Aaron Francis
@aarondfrancis
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Sincere poster. No cynicism. Dad to two sets of twins! - https://t.co/yL0V3eZKDL - https://t.co/wIdhAlsrlX - https://t.co/hM9ogEIevT - @MostlyTechPod
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Joined February 2009
📣 My next course, Introduction to Postgres, is going to be 100% free! The kind folks at @supabase are sponsoring it so that everyone can learn how to use Postgres confidently. But that's not all... I'm changing things up a bit. I'm making a bet. Watch the video to see more!
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Immense planning and technical precision was required for this absolutely preposterous (but real) view: I captured my friend @BlackGryph0n transiting the sun during a skydive. This might be the first photo of it's kind in existence. See a video of this moment in the reply 👇
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The article by @steve_tenuto on how to host videos through R2 and HLS is so underrated I got faster and cheaper video hosting basically in an afternoon
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My perennial reminder of advice from @aarondfrancis: "Publishing your work increases your luck" This is the reason I have code running on Rolling Stone's site, why I've gotten to work with the folks at NASA and most recently why I got a very interesting email from someone
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🤑 Greed Is Good 🤑 This week @aarondfrancis's got his head in the business game and Ian thinks it’s time for “New Aaron” to watch Wall Street, buy a three piece suit, and internalize Gordon Gekko’s advice.
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Building serverless vector search on top of object storage (like S3). Fast and 10x cheaper. Pretty fascinating idea. I talked with @turbopuffer CEO @Sirupsen about how they're pulling it off New episode out now! https://t.co/61vVqwJYnP
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What are we even doing? This is so embarrassing
Chad IDE (@cladlabs) is the brainrot code editor. AI coding takes 1–5 min between prompts—too long to ignore, too short to start something new. Chad integrates your brainrot (X, IG, Stake, Tinder, etc) into your agentic coding workflow and helps to manage your
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Zoomers trying to explain the history of PHP & HHVM to me
PHP, of course
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Spent my reading time this morning copying some highlights into my new notebook. Absolutely sublime!
Got some Japanese stationery. Ready to make it my whole personality 🥰
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PHP, of course
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Got some Japanese stationery. Ready to make it my whole personality 🥰
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I'm not sure if I'll do anything with it, but I had this idea for a portfolio/personal website 🤔
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16 years ago today I went to the on-campus doctor at A&M for a normal appointment and got diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. A few days later I spent the night in the hospital learning all about my new life and how to give myself shots. Grateful to God for seeing me through it
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106: We've Got ARR! https://t.co/Nu1FEIinFv Ian and @aarondfrancis talk about 20 years of HelpSpot, Aaron's big week on Twitter, and....talk about burying the lede....Aaron's got ARR! Subscription revenue! It's happening!
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The brick building has broken containment
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I'm very proud of this podcast I did with Paige a little while back! We talked all about fatherhood, marriage, and masculinity. A bit off the beaten from my normal content, but far more important than databases (sorry)
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If you think AI-replies are a good idea, scroll through some of the replies to this tweet. It's obvious from OUTER SPACE which people are human and which are bots.
Focus is all you need! You don't need a new note taking system. You don't need to start over again. You don't need to listen to another podcast about it. You don't need productivity hacks. Unfortunately, you just need to focus.
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Had a brief chat with @aarondfrancis this morning after reading his newsletter bit on Games of Luck and Games of Skill, which snowballed into me unpacking my thoughts on how that applies to the Game of Life:
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On Games of Luck, Games of Skill, and the Game of Life.
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I'm still in the preface and he's already dishing out some wisdom. Thanks @aarondfrancis I had just finished a book and was ready for another.
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