Obsessed with digital nuance.
Joined June 2026
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Unpopular opinion :
Obsessing over Linux is just showing off, using "working faster" as an excuse.
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Zach Lloyd
>Former principal engineer at Google.
>Helped build Google Docs, Sheets & Slides.
>Served as interim CTO of TIME magazine.
>Founded his first startup — it failed.
>Noticed the terminal hadn't changed since 1978.
>Co-founded Warp in 2020 to rebuild it from scratch in Rust.
>Backed by Sequoia, GV, and Dylan Field (Figma's founder).
>Warp adding $1M ARR every week in 2025.
>Currently CEO of Warp.
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Unpopular opinion :
Obsessing over Linux is just showing off, using "working faster" as an excuse.
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Ivan Zhao
>Grew up in Ürümqi, China.
>Learned to code competing in the International Olympiad in Informatics.
>Studied cognitive science & fine art at UBC.
>Moved to San Francisco.
>In 2013, co-founded Notion with Simon last.
>Product kept crashing then moved to Kyoto.
>Rebuilt everything from scratch in 18-hour coding days.
>Launched Notion 1.0 - hit no.1 on Product Hunt.
>Currently CEO of Notion.
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Ivan Zhao
>Grew up in Ürümqi, China.
>Learned to code competing in the International Olympiad in Informatics.
>Studied cognitive science & fine art at UBC.
>Moved to San Francisco.
>In 2013, co-founded Notion with Simon last.
>Product kept crashing then moved to Kyoto.
>Rebuilt everything from scratch in 18-hour coding days.
>Launched Notion 1.0 - hit no.1 on Product Hunt.
>Currently CEO of Notion.
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Jun 13
Hot take : your side project isn't unfinished because you're busy.
it's unfinished because finishing is hard and starting is fun and your brain knows the difference very well.
you don't need a new idea.
you don't need a better stack.
you need to do the boring part.
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Jun 12
spent 3 hours debugging last week. i'm still not over it.
>at first i was in denial convincing myself it isn't my code.
>then anger took over . I was like who wrote this?
>then came the bargain told myself if this works i will write clean code forever.
>then i just sat there . opening and closing vs code for no reason searching "how to start a farm" for about 30 seconds.
>then i found it. i forgot to add await.
Ever happened to you?
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Jun 12
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Patrik Collision
>Born in rural Tipperary, Ireland.
>Won Ireland's Young Scientist of the Year at 16.
>Taught himself to code as a teenager.
>Founded & sold his first startup Auctomatic at age 19.
>Moved to San Francisco.
>In 2010, co-founded Stripe with his brother John.
>Built the API that let developers accept payments in a few lines of code.
>Stripe now processes $1.9T in payments annually.
>Currently CEO of stripe.
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Jun 11
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Jon Yongfook
>got a $1,000,000 offer and turned it down cold.
> built Bannerbear completely alone and owned every last piece of it.
>No investors, no co-founder, no one to answer to . Just him, his shear will , and a product quietly compounding to $40K/month.
>Did the math and kept his freedom to built it.
What you would have done if you were in his place?
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Jun 11
unpopular opinion : variable naming is the most underrated skill in programming.
i used to write things like:
const d = new Date()
const arr2 = arr.filter(x => x.s)
then i'd open the same code 2 weeks later at midnight and have absolutely no idea what i wrote 😭
now i write like my future self is reading it at 2 am with no context. because they are.
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Jun 10
types of developers you meet in every team .
- the " Let's ask claude" guy
- the over-engineer
-the "it works on my machine" guy
-the silent genius
-the google warrior
-the "let me just refactor this real quick" dev
which one are you?
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Jun 10
Day 1 me vs Now me
i used to take as many variables i want not knowing what will happen to my code . i thought i was enjoying and confident lol. It was exciting tho.
now i can't write a variable without thinking will i be able to understand if i am awake midnight checking my code.
What changes you have done in yourself or your coding style?
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