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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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Nov 13 @cantillon_fr Yup 0 0 0 0 17 .
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 10 @cantillon_fr Thanks for that! That would require a separate pay button for each invoice right? 0 0 0 0 95 .
Nov 10 If you want to build a payments product like this today, your options are: 1. Pay a company like Stripe a percentage fee (anywhere between €100 to €200 *per transaction* for a €10k payment. That's it - there are no more options Online payments have not been anywhere solved https://t.co/J90TFTEiBS 0 0 0 0 300 .
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 😤 https://t.co/q46X3lLgko 1 0 0 200 26 .
Nov 05 @ravavyr @cory_laviska Not following this - why would it be hard to track down if all the component declarations are together? Even if they're not, by just clicking into the inspector and looking at the line number of the offending declaration? 0 0 0 0 244 .
Nov 05 @bebraw This is my fear. I think it would be a massive shame for the future of the web. How do you reconcile "I try to minimize js in my work" with "I don't want to drop typescript"? We're building modern SaaS apps with about 2% javascript. Doesn't make sense to me that you keep a build… 0 0 0 0 289 .
Nov 05 @bebraw Surely we get to the point that transpiration is no longer needed at some point? It happened with css 0 0 0 0 109 .
Nov 05 @bebraw Currently yes. Do you have any thoughts/opinions on this? https://t.co/IqbAiNDIwi 1 0 0 0 91 .
Nov 05 Working on a js app this week and it's making me appreciate the no-transpilation approach we have even more. The gap-in-consistency between development and production that people have grown to tolerate in js land is crazy. 4 0 1 306 222 .
Nov 03 @bebraw When the thing being pointed to is actually a skill issue, and not one that’s due to artificial complexity - which is often the thing the conversation is about in the first place 1 0 0 0 186 .
Nov 03 @dustingetz @yacineMTB This take surprises me, because I’d consider myself very philosophically similar to you generally. Do you think the understandability of a system is important? And that the approach you recommend here is likely to lead to smart people adding unnecessary complexity over time? 0 0 0 0 298 .
Nov 02 If you agree with @shl, you should try @rlygoodsoftware https://t.co/jLep2I5VJF 5 0 0 398 55 .
Nov 02 PSA: Don't use ChatGPT for estimates. https://t.co/ge9Nt4iwAZ 1 0 0 243 61 .
Oct 30 Anyone know if @shadcn has a multi select dropdown or dropdown with type to search? Can't see any in their docs 1 0 0 188 111 .
Oct 29 Also - am I being dumb? Is there actually a web components version of Select2/choices that I just couldn't find? 0 0 0 328 112 .
Oct 28 @mortenjust @felixlyu_1018 This looks amazing - love this workflow. One thing I notice is that in examples the frames don't seem to sync to the timings of the music - is there a way to specify the timings of each section to get them to match? 0 0 0 0 242 .
Oct 25 https://t.co/cYkrZpLUtf 2 1 0 203 23 .
Oct 24 I see SaaS founders complain often that people are reluctant to add card details/pay for their Saas. But I just went through about 20 services we're paying for but not using, and half of them are a huge pain to even figure out how to downgrade - it's no wonder people are wary of https://t.co/cOMgsXY9Lb 0 0 0 178 303 .
Oct 24 This is a great summary of an incredibly common phenomenon. I like how matter of fact it is - just states things as they are without vitriol, which is where the discourse on this stuff tends to go 6 0 0 344 196 .
Oct 23 The deeper I go down the optimal-CSS rabbithole, the more I find myself disagreeing with the philosophy behind Tailwind, which sucks because I really look up to Adam & the team. I agree with the idea of have-a-framework-so-that-you-can-write-close-to-zero-custom-css I disagree with the idea that there's no better way to achieve this than componentising most of the places where repetition occurs. I also dislike the framing of this as a dichotomy - either use 100% utility classes or write 100% custom components yourself. Blog post soon 5 0 1 398 543 .
Oct 23 @goodtweetsalex Yeah, I was thinking even longer than that to be honest. I also think there'll be a gap between when it's *possible* and when it's *prevalent*. Part of why I publish is to plant those seeds so there's less resistance and more openness when it does become possible. 1 0 0 0 280 .
Oct 23 Something else I don't see a lot of discussion on: A distinction between run-time and build-time libraries. It's not "frameworks or nothing", it's: 1. Create your html/css/js/web components from zero 2. Use a run-time library that provides utility and organizational patterns (but no build tooling dependencies). 3. Use a build-time library that provides utility and organizational patterns (but needs build tooling dependencies). I think we need to be focusing more on (2) and less on (3). 0 0 1 445 492 .
Oct 23 Checking out more js-ecosystem component libraries including shadcn today & their new sidebar component, which is world class. What I love: - They're pushing the copy-paste pattern. - They use CSS variables for config as opposed to js. - It's marketed as a single file (sidebar.tsx). What I don't love: To use sidebar.tsx you need to build your app in React. This makes the most sense *from an adoption perspective* - the industry is still focused on React. But if you were reasoning from first principles about this, and particularly if you care about the codebase being easily modifiable 1, 3, 5, and 10 years into the future, I don't think the tradeoffs of the built-in-react, versus built-on-the-platform make sense. If those were the design goals, I think you'd deliver it as sidebar.css and sidebar.js The developer experience is *very* similar - you copy paste code into your codebase, set up your css variables, and then pick the parts of the feature set you want to use and copy them over. The main difference is that instead of writing jsx components, you're writing html - but the code looks remarkably similar: with attributes. What am I missing here? 0 0 0 210 1.2k .
Oct 19 @rauchg what’s you do to get the inventory in? Public API somewhere? 0 0 0 146 68 .
Oct 18 https://t.co/ovDGthSA8R 0 0 0 143 23 .
Oct 17 Ok, maybe I can just open up dev tools and see the CSS file/s there. The dev tools 👇 https://t.co/Bgu2qQ5xil 1 0 0 146 108 .
Oct 17 - Read the docs and add the required changes - Reload the browser - no change. Let's debug - First - is the css file being imported? - lets view source - The source 👇 https://t.co/lv6YM9vUpX 1 0 1 434 190 .
Oct 13 Every time I come to the US I’m reminded to never trust twitter takes on cities. They are comically misguiding 0 0 0 472 110 .
Oct 11 @rauchg This is what https://t.co/bED1hL2qXx does! 82 0 0 0 50 .
Oct 10 @powell_eric @rails I personally most like Svelte because code more closely resembles html & I'm not a big fan of jsx, *but* I think I would still go with react because it's substantially larger ecosystem wise (availability of packages/docs etc) & that's the main benefit of going js-land. 1 0 0 0 297 .
Oct 09 @schwad_rb What language is that? (I agree 100%) 1 0 0 0 48 .
Oct 07 RT @shl: First session starting now! https://t.co/WWAhIKgqxl 0 4 0 0 61 .
Oct 05 Wonder why cursor doesn't support meta questions about cursor configuration itself - this seems silly https://t.co/q1dDf4OB1Y 1 0 0 330 125 .
Oct 05 Went to see Joker 2 last night. Still honestly confused. I kept wondering if maybe it felt bad because it’s not predictable and everything else today is, but I think actually no it was just quite bad. 1 0 1 338 200 .
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 .
Oct 04 Just had a look at the PhotoAi reviews on TrustPilot. I think there are a lot of things to learn from Pieter but his focus on automate-customer-service is his biggest weakness and not IMO something to emulate/glorify. The HeadshotPro reviews show how to do it well. 0 0 0 268 267 .
Oct 04 @adamrdaniels @shl @unpolyjs Yeah behind the scenes It’s literally a link that adds a new category to the database and then redirects to the page again and reloads the whole page. Htmx is smart enough to 1. Follow the redirect without a page load and 2. Merge the divs that already exist. Really nice 0 0 0 0 300 .
Oct 03 @hernansartorio trying to get in to pagy but can't find the reset password link - is there one somewhere? 1 0 0 0 105 .
Oct 03 @shl All this in ~30 lines of code, mostly html https://t.co/b3IlWFCvZ3 1 0 0 198 71 .
Oct 02 The history of my view on when you should use Tailwind - 2020: 100% in Tailwind - 2023: 90% in Tailwind - 2024: 20% in Tailwind (*if you have good css standards/library) There are just so many component-like things in web apps and I don't think packaging everything at the view layer has better DX or leads to better UI/UX. The problem has been that if you don't do Tailwind, you have to build our your own library/standards, which is a lot of work. 1 0 0 274 452 .
Sep 30 @Shpigford @revisedev Yes but also suggesting to show that in the video next time as that’s the impressive part more so than the code 0 0 0 0 133 .
Sep 30 @Shpigford @revisedev Show the feature working though!? If so that’s awesome 1 0 0 0 76 .
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 30 @willobri Great timing. Add me? 4 0 0 0 31 .
Sep 28 @ohitslloydeh @GregMolnar This is anecdotal from Rails world but I think 1. The average new junior web developer thinks js ecosystem before rails, and 2. The average mature rails company isn’t hiring a lot of juniors 2 1 0 0 216 .
Sep 28 @GregMolnar Because he has a ton of influence and people listen to him. Rails is still in the danger zone from a talent pipeline perspective so correcting the idea that it’s a legacy framework is important/worthwhile 11 0 0 0 216 .
Sep 27 @shl @htmx_org Thanks so much for that example! This is the exact kind of thing that confused us too. 0 0 0 0 101 .
Sep 27 @shl Yes! And that’s a huge issue! Not just with htmx but Rails more generally 1 0 0 0 78 .
Sep 27 @shl That’s a pity - it also took me/us a few months to figure out, and was more about figuring out what to ignore conceptually. But we’re at a point where there aren’t any complex interactions that aren’t covered in 2/3 blog posts/guides we’ve written internally, and we’ve done quite… 0 0 0 0 286 .
Sep 27 @pom_I_moq Example? 0 0 0 0 19 .
Sep 27 One of the things we're doing with all new joiners at @rlygoodsoftware now is having them go through @MobbinDesign and literally rebuild the products in there (with our stack/handbook of course), and with daily code review from me. This was built by 2 devs over 2-3 weeks. Note the details (loading states, animations etc) - it all feels reasonably smooth (with some polish to be added) but it's literally just partial page updates on the links and forms, a small set of ~20 or so reusable css classes, and a sprinkles library for minor frontend state. Posting because I keep hearing people saying modern web apps aren't possible to build without a "modern" stack like React (cough @shl) and it is demonstrably not true, *provided* you've done the work to find the right/bets abstractions (which admittedly is harder in non-react land). 3 1 0 440 849 .
Sep 27 @shl Got you - I do agree Rails needs more obvious ways to build really nice polished stuff, and turbo/hotwire/stimulus are not it IMO. On the other hand I still think for low/medium interactivity sites, HTML with something to handle partial page updates, and a sprinkles library for… 12 1 0 0 286 .
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 26 “I love how far the discourse has moved. I don’t even have to make the joke” @dhh https://t.co/hmnNVvaOBA 1 0 0 253 106 .
Sep 25 @Mailtrap what is this? Please remove my card from your service which I have already unsubscribed from - this is an extremely dark pattern. Thanks https://t.co/kRYDJweAe7 0 0 0 0 170 .
Sep 25 @andrewculver See you there! 1 0 0 0 28 .
Sep 24 @FORSBERGtwo Hey Bjorn is this still available? Happy to pay for it 0 0 0 0 67 .
Sep 24 @RUTVIKCHANDLA @_jr @rails Still available? 0 0 0 0 43 .
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 .
Sep 23 "Humanity discovered an algorithm that can really truly, learn the rules that produce any distribution of data" @sama this phrasing is interesting. Are there any differences between this definition, and what humans would define as "ability to reason"? https://t.co/t192wmeUM7 0 0 0 181 276 .
Sep 23 Today I learned there are online services that will print and post a Google doc for €5. Can't believe I didn't know that was a thing, saves so much headache. 0 0 1 219 157 .
Sep 22 @p_millerd 1. Supernuclear newsletter https://t.co/rqMi7Mhe4a 2. I’ve saved a bunch of tweets and links here https://t.co/pRL0NOY8my 2 0 0 0 132 .
Sep 21 https://t.co/wpBK78AwMK 1 0 0 197 23 .
Sep 19 Happened to see both of these in the last 48 hours. “My old ass” = great movie “Book of Mormon” (the broadway show) = not that good 0 0 0 178 133 .
Sep 14 If you’re gonna go Cybertruck, why not go full Cybertruck 0 0 0 244 57 .
Sep 14 https://t.co/KAfAAyxJDd 0 0 1 349 23 .
Sep 13 This is bananas 0 0 0 181 15 .
Sep 10 @Shpigford Disagree slightly. Your db latency is multiplied by the number of queries on the page, so if you add features and have pages doing say 50 queries, which can easily happen if you don’t watch out for n+1s, it can get slow fast. Prob not Virginia to NY, but generally having app and… 3 0 0 0 291 .
Sep 10 @IMAC2 For the past decade the opposite has happened - It has been extremely common to see people using javascript to do things that are trivial to do with html/css and where using javascript makes the code and the product worse. I agree that using hacks or features that aren't… https://t.co/cibwOptGBs 3 0 0 0 303 .
Sep 08 @tabacitu @ste_bau I built this, for that: https://t.co/aSBC2Ao3k6 1 0 0 0 66 .
Sep 08 This is a real message served from AWS, in 2024. 🤦‍♂️ https://t.co/LrSkcCaNl5 1 0 0 213 77 .
Sep 07 @MrNick_Buzz @patricklu10 Hey Nick! What’s the best way to chat about this? Our model is heavily inspired by you guys 😁 https://t.co/Cj5qRX7sEX 0 0 0 0 144 .
Sep 06 @Shpigford @synth_finance @Hetzner_Online @digitalocean @hatchboxio App server and db server in different locations gonna make that feel a bit slower than it needs to. Or are they same region? 2 0 0 0 192 .
Sep 06 Sometimes I forget there are people who *don’t* value these things above all else. 2 0 0 271 82 .
Sep 05 I’ll say it because many in the Laravel ecosystem will feel too conflicted to say it (because Taylor has done so much and is an absolute machine). But this probably isn’t good news for the community/ecosystem - almost impossible to get the returns a series A investor will be expecting without juicing revenue and moving attention up market. Hope I’m wrong 2 0 1 421 356 .
Sep 05 What if I told you you could have... - UIs with reactivity and smooth loading states - That load in 1/10th of a second - That preserve scroll state - That preserve state when the page is reloaded Using only html, with plain links and a single attribute on your body tag. @rails with @htmx_org is the way. 7 0 1 337 327 .
Sep 04 Trademark violation spotted @htmx_org https://t.co/ok1Srf2BwE 4 0 0 302 61 .
Sep 04 I’m convinced Hetzner just blocks like every third person who signs up. Happened me a year ago, came back a few months ago and it worked. Weird 0 0 0 185 143 .
Sep 03 To be clear we do this for more than half of our clients, but for some who don't, and many of the companies I chat to, this is an issue. 0 0 0 83 136 .
Sep 03 The main remaining large challenge I have working with clients: Almost no one wants to do the "grunt work" required in the product role - creating new tickets for features, bugs, improvements. Improving existing ones. Writing updates etc. Everyone wants to be a strategist 1 0 1 176 274 .
Sep 03 Lots of talk on the timeline about micro managing after the Paul Graham essay, and I think repositioning “micro managing” as a positive thing is dumb. The thing they’re referring to - being involved in the details and having veto power - is IMO different to micro management. Using the same term is going to backfire when neurotic CEOs use it as an excuse for toxic culture. 2 0 0 170 376 .
Sep 03 @finereli All good my side 0 0 0 0 26 .
Sep 01 Dutch pragmatism is allowing a small group of 3 (us) to sit in your café for a few hours even though it's technically not open til 5, because they asked to and it's not doing any harm. Many such examples - love this culture. 2 0 0 287 224 .
Sep 01 @finereli This is smart given you saved me a 5 figure deal and we’ve only been working together for 3 weeks 1 0 0 0 107 .
Aug 31 @htmxlabs Can confirm https://t.co/hIYH7Jc0QE 3 1 0 0 45 .
Aug 31 Another week, another meeting with a founder who's convinced they need a "visionary" technical founding team member for their boxware startup. 1 0 0 211 142 .
Aug 29 This is about one of the best reasons I could think of to get filthy rich 2 0 0 320 73 .
Aug 29 @devhenryhale Hey! Did you get to build anything with it yet? 0 0 0 0 61 .
Aug 29 Opened cursor. First thing I tried: Spent 10 minutes trying to get it to understand what was happening and fix - no dice. Task was based on understanding that a markdown file was being converted to html, and writing a few lines of js to enhance it Will keep playing around 1 0 0 195 273 .
Aug 29 https://t.co/biejMA10Ew 1 0 0 123 23 .
Aug 29 @harrybrundage Refactoring’s one I didn’t consider. I can somewhat empathise with that but I’d say the times I’ve felt that are maybe a couple times a year, not something that’s ever been acute enough that I’ve gone looking for a solution 0 0 0 0 238 .
Aug 29 The idea that static typing is what makes the difference between solid software and buggy software baffles me. It prevents a very specific kind of bug, which happens (on our teams at least) quite rarely. What am I missing? 2 0 2 455 223 .
Aug 28 @FinlaysonConnor Had this exact question a few weeks ago and streak was the one that stood out, have been using it on and off since then and it’s quite good 0 0 0 0 156 .
Aug 28 https://t.co/bk5yGuYbil 0 0 0 139 23 .
Aug 27 If you're genuinely interested in being on the cutting edge and pushing the web forward - this is the kind of stuff you should be nerding out about and following - this is what gets us maintainable, usable, future proof web software. Not the latest react library that replaces it and is out of date in a few months 4 0 1 365 314 .
Aug 26 @atthatmatt Yeah, couple of reasons - "A crud app" is 3 syllables - people don't use terms in sentences that feel clunky. - "Crud" as a term means nothing to non-tech people, so every time you use it you have to follow it up with "CRUD means create, read, update, delete..." - People (I… 0 0 0 0 289 .
Aug 26 Thought about this more and I'm really liking "Boxware" - Easy to remember - Conveys practicality (like a box) - Discourages over complication ("You're building boxware, you don't need {X complex thing}") - Conveys storing stuff (like an actual box) - Most UIs are just boxes (form inputs) inside boxes (sections) 2 0 0 269 314 .
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