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Tony Ennis

@tonyennis

4,360 Tweets
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Building software teams & mobile apps Prev: Built a bank in Asia YC S21

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Aug 08 https://t.co/bODdqJtFXV https://t.co/azJBuFUY43 1 0 0 0 47 .
Aug 08 Nice. @amasad gets it https://t.co/YkiMFwlvvg 1 1 0 0 46 .
Aug 02 1. Human ingenuity is amazing 2. Twitter is amazing "TongueBoard enables absolute position tracking of the tongue by placing capacitive touch sensors on the roof of the mouth... Train a classifier that can recognize words to 91.01% accuracy" 🤯 https://t.co/aBK4nJq0CQ https://t.co/rUD9J0PQen https://t.co/E9h8hBYTcL 1 0 0 0 318 .
Jul 31 https://t.co/6AlG4HrY2B 1 0 0 0 23 .
Jul 30 @peteromallet @wolfejosh Good article from this week on this: https://t.co/uUB81ZMmG7 1 0 0 0 87 .
Jul 30 Triggered by reading "The end of social media" - worth a read. https://t.co/d2x8oHs17p 0 0 0 0 87 .
Jul 30 Content Platform Stages V1 - *Social* Media: Content based on your graph V2 - *Recommendation* Media: Content based on who you *are* V2+: Content based on who you are *and* who you want to be Can't figure out if V2+ is a silly abstract idea or something to aspire towards. 3 0 0 0 276 .
Jul 28 Not sure if this is trolling or not, but if it's serious, hard to see why anyone would take money from a technology investor with this level of dogmatism toward one of the most transformative technologies ever. (Speaking about virtual reality vs "metaverse" in the abstract) https://t.co/8ko9KFbddl 1 0 0 0 300 .
Jul 27 https://t.co/5X3kaRo2FI 0 0 0 0 23 .
Jul 25 @tweet_librarian Maybe. But also https://t.co/FHU98Xr7Oh 1 0 0 0 56 .
Jul 23 @peteromallet TIL electric bicycles are commonly touted as a climate solution. That a German\Berlin thing? 0 0 0 0 106 .
Jul 21 @lostisreed Was mainly referring to conversation - e.g having a phone discussion with a friend tends to get all my ideas out. I’ve experimented with dictation within apps but it still feels clunky and obviously can’t be done in environments where you can’t speak out loud 0 0 0 0 271 .
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 One of the highest leverage, most broadly applicable uses of computers is as a way to move your thoughts and ideas out of your head, onto a digital canvas where you can see them, zoom in and out, move them around and make sense of them. 2 0 0 0 236 .
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 12 Hey @dharmesh just heard you on @myfirstmilpod - loved it. I *also* built a real time multiplayer word game that took off (see QT). Let me know if you want to add it to the wordplay suite 😁 https://t.co/5yJcnQooSo 3 0 0 0 213 .
Jul 12 Honest question - what does the “tastebuds of a toddler” mean? Is there a theory that all tastebuds “mature” to settle on the same tastes as all other “mature” tastebuds? https://t.co/yfG5nUbtkl 1 0 0 0 194 .
Jul 11 Related https://t.co/F2ijouXhr4 0 0 0 0 31 .
Jul 10 More “Nuance doesn’t scale” https://t.co/B1G4V8qZg4 1 0 0 0 51 .
Jul 10 Don't think I've ever desperately wanted a product that doesn't exist yet, more than this airtable/roam prototype I came across a year ago. https://t.co/qxz7eCDm1d 1 0 0 0 165 .
Jul 08 @peteromallet @wolfejosh Another way to think about it on the cultural side: meat has incredibly strong network effects 0 0 0 0 119 .
Jul 08 @peteromallet @wolfejosh Again - in theory yes. But the problem isn’t lack of desire, it’s diffusion of responsibility/principal-agent issue, & thousands of years of culture, norms and systems. Needs to happen at systemic (regulatory) and cultural level, which I just don’t reasonably see happening. 0 0 0 0 303 .
Jul 08 @peteromallet @wolfejosh I used to think that, but went pretty deep and there seems to be very little historical precedent for it. It seems reasonable in theory, but hasn’t played out in practice. https://t.co/QGQeqNWi4U 1 0 0 0 220 .
Jul 07 https://t.co/TMSo8DwYQY 0 0 0 0 23 .
Jul 07 @tweet_librarian I buy that 1 0 0 0 27 .
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 05 Good thread on something I haven't seen many threads on. Totally agree on 6-8 weeks as sweet spot, disagree there's *no* value in doing shorter stints (once you understand/accept trade-offs). I also struggle with energy, but still possible to use evenings/weekends meaningfully https://t.co/W2VfN4irp6 0 0 0 0 301 .
Jul 04 Also this 👇 https://t.co/yVWU6aBzjv 1 0 0 0 36 .
Jul 04 Crazy amount of negligence here if true - Stored sensitive PII in plain text - No firewall on db server to prevent access on public ports - Stored credentials in a text file, presumably which is checked in to version control (vs env vars) - Then copy-pasted to a blog post 🫣 https://t.co/QMdgfHbB1G 0 0 0 0 299 .
Jul 04 If your app logic is super simple and only requires fetching and displaying data, maybe you don’t need react? And the 5+ additional concepts (or for beginner devs - hurdles) it comes with. Npm, typescript (probably), react, react query, usestate…) *ducks* https://t.co/P5tYoJo9qZ 2 0 0 0 280 .
Jul 04 @peteromallet No mainly because I know you're a gpt-3 nerd, and also the joke wasn't laugh out loud funny - and that's your brand. 7 0 0 0 130 .
Jul 04 @peteromallet GPT-3 0 0 0 0 19 .
Jul 03 https://t.co/KL5ETRYtSZ 0 0 0 0 23 .
Jul 02 Never seen anything like the queues right now at Schiphol. Got here four hours early. In line for 90 minutes, still not inside the airport https://t.co/1UxJmO7cJq 5 1 0 0 162 .
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 .
Jun 30 What is happening with @uber? Literally every car I call now - on average I get 3 to 4 cancellations, in Amsterdam. Am I doing something wrong? 0 0 0 0 143 .
Jun 26 ... https://t.co/xFscGlke5t 1 0 0 0 28 .
Jun 25 @peteromallet If history is any guide, they’ll continue to work, likely in higher volumes than before. I’m skeptical that automation will save us from mindless unnecessary labour (which seems to be what you’re getting at?) - that’s a cultural/psychological problem 0 0 0 0 264 .
Jun 23 @levelsio I totally missed that this was a response to Twitter notes, which I hadn’t seen. Makes much more sense in that context 😅 0 0 0 0 130 .
Jun 23 @levelsio Hard disagree. People (IME) are much more likely to turn their nose up at one large piece of content vs many smaller ones. Seems silly as it’s just a photo/name, but the effect is real. Similar principle with insta stories, tinder swiping etc. One bite size piece at a time. 0 0 0 0 284 .
Jun 23 @sariazout Hey @sariazout, following your stuff pretty closely and enjoying it. I *think* what we're building is very close, if not exactly, what you're describing? https://t.co/MEz6aJIwJn 0 0 0 0 189 .
Jun 23 … https://t.co/bqP8oSPajc 1 0 0 0 25 .
Jun 23 Just came across Readyset - not a user yet but plan to be - very smart solution to a super sticky problem. https://t.co/NjcXOyICE6 0 0 0 0 131 .
Jun 22 👇 https://t.co/85exTcE2kP 0 0 0 0 25 .
Jun 21 @Whelton Yuuuup. I used @nordigen which supports all European banks and was super easy to set up 2 0 0 0 96 .
Jun 21 @Mqsley Are you missing something? If you think it’s an SQL db - yes. Is the current state of crypto disappointing when you dive in - also yes 1 0 0 0 144 .
Jun 21 Constantly surprised at how many people don’t understand the difference between “inbound” and “outbound” psychology when hiring, or as Patrick refers to it - a sellers market. https://t.co/Wbae2CZBii 1 0 0 0 199 .
Jun 15 This would be a step in the right direction https://t.co/ROxlUVhxGw 0 0 0 0 68 .
Jun 14 @colmtuite Realising there’s an irony in the fact that the kinds of people who would say time is more valuable than money are also the kinds who are impatient and probably work too much, myself included. 🤷‍♂️ 0 0 0 0 208 .
Jun 14 @colmtuite Good question. I personally would argue it’s universally true above a certain income/cost-of-living threshold but that’s more philosophical than practical. In my circles I think most would self-report it to be true also, but definitely a lot of selection bias there. 0 0 0 0 278 .
Jun 14 This is cool. A UCD study estimates 15 billion hours per year in the UK alone spent on admin https://t.co/2atbRc8Qbu https://t.co/SMaeTyG0qU 1 0 0 0 141 .
Jun 13 To be clear - there are many kinds of software that are complex to build and maintain - which should be treated as such. The issue is that there is also *lots* of software (a majority) that's not, and very little effort to differentiate between them. 0 0 0 0 250 .
Jun 13 By "subconsciously reinforcing", I mean "making it more complex to build software, and telling people building software is very complex" (because we've made it complex, not because it's fundamentally so). This has also happened in other industries (e.g. law). 0 0 0 0 259 .
Jun 13 Dreaming of a time when the primary way our industry assesses software-building-ability isn't a one-dimensional "technical skills" measure. It's like we just decided early that "building software is so hard/only for smart people!" & have been subconsciously reinforcing ever since https://t.co/tzAJscGSYy 0 0 0 0 308 .
Jun 13 Dove in to @azure this weekend. First impression is that it's like a simpler, easier-to-use @aws, and the first-class @code integration is really, really well done. 69 9 0 0 164 .
Jun 12 Still thinking about this problem almost daily https://t.co/Addv7OCgyR 2 0 0 0 70 .
Jun 12 https://t.co/nO0CTjUOiB 1 0 0 0 23 .
Jun 09 @Mqsley @joincolossus @gabrielleydon You should. Although it’s reasonably web3 heavy and not sure that’s your thing. But he makes some great points around “if your innovation relies on a smooth user experience, it’s probably not innovation” 3 0 0 0 240 .
Jun 09 @Mqsley Have you listened to the @joincolossus with @gabrielleydon? Such a painfully obvious point rarely made 0 0 0 0 110 .
Jun 07 The agency I run had a slot open up this week. We do plug-n-play, high output software teams (and software) for real-world software-supported businesses, usually on a retainer basis with a project scoped up front. If you know anyone, send them my way - tony@clearlabs.ltd https://t.co/2TQ2bLU00W 15 3 0 0 295 .
Jun 06 This thread may just become me stealing @swyx's material to back up my original tweet https://t.co/nrHKod3mHx 0 0 0 0 110 .
Jun 04 RT @tonyennis: 1. Find solution to a specific problem. 2. Solution imposes structure and creates a habit which solves the problem. 3. Over… 0 0 0 0 139 .
Jun 04 @nouvation @peteromallet Actually to be fair I’m still interested to hear more. 1 0 0 0 79 .
Jun 04 @nouvation @peteromallet I was super interested to hear what you had to say until this tweet - specifically the meme stock bit. Comes across as playing with language vs engaging with the argument 0 0 0 0 195 .
May 30 @visakanv What about tv and movies? 1 0 0 0 35 .
May 27 We've had the internet for 40 years. Any company that can say with a straight face "We won't give you your product, it's not in our system yet", after gladly taking your money (normally using the internet) is not only unethical, but deeply complacent and deserves to be disrupted 1 0 0 0 279 .
May 26 @nateliason Agree with the sentiment re:financializing all the things, but solo exercise is not something intrinsically motivating to most people, and hacking your environment/incentives to make it more so is super beneficial for most people 0 0 0 0 241 .
May 24 @Whelton ♥️ extremely cool 1 0 0 0 26 .
May 24 @Whelton https://t.co/E0YBM0Um3W 1 0 0 0 32 .
May 23 @the_fln About the city? Convenience and proximity to friends 0 0 0 0 61 .
May 22 Spent the last 10 days in an Airbnb in the countryside and starting to think there might be something to this. Never slept this good in my life. https://t.co/Mm44p9OqUY https://t.co/0TiSlIbxR5 12 0 0 0 192 .
May 17 People starting to catch on… https://t.co/DmesatCzvQ 0 0 0 0 52 .
May 16 RT @sarahe145: Very excited to share the preprint for the first paper of my PhD! We used scRNA-seq data to characterise the bone marrow mic… 0 0 0 0 140 .
May 14 Hot take: The algorithmic feed is much better than chronological if you follow more than a few hundred people, because if you're not on twitter at all hours you won't see the good stuff you missed (even from people you follow). https://t.co/xdjWa2dbb7 1 0 0 0 251 .
May 12 @mmahalwy Ghost inspector and/or checkly, depending on use 1 0 0 0 58 .
May 09 🇵🇭💔😔 3 0 0 0 4 .
May 03 @peteromallet You could’ve just shared this mate 😛 https://t.co/AmAto6Q3RA 3 0 0 0 75 .
Apr 27 @mmahalwy For analytics or accessing the raw info? @metabase does both but not explicitly geared toward “creating sql queries with a gui” 5 0 0 0 137 .
Apr 26 Pretty sure this is a US only thing. Very confusing coming from staying in Airbnbs in Europe - striking difference in hospitality & service quality between the two https://t.co/wW2xVLekuK 0 0 0 0 191 .
Apr 26 The worst part is that it perpetuates the phenomenon where developers (particular more jr ones) understandably end up seeing these skills as "badges" to be collected & overcomplicating projects so that they can use the same libraries that BigCo uses, when it's totally unnecessary 2 0 0 0 284 .
Apr 26 It's a stupid game that leads to resumes that tell you very little about the candidate, and hiring pages that tell you very little about the company or role Imagining applying to be a chef and listing tools & ingredients - Knife - Large Spatula - Butter - Truffle Oil ...😵‍💫 6 0 0 0 281 .
Apr 26 I strongly dislike the unspoken signalling game that's developed within web software engineering (hiring and getting hired) which treats frameworks and tools like "ingredients" on resumes and hiring pages. https://t.co/qVbMdJM9xR 5 0 2 0 229 .
Apr 18 @datarade Can you elaborate on the ATMs requiring identity point? Quick google didn't yield anything 0 0 0 0 100 .
Apr 16 @levelsio Yes, but also: https://t.co/LXRCtiEhMW 0 0 0 0 49 .
Apr 10 What the hell is going on with the car rental market at the minute? https://t.co/mWthF2xlmA 1 0 0 0 91 .
Apr 05 Another take https://t.co/XNCwdMBnIi 2 0 0 0 36 .
Apr 04 For anyone who also tried and repeatedly failed to use a daily-charge watch or fitness tracker, might I suggest the Withings Activite or Scanwatch. 30 day charge and accurate-enough sleep tracking, with a great app. Have had pretty consistent sleep data since I started using it https://t.co/cv84cSrSLS https://t.co/vWhA9UZy3h 1 0 0 0 326 .
Apr 04 @Gavin_Hayes2 What’s battery life on that? 0 0 0 0 42 .
Apr 04 ♥️ https://t.co/CMDQCgIuJW 0 0 0 0 26 .
Apr 03 It's bonkers to me that there are people who take their watch off and charge it *every night* 🤯 https://t.co/X0eLQfaQLw 1 0 0 0 119 .
Apr 02 @parkpnphq are you guys operational? Getting this when trying to sign up https://t.co/UK1cTBEQhr 0 0 0 0 96 .
Apr 01 @MarkHuqhes @ClodaghBurke_ Congrats man! 1 0 0 0 40 .
Mar 31 🤮 https://t.co/RsQaF3Csux https://t.co/axK7kbmqt5 1 0 0 0 51 .
Mar 28 https://t.co/zVUjB0W7v9 1 0 0 0 23 .
Mar 27 @peteromallet Love this so much 1 0 0 0 31 .
Mar 24 @nbashaw Fwiw this seems like a US phenomenon. We did 3 months last year in EU Airbnb and 2 months this year in US Airbnb and the difference was striking. Hosts here are way more transactional and rigid, less willing to help (in my experience with ~6 hosts in Austin) 1 0 0 0 267 .
Mar 19 @andrewculver How many of these do you get per day? Cos there’s a pretty good chance this was me! Haha 3 0 0 0 102 .
Mar 13 @rorhug I had this same idea and ironically never built it. Even registered a domain (https://t.co/lAtDeVGg8w) if anyone wants it 4 0 0 0 129 .
Mar 10 https://t.co/Tbt7jaybis 0 0 0 0 23 .
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