Dinos Theodorou
@dinostheo.bsky.social
Software Engineer @buffer.com 🛠️ In 🇳🇱 from 🇬🇷 ❤️🏀 https://dinos.start.page
The sound of a Greek summer 🇬🇷 This is the τζιτζίκι (tzitziki), the cicada. Not to be confused with tzatziki 😄 It makes a sound all day long and as a kid I found it super annoying. Hearing it again after many years though, made me happy. It just made me realize how much I ve missed Greek summers.
Haaland's club scoring ratio is ridiculous, but the one with the national team feels unreal. No disrespect to Norway's team 🙏 , lots of talent there and I would love to see them go very far. Just wondering what his numbers would be, if he would be playing for Germany, Spain, France or England
2023 against Real Madrid, we lost on a buzzer beater. Tonight, against Real Madrid again, they almost stole it at the very end one more time. This sport and this team has taken 10 years off my life. But tonight we celebrate. Olympiacos are the EuroLeague champions of 2026. #Olympiacos #EuroLeague
I can say that the passive aggressive "wisdom" trait, is an understatement 😅
The best personal experience with AI, is when you are looking for the name of something. You describe how it looks, where you used it, saw it, etc. and gives you a few options. Then you can search in any language, market etc. My latest find is in Dutch, "wisselstift" 😅
Part 5️⃣: Duplicate comments (aka how we shot ourselves in the foot 😅) We almost nailed the data model for Buffer’s Community. Then we broke it and started creating duplicate comments in some edge cases 🫠 ⬇️
Part 4️⃣ : Comments trees Have you ever had one of these engineering role interviews where you have to build a tree? Something you most probably never have to do in your role? At @buffer.com, we don’t ask those type of questions. Yet, the irony is that we had to build one for Community 😅
Part 3️⃣: How we designed our ingestion pipelines (and why) Our ingestion design is intentionally dead simple 😅 At its core, it’s a classic producer → consumer pattern, with a few variations depending on how data is produced.
Part 2: When real-time integrations went down just after launch The first week after launching Community at @buffer.com, we experienced 2 major outages with our real-time integrations. Both were outside our control, but still high impact for a newly launched feature.
Part 1: How we switched ON Community across 6 networks and 8 API integrations On the 12th of November we launched Community at @buffer.com We launched across • Threads • Instagram, 2 different APIs • Facebook • LinkedIn, 2 different delivery mechanisms • Bluesky • X
Now that the dust has settled from @buffer.com Community launch, I’m starting a mini-series on the engineering work behind the data ingestion and processing pipelines. It’s more of a journal than a guide. Sharing what we built, why we chose certain paths, and what surprised us 😅
We've been going through some photos from when we first moved into our house and stumbled upon my home office setup from 2018. It took me about ~1.5 year to paint the room, lay the floor and buy a desk. And still I prefer coding from the couch, sitting in some weird position. 😅
Big day for our team at @buffer.com! We have just launched Community, a calm and focused way to manage your comments across Threads, LinkedIn, Instagram, X and right here on Bluesky. It’s live now and available on every plan, even Free. 💬
A calmer way to keep up with your community. Does this make sense for Bluesky? Yes, it does 😄 November 12, with @buffer.com. Stay tuned! 💛
Way back I decided to list both my formal name and my calling name on LinkedIn. Why? Because outside of Greece, almost nobody knows that Dinos is just the short version of Konstantinos (in Greek, “NT” sounds like “D”).
