Sean Fioritto
@planningforaliens.com
Director of Product Engineering at https://sofwarellc.com/. Former bootstrapper. Author of https://sketchingwithcss.com. I write at https://planningforaliens.com
Stormtrooper VLOG #3: Cold Duty on Hoth – with TK-42Greg
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June 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
In the past year we've had both kids with serious issues staying multiple nights in the hospital and a few extra trips to the ER on top of that just for fun. Trying to remind myself there are some pretty good reasons for the slower progress on ... like literally everything else in my life.
June 17, 2025 at 2:40 AM
In the past year we've had both kids with serious issues staying multiple nights in the hospital and a few extra trips to the ER on top of that just for fun. Trying to remind myself there are some pretty good reasons for the slower progress on ... like literally everything else in my life.
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Nobody picks up a guitar and expects to get able to play a whole song without every practicing.
And yet, most people freak out when they try learning a new business skill, expecting to instantly be good on your first go.
Amazing to think how many good things we don't have because of this.
And yet, most people freak out when they try learning a new business skill, expecting to instantly be good on your first go.
Amazing to think how many good things we don't have because of this.
June 8, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Nobody picks up a guitar and expects to get able to play a whole song without every practicing.
And yet, most people freak out when they try learning a new business skill, expecting to instantly be good on your first go.
Amazing to think how many good things we don't have because of this.
And yet, most people freak out when they try learning a new business skill, expecting to instantly be good on your first go.
Amazing to think how many good things we don't have because of this.
☕️ Spending a few hours on a presentation covering DoD CyberSecurity alphabet soup so I can head off a bunch of bad takes on sales calls or status meetings. I'll thank myself later.
What are all my friends spending their time on today?
What are all my friends spending their time on today?
June 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
☕️ Spending a few hours on a presentation covering DoD CyberSecurity alphabet soup so I can head off a bunch of bad takes on sales calls or status meetings. I'll thank myself later.
What are all my friends spending their time on today?
What are all my friends spending their time on today?
Find myself in the surprising position of having a job, as in working as a W2, for the last 5 years. Did not see that one coming. And then on top of that I love my job. WTF. Though that's probably the only combination of those two things that would work.
June 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Find myself in the surprising position of having a job, as in working as a W2, for the last 5 years. Did not see that one coming. And then on top of that I love my job. WTF. Though that's probably the only combination of those two things that would work.
As product manager of a SaaS pondering the impact of LLMs on our business I ask myself:
1. What does it mean for our business model if devs are 10x faster?
2. What would I do differently if I was building FORGE today?
3. What problems do our customers have where LLMs can give them super powers?
1. What does it mean for our business model if devs are 10x faster?
2. What would I do differently if I was building FORGE today?
3. What problems do our customers have where LLMs can give them super powers?
June 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
As product manager of a SaaS pondering the impact of LLMs on our business I ask myself:
1. What does it mean for our business model if devs are 10x faster?
2. What would I do differently if I was building FORGE today?
3. What problems do our customers have where LLMs can give them super powers?
1. What does it mean for our business model if devs are 10x faster?
2. What would I do differently if I was building FORGE today?
3. What problems do our customers have where LLMs can give them super powers?
Procrastinating a workout in 2025:
I need to lift weights… oh! but before I can do that I really should track my numbers so I should quickly vibe code a little weight lifting tracking app and THEN I can finally get to lifting weights.
I need to lift weights… oh! but before I can do that I really should track my numbers so I should quickly vibe code a little weight lifting tracking app and THEN I can finally get to lifting weights.
May 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Procrastinating a workout in 2025:
I need to lift weights… oh! but before I can do that I really should track my numbers so I should quickly vibe code a little weight lifting tracking app and THEN I can finally get to lifting weights.
I need to lift weights… oh! but before I can do that I really should track my numbers so I should quickly vibe code a little weight lifting tracking app and THEN I can finally get to lifting weights.
AI CEOs: We'll have programmers in a box that you can rent for cheap by the end of the year! A new country of geniuses in a data center in a few years!
Apple: We'll have an LLM version of Siri by 2027.
Apple: We'll have an LLM version of Siri by 2027.
March 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
AI CEOs: We'll have programmers in a box that you can rent for cheap by the end of the year! A new country of geniuses in a data center in a few years!
Apple: We'll have an LLM version of Siri by 2027.
Apple: We'll have an LLM version of Siri by 2027.
A post in my feed this morning, "Vitest is so much better than Jest!"
For a second I had that JS ecosystem FOMO, "Damn, already so invested in Jest"
Then I self-soothed, "I can write a little AI automation to port to the new hotness."
Then I had sinking feeling of doom about AI taking my job.
For a second I had that JS ecosystem FOMO, "Damn, already so invested in Jest"
Then I self-soothed, "I can write a little AI automation to port to the new hotness."
Then I had sinking feeling of doom about AI taking my job.
December 19, 2024 at 1:44 PM
A post in my feed this morning, "Vitest is so much better than Jest!"
For a second I had that JS ecosystem FOMO, "Damn, already so invested in Jest"
Then I self-soothed, "I can write a little AI automation to port to the new hotness."
Then I had sinking feeling of doom about AI taking my job.
For a second I had that JS ecosystem FOMO, "Damn, already so invested in Jest"
Then I self-soothed, "I can write a little AI automation to port to the new hotness."
Then I had sinking feeling of doom about AI taking my job.
I just blew $10k hiring a consultant to do this type of work for me because I didn’t know he was full of shit and he accomplished nothing. Looking forward to learning the basics here so I can at least know what I don’t know!
gonna write (record!?) about more AWS stuff
got a little IAM series cooking
here’s #1 👇🏻
cloudcasts.io/iam/iam-basics
got a little IAM series cooking
here’s #1 👇🏻
cloudcasts.io/iam/iam-basics
IAM Basics
There's a lot to say about IAM. We're going to say some of it - to get a sense of what the moving parts are.
cloudcasts.io
November 16, 2024 at 7:32 PM
I just blew $10k hiring a consultant to do this type of work for me because I didn’t know he was full of shit and he accomplished nothing. Looking forward to learning the basics here so I can at least know what I don’t know!
This also hints at something that’s maybe not obvious because of the stories we tend to prefer to tell but is at least anecdotally true in circles I run in: most successful entrepreneurs are already highly skilled in the problem domain they start their business in.
“Dr. Sarasvathy suggests that entrepreneurs actually create their own odds of success by taking incremental steps that move them closer to their goals.”
This article is a decade old and still very good. <a href="http://davetroy.com/posts/effectuation-how-entrepreneurship-really-works" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://davetroy.com/posts/effectuation-how-entrepreneurship-really-works
This article is a decade old and still very good. <a href="http://davetroy.com/posts/effectuation-how-entrepreneurship-really-works" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://davetroy.com/posts/effectuation-how-entrepreneurship-really-works
Effectuation: How Entrepreneurship Really Works
Are entrepreneurs born risk-takers? Is there something about their personalities that predisposes them to take risks that others can’t stomach? Can entrepreneurship be taught? According to en…
davetroy.com
November 16, 2024 at 7:29 PM
This also hints at something that’s maybe not obvious because of the stories we tend to prefer to tell but is at least anecdotally true in circles I run in: most successful entrepreneurs are already highly skilled in the problem domain they start their business in.
Reposted by Sean Fioritto
I feel like I should have merit badges for all the social networks I've been through, like: "You just had to be there for the Twitter 2013 tour man, was wild."
November 16, 2024 at 11:57 AM
I feel like I should have merit badges for all the social networks I've been through, like: "You just had to be there for the Twitter 2013 tour man, was wild."
I turned off Twitter a few years ago and never wanted to turn it back on but I miss some old friends and I'm so excited to reconnect!
Maybe the real Twitter was the friends we made along the way
November 15, 2024 at 4:59 PM
I turned off Twitter a few years ago and never wanted to turn it back on but I miss some old friends and I'm so excited to reconnect!
Reposted by Sean Fioritto
Maybe the real Twitter was the friends we made along the way
November 9, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Maybe the real Twitter was the friends we made along the way