Hackers' Pub

Hackers’ Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Robert Roskam @raiderrobert@mastodon.social

7/10/2025, 1:00:34 AM

Public

The 10x engineer is occasionally real. There are just some engineers better at avoiding 10x time traps.

Lots of engineers go off and do stuff that takes a lot of time that doesn't matter:
- Implementing a software catalog for your 3 services
- Starting an internal RFC process for your 5 person team
- Having a 1-hour standing "architectural" meeting
- Creating "future-proof" abstractions with no immediate use case

The "10x" engineers avoid pitfalls that make others 10x less productive.

If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://mastodon.social/users/raiderrobert/statuses/114826230799845030 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)