Chuck Carpenter

you're not your fuckin' khakis...

I have too many opinions to be so bad at graphic design.

@chuckcarpenter YOU. i need to message you about something. gifs only.

So I have this idea.

@ryanvogel @alexinexxx @badlogicgames @thdxr @EnoReyes @trashpandaemoji

@alexinexxx @badlogicgames @thdxr @EnoReyes @trashpandaemoji

not all spots on this shirt have been sponsored yet. i have bids by @thdxr ($1000 for "i hate opencode"), one by @EnoReyes ($1200, gonna use "i love Factory Droid"), and one by @trashpandaemoji ($500 for "i love trash panda") i think i can fit 2 more. all will be done via sharpie by my SO. reply or DM. i'm happy to sell the shirt to another bidder after the event. highest bid wins. all proceeds go to our charity cards-for-ukraine.at dm or reply below

@thoughtlesslabs @aarondfrancis I mean, up your game?

@aarondfrancis Accurate

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@AdamRackis I am not going because we can no longer occupy the same city any more.

Someone asked if I was coming to React Miami like bro yes I’d miss my wedding anniversary before I missed that

@kenwheeler Opus to plan and codex to build but also dudes like that are annoying because sometimes it’s slop.

i asked opus 4.6 max reasoning to create a cli for scaffolding from templates today. it had a detailed plan, it had perfect context. it had the tools to succeed. it made up all the dependency versions. seeing bugs i’ve never seen before. it doesn’t know how to fix them either

@levelsio Only for my American flag sweaters

🇵🇹 If you have ever dealt with any Portuguese business (and I have with many in my 5 years here) you know why Portuguese in Portugal simply do not care about work, some foreigners find that refreshing, but it results in a country where you can't find anyone to do work because nobody wants to work And when they do work, the work is generally bad, like imagine stepping into a time machine back to 1970s bad, they also can't follow the spec you agreed upon beforehand, and then when it's 60% done they disappear and ghost you When we did home renovatiom, you hire ppl, they arrive late at 9am (you agreed 8am), they then drive away to get materials, come back 11am, do actual work for an hour, then at 12noon announce they go for lunch, come back around 2.30pm, walk around a bit, do some work, and then leave early at 4pm It's not just construction workers, it's almost every interaction you have here with a Portuguese business, the quality is just low, the service non-existent or customer-hostile, and it's not the language, I speak fluent Portuguese, I'm respectful and friendly which is why I never ever had this amount of issues elsewhere in the world And I know it's not just my experience, it's everyone I know here, even Portuguese complain about Portuguese! It's not completely their fault though, the hostile tax system for both people and businesses literally gives you an incentive to never ever scale your business beyond I believe around €150,000/year, because you end up in a completely different category and tax tier that decimates you with more taxes and more bookkeeping So every business tries to stay small, and doesn't want more customers (how many times have I walked into a Portuguese cafe or shop and the staff or owner *sighed* "not another customer") Add decades of socialist governments that hand out free money to 50% of the country (and even the right wing parties here are socialist btw, they have to be or they don't get votes) and you don't have any incentive to work left Why work when you don't need to work? The majority of the young smart Portuguese people with actual ambitions understandably move elsewhere, because if there's no incentive to grow a business, there's also no jobs for them, and the whole thing becomes a vicious cycle of increasing poverty Which is why I said Portuguese in Portugal at the beginning of this tweet, because Portuguese outside of Portugal are ambitious, want to work, want to improve their lives! Bringing in lots of foreigners like me by the government as a way to pump money into the system, we spend a lot and it pays for the welfare, healthcare and retirements of Portuguese now, but it's not a structural solution (and we also instantly became the scapegoat for the government's decades of mismanagement) It'd be relatively easy to fix this though if people in Portugal would put on their thinking hat: 💡 Make Portugal a great place to start and run a business, model yourself after Singapore but with extremely low taxes (maybe 5-10%) for companies/startups and make it easy for them to hire (and fire) people, the money you lose in taxes you will get back in increased economic activity over time (but it will hurt for a little bit) Because even the foreigners who move here and start businesses get caught up in the reverse incentive spiral of Portugal: Why even work?

@jayair Because that guy seems to have taken over your company

@chuckcarpenter lol why

hey wait a minute

@SledgeDev @okinalog They sell those still?

@okinalog I’m rocking the big ball between the glove 80 today

Overseas people may not be familiar with it, but this is a mouse called "Trackball Mouse" that Japanese people love very much. Move the pointer by sliding your thumb without shaking your arm by a millimeter. The old generation of mice had a ball on the bottom, but I have the impression that it is a thumb version. The advantage is that it can reduce the burden on the wrist and save space. More than anything else, the smooth rotation of this ball is comfortable. If you have the opportunity, please give it a try. In addition, recently, even unknown devices beyond the scope of the mouse have appeared. "Nape Pro" You can place your favorite commands on all 6 keys, and you can also move the pointer. And it's super small. This may be an effective device for those who do not have a stereotype about the trackball mouse. Please be aware of it.

@pbertrand_dev @AdamRackis

@chuckcarpenter @AdamRackis Where did the bottle go

"A whole bottle of wine"

@SledgeDev No way someone in 2026 still gets paid to have that title

Only time it’s ok to treat someone like this is if their title is scrum master

@IterIntellectus Still two times too many

i refuse to believe any well adjusted man cries more than twice/year

ladies, if your boyfriend cries 3x/month that's your girlfriend

i have a joke but i don’t want to get cancelled…

@kenwheeler Let’s find a conference in Japan

i’ve seen enough, we need to tow japan adjacent to rhode island

@thekitze What about your pasty skin?

morning sunlight and creatine

@d_tao Think id have to know what it tasted like for old blue eyes.

1962 Jack Daniel’s OR 1940s blender Scotch Which are you drinking?

Gonna stop quote tweeting them, we need to ignore them so they don't think this behavior gets them what they want

At least 1/3rd of my feed is one-shotted and every one of their posts sounds like this