
The Cringeworthy Reality of Manual Posting as a Developer
So like, imagine you just shipped a feature right? And everyone tells you to tweet about it but then you realize your last 5 tweets got zero engagement except for that one reply from your college roommate asking if you're okay because you tweeted at 3am again. And now you're spiraling about whether anyone actually cares about your side project or if you're just screaming into the void while pretending to build in public. Which is weird because building in public is supposed to help but it just makes you feel more isolated somehow? I mean, I've been there too... or have I? Wait, what was I saying? Oh yeah, so I was talking to this dev friend the other day, and they were like 'I dont get why doesnt anyone engage with my tweets' and I'm like 'dude, your tweets are just a list of your commits, thats not a story'. But then I realized, thats kinda what we all do, right? We try to make our commits sound interesting, but really they're just... commits. Unless, of course, you're one of those de
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