Reminds me of my favorite real disaster scenario story: > Man digging with excavator beside datacenter > Hits buried fiber, hard cut > Panics > Raises bucket and reverses > Takes out backup aerial fiber

Thinking today about my freshman Computer Science professor who noticed I wasn't in the final exam and called to check up on me. I was a troubled kid, but I'd just written down the wrong time. My entire life could have gone differently if he hadn't shown that little bit of care.

The hard parts of software are what come next. when you scope, integrate, scale, upgrade, instrument... when you extend it, understand it, and maintain it. Over the entirety of its lifetime. Generative AI isn't making this easier. If anything, it's making the real work harder.

Feeling burnt out on tech. What's your favorite project from the last few years?

With FreeBSD on Firecracker, you could boot the entire operating system for each network packet, and still have a better internet connection than most people had when FreeBSD 1.0 was released.

It’s finally time to release my newest project: followthecrypto.org This website provides a real-time lens into the cryptocurrency industry’s efforts to influence 2024 elections in the United States.

My first "welcome to San Francisco" moment was finding out, at their wedding, that my friends Joanna & Kylie had once been John & Kyle from rural Georgia, who met and fell in love in an IRC channel for Sonic Adventure DX

Someone much smarter than me has done some digging and found in the Twitter API that certain users are whitelisted and allowed to say slurs. I bet you’ll never guess who got added on the white list. Robert Evans (The Only Robert Evans)

Twitter just activated a setting by default for everyone that gives them the right to use your data to train grok. They never announced it. You can disable this using the web but it's hidden. You can't disable using the mobile app Direct link: x.com/settings/grok_…