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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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Sep 11 😂 how are Vercel so bad at this, there’s one of these tweets every week 2 0 0 258 71 .
Sep 11 Pretty gnarly phishing attempt just now - one of the best I've seen, had zero immediate suspicion when I got the email but eyebrow was raised when it linked straight to an app, then checked the address. https://t.co/gHlGPC6rqw 5 0 4 470 226 .
Sep 11 @juliapintar If you're not on RSS you're still missing from a quarter of listeners 😁 https://t.co/fSgG6bitwM 0 0 0 0 108 .
Sep 11 @juliapintar Love this! Might be in a minority but I use a podcast app (Castro) which doesn’t list it. Any tips on how I can find it? 0 0 0 0 133 .
Sep 10 The best thing I did for improving my feed was enabling swipe-to-see-less @nikitabier - making this hidden feature more obvious would be a good way to reduce the For You feed frustrations https://t.co/C88tInxVW5 4 0 1 489 211 .
Sep 10 👇 0 0 0 217 1 .
Sep 07 I really dislike that “grifter” is being thrown around so much. People should stop doing this, particularly when they mean “person I disagree with” 3 0 0 454 147 .
Sep 07 “Hong Kong” is an insane name for a country when you think about it 0 0 0 193 67 .
Sep 01 Urghhhh, this is full black mirror slash Harry Potter mirror of Erised 3 0 0 363 70 .
Aug 30 @kyrylosilin 😂 my bad! 1 0 0 0 22 .
Aug 29 @kyrylosilin Nice, I fully agree! Built https://t.co/NESs4jkTw4 to solve the build step problem, and building a css starter that goes with it 2 0 0 0 141 .
Aug 29 @kyrylosilin Why dropping tailwind? 1 0 0 0 35 .
Aug 29 @Pipe42uk @DublinAirport Could be? 0 0 0 0 34 .
Aug 28 What @DublinAirport has done with the ride share setup is absolutely shameful. Charging every car 3 to 5 euro just to get in the gate - just looks like a money grab, what am I missing? 1 0 1 283 184 .
Aug 28 I live close to the airport so I get a string of cancelled rides, then have to apologise (I feel genuinely bad) about a 10 euro trip where they’re giving 4 to the airport and 2 to the taxi app. Gross 0 0 0 130 199 .
Aug 28 What @DublinAirport has done with the ride share setup is absolutely shameful. Charging every car 3 to 5 eye just to get in the gate - just looks like a money grab, what am I missing? 0 0 0 0 183 .
Aug 28 *so* many examples of this in smaller populations where everyone's afraid to upset the status quo. If two friends blow up and never talk again, it’s usually because they never learned how to have productive conflict. This is also prob why it’s so hard to make friends as adults 2 0 1 337 278 .
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 Lol finished 12-11 to Grimsby 0 0 0 126 29 .
Aug 27 Riveting game between United & Grimsby in the Carabao Cup https://t.co/YLKCYEg7bD 1 0 1 212 85 .
Aug 27 I feel this way too - something about the simplicity of just including a blob of html that always has me coming back to it 0 0 0 244 122 .
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 27 One argument for why AI customer support tools are considered so good, is that the bar for *human* customer support is also extremely low. https://t.co/uD9OeLBK5G 3 0 2 342 162 .
Aug 27 Side point: - Giving-a-shit declines when responsibility is distributed across many people, which means... - Every additional new leader/owner added, reduces how much each one gives-a-shit, which means... - To build a great singular product experience, the optimal management system is much closer to (benevolent) autocracy than democracy - than most people think. 5 0 1 184 364 .
Aug 26 This same idea is why I think we lost something when phones went full touch screen. Tactility is more human 4 0 1 436 107 .
Aug 24 @ryanckulp Sick! You have a place to stay? 0 0 0 0 42 .
Aug 23 @mikker Did this for many years but the lack of a UI annoyed me enough that I switched everything to Hatchbox, which I know couldn't switch back from 0 0 0 0 149 .
Aug 23 @ryanflorence You need to start making videos/streaming 0 0 0 0 55 .
Aug 22 This came through! Thank you for retweets, i will be attending railsworld after all! 1 0 0 483 84 .
Aug 22 @jackfriks Ledge. Massive congrats! 1 0 0 0 35 .
Aug 22 @rtdp @AmandaBPerino Hey! I actually just got a DM about one - I haven’t confirmed with him yet but I’ll go with that first. But I’ll boost this as I’m sure there are others still looking for one 1 0 0 0 195 .
Aug 22 This is a breath of fresh air. It’s been years since I did it my way 3 0 0 419 68 .
Aug 22 @AmandaBPerino Thanks @GregMolnar! 1 0 1 177 34 .
Aug 22 Still cracks me up that this is how they serve tea in the Netherlands - here is your cup of boiling hot water sir https://t.co/5LQcupdRXh 2 0 0 221 137 .
Aug 21 Bro sits like he just got off a 12 hour shift but he actually just spent most of the day licking himself https://t.co/JDS2MoKhVD 6 0 0 217 128 .
Aug 21 Friend told me I had some tax benefits I didn’t know about. Used Claude to verify step by step and provide links. Asked my Irish tax advisor to process some paperwork. They scheduled two calls and on the second one laughed at me for using ChatGPT and rubbished the idea. “Was your friend drunk when he told you that. You shouldn’t use ChatGPT… We won’t be out of a job yet” Just got confirmation from my Dutch advisor that my friend (and Claude) was in fact correct. Pro tip if you’re an “expert” particularly if you sell advice/hours: Don’t do this 2 0 0 344 556 .
Aug 21 @adrianthedev Legend ❤️ 1 0 0 0 23 .
Aug 20 @adrianthedev @AmandaBPerino Ahhh thanks so much! Fingers crossed 🤞 1 0 0 0 67 .
Aug 20 @AmandaBPerino I know! If I don’t manage to get a ticket we should do coffee at some point! That’s awesome but also now I have even more fomo 😅 0 0 0 0 143 .
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 20 @AmandaBPerino Also thanks! 😁 0 0 0 0 29 .
Aug 20 @AmandaBPerino When people sell them, where do they find a buyer? 0 0 0 0 65 .
Aug 20 @excid3 Nice I'll check it out! 0 0 0 0 31 .
Aug 20 @excid3 know anyone? 1 0 1 248 20 .
Aug 19 Governments are so ineffective because they have extreme customer lock-in - 9/10 people can’t simply switch (because their entire life is there). Oh and unlike a real business they can also lock you up if you don’t pay them, so they can provide negative value and still get paid. 4 0 0 323 279 .
Aug 19 @bebraw Yeah - I think it might be possible to break the vibe coding -> production software barrier by radically eliminating complexity and adding constraints 1 0 0 0 161 .
Aug 19 (I say let go - we were 3 weeks into a trial contract) - we don't just let go of our devs regularly. 1 0 0 184 100 .
Aug 19 Just had to let another otherwise-good developer go because they said they'd rather leave than figure out how to get better (with super clear feedback). Sometimes when you remove ambiguity the reality is that many people simply don't want to do the work - and much more common at senior level 6 0 1 345 294 .
Aug 18 @bsierakowski Awww man, he does look like a king. Sorry to hear man ❤️ 1 0 0 0 70 .
Aug 18 New Talk: "The Platform & A Stylesheet" Covered: 1) The (insane) progress in the last few years and what you can now do with HTML (popovers, modals, styled selects and more), and.. 2) Some ideas to bring the browser closer to handling things we take for granted in SPAs 👇 https://t.co/4uz7FtPA70 10 0 0 269 275 .
Aug 18 This is such a neat implementation. Love the stuff @panphora puts out. 4 0 1 272 70 .
Aug 17 “Guinness with a splash of blackcurrant” was a fave with my grandparents, similar vibes 3 0 0 307 87 .
Aug 16 @bryan_johnson @bryan_johnson I think you are going to alienate (smart) people if you say things like “can cause cancer in humans” without talking about the relative risk measurements e.g without alcohol one in x chance, with alcohol one in y chance. I’m a massive fan but I think the… 1 0 0 0 285 .
Aug 15 @levelsio @david_perell I've also seen that (and I'm Irish and normalized levels of drinking there is IMO crazy). I think culturally vilifying *heavy binging* is good/reasonable and might in some cases discourage the circumstances where spiralling happens, but vilifying *all alcohol consumption* is bad… 0 0 0 0 304 .
Aug 15 @levelsio @david_perell I'm the first to admit that the levels of take-responsibility-for-your-own-circumstances are far too low, but that's not really a solution (to loneliness/population collapse) - if the goal is to solve hard problems like that, you have to assume people will largely exercise the… 1 0 0 0 302 .
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 15 @joebell_ @tailwindcss (I’m a big tailwind fan and have been using it for years), but I think “create a component for every large group of classes” has big limitations especially outside a component-friendly framework like react, and I’m wondering if you’ve ever thought those limitations would ever… 0 0 0 0 300 .
Aug 15 @joebell_ @tailwindcss <div class=“spinner text-blue”> where the spinner class is already on its own lower layer and text-blue is on the utilities layer, but the spinner class may not have been written with tailwind, follows the grain of the web and is less code (but it doesn’t purely use tailwind).… 0 0 0 0 307 .
Aug 15 @joebell_ @tailwindcss Joe I've followed you for a long time & respect you a lot. I'm sure you realize you're effectively re-creating cascading & native CSS specificity here, and as Adam mentions it also doesn't always work. At what point do you think it makes sense to simply not-use-tailwind for all… 0 0 0 0 310 .
Aug 15 https://t.co/v5L8ddsuOw 0 0 0 252 23 .
Aug 15 @adrianthedev That’s how I ended up doing it too! The YouTube Vanbuild rabbit hole goes deep. I may do one when I’ve got it to where I want it - have only done a few trips on it. 1 0 0 0 178 .
Aug 15 @adrianthedev I’ve had 2 - first one did the initial build but the finish was bad, second one fixed it up. It’s taken 2 years and my takeaway has been I should probably learn to be more handy so I can do this stuff myself. But most recent van guy did the couch/desk unit which I’m v happy with 0 0 0 0 293 .
Aug 14 @jackfriks Why land? https://t.co/7dr0llfs5t 1 0 0 0 44 .
Aug 14 @peterszarvas94 https://t.co/2CltrkiYQm 1 0 0 0 39 .
Aug 14 Ooooh. Might we finally get a browser agent with decent reliability now 0 0 0 403 71 .
Aug 13 I feel this too. On the pretty large topic of how-to-relate-to-yourself-and-others, I haven’t found anyone else’s content resonate any where near as much as @FU_joehudson 1 0 0 243 170 .
Aug 13 @Jicecream @jasonfried “Riddim” 0 0 0 0 31 .
Aug 13 https://t.co/m9DRzkupPc 1 0 0 174 23 .
Aug 13 I'm default-skeptical of this stuff but if this is real (not tele-operated or custom-trained) it is phenomenally impressive and near-term kind of scary 1 0 2 460 151 .
Aug 13 @artillain You gon' like my most recent talk 😁 https://t.co/uCgJayDS4B 1 0 0 0 71 .
Aug 13 @jeffwhelpley @ChrisEsplin I like that way of framing it. I would largely use the approach you mentioned if those were my goals for sure - in particular Cloudflare. I went down a deep rabbit hole of building a site optimizer that would inline CSS and a bunch of other optimizations when doing e-commerce… 1 0 0 0 304 .
Aug 13 @jeffwhelpley @ChrisEsplin Thanks Jeff! I'm talking about web apps specifically (so I'm assuming behind a login). But while I have you - let's say I do load a 70kb (gzipped) blocking css file on a website - to what extent will google search penalize me for stats that look like this? https://t.co/6dVPsD5swS 0 0 0 0 307 .
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 13 An example: Tailwind Lite is 68kb gzipped. Yes that's "70kb of blocking CSS", but it's also the vast majority of all the classes your app will need, full stop. Seems extremely reasonable to me. 0 0 0 217 193 .
Aug 13 @artillain Rude 😮 but fair 0 0 0 0 28 .
Aug 12 Yeah. If you're a decent founder you generally work quite hard and think a lot about customer-desires. If you can force yourself into that mindset as an employee, and be ok with 30% of your work being dull/frustrating - you're already miles ahead of others - doesn't have to require long hours - simple not easy. 2 0 1 367 312 .
Aug 12 Gonna have to rename this - @tailwindcss folks understandably don't want to create confusion. New website/name on the way this weekend 2 0 0 201 134 .
Aug 12 It's really a shame how quickly "skill issue" went from useful concept to term used to weasel out of making a good argument. Basically let's people get away with rebutting as a 7 year old would. 2 0 0 225 194 .
Aug 12 As an aside - simple sinatra codebase hooked in to Hatchbox is so nice - 10 seconds from git push to live. 2 0 0 195 106 .
Aug 12 https://t.co/RvZAuUMnog 0 0 0 153 23 .
Aug 09 @jordwalke https://t.co/7LXMYXYWIs 34 1 0 0 34 .
Aug 07 cc @colmtuite 1 0 1 103 13 .
Aug 07 I should issue a retraction here. These are much more common than "at the OS level and some native apps" - I haven't used one in a long time, but I've noticed them around a lot more now they're on my radar, to be fair. 2 0 1 354 218 .
Aug 05 @stripe You don't hate the banking system enough https://t.co/KsEFvyxM7W 1 0 0 131 72 .
Aug 04 @ChrisEsplin Yus https://t.co/Pz39qRPmyp 0 0 0 0 40 .
Aug 03 I don’t understand. Didn’t one of the js influencers say recently that AI doesn’t work if you don’t have typescript? 2 0 1 343 116 .
Aug 01 @TylerAlterman I had about 1.5 years of pretty strong anxiety/depression which I at-the-time put down to burnout. Everything felt extremely dull and a strong feeling of is-this-really-it. Moved to Southeast Asia and literally forgot about it within 2 months. Looked back at my journals and… 2 0 0 0 290 .
Aug 01 @bradgessler 😂 extremely true 1 0 0 0 29 .
Jul 31 1990 crew 💪 3 0 0 224 11 .
Jul 31 Recruiting is a great example of the limits of structured data - I remember when the internet was taking off and there was lots of talk about how middle men like recruiters and real estate agents were dust, because now everyone had “perfect information”. There’s no such thing as perfect information. There are enormous databases listing skills, experiences and qualifications for hundreds of millions of people. And yet hiring for knowledge work is still a complete black box. Many making the same mistake when it comes to AI 1 0 0 243 526 .
Jul 29 This is the kind of thing I mean - the people working on this stuff are super aware of the gaps - it didn't always feel like this https://t.co/81ffLyg2aG 2 0 0 128 153 .
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 26 @grok Wrong - they’re just ones I’ve interacted with recently 0 0 0 0 61 .
Jul 26 @grok who are my top 20 highest follower followers - don’t tag them 0 0 0 0 67 .
Jul 26 @hernansartorio For me what I was looking for was "type-to-create-a -website" but with higher fidelity than Notion - that's why I love it. No idea if that will resonate with others, but maybe some demo videos on the homepage of people typing out their own sites? I still recommend it to people… 1 0 0 0 294 .
Jul 26 @colmtuite I'd take the opposite side of that bet (>50% of web apps use multi level dropdowns). 1 0 0 0 100 .
Jul 26 @colmtuite Figma was the one that sprang to mind. I'd put all of those apps (linear, notion, slack, messenger) in a particular category - don't have the language but something that approximates massive surface area/huge company and extremely high interactivity. So fair - my original… 0 0 0 0 284 .
Jul 26 @Una Amazing, thanks! 0 0 0 0 21 .
Jul 26 I'll just leave this here... https://t.co/A75WriSw3i 1 0 0 166 53 .
Jul 26 @una hey! The new select styling is great! I know there's no support for styleable <select multiple> or <datalist> just yet - was wondering if there are any proposals in the works for that - i can see a "select-v2" tag on github issues but don't see anything that mentions it -… 2 0 0 0 290 .
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