Do code | Matt Astachnowicz, building Shifto
Joined June 2021
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On the bus shamelessly spying on the boomer next to me’s phone (easy given XL font size), so far he’s:
- Berated an agent for not having inspected three of his Sydney properties this week
- Liked 3 Pauline Hanson slop-posts
- Accepted a friend request from a young European lady
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Devs are so extra man “character-by-character” as if most of it wasn’t built in a comfy chair at home, aircon, coffee in hand, lofi beats in the background. Fundamentally unserious industry
Mar 17
I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took.
Thank you for getting us to this point.
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Not denying the point but you can’t dunk on the founders by using the phrase “multi million dollar properties” in Australia my man - that’s just all houses within a 45 minute drive of any CBD
Mar 13
I genuinely don't know how Atlassian is still alive. Every dev on earth hates Jira. They've made nothing but stupid acquisitions. Loom. Trello. DX. The Browser Company. Just collecting startups like Pokemon cards.
Meanwhile the founders are sitting in their multi-million dollar properties while the company bleeds money. It's incredible.
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“eventually everyone must comply” and it’s just the guy currently speaking about certifications at the AWS meetup
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Used CC to write 1.5k lines (including full red -> green TDD tests) yesterday and when I ran the app literally nothing user-facing had changed 🙃
I am currently averaging about 10k LOC per day (35% of the lines are tests) so wow, 15k/day is #goals
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Civ engineers don’t pour concrete, mech don’t machine the parts, elec don’t assemble circuits - software is finally getting the difference between engineers and manufacturers
non-engineers realising that engineering was never about writing code will be humbled
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20 Dec 2025
His transformation into Alchemist is almost complete 🙏
19 Dec 2025
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1 Dec 2025
Justin Merendino’s influence in Perth must be taken seriously if we are to make it through this 💀
The rise was broad-based, with prices in Perth jumping 2.4% in the month. Prices in Sydney, Australia's most populous city, rose 0.5%, while in Melbourne they were 0.3% higher. #ausecon
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31 Oct 2025
Bro just suggested changing the date 💀
30 Oct 2025
Controversial idea. Australia Day is on a Monday next year. How about we just do a nationwide celebration on the day before and celebrate BIG. Barbecues and backyard cricket. Share a beer in the park with kids running around kicking footys and leave Monday to the miserable pricks
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16 Oct 2025
If you’re ever wondering if you’re inflating numbers I just had a company flex their YAUs in an interview
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8 Oct 2025
The saddest part is that the mlg in his username isn’t even anything to do with gaming …what happened to kids man
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20 Sep 2025
Just saw a 70 year old man hobbling through the streets in Rome wearing a shirt with big text saying “I’m data driven”
Tech has never been so back 😎
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20 Sep 2025
Most likely outcome:
> Tech companies drop h1b employees
> Don’t replace them with US employees (why would we? AI writes 90% of the code now 🤪)
> Costs plummet
> Profits rise
> Stock price through the roof
> Another $20trillion to Nvidia
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5 Sep 2025
We got C-level execs calling each other names on here, tech scene is so back 😤
4 Sep 2025
Triangle Man is a decent front end designer, but he knows nothing about networks. He keeps having to make this point because he has built Vercel on top of AWS which charges him for bandwidth so he has to pass that cost onto his customers or he'll go bankrupt. Cloudflare, on the other hand, built our own network so bandwidth is largely free for us. The best judge of the 'quality' of bandwidth is how peered an organization is. Here's a list of the most peered networks in the world: bgp.he.net/report/exchanges#…. Amazon is very good with about 600 networks it peers with, but Cloudflare has more than twice that number. That means that the default bandwidth you get for free from Cloudflare is actually more likely to be fast and reliable than the Amazon bandwidth you pay for from Vercel
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12 Aug 2025
Watching Monty Python
11 Aug 2025
reading shakespeare for the first time is crazy because you go “oh that’s where that comes from” every other page
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12 Aug 2025
Hell nah they added a GitHub contribution graph to the north-south motorway underpass 😩
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10 Aug 2025
Any advice for someone with many years in webdev potentially transitioning into fintech/HFT? What should I be looking into?
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