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History rhymes. It’s funny that my problem back then was jamming fully formed thoughts into tweets, and now my problem is developing seeds of ideas into fully formed thoughts.

In the live stream version of this video, he does strap it directly on top of the HAT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAlrCFJZlnI

Simply, and without too many details: the load balancer failed to work properly when one server in the cluster stopped responding, causing a cascade of errors which successively cr…

It’ll be back later today. Sorry for the downtime!

This is incorrect. (Author of that article.)

Shortly after publishing, I received a phone call from "Apple, Inc.". When I tried to answer, the call dropped. Then my Apple ID account was suddenly unlocked and I got an email fr…

I didn't expect that tweet to get so much attention. I plan to write more about what exactly happened when my accounts are re-activated. But to clear a couple of things up: 1. I've…

Nope -- iCloud was not past due. It is an Apple Card policy.

I didn't expect that tweet to get so much attention; I'll write up some more details shortly.

Actually, Sign in with Apple is one of the only things that still works.

As the author of The Best, I am quite surprised and confused by Rhinehart's suggestion that the piece marks the "death" of Silicon Valley. He does not seem to understand me or what…

First maintenance, then fixing bugs, and finally new features.

Nope. Working on it right now, in fact.

It's not a marketing gimmick--it's a promise. It's how I want my own blog to be treated. We announced this publicly so that you now know: if you write on Svbtle, your content is va…

Garry and I have the same goals and motivations (and we are good friends).

Because it's going to take months to work out the specifics and I wanted to make the promise now.

Good idea--we'll add that.

No, we want to do it ourselves. Only in the case of something horribly catastrophic would we resort to using an external service like Archive.org--but unlike other startups, we wou…

Actually, we do save all user data right now and don't plan to change that--but it's hard to promise to keep that stuff forever.

As I mentioned elsewhere, there are certain things that can be done to keep the service running for at least your lifetime--I'm working on a trust that will be created in the event…

I'm working on a trust that will be created in the event of my death (or the company's death) that can keep the servers running for a very long time to come, even with no paying cu…

In practice, there are almost always offerings for employees to liquidate at roughly the same benchmarks that an IPO would have reached.

From http://www.princeton.edu/communications/services/editorial/r... : > “Use the title Dr. only when referring to a medical doctor.”