Tessa van Dijk

Shipped our v1 in 6 weeks with a stack I'd be embarrassed to show anyone. Spreadsheet backend, manual onboarding, me personally DMing every user. Got to 40 paying customers before writing a single real line of infra. Do things that don't scale, seriously. #startups #programming

Build-in-public update: migrated our Next app to the app router. Week one was pain, week three the data fetching is genuinely cleaner. Net positive but budget more time than the migration guide claims. #web #startups

Your password manager getting breached is bad. Your password manager getting breached and you reusing that master password somewhere else is how a bad day becomes a catastrophe. The vault is one layer, not the whole castle. #technology

"It works on my machine" is just the developer's version of "the customer was happy when they left the store." #programming