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Ryan King @rk
Joined November 2006
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Ryan King@rk
9 May 2023
New blog post– theryanking.com/post/retweet…. Read a bit about building the original native-Retweet functionality.

Building the Retweet Button

I joined the Twitter engineering team in March 2009 and spent 5 years at the company, as it grew from ~30 to ~3000 people. It was a seminal experience in my career and the first few years generated...

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Ryan King@rk
4 May 2023
Wow. Mastodon is a good replacement for twitter (in 2009).
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Ryan King@rk
3 May 2023
I would say that the most surprising benefit of being un(der)employed for the last month or so has been not being on Slack all day.
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Ryan King@rk
24 Apr 2023
Where is the AI app (is there one?) for filling out PDFs?
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Ryan King@rk
16 Apr 2023
Missing from the discussion about SF crime rates and fears or crime is the idea that high fear of crime might be leading to low crime rates. You can't conclude that a low crime rate means there is a low threat-of-crime.
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BART Alert
@SFBARTalert
15 Apr 2023
Hello this is BART Alert. @Twitter has shut off its free API, and that means we are going dark until we can find a solution. We're very sorry to not be able to provide information on BART service alerts. Use bart.gov, our Official App or subscribe via email or SMS

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Ryan King@rk
28 Mar 2023
Just marked something off my todo list that has been there 7 years. Anything is possible.
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Ryan King@rk
27 Mar 2023
Who is working on a GPT-based tool for navigating the US healthcare system? Filing and tracking claims, etc.
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Mark Twain@MarkTwain
24 Mar 2023
ChatGPT is a marvel of modern engineering, a technological wonder that could make even the most skeptical man believe in magic. It's as if Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn had teamed up with a computer to explore the depths of human knowledge.
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Ryan King@rk
24 Mar 2023
It’s a race
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Mercury
@mercury
13 Mar 2023
Introducing Mercury Vault: Protect your cash with a money market fund and up to $3M in FDIC insurance – 12x the industry standard. Learn more: mercury.com/vault
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Ryan King@rk
9 Mar 2023
I am not an expert in banking, but I am pretty sure the last thing you want to hear from a bank CEO is "stay calm". techcrunch.com/2023/03/09/si…

Silicon Valley Bank’s shares are tanking as a mess unfolds | TechCrunch

Given recent banking-related carnage in the tech and tech-adjacent worlds, there’s concern in the market that not all is well at SVB.

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Ryan King@rk
8 Mar 2023
Still true.
Ryan King@rk
8 Mar 2022
Funny thing about no-code solutions for businesses– eventually you want testing, repeatability, authoring collaboration, monitoring. All things that you get with…code.
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Gary Bernhardt@garybernhardt
4 Mar 2023
1960s: "COBOL will let non-programmers make the software!" 1980s: "4GLs will let non-programmers make the software!" 2000s: "UML will let non-programmers make the software!" 2020s: "AI will let non-programmers make the software!"
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Ryan King@rk
3 Mar 2023
What I love most about Python type checking is that you are promised that you can choose which one to use, but at any reasonable scale and complexity you have to support all of them.
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Ryan King@rk
17 Feb 2023
Hmm, over-confident rationalizer approaches a complex system to make an "obvious" change.... 🍿
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
17 Feb 2023
Sorry for showing you so many irrelevant & annoying ads on Twitter! We’re taking the (obvious) corrective action of tying ads to keywords & topics in tweets, like Google does with search. This will improve contextual relevance dramatically.
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Matthew Yglesias
@mattyglesias
1 Feb 2023
Boris Johnson visits America, discovers that Fox News is nutty.
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Ryan King@rk
29 Jan 2023
It’s rare that it happens, but I started a habit last year that has actually stuck. @readwise has been an amazing tool to actually remember the non fiction I have read. 365 day streak and going.
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Ryan King@rk
27 Jan 2023
Billion dollar SaaS idea: shared calendar system for a team, where people can't accidentally edit the shared event from everyone's calendar.
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