Dad, Mum, Hasband, Wife, what else?
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27 Oct 2025
Last week we had our full company meetup in Whistler, BC, CA. We flew people in from around the world and rented out most of the Nita Lake Lodge. Gorgeous spot.
People are aways curious about what we do with the time, so I figured I'd share the full schedule for the week.
There are only two mandatory all-company events: The All Hands on Monday morning and the Peer Appreciation closing session on Thursday.
Otherwise it's entirely open. Teams connect, people get together in small groups to hang or work on stuff, folks go on planned excursions, grab meals, etc. Breakfast and lunch is provided every day. Lots of stuff happens off schedule too, so it's not all represented below.
Let me know if you have any Q's.
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Semir retweeted
28 Apr 2025
Instead of seeking feedback on how you did, it’s more effective to seek advice on how you can do better.
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9 Apr 2024
It’s out ! 🚀 our new queryless experience for Loki go check it out with it 😎. Massive thank you 🙏 to everyone involved, this is a new beginning github.com/grafana/explore-l…
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9 Dec 2022
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26 Feb 2022
@elonmusk, while you try to colonize Mars — Russia try to occupy Ukraine! While your rockets successfully land from space — Russian rockets attack Ukrainian civil people! We ask you to provide Ukraine with Starlink stations and to address sane Russians to stand.
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24 Feb 2022
Ok, after years of warnings were ignored and hearing "Garry, you were right!" all damn day today, I'll repeat what I said in 2014: Stop telling me I was right and listen to what I'm saying now. My recommendations follow: 1/5
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Semir retweeted
23 Sep 2021
The biggest lesson I’ve learned in building a $4B company:
It’s all about the people.
I’m thrilled to announce today that Bolt is the first tech unicorn to officially shift to a 4 day work week.
Here’s why we did it and how we came to the decision 👇👇👇
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12 Apr 2021
The cost of launching a startup company went from $10M to a macbook.
The cost of launching a media company went from $1M to a macbook and a camera.
In the meantime, the upside of both has gone 1000x.
Welcome to the internet nation!
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8 Mar 2021
Service reliability math that every engineer should know
Uptime Downtime (Yearly)
99.00000% 3d 15h 39m
99.90000% 8h 45m 56s
99.99000% 52m 35s
99.99900% 5m 15s
99.99990% 31s
99.99999% 3s
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Semir retweeted
15 Apr 2020
This is how Angela Merkel explained the effect of a higher #covid19 infection rate on the country's health system.
This part of today's press conf was great, so I just added English subtitels for all non-German speakers. #flattenthecurve
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Semir retweeted
8 Jan 2020
Once you realize that a monolithic app running on a few "medium" servers can get you a Top 40 website, you start seeing unnecessary complexity all around you.
8 Jan 2020
If it helps, Stack Overflow is more than capable is running through one CentOS machine as load balancer (a very “medium” server and ~300-500M hits a day) without much tuning or breaking a sweat. I really don’t understand most of the “we need F5”. You’d need to be *massive*.
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19 Apr 2018
The most important thing I know about leading engineering teams is this:
Hire good people, do your best to take care of them, and stay out of their way so they can do amazing things.
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