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Jun 11
Show me your fleet of 10K satellites that don’t work and then I’ll believe you… that you’re not qualified to talk about any of this.
Oh, wait, you don’t even have one that proc s your point, cool we can just skip to the right conclusion!
Jun 10
This is funny because those nuclear reactors in space were allowed to internally hit 3,272°F while radiantly shedding 150kw worth of heat.
Elon plans on shedding the same amount of heat - 150kw, while keeping his processors at a cool 140°F.
A satellite component at 140°F (333 K) radiates roughly 1,000 times less heat per square inch than that reactor core. Meaning Elons' radiator would need to be 1,000 times larger to actually work.
**The radiator would need to be the size of a football field**
The radiator alone would be roughly as big as the international space station. And thats not including the solar panels or AI computers yet.
It'll never work. But sure - give @elonmusk your life savings for the SpaceX IPO. Hes never lied before....
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what a time to be alive
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Jun 9
There's a newspaper in DC that has one of the most hideous WordPress Laravel decoupled Postgres database mutant schlock backend "applications" I've ever seen in my life.
When pressed as to why this abomination exists their CTO says, with a straight face:
"Because WP code is terrible."
All at once I knew two things:
1.) Our client (the agency bidding for the overhaul) was definitely not gonna get the job.
2.) That company is gonna stagnate and flail about for a few more years before ultimately dying.
And all the while they will believe that one of their highest paid team members was helping the cause, while he's quietly poisoning the well.
(In fairness newspapers are failing everywhere so it's probably a lost cause in any case)
But the point here remains the same:
There are a shitload of "technical" people in positions of power who are actually not technical at all, they're just more technical than their peers.
So they regularly amaze and delight everyone in the office like they're fucking Houdini because... they successfully power cycled the Brother Multifunction printer.
This is really *really* dangerous and unfortunately it's been true my entire professional life.
When I was 19 years old I told my dad that he needed to seriously reconsider the advice he was getting from one of their vendors.
"But they've been doing our computer systems for 15 years, what do you mean they don't know what they're talking about?"
The truth was that they had been doing AS400 shaped jobs for 15 years.
And if you know anything about AS400s you know they don't really require ANY ongoing care and feeding.
"So where is all this work coming from?!?? 15 years of them doing nothing!?"
It was coming from them taking every problem they could possibly find and turning those problems into brand new shiny AS400 shaped solutions.
If you're a business owner who is non-technical I would suggest an enormous amount of skepticism that the people supporting you in this context have your absolute best interests in mind.
Are they continually moving the needle forward?
Or are they shoe-horning every problem into the sputtering prototype they sold you a few years ago?
If you have amazingly skilled technical talent you have to realistically ask yourself:
"Why are they working at this dead end paper?"
Newsflash: It's because they can't get a job anywhere else.
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Jun 6
1/500th of my credits please!
Jun 6
We're introducing Simi, the fastest way to generate whiteboard-style explainer video with just a prompt or docs.
On the fastest tier, we can generate the video in 20 seconds.
500 Credits(~8 minutes) free for each QT & comment.
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Jun 5
Do we honestly believe that the criminals in charge are going to try to actively put themselves out of the job?!?
"Oh, Claude said less grift?!? Well in that case here's my bribery account Quickbooks login..."
The US Federal Gvt collects $5.2 trillion in taxes per year but can't deliver working healthcare, functional infrastructure, or effective regulation. Meanwhile, a 22-year-old with Claude just built a working prototype of a government service in an afternoon.
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Jun 4
Ok this is absolute gold.
I hadn't seen this edit before and it's making me cry laugh
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Jun 4
This fucking weak.
Hey @wpengine this is how you actually compete:
I genuinely "gun to my head" believe that almost every managed WordPress customer should move to @RocketDotNet
And if for some reason they can't make you happy... they'll probably tell you to talk to me.
Jun 4
Hey, @wpengine, you blocked our @RocketDotNet account days ago and aren't replying to tickets, chats, or phone calls to unblock it. Would be great if you did the right thing here, we have customers using @WordPress to migrate.
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Jun 2
Who does a LOT of search and replace (of domains) in WordPress?
Think: Staging pushes, migrations from one host to another, development domain to production *AND* you deal with insanely large databases?
(AKA Hours and hours of toil and misery)
Cuz I'm yer new bestie...
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May 20
So I used to buy a lot of real estate domains and thankfully I let all but a handful lapse.
One I held on to is EverythingAgent.com
It's not short but... I don't know. Seems like somebody might want that one.
What with people building agents that can do everything.
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May 20
Game, set, and match, Miss Navratilova!
May 20
Bragging about how much software you’re shipping with AI is like holding down the shutter button and bragging about how many photos you took.
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May 15
Useful.
Fast company, Mike and Raquel!
May 14
Quick update! There is a refresh to the site in motion and now I’m on the WCUS web team to help out however I can. ✌️
Thanks to @raquel__karina for getting me connected!
Contribution > Complaining
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May 14
"The happy-go-lucky version of yourself from the early days is gone, replaced by someone who can often only relate to other founders who have survived similar maelstroms."
Fucked for good then. Copy that.
May 14
WTF is going on? Anthropic and Elon. Cerebras IPO. Ramp at $40BN.
I sat down with @jasonlk & @rodriscoll to discuss the deal, along with the biggest news in tech this week:
- Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google
- Cerebras IPO: The Breakdown
- Ramp's $40BN Latest Valuation
- Hubspot Tanks, Monday Rockets: WTF is Happening in Public Markets?
My notes below:
1. Foundation Made the Investment of the Decade with Cerebras
Jason argues that Foundation’s success with Cerebras is a masterclass in “actual venture capital” because they did not just muscle into a hot round. They incubated the company in 2016, when the category did not even make sense. By playing the long game, finding a brilliant founder, seeding the idea, and holding roughly 9% ownership through a $40B IPO, they proved that the biggest returns still come from doing the hard work before a deal becomes obvious.
2. What Founders Have to Understand Is That to Win, You Have to Mentally Be Changed Forever
There is a fundamental breakpoint around the four-to-five-year mark when a founder’s brain is permanently rewired by the intensity of the journey. Jason notes that winning at a high level requires a commitment to becoming a different person. The happy-go-lucky version of yourself from the early days is gone, replaced by someone who can often only relate to other founders who have survived similar maelstroms.
3. The Enemy of My Enemy Infrastructure Play
Anthropic’s partnership to use SpaceX’s Colossus 1 data center highlights a massive consolidation where the strongest players are hoovering up all available capacity on the planet. For Elon Musk, this move transitions xAI from a buyer of CapEx to a net seller of capacity, turning a potential money pit into a $3 to $5 billion annual revenue stream because Grok is not currently growing at the same pace as leading-edge models.
4. The Crackdown on Shadow Cap Tables
Anthropic is enforcing board approval for all secondary sales to reclaim cap table control and call out "bad actors". Rory warns that side contracts for "economic rights" are legally fragile; because the company has no obligation to honor unapproved transfers, many investors face "messy" losses at the IPO.
5. Model vs. Application: The Vertical SaaS Death Zone
The industry is debating if horizontal models will consume the application layer or if vertical workflows will remain independent. Jason predicts a "terminal state of decay" for legacy marketing tools because agents have no need for manual templates. Once a model can perform an application’s core function directly within a prompt, that software becomes obsolete.
6. Token Maxing vs. The 100x Engineer
Despite massive growth forecasts, a "micro backlash" is growing against "token trash" generated by mediocre developers. Jason predicts a clampdown on wasteful agentic spend, where companies prioritize unlimited resources for elite "100x engineers" while restricting "web heads" who burn compute for minimal productivity gains.
(links below)
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May 12
The folks over at marketbetter dot AI would like you to know that they spared every expense on their image generation model choices.
Rest assured these are the only corners they're cutting and you can safely upload all your customer data to them during your free trial.
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May 12
This can’t be repeated enough.
100% of the people who will tell you that you are doing it wrong have never done it at all, let alone done it “right.”
May 11
If you’re so smart go work for my competitors and put me out of business with all your brilliant ideas
Dana White on media criticism:
“My biggest problem with the media is who the fuck are you and what the fuck have you ever done?
Nothing.
Nobody's ever depended on you for a paycheck.
Who are you to criticize anybody?
You have all these people on the internet talking about what we should be doing with our business.
I said "Holy shit you guys are fucking brilliant.”
-PFL
-Bellator
-One Championship
-Many, many other failing combat sport companies
Why don't they just fucking hire you guys if you guys have the answers for everything?
I can't even read this shit because it's so dumb.
These guys know nothing about this business yet these are the people that are covering it.
It's fascinating to me that anybody listens to any of these people.”
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May 8
Even if you could build it, flawlessly, who would trust you enough to gamble with their entire company on your weekend clanker barf?
May 7
Shopify isn’t really SaaS. It’s a headless walled garden of APIs whose real value is the business logic, operational workflows, payments, and ecosystem embedded deep in those APIs over time.
People dramatically underestimate how hard that is to recreate. You can’t just vibe code your way into replacing it.
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May 7
What a time to be alive.
May 7
I turned sam altman's texts to mira murati into 2011 style emo teenage heathrob anthem🫶
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May 7
Go here, buy tix, thank me later.
May 7
105 tickets sold 🔥🔥🔥
Less than 2 hours until kick-off!
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May 7
Having been a small cog in a fairly large amount of responsible disclosure I wholeheartedly agree with Zack's takes here.
Not sure anyone is going to be able to change the trajectory of this problem.
But we're certainly not gonna get "there" alone.
May 7
New video: The responsible disclosure debate is hiding what's really going on.
These kids aren't mad about security. They're mad about life. They don't have a principled position on disclosure, they have anger problems and AI.
They need guidance & mentorship, not encouragement.
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May 7
Can't come soon enough!
May 7
We're currently working on making sure that @EtchWPOfficial is platform agnostic.
If you remember, the mission of Digital Gravy is to change the landscape of frontend development ... and we can't do that solely from within the WordPress ecosystem.
Not to mention, Etch users continue to tell us that Etch is too good to be stuck squarely in WP. They want to build static sites with it (when static is a good fit), they want the possibility of hooking it up to a different CMS, they even want the possibility of building a Shopify site with it.
This is also in harmony with the concept of a true "unified visual development environment (UVDE)." Not only does all your work get done in one place, it gets done in the same place regardless of the destination it's being published to.
This will be a massive advantage over nearly any other development tool and certainly over any other page builder.
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May 5
Woah! That's amazing.
Good luck, Mike!
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