Mastodon has replaced my debug Twitter client on my iPhone’s dock
Dave LaMacchia
@dml
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iOS/macOS developer. Former twitter dev, former spam fighter. Defendant US vs. LaMacchia. Tooting toots tootly.
Really cool that people who have left twitter as part of the madness this week are getting together to do a day of volunteering (as we used to do as employees)
@manu “maniacal urgency” 👎
@bboerner2332 that’s a great question. Honestly not sure — and I don’t remember seeing this in our long backlog of minor feature improvements. I’ll see if I can find out, though!
@paul some day i would love to meet up in person and talk about the last decade (including the last two weeks!)
For those of you working on software, I hope you get to work with some of them in the future and I hope I get to again, too. They're the reason I stayed so long in this job.
Thanks to all the tweeps for an amazing decade! 🫡💙
When you're building a product for people around the world, you have to build something that can tolerate widely varying network conditions, client hardware configurations, and more. We did a good job, but there's always room for improvement.
A lot of us who built this service are now back on the job market. People who worked on this service have invaluable experience scaling a system to support millions of people posting and consuming content in real time.
People who know me know that I value remote work and support for remote was one of the reasons I joined the company. Having a global team meant that we were better structured to build a global product.
One of my earliest memories as a tweep was learning about how people around the world used Twitter. The features that were important to someone in Brazil or Japan were very different than Germany or the United States. This awareness shaped every aspect of the company.
Some people have complained that the company moved slowly, but I like to think that we moved with care and conviction. We conducted research and relied on data over instinct.
In my role I was also lucky to get to work with many non-engineering partners across Twitter. This gave me a huge appreciation for the many talented people who were necessary to keep the service running.
This included sales, marketing, trust & safety, bizdev, legal, compliance, research, data science, data services, and so much more. Supporting a service used by millions of people around the world and being in compliance with local regulations: that requires a lot of coordination.