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QuietForgeSoftware retweeted
TO ALL PRESS MEMBERS WHO ARE WRITING ARTICLES ABOUT TWISTED TOWER FOR TOMORROW: I did not make this game solo. My partner in crime, my friend, and the incredibly talented environment artist, weapon designer, and level designer Felipe Caravelli was pivotal for the whole project. Also, the enemy art is from the talented @brynethart !!! Everyone, please retweet so they hear this. Press *want* me to be solo but it's not true. That said: the core team behind this game is TINY. It really was basically me and Felipe for the most part, but lots of other subs and what not were crucial in partnering alongside the project
QuietForgeSoftware retweeted
Every person who wants to make a difference at some point has to decide whether they care more about the peoples lives they’re changing or the peoples opinions they’re offending.
QuietForgeSoftware retweeted
This line won't leave my head recently:
"It's when things seem worst that you mustn't quit."
From "Don't Quit" (believed to be written by Rev. Wade Watts)
Always been a favorite, but hits deeper recently
Whats the quote that brightens your day?
#motivation #buildinpublic
QuietForgeSoftware retweeted
Everyone knows about k8s health checks.
But do you know about preStop hooks?
Learn what they are and how they can make your deployment more resilient :
quietforgesoftware.com/Artic…
#devops #k8s
QuietForgeSoftware retweeted
Trying to research the best entry machine/specs for running agents and models locally. Anyone who has experience what are your specs and how’s your experience been?
#ai #selfhosting #buildinpublic
QuietForgeSoftware retweeted
We all move at our own pace.
Don’t compare your chapter 1 to someone’s chapter 15.
Stay consistent and move forward each day.
#motivation #buildinpublic
QuietForgeSoftware retweeted
I found the escape route for software engineers.
Stop being just a software engineer.
Use your engineering skills in every other industry – you'll dominate everyone else.
It's like the late 90s English craze in China. English by itself had no value, but English + any other skill was unstoppable.
Or being attractive. Attractive by itself is just decoration, but attractive + anything else = winning combination.
Engineers + anything = winning combination.
We were building marketing workflows and realized our marketing team couldn't design automated processes. They're great at marketing, but terrible at systematic thinking.
So we started hiring 25-year-old engineers with good internet instincts. Engineering skills + marketing sense = marketing automation superpowers.
The person making my social media videos? Former engineer.
Engineers have systematic thinking that other industries desperately need.
Everyone else approaches problems intuitively. Engineers approach them architecturally.
When you combine systematic design thinking with domain expertise in any field, you become the person who can build AI-native companies in that industry.
Don't compete with other engineers for engineering jobs. Use your engineering mindset to revolutionize industries that haven't been engineered yet.
Every industry will eventually be run by engineers who learned that industry.
#SoftwareEngineering #CareerTransition #AI #SystemsThinking #Automation #FutureOfWork #Innovation #TechCareers #AIEngineering #CrossDisciplinary
QuietForgeSoftware retweeted
please please please, i’m begging you, don’t use AI to write your tweets
give us your raw flawed human thoughts, thats the whole point
QuietForgeSoftware retweeted
I built a side project last year that made $0.
Total flop.
Nobody used it.
Nobody cared.
And it was one of the best things I did.
Because I built it for fun.
No client brief.
No deadline.
No "what's the ROI?"
Just a problem I found interesting.
It reminded me why I started doing this.
Before the agency.
Before the proposals.
Before the invoices.
There was a version of me who just loved building things. That version is easy to lose when every hour has a dollar attached to it.
If you're feeling burned out - build something useless. On purpose.
It'll fix something no amount of revenue can.
QuietForgeSoftware retweeted
A solved problem creates value.
Value creates demand.
Demand creates income.
Focus on solving problems and building trust. Then the money comes as a byproduct.
