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X bio ideas for developers
Example X bios for developers, then a generator that builds yours from four short answers. Everything fits the 160-character limit, and nothing you type leaves your browser.
Examples
All made up, all under 160 characters. Steal the shape, not the words.
Backend engineer. Postgres, queues and the bugs between them. I post what I learn fixing things.
96 / 160Writing Rust at a payments company. Performance notes, small benchmarks, occasional rants about YAML.
101 / 160Frontend dev at a 20-person startup. CSS that works on the first try (rarely). Talks at local meetups.
102 / 160Self-taught, now staff engineer. Writing about the gap between tutorials and production code.
93 / 160iOS developer, 3 apps on the App Store. Swift tips and the occasional App Review story.
87 / 160I build developer tools and break them in public. Open source maintainer, slow responder.
89 / 160
Write yours
- What you do, what you post85 / 160
Writing Rust at a payments company. Posting about databases, performance and tooling.
- Proof first116 / 160
10 years shipping backend code. Now writing Rust at a payments company. Notes on databases, performance and tooling.
- Dot list107 / 160
Developer · Writing Rust at a payments company · 10 years shipping backend code · Mostly reads docs for fun
- Learning in public111 / 160
Writing Rust at a payments company. Writing down what I learn about databases, performance and tooling as I go.
- With a human detail107 / 160
Writing Rust at a payments company. Mostly reads docs for fun. Posts on databases, performance and tooling.
- Topic-led113 / 160
Databases, performance and tooling. 10 years shipping backend code. Currently writing Rust at a payments company.
What a bio for developers has to do
Developers decide whether to follow based on stack and level. Name the languages or areas you actually work in, say what kind of posts to expect (tips, debugging stories, opinions), and skip the long list of every technology you have touched. A GitHub or personal site link does more than a list of badges.
Once the bio is set, the posts have to match it. The tweet ideas for developers page has prompts and opening lines to start from.
Questions
Should I list my tech stack in my X bio?
Two or three of the main ones, yes. A full list reads like a CV and is hard to scan; the main ones tell other developers in a second whether your posts are for them.
How long can an X bio be?
Up to 160 characters. Links in the bio are shortened, and the profile also has separate fields for a website and a location, so you don’t need to spend bio space on either.
Does this tool use AI?
No. It arranges your own answers into common bio shapes, so every word is yours. That’s on purpose: a bio written by a model tends to sound like everyone else’s.
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