CEO/CIO/CTO with 30+ yrs coding. I build tools, solve gnarly ops, and grow communities. Off-grid in a tiny smart home powered by solar, curiosity and OSS tech.
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DeveloperSteve retweeted
$XAVIER — Read Receipts Thread (Sandbox Launch)
🔥 THE COMMENT GUY IS ONCHAIN. TESTNET IS LIVE. 🔥
Xavier (@pakaluxavierog) has been replying since 2013.
12+ years. 5.2M+ followers. one guy, one comment section, no notes.
now there is a way to actually get in front of him. we call it the board.
DeveloperSteve retweeted
Best performance of Coachella 2026.
Nine Inch Nails performing with Boys Noize as Nine Inch Noize with his wife Mariqueen Maandig from How to Destroy Angels.
Song is "Heresy" from The Downward Spiral album but remixed.
Unc Reznor's still got it. Youngsters can't keep up.🔥
DeveloperSteve retweeted
Yup, platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.)
GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2025, and now 2.1B minutes so far this week.
So we're pushing incredibly hard on more CPUs, scaling services, and strengthening GitHub’s core features.
And as a fine purveyor of hand-crafted shit code for many years, I'm not gonna weigh in on that. 🤣
DeveloperSteve retweeted
Today I launched @builtfordevs on Product Hunt. 🎉
I built this by productizing a service that drove the greatest results I've ever seen in my career. Real developers screen recorded themselves naturally trying a client's dev tool—no scripts, no hand-holding. Those recordings shaped findings reports that told founders exactly what was broken and what to fix.
One client fixed a few friction points and hit Product Hunt #1 product of the day and week. Another completely pivoted their market using insights from 10 developer segments.
The service was such a success that it became a platform. Continuous journey tracking, real developer evaluations, and an AI engine that analyzes every data point including video and recommends exactly what to fix.
If you're a #devtool founder watching developers sign up and disappear—this is for you.
producthunt.com/products/bui…
DeveloperSteve retweeted
if you use @vercel free plan, they now train their AI on your code by default 😱
madness
DeveloperSteve retweeted
This Livewire RCE (>=3; < 3.6.4) is now actively being abused with an exploit available;
securityonline.info/critical…
Hearing reports of:
- new php files in public folder with backdoors
- perl scripts active processes
- weird jobs in the queue
Check your version and update!
Don't forget to update Livewire 3 as soon as possible! Not sure what the issue is exactly, but you probably want to have this security update live before it's public knowledge; github.com/advisories/GHSA-2…
DeveloperSteve retweeted
The Australien Government has made an ad about the Social Media Ban for Under-16s, and it's surprisingly honest and informative. #auspol
DeveloperSteve retweeted
Windows boss Pavan Davuluri has tweeted that the platform is evolving into an agentic OS, sparking major push back from users online. windowscentral.com/microsoft…
DeveloperSteve retweeted
Please, @netflix make a new season of Silicon Valley, there's so much to spoof and parody. 🙏
DeveloperSteve retweeted
Office Space (1999) nailed the soul-crushing monotony of corporate life with hilarious precision. Mike Judge turned everyday workplace frustration into timeless comedy that still feels painfully relatable decades later.
DeveloperSteve retweeted
We split our monolith into microservices. It was a mistake.
Before:
- One Rails app
- 200k lines of code
- Deploy time: 8 minutes
- 5 person team
After the split:
- 8 microservices
- Separate databases
- Message queues everywhere
- Service mesh for communication
What actually happened:
- Deploy complexity increased 10x
- Debugging across services became a nightmare
- Data consistency issues appeared
- Team spent more time on infrastructure than features
- No performance improvement
The real problem was not the monolith. It was poor database queries and missing indexes.
We eventually:
- Merged 5 services back into the monolith
- Kept 3 truly independent services
- Fixed the actual performance issues
- Simplified our deployment pipeline
Microservices are not a silver bullet. Sometimes your monolith just needs optimization, not dismantling.