Frontend Developer; Coolify enthusiast; ex Esports Broadcaster
Breda, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Joined November 2010
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Cinzya retweeted
A short note for those who stumble upon @phibrowser while browser shopping, perhaps because @arcinternet decided to go radio silent in December 👇
Phi is NOT a vibe-coded piece of slop. Nor is it a one-person hobby project with no clear path to sustainability and an uncertain future. DRM playback (with Google's widevine module) is legitimately and natively supported. Try vibe-coding that.
There are about 20 living souls behind the making of Phi. Phinomenon Inc. was founded in SF in 2025, following a $10M Series A raise. We're building for the long haul, and we're still hiring aggressively btw, check out our Jobs page if you fancy joining the madness.
Code can be generated by agents, and we use the best ones out there. But taste cannot be prompted into existence. Neither can the thousand intricate little details, the thoughtful decisions, or the human craftsmanship that make a piece of software genuinely delightful to use. You can generate 1000 lines of code in seconds. Knowing which 10 lines shouldn't exist in the first place is another matter.
Phinomenon is not interested in who you are, not what you browse, not what you search for at 2am in the morning, and certainly not the things you'd rather nobody knew about. That's your business, not ours. Our business is to build the best browser and AI tools we possibly can, and to earn your trust by making something worth using. We put this principle right at the top of our Privacy, and we mean every word of it. Privacy shouldn't be a premium feature, a marketing gimmick, or something you have to take our word for.
Phi Browser is developed in the open. We take feedback seriously. We respond to GitHub issues with actual human beings typing on actual physical keyboards (an increasingly exotic concept in this industry). When something is broken, we try to fix it, and more often the fix makes it into the following week's release. No elaborate corporate theatre required.
Phi browser is a living, breathing browser, built by people who give a 💩, and getting better with every release. We're not here to cash in on a trend, ship a shiny wrapper, and quietly disappear when the next shiny thing comes along.
We're here to build something that lasts. (for receipt, by the way, the last thing I built is @FydeOSHQ 11 years ago and it is still kicking)
& we'd love for you to be part of it.
Cinzya retweeted
You "I don't read code" guys DO realize that 90% of people still do and are moving past you with quality code, AND using AI to drive this vehicle, right?
Unless you can prove(!) that your approach is worthwhile it will never be adopted otherwise.
ngmi w/ preaching & fake nrs
Cinzya retweeted
As long as AI is subsidized, there is this new tendency to reinvent the wheel and avoid using any dependency, even an OSS one.
In the long-run, you risk of ending up with thousands of internal tools that no one knows about or maintains, and the real cost of AI will make it difficult to replace them.
Cinzya retweeted
Getting so sick of:
"I got tired of [app] so I 'killed it' and created [shitty AI clone]"
No. You wasted > $200 in tokens creating slop hoping to make gains from copying the hard work of others.
Creating software is cheap. Maintaining it is not. Maintaining quality is everything.
So many devs and designers are scared right now about the value of their skills. If you ask me the value of being a good designer or engineer has never been higher.
Quality is what sets you apart.
Cinzya retweeted
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Cinzya retweeted
CAN YOU ALL STOP TALKING ABOUT HOW GREAT YOUR VIBE-CODED SLOP APPS ARE AND LET US SEE THEM FOR A CHANGE?
We will all be learning in coming weeks & months, that most human-made software:
▫️ Was really slow
▫️ Had many security vulnerabilities
▫️ Was under-specified and incorrect
AI will rewrite it all. Many times. It will make it fast, cost-efficient, and secure. It will think about failure modes we couldn't wrap our heads around.
It will prove, formally verify, load test, harden. It will turn memory-unsafe foundations into robust, optimized ones. If you ask, it'll thoroughly document it, teach you about it, make diagrams, animations, and slide decks.
In many ways, we are witnessing the true birth of software engineering.
Cinzya retweeted
For those that know me, I'm a huge Arc browser fan. I've spent the past couple of weeks testing out different browsers looking for a solid alternative that has almost all the features I'm looking for.
I think I found it with @phibrowser. It has all the features I love from Arc, it's built on chromium, and is native Swift, and best of all, it's open source.
phibrowser.com
Cinzya retweeted
A lot of people can't understand why companies still verify manual programming skills during job interview.
It's actually very simple: people who can write code are much better at using agents than people who can't. There is absolutely no exceptions to this rule.
Cinzya retweeted
My mind is being blown by some of the responses to this post?
Do people really think building your own in-house version of say something like Airtable is worth the $600/year that you end up saving?
Is there nothing better you could be doing with your time? No disrespect but wtf lol?
Cinzya retweeted
I’m sorry but to a real business $600/year is nothing and not worth vibe coding an alternative.
Cinzya retweeted
I don't understand why people DM me begging to get a job working on T3 Code when they've never contributed.
1. We're broke and can't pay more people
2. When we're not broke, priority 1 is paying the team more
3. There's a dozen+ awesome contributors ahead of you in line
Please don't open PRs on other peoples repos from obvious bot accounts.
Nothing is more frustrating in open source then getting PRs and replies from other AI agents. Have at least the decency to open the PR from your own account. We want to see and speak to the human behind it.
Remove your main @github account from your computer. Now.
Give your AI agent a separate GitHub account with minimal permissions per repo.
Let the agent create PRs, then use your main account to review and merge them.
Obvious advice, but essential in the age of AI agents.
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Cinzya retweeted
I still can't believe people are rewriting software into Rust for performance reasons without learning any Rust.
I'm optimizing a Go program right now and using Agents to do the work, but I have to steer them a lot or they get stuck in local minima, but I can only steer them because I have 10 years of doing performance work in Go.
If I was optimizing a Rust program I'd have to just keep saying: "make it faster" over and over again until it got stuck somewhere dumb.
Cinzya retweeted
Do you guys know how hard it is to add every feature people want without making your shit feel bloated and overwhelming?
Cinzya retweeted
This literally never happens and a "Founder" has never been right about anything.
Dutch sick leave has strict, time-bound reintegration rules and is assessed by the company doctor, not determined by the employee. If the employee doesn't reintegrate the company can withhold pay.
As a Dutch person let me tell you it's way worse than it seems.
The AVERAGE stress related absence is 250+ days. The AVERAGE burnout related absence is 300+ days.
While on sick-leave, you can return to work for just 4 weeks and the 2 year period **resets**.
Your employer is forced to assist you in this. They have to pay for doctors, experts, and so on. If they don't, you get an extra year's wages.
While on sick-leave, you can work a second job. As long as this is outside business hours of the first job, or the work is different, your first employer still pays you 70%.
Here's another cool one: you can go on holiday during sick-leave. The employer can force you to use your vacation days for that, but then they have to pay you 100% of your wages rather than 70% during that period.
Simple solution: you just work with contractors right? No, because a contractor can just claim employee status after getting sick. Many such cases.
All of this is obviously broken. If you say this you're met with half-baked "worker's rights" arguments, as you can see in this comment section.
Cinzya retweeted
I get so annoyed by posts like this.
People get sick. People get pregnant. Life happens. Unexpected things happen. And what exactly is the alternative? That people should just end up on the street because life didn’t go according to plan?
It’s genuinely wild to me that this is even a debate.
You can say whatever you want about Europe, and people certainly love to talk about our taxes. But you know what? Our schools are free. Healthcare is free or affordable. Universities are free or heavily subsidized. Childcare is affordable. And if you lose your job or get sick, there’s a system in place to help you get back on your feet.
That’s the whole point. We have a social safety net because we understand that life doesn’t always go as planned.
And I genuinely believe that having that protection should be a basic human right, not a privilege.
Now, if you want to talk about how Europe can make it easier for startups to grow, attract investment, or build successful companies, I’m all for that conversation. There’s plenty we can improve.
But please, let’s stop acting like our social welfare system is the problem.
It’s one of the things we should be most proud of.
European hiring rules are genuinely insane.
For example - if you own a company in the Netherlands and one of your employees gets sick, you are required to pay at least 70% of their wages for up to 2 years.
If they can't go back to work after 2 years and you haven't done enough for their reintegration, you pay their wages for 1 more year. And you can't fire them until after that extra year!
So happy found an alternative before this. 😅
I can recommend @phibrowser for everyone who is still looking for a very similar experience.
I did try Zen, but it is missing a few features (a limitation in Firefox / Gecko itself) that I couldn't compromise.
We've decided to sunset Arc on December 22, 2026.
That's not an easy sentence to write. We spent years building Arc and celebrating each and every release along the way: we have so much pride and love for what we made alongside the Arc community.
Our priority is to deliver best-in-class security for our members. Keeping a browser secure takes constant, dedicated work that is only increasing in the age of AI. Dia was built from the ground up to meet today’s security standards, so that's where our engineering and security teams will focus moving forward.
We've worked to make switching to @diabrowser as easy as possible for Arc members. Here's how:
· Your passwords, bookmarks, extensions and history come over to Dia seamlessly.
· Spaces, Folders, and Tab Groups are in Dia and import over with your data intact.
· Dia now surpasses Arc benchmarks in stability, speed, and security.
· The browser features you use in Arc are free in Dia, and the AI is optional.
Thank you for using Arc, for pushing us to make it better, and for building alongside us. The team that made Arc is the same team behind Dia, and some of our most ambitious work is just ahead. We'd love for you to be there with us when it lands.
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Cinzya retweeted
There must exists an app with PHP, deployed on Railway, with calls to cURL, with other services written in node that use Brotli compression running on a couple day old Linux, with their code self managed on GitLab
They are having a hell of a week
Cinzya retweeted
All Coolify v4 security patches are out now: v4.0.1, v4.1.3, v4.2.1, v4.3.24 and v4.4.7.
v4.4.7 shipped at 14:12 UTC, under 40 minutes after PHP 8.4.27 was published. We built PHP from the signed php source instead of waiting for the official Docker images (those are still not out).
If you can please update to the latest version v4.4.7 (Settings → Update).
If you have to stay on v4.0 to v4.3 you can run a special patch script.
These releases also update Node.js, cloudflared and Sentinel (rust).
