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Engineering leader Vercel. Formerly LaunchDarkly, GitHub, Etsy, Firebox

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My "All postmortems are blameless, but this one is especially so" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

28.10.2025 23:06 πŸ‘ 124 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

(guy who's about to invent fermentation) nah i bet it's still good

01.09.2025 15:55 πŸ‘ 2206 πŸ” 280 πŸ’¬ 45 πŸ“Œ 13

Wholesale stealing Single Point of Excellence for future use…

14.06.2025 22:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Balatro Timeline β€” LocalThunk It’s been approximately 3 years since I began work on Balatro - and in that time I have personally documented almost nothing about the journey. This is something that has bothered me since the game la...

I've had parts of this written down for a while - but I thought it was about time to document the detailed version of what happened during Balatro development

localthunk.com/blog/balatro...

07.03.2025 02:22 πŸ‘ 4202 πŸ” 1055 πŸ’¬ 112 πŸ“Œ 103

Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?"
Me: "That's the documentation deliverable."
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Me: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Me: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"

23.02.2025 21:12 πŸ‘ 5343 πŸ” 1489 πŸ’¬ 91 πŸ“Œ 94

Mark is good people

20.02.2025 00:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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DeepSeek FAQ DeepSeek has completely upended people’s expectations for AI and competition with China. What is it, and why does it matter?

How yesterday has been brewing for months: stratechery.com/2025/deepsee...

28.01.2025 15:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you see this, quote with a photo of a bridge from your gallery.

27.01.2025 16:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

what idiot called it DeepSeek and not DeepSix? Certainly it feels like that's what it's going to do to plenty of folks in the valley's ambitions.

25.01.2025 17:06 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Literally every company now
Literally every company now YouTube video by Eleanor Morton

Literally every company now

youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...

17.01.2025 13:07 πŸ‘ 6413 πŸ” 2385 πŸ’¬ 105 πŸ“Œ 220
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On Misery Not every fun activity or moral good is a waste of time.

Wrote about the irrationality of the boss revolt mcfunley.com/on-misery

11.01.2025 16:18 πŸ‘ 100 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 11
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My game Stimulation Clicker is out now, enjoy :)

> neal.fun/stimulation-...

06.01.2025 16:09 πŸ‘ 1123 πŸ” 298 πŸ’¬ 97 πŸ“Œ 116

Mugs or stickers. Court-appointed postmortem lawyer.

03.01.2025 01:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œFounder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking I’ve never been good at β€œhot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot …

I (finally) wrote up my thoughts on "Founder Mode" and the Brian Chesky morality tale about how he turned around Airbnb company culture.

This has made it into the Silicon Valley water table; it must be dealt with. There are some good nuggets within; let's dig them out.

charity.wtf/2024/12/17/f...

17.12.2024 17:56 πŸ‘ 295 πŸ” 94 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 37
Embedding paragraphs from my blog with E5-large-v2 Xeophon suggested that E5-large-v2 as an embedding model that was worth a closer look.

Interesting to see how much is now possible on (an admittedly high end) laptop, rather than a data center of servers til.simonwillison.net/llms/embed-p...

14.12.2024 23:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
In search of a faster SQLite - blag Researchers at the University of Helsinki and Cambridge attempted to build a faster SQLite using modern programming paradigms like io_uring and disaggregated storage. They demonstrate up to a 100x red...

avi.im/blag/2024/fa...

14.12.2024 17:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Underrated ways to change the world How to get a good heart unstuck

Someone on substack shared this as the best thing they read recently. I don't have a ranking system but it's pretty damn good indeed open.substack.com/pub/experime...

14.12.2024 12:46 πŸ‘ 66 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 8

Ben Folds and Jeremy Irons should get together and start a dry cleaning business.

They could call it Ben and Jerry's.

10.12.2024 18:29 πŸ‘ 13245 πŸ” 1338 πŸ’¬ 370 πŸ“Œ 108
All I Want for Christmas Is Home Alone
All I Want for Christmas Is Home Alone YouTube video by Bell Brothers

Bell Brothers never miss. Kevin McCallister gets about youtu.be/X7-zid7QD_Y

22.11.2024 17:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The definitions of false positives and false negatives here are useful, I’m stealing them for later.

17.11.2024 19:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That looks great. Firm handshake.

17.11.2024 19:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

(I ditched it a couple of years ago, making my account private, but was looking to delete my archive after hearing new nonsense about training AI models.)

17.11.2024 19:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What’s a good way of deleting all my old tweets? After manually deleting it’s now not showing any posts for my account, but I know I wasn’t done.

17.11.2024 19:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

the onion acquisition of infowars with the full support of the sandy hook families is such a candle in the darkness

15.11.2024 04:44 πŸ‘ 921 πŸ” 70 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 1

I'd say eighteen books in this set of twenty occult tomes deal with getting ghosts either into or out of things or people.

Possession really is nine tenths of the lore.

15.11.2024 08:53 πŸ‘ 49 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

Here’s a few things you can expect temporarily when there’s an outage:

- β€œInvalid Handle” everywhere
- Likes don’t seem to work (they’re just being slow)
- Your post isn’t showing up (same, just being slow)
- Random errors or blank screens, the usual app broken stuff

14.11.2024 17:03 πŸ‘ 10472 πŸ” 2875 πŸ’¬ 256 πŸ“Œ 453

Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do

- gas station attendant
- gardener
- door to door salesman (for a day, never went back)

11.11.2024 02:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Calagator: Portland's Tech Calendar

I haven’t made it out to much, but I do check on calagator.org to see what’s upcoming.

09.11.2024 03:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

BOSS: you're late

ME: *grabs cup out of his hand* it's pronounced "latte" but thanks

28.08.2024 16:28 πŸ‘ 1777 πŸ” 253 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 6

The best thing about British democracy is when the actual head of government has to stand in a leisure centre at 5 am beside a guy with a bin on his head to find out if he still has a job.

05.07.2024 03:42 πŸ‘ 858 πŸ” 217 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 4