VP of Engineering at Converge Marketing
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Joined May 2010
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Jose Soto retweeted
Lo único más poderoso que el odio, es el amor.
The Only Thing More Powerful Than Hate is Love. @sanbenito #AppleMusicHalftime
Jose Soto retweeted
lex interviews the greatest figures of our time
and me
I'll be doing a podcast at the end of the month with @ThePrimeagen all about programming. He is a great programmer and hilarious human being 🔥
In general, I have a bunch of super-technical podcasts coming up on programming… probably with @dhh (creator of rails), @taylorotwell (creator of laravel), @rough__sea (creator of node & deno), @rauchg (creator of next.js), @ashtom (ceo of github) and many more (sorry if I forgot people, going off the top of my head).
This post is primarily about software, but in general, my goal is to celebrate great engineering and great engineers from all walks of life 🚀🔥
Oh and if anyone knows how to get in touch with Linus Torvalds, let me know. Obviously, I would love to talk to him. See my profile for the link to contact me.
As part of all this, here are the languages & frameworks I'm trying (for each, building something simple but sufficiently complicated to test its cool features):
- rust
- go
- zig
- elixir
- next.js & vercel
- laravel
- rails
- mojo
- deno
- jai
- odin
Also, I have to force myself to try neovim at some point 😭🤣
For context, I'm a python & c/c++ guy, plus php, js, sql (of all flavors) for webdev. I tend to favor focusing on building fast (and fun) vs the language/tool choice, but there is still a lot to learn from each of these technologies.
Outside of the podcast, one of my goals for 2025 is to ship some code (system, service, app) that will bring value to some number of people's lives (whether I do this solo or as part of a team). This makes me happy. I love talking to people and I love programming. I've been doing a lot of the former, and this year I hope to add to that a bit of the latter too ;-)
If you have questions or suggestions, for languages or for technical guests, please let me know.
Jose Soto retweeted
It's aliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive!🙌
We're not done this week! 🔥
Today on Laracasts, join @mattstauffer as he reviews the full process of building a real-life SaaS from scratch, while accounting for the odd and inconvenient feature requests we often receive along the way.
laracasts.com/series/lets-bu…
Jose Soto retweeted
The todo application. 😅
But, seriously, here's the thing...
When Laravel and Rails developers say "full stack", they mean something totally different than when Next or Remix (React Router?) developers say "full stack".
In Laravel and Rails, it means there are built-in, opinionated solutions to things like validation, interacting with a database, authenticating users, scheduling background work, sending an email.
In Next and Remix, it seems to mean that there is simply the bare ability to run code on the server at all and an advertisement for Clerk. 🙃
From my perspective, Next and others are really, really great at the GET part of web development. Get data from some backend, show it on the page quickly. 👌
They are not mature for POST, PUT, and DELETE, especially when things start getting non-trivial.
And, I don't think this is really unique to Next or a single framework. It's something that seems to pervade current JavaScript as a whole - note the current proliferation of "starter kits" that try to bring some sanity to the full-stack story.
I think this has had actual consequences in the JavaScript ecosystem...
Rails and Laravel were built with the express purpose of allowing a single developer to build the next GitHub... or the next AirBnb... or the next Shopify. Prototyped from beginning to end.
That's what I'm passionate about. Empowering a single developer or small team to build something amazing.
I built the 1.0 of Laravel Forge, Envoyer, Vapor, Spark, and the backend of Nova by myself.
$40M in revenue over 10 years from my home office. That's an empowering tool for a solo founder.
I don't see a full-stack story in JavaScript yet that would allow me to realistically sit down and build something like Forge or Vapor from start to finish. Maybe I'm missing it. 🤷♂️
The MVP start-ups I do see fully built on current JS meta frameworks are much thinner. The stereotypical API call to an AI service. Not much meat on the bones.
Laravel / Rails have been building their modern front end story with Hotwire, Livewire, Inertia, and more... Next and others are building their modern back end story.
Smart people on both sides working on these problems, so I'm confident we'll both get to where we want to go. 💪
Jose Soto retweeted
✨ We're hiring a Design Engineer and Staff Software Engineer to work on some ambitious new projects with us at @tailwindcss.
🏕️ Fully remote
💰 $275,000 USD
tailwindcss.com/blog/hiring-…
Jose Soto retweeted
We just tagged a new release of Takeout (v2.6.0), which adds Buggregator as a tool. Buggregator is the "Ultimate Debugging Server for PHP." It comes with a VarDumper server, an SMTP service, XHProf, and much more. All in a single container. Enjoy! ✌️
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"It's surprising to me that there isn't more pressure yet to cut costs at companies paying such princely sums for their SaaS software. But I think it's coming. Someone is going to look at those margins and see an opportunity." world.hey.com/dhh/it-s-not-j…
Jose Soto retweeted
php is not *that* compelling on its own...
but laravel makes it a blazing fast, productivity focused stack that lets you crank out killer full-stack web applications like a fucking machine
can go into more detail anytime 😎
Jose Soto retweeted
I minted and combined two bears today on honeybears.io .
I'd like to nickname this one: "Cooking w/ Chef Poppy!" 😄
@fnnch
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Jose Soto retweeted
I’d like to do a #BestBearContest.
The fun of my NFT project is that you can create new and unexpected bears. Post your best creations with hashtag #bestbearcontest. I will go through in a week and pick five winners to receive a free fine art print of their bear! Note that you must actually own that bear to win.
#fnnch
Jose Soto retweeted
I'm excited to share my Honey Bears NFT project! It is a collection of digital bears that can be combined and re-combined to create new bears. I will also offer those who combine the chance to turn them into prints. This will live at honeybears.io soon. More info in🧵
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❤️ I'm proud to be sponsoring @LaraconUS via @OhDearApp
🤞 @LaraconUS is sold out, but you still have a chance of going.
🎁 I’m giving away one ticket to a random person retweeting this tweet!
And to monitor all your sites, look no further:
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Jose Soto retweeted
There are few things that piss me off more than engs being disrespectful towards designers. I think this might be one of them.
Downplaying @iamharaldur's work because he found ways to work around his physical disability? Horrifying. Grow the fuck up @elonmusk.
The reality is that this guy (who is independently wealthy) did no actual work, claimed as his excuse that he had a disability that prevented him from typing, yet was simultaneously tweeting up a storm.
Can’t say I have a lot of respect for that.
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After sending this tweet, Elon spoke directly with the former Twitter employee and subsequently admitted that he was wrong and apologized to the former employee. Elon also invited him back to Twitter.
twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…
Jose Soto retweeted
If you didn’t get a Crash Punks VIP Pass, drop those .btc domains and RT. Maybe you’ll get lucky? ~24hrs
