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Nick Vlku @vlkun

Split between Brooklyn and SF. Currently making agents less scary to work with as CTO of Backplanes. He/Him. @algolia / @twilio alum.

Joined August 2008
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Nick Vlku
@vlkun
14 May 2024
Nobody is asking the hard questions about AI. How many people are going to develop crushes on GPT-4o?
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Nick Vlku
@vlkun
24 Jul 2020
#Folklore is like the grand unifying theory of my music taste. It marries my love for lo-fi hipster music (The Mountain Goats, Andrew Bird, Okkervil River, The Weakerthans, The National) with my love of @taylorswift13. This is the album I didn't know I needed in 2020.
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Nick Vlku
@vlkun
21 Apr 2020
Some people really miss fancy dinners out, I miss IKEA Swedish meatballs.
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Nick Vlku
@vlkun
21 Apr 2020
Forget Zoom virtual backgrounds, we need Zoom virtual hair.
Nick Vlku
@vlkun
5 Mar 2020
That moment when you type your very very very long work password correctly quickly, feel all cool and then are told you typed it in wrong
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Nick Vlku
@vlkun
5 Mar 2020
Personal pet peeve. People who barge into an elevator with like inches left in the door opening and then proceed to smash the “close door” button repeatedly
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Nick Vlku
@vlkun
27 Feb 2020
Whenever I have to open up Chrome nowadays (to test a web UI, etc), I hold my breath and feel like I'm opening up some malware on my machine. Open it, get the job done, and then close it right back up.
Nick Vlku
@vlkun
27 Feb 2020
China sneezes, the world catches a cold. We’re all connected, even if some people want to put up walls and pretend we aren’t.
Nick Vlku
@vlkun
8 Feb 2020
Coffee shop bathroom art
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Nick Vlku
@vlkun
26 Jan 2020
Since it's 2020 and there's an outbreak in China, I decided to watch Contagion tonight. #tooreal?
Nick Vlku
@vlkun
13 Dec 2019
The Google Maps mobile app screen screams of a "PM trying to hit some OKR numbers that have nothing to do with why people use it" Folks, this is supposed to be a maps utility. Not some Frankenstein smash up of Yelp, Foursquare, TripAdvisor, etc
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Nick Vlku
@vlkun
13 Dec 2019
To which, he LITERALLY nudged me this way (because i was going down building a marketspace/ecosystem of maps apps that this app would recommend). That interview turned into me arguing against this perspective.
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Nick Vlku
@vlkun
13 Dec 2019
Needless to say, I didn't get the job. 😂
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Nick Vlku
@vlkun
9 Dec 2019
Best insight from Spotify's decade in review. My top 2016 song was YOLO by Lonely Island. I don't know how I feel about that.
Nick Vlku
@vlkun
6 Dec 2019
This might be the most "I work at a tech startup" thing I've seen in a lost and found.
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Nick Vlku
@vlkun
6 Dec 2019
Good Morning, Oakland!
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Nick Vlku
@vlkun
5 Dec 2019
"Mr. Pichai’s direct reports also include Jen Fitzpatrick from Google Maps, Noam Bardin from Waze, Bradley Horowitz from Google , John Giannandrea from Google Research and machine learning; " How is Google still a fucking a thing there?
Nick Vlku
@vlkun
5 Dec 2019
I have architected large scalable systems, know a ton of programming languages and still have to lookup how to set up a new SSH key for github *EVERY TIME*.
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Nick Vlku
@vlkun
1 Dec 2019
Haha just saw @SethMacFarlane as an extra in this episode of Enterprise getting yelled at by Trip. He really has been a Trek fan forever.
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