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Who's over on Cohost, seems like my brand of weird, I'm Randall Koutnik over there as well

Bankrupting Twitter is not an eligible run submission for the second submission period.

People are starting to say Elon Musk isn't actually a real engineer. But he definitely said "I don't know why people think Twitter is so complicated. I could fix it in like a weekend." And then proceeded to fuck everything up. That's exactly like an engineer.

"I can't find my cookie" "Did you eat it?" "Yes"

Wild night ahead

So many "technical debt" discussions boil down to "the code makes the customer happy, but not the engineers" Our job is to make happy customers, not perfect code.

Randall Koutnik Hey I literally wrote about this very thing yesterday Same point just in a much longer form. dayvster.com/blog/harder-do…

I'm laughing at how many people are responding to this with "but sometimes tech debt impacts customers!" Yes, exactly! Fix that! If it's impacting customers, then you should make your customers happy - that's what we need to focus on.

💡All these can be true at same time: CDC director sucks. CDC scientists save lives. Elon Musk is half-ruining Twitter. Tesla makes good cars. EVs can catch fire—but less than ICE cars. SpaceX saved taxpayers $40 bil via 🚀costs -85%. SpaceX’s Dragon saves us from begging Putin.

Twitter ads are basically just shitposts now

Engineering Leaders 🤝 Frontend Devs "The hardest part of my job is alignment"

Say what you will about House Republicans, but they've gone above and beyond their core campaign goal of "get absolutely nothing done"

OH: "I swear, every company needs someone who just walks around giving developers permission to do their jobs well." Kind of describes my job.

HOLYBAAM⁷~RunJinTour:🇰🇷🇯🇵🇯🇵 Boris Beizer was the first to point out that software is hermetic in a way: there is what he called an “internal world” that is only accessible from deep technical context. Shadow initiatives are projects that only exist in that internal world. They don’t exist on the road map.

oh the irony

i hooked up chatgpt to a furby and I think this may be the start of something bad for humanity

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Try and think about ducks for the next thirty seconds, then come back and tell me if it worked