hell hole” or “x is poor” or “x has uniformly terrible culture”. Yes to your second question 0 0 0 0 170 .
Nov 25 @SlingMoney any reason why I wouldn’t run my contractor payroll through sling? I.e I tell contractors to sign up and send us their sling Solana address, then we bulk pay to their wallets. I didn’t see “get paid” in the list of uses in the onboarding so I’m wondering if there’s a… 1 0 0 0 280 .
Nov 10 @cantillon_fr It also looks as though the recipient bank account number can't be set dynamically, from what I can tell - we want to let Party A pay Party B, C, D, where the latter have their own bank account details. Their docs don't answer this question unfortunately, any idea? Cc… 0 0 0 0 285 .
Nov 07 I'm just an amateur punching questions into Perplexity, but by my calculations, the average US tax payer is indirectly accumulating ~$16,000 per year in debt through the government. How does this not end in disaster? https://t.co/3uq85TdwP3 1 0 2 415 216 .
Nov 07 I'm just an amateur punching questions into Perplexity, but by my calculations, the average US tax payer is indirectly accumulating ~$16,000 per year in debt through the government. How does this not end in disaster? https://t.co/g6aVlcv8qr 0 0 0 0 240 .
Nov 05 @bebraw Currently yes. Do you have any thoughts/opinions on this? https://t.co/IqbAiNDIwi 1 0 0 0 91 .
Oct 14 Just read a few bits on the Wordpress situation and my main thought is how did Matt maintain a completely different public persona to his real one for so long. 4 0 1 1.2k 159 .
Oct 04 Seems like everyone's a fractional cto these days - I thought this was more supply-driven than demand-driven, but maybe I was wrong https://t.co/LSJ9Iajiix 1 0 0 264 155 .
Sep 30 @IanConnolly @willobri 👀 I actually thought to myself “ah that sounds like something Ian might be at” See you there! 2 0 0 0 119 .
Sep 27 @shl You also haven’t clarified what your reasoning is though. Which parts specifically are bad as you see it? Is it rich text/offline/higly interactive screens? Or just forms and stuff? 21 0 0 0 186 .
Sep 24 @bradgessler There is one - webflow uses it and it works with Cloudflare. But it’s also buggy and doesn’t take into account existing records/collisions. Can’t recall the name 1 0 0 0 174 .
Aug 14 Discovered this by accident recently: Best noise cancelling for working from noisy cafés: Play music through normal in ear earphones, wear Noise Cancelling over-ear headphones *on top of them*. Sound quality not amazing but I'm getting zero leakage in my local coffee shop which is pretty noisy - much better than the noise cancelling headphones on their own - so good for focus. Go-to playlist is Big Desk Energy on shuffle https://t.co/GYwWV7rbRV 2 0 0 191 450 .
Aug 12 Playing this through the cycles, I wonder if this doesn’t just get to a point where people get tired of their entire feed being hollow synthetic content and the “certified real human endorsement” ends up converting much higher anyway 1 0 2 362 234 .
May 17 @joshmanders This made me laugh out loud 1 0 0 0 40 .
Apr 29 One thing I would add though - I think many systems, even as they grow, have *artificial* complexity inflation - many cases where a system could be managed by a junior/mid with 5 to 10 minutes/day of senior oversight. https://t.co/DRtfFMkZ8W 3 0 0 158 242 .
Apr 08 @Mqsley Thought this had a whiff of the debunked Thinking Fast & Slow “priming” studies which turned out to be unreplicable 0 0 0 0 127 .
Mar 25 @panphora Will write a longer post but TLDR it's not what I'm looking for, nope. Although definitely closest library out there and has a lot of overlap 1 0 0 0 151 .
Mar 17 Separate but related point: it’s *so* difficult to separate signal from noise when everything is coming through one pipe https://t.co/3gJQ0phXa1 0 0 0 211 145 .
Mar 16 @hughdurkin Only familiar with his music but he seems like a good dude too 0 0 0 0 74 .
Mar 06 Currently chasing a payment to a contractor through Revolut. Revolut considers it sent, but the receiving bank won't credit it because the name doesn't match the account exactly (despite already accepting 2 payments with identical name). In 2024. Duct tape. 0 0 0 369 257 .
Mar 02 Problem: Some of the people whose ideas I resonate with/admire most, I also have the most points-of-disagreement with, but if they don’t see the positive tweets and only the disagreements, it looks like I’m just a hater, when the opposite is true. Solution? 1 0 0 621 257 .
Feb 27 @julian_rubisch Yeah they do what works for them. I do think it's a bit silly for them to talk about it so much though (implying that people should use it) when they put so little effort into documenting it. 0 0 0 0 207 .
Feb 13 @geoffreylitt @inkandswitch @mschoening @paulsonnentag @_adamwiggins_ @pvh @orionspeaks Love this - I wrote a tiny story on the ridiculousness of git Also you should speak to @krlvi @chacon and the team at @gitbutler https://t.co/9qRg2u51KP 5 1 0 0 244 .
Jan 25 @faborio Went to Buro De Bijp on Monday, thought of you! 1 0 0 0 56 .
Nov 22 @ctjlewis A couple historical figures yeah. But going from someone whose name I'd never heard before -> hearing 1 or 2 anecdotes -> I hate this person, nah. 0 0 0 0 162 .
Nov 21 I went to an EA event back in ~2014 because I liked the idea of “give to charities that use your donations effectively” Pretty much everyone I met was more kind and thoughtful than average, didn’t see any of the hyper-utilitarianism they seem to be known for today. Weird 1 0 0 387 274 .
Nov 09 @gavinjoyce Not really what they’re doing though as it’s input not output. Same as tweaking a text message before sending it 0 0 0 0 124 .
Sep 01 @1Marc Out of interest, what triggered this? We did this also last year but haven’t seen many other people do or talk about it. Had the exact same thoughts at the time re mixins and media queries 1 0 0 0 195 .
Jun 26 “Alexa, show me an example of a tweet that people with certain priors will mistake as insightful but that’s actually very stupid” 2 0 0 438 129 .
Jun 19 @dqmonn These. They look awful but they’re so good. I’ve done calls outside with sirens blaring beside me and the caller couldn’t hear a thing. Did my morning calls today from an outdoor cafe at Amsterdam central station which I never would’ve done before https://t.co/BpziJ03s0n 0 0 0 0 281 .
May 09 I’m legitimately in awe of people who can do this - I always just assumed that being a good writer meant multiples of writing time spent editing, it blows my mind that people’s thoughts can come out completely cohesive, to the point they don’t need to touch them. 🤯 0 0 0 369 265 .
May 09 @DrCamRx How do you square “Don’t eat chicken, it’s not ancestral enough”, with “take a pill for your testosterone”? 0 0 0 0 116 .
May 04 @htmx_org In relation to asset pipeline, see below. When it comes to everything else - I still haven’t made mind up wrt forms - for 50% of them async/htmx feels simpler, and I personally dislike the extent to which form_for prevents new devs understanding/debugging forms, but there have… https://t.co/3kjknQ5yKJ 2 0 0 0 312 .
Apr 20 Don't know enough about this domain to know whether these proposals are viable, but love seeing people taking the initiative to propose well-researched solutions to help inform public (and likely govt, lets be honest). Insta-followed @Rob_Tolan https://t.co/FoNJ1GgTNi 2 1 1 601 272 .
Apr 18 @DylanoA4 I thought the same! Also reminded me of these guys https://t.co/sOrEHEdSUS 0 0 0 0 84 .
Mar 22 This thought prompted by this question, which gave a close to perfect answer... https://t.co/FkLevymm1k 0 0 0 0 103 .
Mar 18 Wanted: Pagespeed insights that doesn't crash the browser. What do people use for this? https://t.co/WJyoIDgyqa 1 0 2 525 111 .
Feb 24 @chacon We stopped using it favour of @htmx_org - does the same thing but much easier to reason about and debug, and much better documentation. Takes a day to learn the three or four snippets needed and wrap your head around 2 0 0 0 224 .
Feb 23 @housecor We do this. Although not exactly as you’ve described. We still have a PM, but treat the team as an integrated unit with the PM facilitating, but not acting as chain-of-command. Haven’t seen a setup with zero comms with devs that isn’t hugely inefficient https://t.co/POVsgaVVv7 https://t.co/atpG2mjd7H 0 0 0 0 312 .
Feb 20 Collaboration Before the experiment, it was common at a morning standup for a dev, often junior, to mention a blocker they're having. Previously, this was something we'd pick up after the meeting, but now, we'd often debug & fix during the call 🤯 1 0 0 0 251 .
Feb 20 What We Learned Let's start with the drawbacks. They can be broken down into... 1. Learning Curve 2. Performance & Debugging 3. Collisions/Co-Ordination 1 0 0 0 158 .
Feb 10 I haven’t gone super deep on typescript, but I’ve noticed many people talk about it like this. If that’s the case - honest question - why is it so popular? https://t.co/eAW6p7KJqN 1 1 0 0 179 .
Jan 03 Never thought I'd be the one defending meetings, and there are good reasons for a reset, but this is exactly the kind of blanket advice that looks good in a tweet but is neither true nor useful. The key isn't killing communication methods, it's figuring out which ones to use when https://t.co/27NMf0Dh3K https://t.co/rCWGpCXUlw 3 0 0 0 328 .
Nov 24 @synopsi @tommysendra As someone who also did 6 months of travelling to lime-covered cities and loved the convenience, I agree Amsterdam’s frustrating because of having that expectation coming in. But disagree it’s badly regulated or tourist-unfriendly 0 0 0 0 252 .
Nov 24 @synopsi Bikes - Everyone has em already, but there is Donkey Republic which is decent. Tons of e scooters - Felyx, Check. People hate push scooters, think they might even be banned. 0 0 0 0 182 .
Nov 12 @r00k These were my criteria also! And https://t.co/h5gZ5rVIab was the winner, haven’t switched for years. Haven’t tried the other more modern ones though 2 0 0 0 154 .
Oct 12 @waitbutwhy Had the same thought. But also wanted to wear them somehow so I know they’re always there. Hated having heavy headphones around my neck. This form factor is the way - been my best purchase in the last year. https://t.co/n4A5U0dXyR 0 0 0 0 243 .
Sep 25 @DvnnyyPhantom @visakanv @eurydicelives It’s more fun if it’s revealed though! Pretty sure he’s referring to Mean Girls 😁 1 0 0 0 121 .
Sep 18 @jaredcwhite “All because of one man’s ego” 😂 You think it’s possible that people use it because they think it’s good? There are many thoughtful critiques of tailwind (mine is it’s dependence on npm) Comparing to <font>, <center> etc is silly and gives the impression you’ve never used it 2 0 0 0 304 .
Jul 21 Personally I find speaking out ideas to be 10x faster than typing them. Typing forces my chain of thought to *slow down*, speaking forces it to *speed up*. 1 0 2 0 155 .
Jul 21 Current idea I’ve become obsessed with: the keyboard - both physical and touch screen - is still a *really* slow input mechanism (even if you can type really fast) and there’s enormous value in attempting to re-think it from the ground up. 4 0 4 0 239 .
Jul 19 I know it's uncouth to be bearish on getting older, & trends can be bucked etc, but it's hard to read this & not conclude that most people should be much more protective of the life-minutes in their 20s, 30s, and 40s (particularly doing work they hate and justifying w/ pension) https://t.co/2SrlHxeg0s 4 1 0 0 310 .
Jul 05 @Aella_Girl In Moral Philosophy there is Moral Realism & Moral Anti-Realism Anti-realism (the position you're describing) says: It's not possible to jump from an "is" to an "ought"" You can say "X had Y (often negative) consequences", but not "X is objectively bad and you ought not do X" 2 0 0 0 293 .
Jul 01 Hearing this is same for many in other cities. Asked our driver and he said the norm is to accept the ride, see the fare, then cancel if not high enough. Doesn’t affect rating so no downside. This thread mentions unlimited cancels. @uber just giving up? https://t.co/dAGKop5P8m 0 0 0 0 278 .
Jan 11 @lorismatic Probably too late but have you seen Sol Rayz? Is that much slower? 1 0 0 0 78 .
Nov 28 I think some of Chris’ recent tweets make overstated claims, but this is a great point. Dismissing web 3 based on lack of near term utility alone is shortsighted. That said, there’s also a shelf life beyond which people will bounce if the utility doesn’t eventually reveal itself https://t.co/5YgWXflJTX 2 0 0 0 303 .
Nov 04 @RoamResearch My hunch is that the Firebase dependency is at the root of it. Firebase = slow for initial load and no way to do permissioning easily, which leads to the need to use multiple graphs for different projects, which leads to switching graphs very often & waiting for load each time. 0 0 0 0 296 .
Aug 10 @patphelan Where’d you fly from? Thought Ireland was banned? 0 0 0 0 60 .
Jul 27 Brought to you by today's adventures with banking system 1.0 - two email threads, each blaming each other, to make a $120 charge. In 2021 🤦‍♂️ https://t.co/RwJB0dS7zS 0 0 0 0 166 .
Jul 16 RT @zegl: Today we’re announcing that Sturdy has raised a $1.5M seed from J12, TrueSight, GitHubs co-founder Scott Chacon, and some amazing… 0 0 0 0 140 .
Jul 15 Given the uproar over mobile ads (relevant, short, dismissible and still hated), it is kind of crazy that being forced to listen to irrelevant ads, through speakers you can’t disable, where moving is forbidden, when you’ve already paid hundreds of $s doesn’t stir up more ire. https://t.co/Iwz6INWs7Z 0 0 0 0 300 .
Jul 07 @nimobeeren Same! Until earlier when I wanted to tweet it and thought to check. Not sure how long it’s been there 1 0 0 0 113 .
Jul 06 Relevant: https://t.co/azJBuGcyVB 0 0 0 0 33 .
Jun 28 It's a testament to how dominant they've become, that when a search returns bad results, our immediate thought is "This information must just not exist on the internet" 1 0 0 0 168 .
Jun 22 My experience as a founder is that there are renewable and non-renewable energy sources: Non-renewable - Proving the haters wrong - Returning for your investors - Getting rich So far I've only found one in the renewable category: - "Loving what you do" 14 3 1 0 254 .
May 25 I used to think this was just legacy banks, but it's not - the whole system is broken. Services I've tried/used in the past 9 months: - Revolut - BOI - Transferwise - Payoneer - Neat - Statrys *All* of them riddled with time-sink landmines. https://t.co/7tV03E5cjY 0 0 0 0 267 .
May 25 Another hour on the phone attempting to get my Irish Bank to allow me to add a "reference" field in a payment being sent to the US, which has to go through *two* intermediary banks before reaching the company I'm sending it to. Fuck. The. Fucking. Banking System 4 0 0 0 263 .
May 01 @kevinakwok Agree. That James clear quote about “Get 1% better over 365 days” rings a bell - vague enough as to be meaningless but sounds smart. 1 0 0 0 144 .
Apr 13 @JimmyRis @Conaw @RoamResearch @foresightinst https://t.co/7Cj3GLXN0y 1 0 0 0 69 .
Mar 20 Just wasted 2 hours wrangling npm/yarn this morning for the *tiniest* thing. Feels like I have this thought once a week these days, whether trying to do something myself or working with a less experienced team member 😑 https://t.co/7ehBiQGgg3 1 0 0 0 242 .
Feb 18 @wasimlorgat @krlvi More thoughts on git https://t.co/dUCQhGLZW6 1 0 0 0 64 .
Jan 28 This is a great short thread. TIL “GameStop was actually in a great financial position; they weren't going broke! In fact, they had a lot of cash-in-hand, enough to pay off all their debts” https://t.co/Ojk6qFLEsN 5 0 0 0 214 .
Dec 30 Why does every reddit post read as if it was written by the same person? Is there just a reddit archetype or is it some kind of unwritten rule to write in the exact same style as everyone else? 1 0 0 0 193 .
Nov 06 @itunpredictable @winklerraphi Hey Justin. What are your thoughts this essay? https://t.co/4PIkwIA8pz 0 0 0 0 101 .
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