THANK YOU. I remember when he randomly beefed an Australian creator who made a series of videos about how react content is cancerous, and made the most incoherent points

he's sometimes a copyright troll while most of his content is reading blog posts verbatim

The tech-bro vibes are strong. But it also feels like he kinda knows what he's talking about re. Technical stuff.

He is indeed reasonably competent. I just don't think we should glorify enormous assholes (except for me)

I initially put “Theo”, “competent”, “enormous asshole” together and assumed you were talking about Theo de Raadt (OpenSSH author). but nope there’s another tech bro Theo who fits that description?!

just discovered web design is Theo’s true passion

no but theo the rat is extremely based

got me at the end

Yes. I was terrified bsky would be a lot like the twitter tech scene of the last 3 years. I’m soooooooo glad it was not

not just you

hes like 50/50

better than thor but lots worse than, say for example, tris no boilerplate

"tris no boilerplate" has kicked any other name out of my mind also yeah theos explainers are really dense and useful but I've never vibed with the more discussion style videos

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck9F...

I believe I've probably binged the entire channel at some point

i can’t introduce myself with „Hi, my name is Tris“ out of fear of snapping into cadence and autocompleting to a no boilerplate video. thanks other Tris.

the venn diagram of smarmy techbro, 'read random things I saw online' youtuber, and purveyor of completely unstable tech stacks... the dark triad of people I don't want to get stuck with at parties

i think people just dont like youtubers for some reason. having an opinion too loudly seems to be kind of a turn off nowadays

Fuck that

i keep seeing people be like "i find this youtuber annoying" and i sort of get it but also i think it sort of comes with the territory of trying to maintain views it might even be advantageous to be somewhat unlikable as the hate comments cynically drive engagement

(this is a joke about voicing an annoying opinion)

haven’t watched his channel in a while but he’s been nice to me whenever we’ve met in person at conferences

one of those very aggressive people that won't own it

i only know him from this youtu.be/s4BFIDYYYCA

he's a huge asshole. seems to be pure hatred and dismissiveness. someone should make theo but not an asshole

If I had a retire or whatever amount of money now this is probs what I’d do with my free time. But video content is also tiring af

I'm making more video stuff and WOW it takes forever. I'm starting to like it more than blogging actually

I found a sweet spot in highly dense 10-15 minute screencasts that are doable with reproducible builds and replicated commit steps per concept built up with passing green tests. Not really a thing that’s done anymore that I see often at least

an absolute dipshit yea

He’s smart so dipshit might overstate but irritating, oh yes. Insufferable, for sure. Annoying nearly to the point of physical pain. I’d ageee with that too.

"Annoying to the point of physical pain" is accurate

I feel like he complains a lot, but he’s also where I get a lot of condensed AI news, so… lol

I feel more tolerant of his vibes than of prime’s paternalism