i use tech to solve real problems—let's talk. mechanical + software engineer. founded: Bractlet (acq. '21), microsub ($20k mrr). house music producer + DJ.

Austin, TX
Joined September 2021
just found a picture of a robot i built 20 years ago (wayyyy before we had raspberry pi and the like)
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cooking a new beat i'm super stoked on. minimal tech house / indie dance. goal is to release it on friday 🥁 🫴🪵🔥
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has anyone i know ever succeeded at recovering an X account that was wrongfully suspended? and how? cc @DanielleFong
it's amazing how my personal account (@thisisbrians) was suspended with zero reasoning, and yet this fkn shit is allowed to continue to operate freely. good game, @Support. you guys fkn suck. "If everyone is verified, no one is verified."
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read this (👇) tweet, and then read the playbook. @hnshah is an absolute machine and you should listen to him 🫡
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downshift.eth retweeted
You can learn a lot about a product by watching someone try to use it without the person who built it explaining anything.
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it's amazing how my personal account (@thisisbrians) was suspended with zero reasoning, and yet this fkn shit is allowed to continue to operate freely. good game, @Support. you guys fkn suck. "If everyone is verified, no one is verified."
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most American corporations expect absolute fealty from their employees but will drop you sooner than a bad habit if it seems to be in their economic interest. we have weaponized sociopathy at the literally largest possible scales. extremely Orwellian 🫠
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Earth is a spiritual escape room
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holy shit i had a successful interview for a job i actually want
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one of the biggest classes of mistakes i see earlier stage startups make:
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doing things "because Google/Meta [pick your FAANG] does it that way" sweetie, your shop operates at less than 1/10,000th the scale of the big dogs; you don't need a fighter jet to check the mailbox.
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the most important skills in building successful software products are non-technical. full-stop. AI is not the panacea it is claimed to be. if you disagree, you'll find out later.
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your magnus opus is merely a precise sequence of taps away keep clicking, anon.
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LeetCode is a bad interview strategy for almost every software role because: 1) it prioritizes computer science knowledge over knowledge of crafting software (software engineering). these are distinct. 1/
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2) even if computer science problems are actually involved in the role, there are pre-existing (and open source) libraries and systems that have already rigorously solved them. 3) it doesn't resemble the day-to-day job whatsoever 4) it's explicitly adversarial. 2/
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overall, i view it as lazy gatekeeping that produces tons of false negatives for otherwise stellar candidates. and it's mean. be better
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"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans" –John Lennon, Beautiful Boy
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some people don't appreciate irony (please hire me)
Replying to @0xdownshift
Also dawg take down that LinkedIn pfp
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if you use splice, you are not a real producer. you should create transistors from scratch. if you'didn't invent the microphone, you don't deserve to record. real musicians scoff at Guitar Center. their sounds descend directly from heaven, because they are the one and only God
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i love when a job description brags about long hours so i don't waste my time applying
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girls will really post one selfie and then put "model" in their bio
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