@matt__makes

engineer & founder / obsessed about user experience & performance

 Brussels, Belgium
leadsrover.io
Joined January 2026
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yesterday i crossed 3k followers 🎉 for everyone new here, a bit about me: i'm Matt, 30, from Belgium 🇧🇪 software engineer for 8 years, now trying to build SaaS and sharing the journey you'll also see some gym, BJJ and random life stuff in between thank you all, and say hi if we never talked :)
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if you know you know 💪
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when i see how stores have to barricade themselves because of looters in Brussels, i feel privileged to make my money on the Internet
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adapt or get left behind :)
Gergely Orosz
@GergelyOroszOct 23
I think many of us working in tech tend to forget that the reason software engineering vs other engineering fields pays (a lot!) more, is a lot more flexible (WFH/remote), and has better perks: Because this field changes much faster than other engineering fields. The premium is because fewer people are able/willing to pick up new technologies, methodologies so quickly. But the field had ~10-20 years of stability, and so lots of folks forgot this is why a premium exists. And that AI is just another tech wave: software engineers who pick it up and master it will generally fare better; those not will struggle a lot more.
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yesterday evening i noticed some strange Google Cloud bills coming in, i asked Claude to investigate whether someone was abusing my backend but we couldn't find anything this morning i woke up with a nice email from @Railway telling me that all my API keys were compromised what a nice start of the day :)
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two weeks ago i answered to that tweet without really expecting anything this morning i got a nice surprise when checking my mailbox thank you @zenithquinn, you really made my day 🙌
Quinn
@zenithquinnOct 4
Aight, who wants some stickers?
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wish all my evenings were like this
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lunch break in Madrid 🇪🇸
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starting the day with some no gi BJJ don't blink or you might miss the foot sweep 👀
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acai, fruits, granola & coffee ☕️ from Honest Greens, Madrid what’s your way to start the day?
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my question is: does this ever stop? i think the brain is very adaptable and can get better at handling certain things the more you practice them but it’s been months now since my days shifted from coding to managing agents, and i still feel tired from all the context switching
Tibo
@tibo_makerOct 14
AI was supposed to make us work less I've never been this tired in my life most days I have up to 10 agents running at the same time. one fixing a bug, one writing pages, one refactoring something I already forgot I asked for, 3 other I have no idea what they are doing but i suppose i ask it? and I jump from conversation to conversation all day compared to 5 years ago, I probably context switch 100x more by the end of the day my brain is fried. completely toasted. nothing left, not even for the people I love I call it the fried brain effect thought it was just me but almost every founder I talk to lately says the exact same thing we got superpowers, and somehow the pressure only went up. if you can ship 10x more, you feel like you have to ship 10x more. every single day I don't have a solution honestly I have no idea where this goes from here anyone else feeling this?
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BJJ and coffee in Madrid 🇪🇸
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8 years ago, when i started working as a software engineer, the book on my desk was Clean Code back then the implementation was the job. naming, small functions, clean abstractions. that's what made you good today AI writes and reviews 90% of my code, so that part matters a lot less than it used to AI can suggest an architecture too, but i'm the one who has to understand the tradeoffs. where the data lives, what happens when something fails, what i give up with each option so this is the book on my table now i think designing systems is becoming the most important skill for engineers. the job looks a lot more like software architecture than coding
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monday gym done ✅ back squat, overhead press & deadlift wishing a great week to everyone 🚀
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underrated blessing: being able to travel and build your own thing from anywhere grateful every day :)
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i replaced doomscrolling with replying to 862 strangers on X for 7 days, here are the results: i've always heard replying was the best way to grow on X, so i tested it. every time i reached for my phone to doomscroll, i wrote thoughtful replies instead, checking each person's profile so the reply was actually relevant. the numbers: - starting point: 1,716 followers - 862 replies (~123/day) - ~3h per day, 21h total - 564 new followers (+33% in a week) was it worth it? it's the same 3 hours i was already burning on the feed, except now they compound :)
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interesting and useful read by @sasha_zelts
Sasha
@sasha_zeltsSep 28
My $200 Claude sub ran out in 2 days. The cause was one line in my CLAUDE.md. It said to use sub-agents for parallel work. Opus 5 mostly ignored it. Opus 5.5 did what it said.
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played paintball today, still less painful than getting ghosted by a customer
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last week, the X algorithm made one of my post blow up and reach 250k views, but how did this impact my SaaS numbers? in 2 days, I received 1500 more unique visitors compared to baseline 7 people started a free trial (with credit card asked upfront), and 5 people booked a demo meeting with me finally, one person tried to pentest my backend and make me waste money by calling API endpoints that use LLMs, thankfully these were already behind a rate limiter 😅 pretty happy with these numbers as the post was not promotional, this is just the result of people being curious and checking my profile
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