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Daniel Coulbourne

@coulb.com

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I run a small software dev shop called Thunk.dev with some of my closest friends. I live in Philly, grew up in Japan, and was raised by hiphop and the internet. ❤️ Laravel

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Daniel Coulbourne @coulb.com · 1d

40 requests per 5 seconds or 360 per 60 seconds, BTW

Daniel Coulbourne @coulb.com · 1d

Using undocumented APIs be like...

I wrote a command to test the rate limit of an undocumented API

Daniel Coulbourne @coulb.com · 1d

Heard, heard

Daniel Coulbourne @coulb.com · 4d

In the uber baby! See ya soon

Daniel Coulbourne @coulb.com · 5d

It's just so fucking fast.

Daniel Coulbourne @coulb.com · 5d

Looking forward to testing this out this weekend. I've been a Zed maxi for 6 months of so:

github.com/croustibat/z...

GitHub - croustibat/zed-for-laravel: ⚡ Complete Zed Editor configuration for Laravel development - snippets, formatting, tasks & more

⚡ Complete Zed Editor configuration for Laravel development - snippets, formatting, tasks & more - croustibat/zed-for-laravel

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Laravel @laravel.com · 8d

This is the biggest update to server management since 2014.

◆ Instant Laravel VPS servers
◆ Zero downtime deployments
◆ Team terminal sessions
◆ Free on-forge domains
◆ Health checks, Heartbeats, & real-time metrics

Daniel Coulbourne @coulb.com · 13d

My theory is that "working class white people solve a murder with the help of big-city cop/journalist" shows only exist so British actors can learn interesting American accents.

Every time I watch one of these shows its Mid-Atlantic-Mushmouth/Cajun/New-England (the weird accents) starring 4 Brits

Daniel Coulbourne @coulb.com · 13d

We live in unprecedented 🫨

Daniel Coulbourne @coulb.com · 14d

There is no more proven way to generate last-mile motivation than this song:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM9x...

Nipsey Hussle feat. YG - Last Time That I Checc'd (Official Video)

YouTube video by Nipsey Hussle

www.youtube.com

Daniel Coulbourne @coulb.com · 15d

Someone born the year Country Grammar came out will be defending their doctoral thesis this year.

Reposted by Daniel Coulbourne

Andy Newhouse @techenby.com · 16d

I’m thrilled to announce that I will be speaking at Wire⚡Live next month! As someone who has used Livewire since its initial release, I'm excited to share the tips and tricks I use to write production-ready Livewire apps.

Come to Buffalo to help make the first Wire⚡Live great!

Reposted by Daniel Coulbourne

Dianna Russini @diannarussini.bsky.social · 17d

The Philadelphia Eagles just have “IT” this year. Unreal. That was awesome to watch.

Daniel Coulbourne @coulb.com · 17d

I’m sorry the eagles just blocked two field goals in a row to win the game, and the Jets just blocked one to pull ahead. What is going on

Daniel Coulbourne @coulb.com · 18d

An interesting sentence from the person yelling outside my house:

“I just got off the fuck work and you’re sitting here doing nothing.”

Daniel Coulbourne @coulb.com · 26d

Can't wait to be in Buffalo! I just gave @calebporzio.bsky.social my talk title.

"Livewire.pdf, and Other Abominations"

wire-live.com Buy a ticket, you hooligan!

Daniel Coulbourne @coulb.com · 27d

Totally. It's nice to be able to breathe when it's scary. Keep killin' it!

Daniel Coulbourne @coulb.com · 27d

And to be in a situation where we needed to pay contractors without getting paid ourselves we would have to have a client ghost mid-contract (which has happened) but 90% of the time, even if we hit a sales cliff, we are in our leanest spending position because contracts ended on both sides.

Daniel Coulbourne @coulb.com · 27d

At the end of the month we distribute everything in the checking account over 50k. Savings stays at 100k. So at a given time we have 130-180k in cash.

Our hard expenses are ~30k/mo. To not ramp down contractors quickly, call it 40k.

Usually 40-70k in invoices.

So 3-6 months cash + 1-2 invoiced

Daniel Coulbourne @coulb.com · 27d

So far we have never hit one of those horrible cliffs where we have to start eating our bankroll, but any time something gets a little wonky I’m grateful not to be under extreme pressure to fix it in the next 14 days or miss payroll.

Daniel Coulbourne @coulb.com · 27d

Thunk is similar, we have to place bets every 2-6 months. To protect us from existential risk, we:

1) keep $100k in cash earning 4% in an account that we never touch (bankroll)
2) require deposits up front from our clients, de-risking payment problems
3) bill time/materials to avoid estimation risk

Daniel Coulbourne @coulb.com · 27d

I have friends who professionally play in poker games with $1000 buy-ins, and they force themselves to maintain a poker bankroll of $70k to keep their “risk of ruin” below 1%.

Daniel Coulbourne @coulb.com · 27d

As a recreational poker player who knows a lot of professional poker players:

The only way to bet successfully, even if you have an edge (your bets are more likely to succeed than fail), is if you have a sufficient “bankroll” to sufficiently decrease your “risk of ruin”.

Daniel Coulbourne @coulb.com · 28d

Recession indicator. One of the better 2/5 players in the Philly poker scene is getting a job at the mall selling Rolexes.

Daniel Coulbourne @coulb.com · 29d

Nobody seems more bitter than a guy chirping about Android features from 2019 in the comments of an Apple announcement.

A valuable lesson about the perceived value of correctness when yucking yums.