Dinos Theodorou
@dinostheo.bsky.social
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Software Engineer
@buffer.com
🛠️ In 🇳🇱 from 🇬🇷 ❤️🏀
https://dinos.start.page
The best personal experience with AI, is when you are looking for the name of something. You describe how it looks, where you used it, saw it, etc. and gives you a few options. Then you can search in any language, market etc. My latest find is in Dutch, "wisselstift" 😅
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The machines took over. I'm the assistant now.
#ClaudeCode
15 days ago
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Part 5️⃣: Duplicate comments (aka how we shot ourselves in the foot 😅) We almost nailed the data model for Buffer’s Community. Then we broke it and started creating duplicate comments in some edge cases 🫠 ⬇️
about 1 month ago
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Part 4️⃣ : Comments trees Have you ever had one of these engineering role interviews where you have to build a tree? Something you most probably never have to do in your role? At
@buffer.com
, we don’t ask those type of questions. Yet, the irony is that we had to build one for Community 😅
about 2 months ago
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Part 3️⃣: How we designed our ingestion pipelines (and why) Our ingestion design is intentionally dead simple 😅 At its core, it’s a classic producer → consumer pattern, with a few variations depending on how data is produced.
about 2 months ago
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Part 2: When real-time integrations went down just after launch The first week after launching Community at
@buffer.com
, we experienced 2 major outages with our real-time integrations. Both were outside our control, but still high impact for a newly launched feature.
2 months ago
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Part 1: How we switched ON Community across 6 networks and 8 API integrations On the 12th of November we launched Community at
@buffer.com
We launched across • Threads • Instagram, 2 different APIs • Facebook • LinkedIn, 2 different delivery mechanisms • Bluesky • X
2 months ago
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Now that the dust has settled from
@buffer.com
Community launch, I’m starting a mini-series on the engineering work behind the data ingestion and processing pipelines. It’s more of a journal than a guide. Sharing what we built, why we chose certain paths, and what surprised us 😅
3 months ago
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We've been going through some photos from when we first moved into our house and stumbled upon my home office setup from 2018. It took me about ~1.5 year to paint the room, lay the floor and buy a desk. And still I prefer coding from the couch, sitting in some weird position. 😅
3 months ago
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need to test some more
3 months ago
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Big day for our team at
@buffer.com
! We have just launched Community, a calm and focused way to manage your comments across Threads, LinkedIn, Instagram, X and right here on Bluesky. It’s live now and available on every plan, even Free. 💬
3 months ago
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Trying a threaded post
3 months ago
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Getting last things ready for today 🗒️
3 months ago
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A calmer way to keep up with your community. Does this make sense for Bluesky? Yes, it does 😄 November 12, with
@buffer.com
. Stay tuned! 💛
4 months ago
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I'm just going to drop a test post here 🧪
4 months ago
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Way back I decided to list both my formal name and my calling name on LinkedIn. Why? Because outside of Greece, almost nobody knows that Dinos is just the short version of Konstantinos (in Greek, “NT” sounds like “D”).
4 months ago
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Firehose powered Buffer 💪
5 months ago
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Firehose power ftw 🙌
5 months ago
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Multiple images
5 months ago
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one with a GIF
5 months ago
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Sorry for the noise 😔 [video post]
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5 months ago
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And one with an image
5 months ago
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Now it should be ready - plain text test
5 months ago
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Yet another firehose test
5 months ago
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Added some basic stats on my dev env, from the firehose events processed and filtered. How meta is this, to post about the Firehose in order to test the Firehose? 😂
5 months ago
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Hermes + Firehose FTW
5 months ago
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Everything seems to flow in. I believe we have something ✅ 🧯
5 months ago
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With an image
5 months ago
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Last last message
5 months ago
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One last post, for now
5 months ago
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Debugging decoding 123
5 months ago
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Decoding seems to fail 🤔
5 months ago
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Debugging decoding 123123
5 months ago
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Post detected and decoded?
5 months ago
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Decoded message <----
5 months ago
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And another test
5 months ago
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Testing the firehose, so I will be spamming with test messages for a while. Sorry 😅
5 months ago
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Bluesky firehose test, 123 123 1111!!
5 months ago
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Building real-time integrations with social media platforms feels like trying to drink from a waterfall🚰 I’ve spent over 10 years working with data ingestion pipelines and third-party integrations. It’s not the only thing I do, and I’m far from an expert, but it’s an area I keep coming back to.
6 months ago
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🌱 The Cucumber Chronicles - Day 78: The First Harvest 🌱 We picked our first cucumber! 🥒✨ A little on the seedy side, but not bad at all. 😎 We’re drying the seeds now, ready to carry Gurkie’s legacy into the next cucumber season. 🌿♻️
6 months ago
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🌱 The Cucumber Chronicles – Day 75: The Leaning Trellis 🌱 Gurkie is on recovery mode! We trimmed the dead leaves and focused on saving what was still alive and it seems to work. The trellis we added last month is struggling though.
6 months ago
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reposted by
Dinos Theodorou
Buffer
7 months ago
One of our most requested features is here: Bulk Upload! 🎉 You can now upload up to 100 posts to Buffer in one go; straight from a CSV. No more copy-paste-repeat. Just plan, upload, and go. 💙 🔗 Full scoop:
buffer.com/resources/in...
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🌱 The Cucumber Chronicles – Day 58: Home Alone 🌱 It’s been two days since we left Gurkie home alone, and I’ll admit we haven’t missed him too much. 😅 He’s got some basic watering systems in place. I’m hoping they’ll hold up over the next two weeks while we’re away on vacation. 🤞
#CucumberChronicles
7 months ago
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I have an old Sony A5000 (10+ year old) that’s been collecting dust in my closet, and I’d like to repurpose it somehow, but I’m out of ideas.
#cameras
#makers
#tech
7 months ago
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reposted by
Dinos Theodorou
Buffer
7 months ago
We’re building a new public API to make integrating Buffer’s social media tools into your workflows easier than ever! 🎉 With a more extensible, developer-friendly API; we’re making it easier than ever to build custom solutions on top of Buffer. 🔗 Get early access:
buffer.com/developer-api
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🌱 The Cucumber Chronicles – Days 49 & 50: Difficult Moving to the New House 🌱 Gurkie’s move to the big new pot wasn’t as smooth as we hoped. In the process, some roots were damaged and a good portion of the sun leaves lost their strength.
#CucumberChronicles
#UrbanGardening
7 months ago
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reposted by
Dinos Theodorou
Buffer Engineers
7 months ago
We’ve leveled up our server environment at Buffer! 🚀 Meet BIBEs - our new solution that gives engineers faster feedback loops and more confidence when testing and shipping.
peteremil.com/buffers-bibes/
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Buffer's Engineering Team Has a New Superpower 🦸
Buffer’s engineers were losing time battling staging conflicts. Read more to understand how we addressed this in Buffer's Engineering team.
https://peteremil.com/buffers-bibes/
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🌱 The Cucumber Chronicles – Days 47 & 48: Little Jungle 🌱 Gurkie has officially turned into a little jungle. 🪴🌿 He’s completely outgrown his current pot, and it's getting harder to pretend otherwise.
#CucumberChronicles
#PlantParenthood
#Repotting
#LittleJungle
#UrbanGardening
7 months ago
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🌱 The Cucumber Chronicles – Day 43: Bites on the Leafs 🌱 Gurkie is growing strong. We’ve picked up a new rectangular pot and some trellis pieces. Tomorrow we are moving it to its new condo. 🪴✨
#CucumberChronicles
#PlantLife
#UrbanGardening
#LeafWatch
#BotanyAdventures
#GurkieUpdates
7 months ago
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@bsky.app
your firehose, is just raw power 💪. I love it
7 months ago
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