before we rewrite the backend in rust can we at least try adding an index

Original content rewards payout was about the same as the old revenue sharing program. Since they culled 95% of the old program I expected some upward shift in payouts for those remaining but no, it was just a cost cutting effort. Sad!

What account?

Will have an intern fix it ;) (Or you can come fix it 😉)

Friends, X poasters, & most importantly streamers worldwide—we’ve done it: introducing a new 𝕏 Livestream API. Announcing our Official Stream Partners very soon. We will make the entire streaming experience great on the best platform on Earth.

timeline. ticker. trade.

If I can’t collect money from Timeline, then the association to X has little to no significance.

Last week, @X sued several people who abused Creator Revenue Sharing by operating a coordinated network of accounts, posting inauthentic content to manipulate engagement, and using multiple bank accounts to hide their scheme. We do not tolerate fraudulent behavior on X -- and will act forcefully to protect our platform and the earnings of genuine creators. You can read our lawsuit here: transparency.x.com/assets/le…

Remember how eagerly the press swallowed stories about how Twitter was going to crash after Elon bought it? How could they have believed that someone who could run rocket and car companies couldn't run a forum?

doesn’t mean I can’t troll, I don’t know who’s in charge now

Under The Hood is now widely available - appreciate the patience of those who've been waiting and asking about it. It already delivered unprecedented transparency, but we wanted to add more. Now you can see if legal demands from a country are causing your visibility to be limited, and which country.

Grok @bot is saying its first words! It has been a pleasure building this over the past few weeks with the GOATs @lingxi and @krgeorge. Grok Bot already took such a leap towards a more seamless interaction model, I am bullish on voice taking that even further. We will be rolling out as quickly as possible to everyone. There is still much more work to be done and we are looking forward to the feedback!

This stream quality is terrible. Can we get a YouTube stream?

Yep. Except: 1. This was about important internal tools. The team was stuck in some architecture nightmare of their own doing (writing it in rails but headless, with graphql api, and a SPA react app, constantly needing frontend engineers for changes). I call this kind of thing 'cosplaying an enterprise production app'. All that complexity was in the way and using straight rails was perfect in that case. 2. I make calls like this all the time. Usually someone on the team asks me to. They see what needs to happen but don’t want to be the bad guy. I’m happy to just make the call if I agree with the premise. Saves enormous amounts of meetings and change management etc. Sometimes this is jokingly referred to as Founder-mode-as-a-service here. 3. For ten years I’ve also run an internal podcast called Context, where I revisit decisions like these and explain the reasoning so everyone can learn from them. This is helpful to give people all the variables that were considered and why this was the choice made given the information available at the time. I want to teach how to make such decisions effectively without needing me. Sunk cost fallacy is a problem. 4. Any notions that Shopify is succcessful despite of me doing this, instead of because of it, will have a hard time making their argument come together I think 😄 the part of 'two weeks later tobi learns about...' is nonsese and the pivot of that project up there happens one of the more successful examples of interventions. But getting the company to work effectively with great architecture and low technical debt baggage into the right direction is literally the job, so guilty as charged I suppose. But there are always cope stories floating around like this because they are more fun, than saying 'somehow we needed tobi to stop doing silly architecture astronautics'. I can totally see that.

The smartest people and the dumbest people in the world are coming to X. Jensen Hoang took just 4 months to reach 1 million followers. Then there’s some guy named John Ternus who looks like he was made in California. He posted nothing but “Hello,” and that one post somehow got 90 million views and 1 million followers. 😂 And then there’s the dumb guy, Jacob Coxon, who apparently only worked at Anthropic for 6 weeks and is now warning that AI could kill all of us by the end of this decade. His post somehow got 164 million views and went viral worldwide. We can’t make this shit up.

Yep. Except: 1. This was about important internal tools. The team was stuck in some architecture nightmare of their own doing (writing it in rails but headless, with graphql api, and a SPA react app, constantly needing frontend engineers for changes). I call this kind of thing 'cosplaying an enterprise production app'. All that complexity was in the way and using straight rails was perfect in that case. 2. I make calls like this all the time. Usually someone on the team asks me to. They see what needs to happen but don’t want to be the bad guy. I’m happy to just make the call if I agree with the premise. Saves enormous amounts of meetings and change management etc. Sometimes this is jokingly referred to as Founder-mode-as-a-service here. 3. For ten years I’ve also run an internal podcast called Context, where I revisit decisions like these and explain the reasoning so everyone can learn from them. This is helpful to give people all the variables that were considered and why this was the choice made given the information available at the time. I want to teach how to make such decisions effectively without needing me. Sunk cost fallacy is a problem. 4. Any notions that Shopify is succcessful despite of me doing this, instead of because of it, will have a hard time making their argument come together I think 😄 the part of 'two weeks later tobi learns about...' is nonsese and the pivot of that project up there happens one of the more successful examples of interventions. But getting the company to work effectively with great architecture and low technical debt baggage into the right direction is literally the job, so guilty as charged I suppose. But there are always cope stories floating around like this because they are more fun, than saying 'somehow we needed tobi to stop doing silly architecture astronautics'. I can totally see that.