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2 years

I make $50-60K a month and my wife cuts lotion bottles open to get it all out. She’s the best and we should all be more like her. 🌍

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omg google is going to kill authenticator someday isn't it?

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8 months

people use caffeine so wrong if you're consuming it every day (ie, coffee), you depend on it to get to a baseline level of consciousness if you only consume it once a week (or less), on days when you want to be extra effective, it's a superpower

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oh you're a frontend engineer? name one thing that actually matters

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1 year

16" m2 macbook pro, giving it away soon 🤗

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4 months

helping a friend from my gym get started with web dev he just sent me this, how do i reply?

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3 years

New house, who dis?

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3 years

I built a startup on AWS and have advised dozens of startups doing the same. This is a practical thread with advice I wish I'd been given early in my startup journey.

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1 year

this is the tech stack big javascript doesn't want you to know about

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2 months

the irony of software devs freaking out over technology replacing some jobs when as a collective we've been replacing jobs in other industries for decades

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6 months

if you're going to build something valuable on the web, that value will live in your backend frontends are throwaway don't put your backend in your frontend

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28 days

don't meet your heroes, people

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2 years

php devs vs full-stack javascript devs

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11 months

fixed it

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Vercel is down :(

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1 year

nodejs was a mistake

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6 months

on prem is actually cheaper

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1 year

😱 omg, next 14 leak! don't ask how i got these details: Next.js 14 ◆ `site` directory w/ opt-in RSCs ("use server") ◆ AI powered router (GPT-4) ◆ Turbopack now in Beta* ◆ Turboformat (Rome Tools acquisition) ◆ `next/favicon` ◆ `next/centered`

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1 year

it's time

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3 years

I’ve grossed more than $200,000 in three months of full-time freelancing. I’ve also put most of that cash into a new home build. 💸🏡 Don’t be me.

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10 months

frontend isn't hard it's just dumb

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10 months

Guys you don’t get it. HTMX is so the backend people can stop complaining about React We want it to win just so backend devs will shut up about frontend getting too hard

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3 years

April is my first month of full-time freelance work. Revenue so far: $60,427.41 (USD). It's just me; no agency, no subcontractors. The "expert path" is valid. Become an expert in something and learn to sell that expertise. The reward? No upper limit on your rates.

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1 year

also liberating though

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2 years

If you're a developer that doesn't use AWS, what are the main reasons you avoid it?

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10 days

turns out styling cli apps is nothing like styling web apps 🫠 but we're getting there

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26 days

been writing a lot of vanilla js lately (to feel something) really wish there were a shorter syntax for document.getElementById maybe an opportunity for a library to provide a more convenient and terse syntax for common cases like this spitballing: `!(#<element id>)`

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3 years

Earlier this year, I prepared for and passed 12 AWS certification exams. This thread is an attempt to distill my learnings into a practical guide for others that are pursuing AWS certs.

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1 year

our users: you added a paywall? nobody's paying for that also our users:

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1 year

giving away a new m2 macbook pro (16"), right meow retweet this for one entry 🎟️ star the github repo below for another entry 🎟️ READY GO

GitHub - adamdottv/good-repo: Preeeeetty, pretty good

Preeeeetty, pretty good. Contribute to adamdottv/good-repo development by creating an account on GitHub.

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6 months

software startups should build on aws serverless by default, few exceptions everyone thinks they're the exception

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1 year

going to start charging for these takes

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2 months

retrain your weak mind to stop being scared of AI devs and start getting excited about everything you could build if you had something like this at your disposal

Cognition

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2 months

Today we're excited to introduce Devin, the first AI software engineer. Devin is the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies, and has even completed real jobs on Upwork. Devin is…

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My path: - College dropout @ 19 - $22/hr freelance dev "job" @ 22 - $800k+/yr running a small dev shop @ 26 - $0/yr co-founding a startup @ 28 - $225k/yr salary after VC funding @ 29 - $175k/yr salary at a larger startup @ 33 - $500k+/yr as a cloud freelancer @ 35

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My path as a developer: - HS dropout @ 17 - College dropout @ 19 - Started coding @ 29 - Fired from first job @ 30 - Landed $60k job @ 33 - Told $80k was too high @ 34 - Landed $120k consulting contract @ 36 - $400k as independent consultant @ 37 - Doing cool shit at FAANG @ 39

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10 months

frontend v backend isn't a debate it's a gang war neither is "harder", what would that even mean? value is generally created on the "backend" (see google, amazon, facebook, netflix, etc)

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30 days

the dumbest myth in web dev is the idea that CI/CD is too hard and a reason you should choose some startup's expensive subset of the cloud

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2 years

I get a lot of DMs from people looking for mentorship early in their cloud career. I try to share my learnings as I go, but I’ve put very little out there that would be useful to newcomers. Here’s my advice/response to those just getting started:

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2 years

“But it didn’t even affect me because I only deploy into us-east-2.”

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1 year

i finally tried laravel, and it didn't disappoint

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2 months

you should largely ignore: - those that have never built anything but are obsessed with the "how" ("RSCs fix this!!") - those that say "just ship, that's all that matters!" ("indiehackers") there's a middle ground where you balance pragmatism, productivity and care for your…

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1 year

made for each other

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3 years

There are *so many* early startups with ~5-15 engineers lacking AWS expertise internally. I can’t yell this from the rooftops loud enough: AWS experts needed 📣 If you’re passionate about the cloud, keep going. So much demand!

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1 year

@wesbos mine a few hours ago

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2 years

I love my office so much

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2 years

AWS & serverless are the best. I’ve got an AppSync GraphQL api deployed in a handful of regions around the globe, ready to respond to anybody from anywhere in <200ms, and it costs me $0 at rest. Bananas. 🍌

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1 year

i miiiiiight have a perfect life

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1 year

omg, cloudfront supports swr now, ISR FOR EVERYONE

Amazon CloudFront now supports stale-while-revalidate and stale-if-error cache control directives

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3 years

Here's the breakdown of my freelance revenue to date. 16 clients, $401K. I'll start up a space at 1PM ET (in an hour) to talk through my journey and answer some questions. If you can't join the space, go ahead and reply to this tweet with any questions!

Adam Elmore: Freelance Revenue

By Client Client Anonymized,Industry,Type,Size,Country,Deliverable,Scope,Start,End,Revenue Startup 1,Healthcare,Startup,1-10,USA,Implementation,Full-stack SaaS built with serverless on AWS.,October...

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@adamdotdev

3 years

Putting together a spreadsheet with all of my freelance revenue from a busy summer (~$250K, iirc), broken down by customer/industry/scope/etc. Will publish next week some time and do a short AMA live on Twitter Spaces! 🤗

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2 years

I don’t know where it’s all headed, but I think “backend dev” is going the way of the dodo. That role is getting eaten from both ends. Frontend devs going full-stack (graphql, trpc, api routes, etc.) and devops/infra folks leveraging managed services to build low-code backends.

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8 months

"you'll wish you had strong types when it comes time to refactor" easy, just don't refactor write it correctly the first time, problem solved

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1 month

giving 2 people that retweet this $1000 in AWS credits also go sign up at if you're a web developer that wants to learn aws, some free training materials dropping soon!

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11 months

becoming a father made life 10x harder but also, 100x better (little one slept in today)

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2 months

an average dev at an early stage startup is better than you at frontend and backend let that sink in or join a startup and get good

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3 years

Redditor: "Is AWS IQ worthwhile for freelancing?" My take:

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2 years

Who’s interested in a cohort-based course on full-stack serverless with AWS?

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6 months

i'm learning how to teach (and how to use screenflow) anyway, stop making this AWS mistake!

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6 months

@t3dotgg it's possible to both know that this isn't vulnerable to injections AND hate it with the fury of 1000 suns 😅

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1 year

i don't hate react, i'm just moving on

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1 year

rare career advice

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8 months

had a little health scare last night that landed me in the emergency room as i lay on the hospital bed writhing—in the most pain i've ever experienced—i had to type my debit card pin into one of those handheld payment devices (had to pay the $300 copay for self pay patients)

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6 months

it's one thing to give people the ability to do dumb things with your framework it's another to feature them on a slide 😅 (i know this isn't vulnerable to injection, don't @ me... it's still A Bad Idea™) (also not shaming sam, he's great; i just think this direction is bad)

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i'm not sure man

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1 year

my desk setup then VS now

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2 months

@VicVijayakumar real question: how many users would notice?

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3 years

More photos for those that are interested!

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3 years

I turn 35 years old on Friday, which is significant because it's divisible by 5! To celebrate, here's a list of my 35 favorite AWS services. 🥳 As Mario would say, "Here we gooooo!"

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21 days

it's meat time, yum

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2 years

If you’re the person on your small team that manages the AWS account(s) because nobody else wants to, lean into it. You just might change the trajectory of your career.

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18 days

every time @una says "no javascript" teej looks like this

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10 months

capitalism didn't ruin the web, that was the EU and all their privacy theater

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1 year

recorded this today and i don't want to spoil it but HOW ARE LARAVEL STARTER APPS BETTER THAN MY FINISHED APPS?!

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1 year

"javascript dev tries laravel for the first time" who would watch this? (i'm the javascript dev)

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2 months

my wife picked up a sourdough hobby and holy shit, it's the RSCs of the baking world weeks long process of adding and removing stuff every day, keeping it at a specific temperature, kneading it, smacking it around and then at the end you get... a loaf of bread lol

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11 months

@ThePrimeagen this is a youtube comment for sure

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10 months

the best way to scale software and teams is to write really, really good code, you're welcome

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someone funny please caption this

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2 years

🥳 I'm incredibly excited to share more details about my new course that will help web developers dive deep into the world of cloud computing and AWS! Take a look:

AWS for Web Developers

The interactive video course that teaches you how to build anything you can dream up with AWS

aws-for-web.dev

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2 years

The worst part about DynamoDB is that you have to do some planning up front. The best part is literally everything else.

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1 year

if i've seemed less active on twitter lately it's because i discovered laravel and now i just code happily at my desk all day

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6 days

after spending more time with go, i strongly feel that i still have no opinions on the language i also have no opinions on javascript, typescript, or html/css after 15 years it's nice that you're all "WELL if the standard lib only had x y z", i'm happy for you

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2 months

some of you have never worked on a consumer website at scale and it shows

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1 year

"javascript dev tries laravel for the first time" who would watch this? (i'm the javascript dev)

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1 year

but i *enthusiastically* looked at the code

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2 years

This is our kitchen and we love it

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12 days

some of my photos from a busy week in miami

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6 months

our aws bill went up after moving from ec2 to lambda, significantly but the total bill is still a fraction of our monthly burn less operational burden and increased focus on product makes it worth it for us not for everyone, but should be the default

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2 years

I interact with a lot of web developers, and I've never seen a technology as feared (and misunderstood) as AWS. Most of the objections to AWS falls into one of these 5 buckets: • Amazon/Bezos is Evil • Vendor Lock-In • The Console UX • Too Complex • Pricing

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lot of bizarre discourse around the planetscale news most of it from people that have never been in leadership, let alone founded a company when did jobs and free database services become our god given right? startups are speeding towards near certain death, at all times so…

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1 year

my wife was 20 and i was 22 when we married had kids at 26/28 none of this has anything to do with anyone's career we're mostly happy, though it's hard to call the hardest days "happy" 😅 life is certainly more full, wouldn't have it any other way not advice btw, you do you

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Hot take: Don’t fall in love from 22-29, there’s to much to lose. Your career will thank you.

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2 years

So honored to be welcomed into the AWS Heroes program 🥹

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🚀 Introducing the newest #AWS Heroes 🚀 Congrats @OutputSeq , @kperreault95 , @AdamBien , @brooke_jamieson , @BandoloCyril , @aeduhm , @dayjournal_nori , Chao Cai, & Sanchit Jain. Thank you for your leadership!🙏👏

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10 months

i was gone for like a week wth happened

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1 year

i bet i've spent half of my time as a developer making inaccurate time estimates maybe more

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2 years

For those asking about my income, I've been pretty open about my freelance business. In the fall I put out a snapshot of my revenue breakdown YTD:

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@adamdotdev

3 years

Here's the breakdown of my freelance revenue to date. 16 clients, $401K. I'll start up a space at 1PM ET (in an hour) to talk through my journey and answer some questions. If you can't join the space, go ahead and reply to this tweet with any questions!

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3 years

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Scott Hanselman is a national treasure.

Scott Hanselman 🌮

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VS Code vs Vim?

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if you drink coffee your work probably isn't that serious

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3 years

Putting together a spreadsheet with all of my freelance revenue from a busy summer (~$250K, iirc), broken down by customer/industry/scope/etc. Will publish next week some time and do a short AMA live on Twitter Spaces! 🤗

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a few weeks ago our aws spend jumped significantly, but we only had theories as to why and not a lot of time to investigate finally spent a couple hours investigating and made a one line code change that shaved off ~$400/day in costs i'd flex but i caused the issue 🫣

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2 years

It keeps getting easier to fake a design sense and build accessible UIs: • @tailwindui • • (how am I just seeing this?!) • (love the color scales in particular) • @shiftnudge (you get what you pay for)

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10 months

sometimes i get down and then i remember that some people have to open android studio every day puts things in perspective

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1 year

every time a kid flags me down in my 2012 ford taurus to tell me something's leaking from the exhaust, i tell them i code nodejs apps, the third best server side javascript runtime

Taylor Otwell ☁️ 🦹

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1 year

Every time a kid flags me down in the Lambo and asks me what I do for work I tell them I code in PHP the greatest programming language of all time 😂 That car has done so much PHP evangelism

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when i started in web dev i put in a ton of hours for very little return before i had steady work i would build projects based on freelance job listings and then reach out like "hey, i went ahead and completed the project lmk if you want to hire me" mostly i'd get no response…

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why i switched from vscode to neovim

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2 years

I build on AWS because I know it’ll be here in 10 years. (It’ll also be faster and cheaper.) Will the half-dozen series A startups powering your frankenstack be here? Maybe 🙃

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