aamir

@axmir.bsky.social

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look I’m gonna be completely honest a lot of you are not making “arguing on the internet 24/7” look like the most appealing lifestyle

overreacted.io traffic since i restarted writing surprisingly for me, twitter gets relatively few hits despite most of my audience supposedly being there. i guess nobody enjoys my writing there anymore reddit works really well. word of mouth seems to work best of all

100k unique visitors, 154k page views direct: 40k visitors
reddit: 13k
google: 12k
hn: 9k
twitter: 6k
bsky: 6k

i am declaring martial law on bluesky. i am now the president here and you cannot post without my permission. do NOT post

The first step in my career was learning how to do things, but it took understanding why I was doing them for my career to take off. I went from completing tasks to asking why, then understanding the impact of my work, and eventually gained the ability to find the most impactful things to work on.

After a day and a half of back-and-forth we figure out that the reason this person can't get our Electron app to work is that they're using Windows Server 2012

When I was in high school, the guidance counselor used to speak really scornfully about easy electives like "underwater basket weaving" but I have contemplated this for 35 years, and I still think underwater basket weaving sounds really hard.