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> This quarter, we won’t be releasing any new features, and we have no plans to redesign anything — we will exclusively focus on fixing bugs. IME this happens more often than peopl…

How I think about this: If you're using an agent in a shell environment with unfettered internet access and code execution: CLI + Skills. If you're using a hosted agent on a websit…

In my experience one of the best ways to "get ahead" is to give direct 1:1 feedback to someone higher up in your management chain for something that you are obviously right about i…

My eyesight deteriorated significantly during 2020-2022 to the point where I could no longer legally drive without glasses (I had been 20/20 or better my entire life). I bit the bu…

Used to periodically get a c&d email from FB lawyers for some harmless software I published. Always completely ignored it, not even responding to acknowledge receipt. It eventually…

Grew up in a small town in Connecticut and roamed around all the time as a ~9 year old. Used to go fishing with my friends at the various rivers and streams around town. No cell ph…

A few years ago I got multiple cease and desist emails from a FAANG for a Chrome extension they didn't like. I ignored them and they eventually went away. Sending scary sounding em…

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It took literally _5 years_ for me to get through the waitlist. I signed up in 2016 and got an automated email “from” the founder in May 2021 excitedly inviting me to fill out a qu…

>Prices will go up because the value of the dollar goes up sorry to nitpick but inflation is the value of the dollar going _down_. if the value of a dollar were to increase, the pr…

I’m the EM on the Docs Product team at Stripe. We own the infra and user experience for Stripe Docs. If any MDN or dev tools folks are reading and interested in Stripe, please reac…

You don’t _have_ to pay estimated taxes. If you choose not to you just pay a penalty at tax time (essentially interest on what you didn’t pay throughout the year). It’s up to you t…

If you cmd+f twice in a row that should bypass you to your browser’s native search. There’s also a toggle in the search UI so that you can opt out of the modal entirely and go stra…

Versions of this have happened to me multiple times over the years. They never budge. The developer always gets screwed. I will never build on the App Store again.

did you just "actually" Barack Obama on how change happens in a democracy?

> That volume is simply not coming back. I keep hearing versions of this. Such dire finality. Do you actually believe that in 1 or 2 years time bars in Times Square won't be as bus…

We use quite a bit of markdown at Stripe :)

The opportunity cost is not just the lost wages, it needs to also factor in the _years_ of having less-known or no-name/failed startups on your resume. This absolutely will impact …

I was very surprised to see my surname on the front page of hacker news today. No relation, afaik.

They could fix the problem immediately by just banning RVs, private portas, and dismantling burner air (allowing special exceptions that must be approved by borg). This would keep …

Pro-tip: Nils Frahm’s 2018 album All Melody pairs extremely well with book 3. This combination was a highlight of 2018 for me.

Cool! I made one awhile back called Todobook, it replaces the FB Newsfeed (and various other sites' feeds/lists, like HN) with a todo app that unlocks the feed when you finish your…

lol @ startups with no engineers yet paying “market rate”... they will maybe pay market rate within their stage band i.e. compared to other SV seed-stage startups, but this will st…

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