software engineer @vercel. co-founder @propeldatacloud. formerly @twilio. computer science student of life

Joined May 2008
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Jun 7
Seeing some hate on Conventional Commits recently. Welcome to my talk “Conventional Commits is fine, actually” and follow-up talk “It may even be better than ‘whatever bullshit you’re doing right now’”
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Jun 7
“Boo-hoo, scope is optional” — it’s just not relevant for a lot of single-library repos that use Conventional Commits. If you’re in a monorepo, use it. If you want to consistency, enforce it!
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Jun 7
IME, forcing contributors to think about whether a commit contains a feature addition (feat:), bug fix (fix:), or behavior-preserving refactor (refactor:) and labeling it as such is good hygiene
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Jun 1
useful command when using github to review: document.querySelectorAll('button[aria-pressed=true][aria-label=Viewed]').forEach(button => button.click())

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Jun 1
i started building an alt firmware for the monome teletype (and grid) using claude code. it’s a sequencer based on markov chains
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May 30
We are integrating with this. It’s very convenient (just send a header back)
Google Chrome is rolling out device-bound session credentials to all users. Session cookies get cryptographically tied to your device, so stolen cookies can't be replayed from a different machine. Attackers who exfiltrate your cookie database get nothing usable.
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May 29
cranking new boc
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May 27
I wish @SlackHQ can ship this feature to move a channel message into a thread, then I'll delete "thread-please" emoji from our workspace
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May 9
Cool Runnings was good, finally watched it
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May 9
I’m not watching Mortal Kombat II until screening in airplanes
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May 9
I wish this flight I’m about to get on had Mortal Kombat II
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May 9
Would I watch Mortal Kombat II on a flight? 100% yes above all else
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If you insist on fully visualizing every piece of math you learn, eventually visualization becomes the ceiling instead of the ladder.
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Apr 29
Shanghai has all the experimental coffee flavors
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At this point, this is just irresponsible. Yes, coding agents are leading to an increase of software production, but we are not seeing a similar push or increase in software quality. If Anthropic focuses on safety and it believes software engineering is going away, then it needs to be doing much more to improve how we design, build, test, and maintain software (aka software engineering). Increasing the production of unreliable, poorly designed, and unverified software directly undermines safety. Claude Code is claimed to be "fully written by AI". In the last two months, it took three separate postmortem-worthy failures and user complaints to surface what their own testing missed. Yesterday users were being over billed by hundreds of dollars. Software engineering isn't ready to go away and there is not enough progress to argue that case. I am certain Anthropic would argue that AI progress in other domains is strongly dependent on having proper safeguards in place. I can't wrap my head around the cognitive dissonance when it comes to software. PS: Mythos (may) improve software security, but that is only a subset of safety.
Apr 25
Anthropic CEO (Dario Amodei): "Coding is going away first, then all of software engineering." What do you think about this?
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Umbrella Corporation 5 year work anniversary present
This Japanese pen is currently going viral for containing a REAL parasitic worm living in herbal oil
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Apr 8
still playing RE9 but it’s sort of giving MGS4 vibes. there are some good mechanics and moments in RE9, but RE7 and RE8 felt fresh in comparison
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Apr 8
ime there's always been a gap between industry code and the "beautiful" code you learn or write for a personal project… that gap is growing
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Mar 30
If you opt out of face scan to board BA flight they will make you go last. Why the punishment?
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