Xavier's Engineering Leadership course is truly excellent, but I'd love to see more participants from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in management. So, I'm putting $20,000 toward free tuition over the next 6 months for the right folk 🚀 Email me: [email protected] x.com/xshay/status/1…

A few years back with @SquareEng, I wrote our incident response guide. Now it's hosted publicly so you can use it too if you like: outage.party

Fun study that asked people questions about things like where on a bike the pedals, chain, etc were. Surprisingly many people - even frequent cyclists - made basic errors when a bike wasn't actually in front of them: link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…

Good opportunity to remember that bravery comes in all shapes and sizes: nytimes.com/2018/06/27/obi…

We need to research more aggressive climate solutions, and YC is ready to fund: carbon.ycombinator.com

RIP

New article! “Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud” — a result of my long-standing collaboration with Ink & Switch. inkandswitch.com/local-first.ht…

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

There has been an iteration in YC’s culture over the past few years driven primary by our founders both new and old. Last night was a special moment in that process.

Wow a yung bkase (httpz/🪶) caught in the wild.

"The Adobe Media Server communicates on the IANA-assigned port of 1935" ... having fond memories of when I discovered I could simply ask and some Internet authority would give me a number I could use for our protocol...

Awesome work austin petersmith!

BTW, the video for this talk is up! deconstructconf.com/2019/dan-luu-f… I'm not a particularly good speaker, so I'd actually recommend the linked transcript instead of the talk itself unless you strongly prefer video or audio, though 😅

New post: USV Climate Fund usv.com/writing/2021/0…

I'm super excited the "Actors" proposal was accepted by swift-evolution last week. This is a major step forward for improving memory safety / design patterns for task based concurrency on CPUs. Swift is the first mainstream language to embark on this! 💪 github.com/apple/swift-ev…

“As you can imagine, a multi-million line Ruby codebase over time starts to depend on Ruby-the-implementation, not just Ruby-the-language.” sorbet.org/blog/2021/07/3…

“The difference between working once and working every time is huge” evrone.com/james-gosling-…

My team at Pinterest is hiring web engineers. Lots of fun challenges for people who enjoy fun challenges: careers.pinterest.com/careers/detail… DM or [email protected] if you have questions.

Pinterest’s UI library was released. It’s built specifically for our design language. Feel free to peruse and learn! github.com/pinterest/gest…

OG table layout: reddit.com/r/dataisbeauti…