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• overwhelmed by the response to this, I knew it was common but didn’t realise how badly people needed to see it acknowledged. fwiw, I learnt this most deeply on the react team; I joined what I thought was my dream job, and immediately failed in this fashion, leaving in a year.
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Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.

• What's been going on in w64devkit the past year

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• Late to the party, but wow is Viktor a great product. I'm impressed with the quality of work + output, even without particularly good prompting. I wish it wasn't so noisy in Slack, but not really an easy problem to solve. It's the right spot, so just need to deal with it.

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• thought i joined a serious, good company. but they haven't refilled the manner stack, so my only way out is to quit.

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• *joined the club of physicists who received AI-written reviews*

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• My conversation with Michael Moritz, one of the great venture investors of the last 40 years. Michael joined Sequoia in 1986 and co-led the firm with Doug Leone (@dougleone) from 1995 to 2012. His investments include Google, Yahoo, PayPal, and Stripe. His new book, Ausländer, traces his parents' escape from Nazi Germany and helps explain his lifelong interest in what shapes exceptional people. We discuss: - The infamous Steve Jobs profile - Why Don Valentine hired him - The question he finds most revealing when interviewing people - Monomania and the cost of greatness - Why he has never felt…

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• ok great now I have 3 messy inboxes I have to check: - stuff my agents have done on scheduled loop that I need to review - bookmarked slack messages off Google Docs and slides to review - my actual email inbox lol

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Co-founder and CEO of Linear; previously principal designer at Airbnb, where he led the Design Language System, and founding designer at Coinbase.

• With this update we prioritized product management use cases: @linear Loops can now respond to project, initiative, cycle, and issue changes, update Linear documents, and share tailored Slack updates automatically.
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Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.

• emulate v0.11.2 is out Updates across six emulators: GitHub, Google, Resend, AWS S3, Slack, Microsoft GitHub → Raw Contents and README responses → Seed org members and admins → Checks handle branch and tag names with slashes → Org installation writes authenticate as the App bot Google → Calendar v3 discovery endpoint → RS256-signed ID tokens and JWKS for OIDC verification Resend → Idempotency keys for individual and batch sends, so retries don't create duplicate emails or webhooks AWS S3 → Preserve binary payloads on upload, copy, and download Slack → Truncate messages at 40,000 characters, w…

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Co-founder and CEO of Every. Writes the Chain of Thought column about working with AI tools and hosts the podcast AI & I.

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• This is huge! You all know I'm a huge Cloud Agents fan. Even joined the team! :) For the past months or so, I rarely opened any localhost agent. This new feature is especially very important and useful for workloads that were hard to support with custom environments only. Give it a try.
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• Just heard: Meta is moving from GChat (Google's Chat product) to Slack, because... Slack has much better agent interoperability (true) Who thought AI+agents would be a big selling point for Slack? Or that Google would sleep on agents + GChat! Or that Meta used GChat, deprecating Workchat…

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American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.

• homebrew-brewfile — My MacBook Brewfile

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Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.

• Real talk running GitHub stuff in Slack has been so nice
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• i'm always so excited to see that there are new replies to my slack threads until i realize it's just claude (sorry claude)

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• Today @ahl.bsky.social and I are going to be joined by @sgkaram.bsky.social from @oxide.computer's product assurance team, who put in front of himself a tremendous challenge: could we somehow emulate an entire Oxide rack? And... how faux can we go?! Join us, 5p Pacific!

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Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.

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• It's becoming normal practice to plug your coding agent into tools like Slack and helpdesk software to find customer insights. Turns out it's super inefficient, because you're just fetching and smashing raw strings into your context repeatedly. So we released a new MCP server that solves that.

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Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.

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• One thing that is increasingly driving me crazy: AI made workplace writing cheap, but reading is still expensive! Again and again I see posts that are now twice as long as need be, and more meandering than a walk in the woods. The problem is simply this: the writer thought about what they wanted to say and asked a model to draft it. They did they stop to think: "What do I really want the reader to take away?" Before you ask AI to draft your next email, memo, or Slack update, answer these five questions: 1. Who exactly needs to read this? Is this for your manager? The leadership team? Your who…

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• I joined @JeanChatzky on the @HerMoneyMedia podcast to honor my dear friend, the late @ClementsMoney, and his final book, "Money and Me." We talked about: * why his simple, sound investing philosophy still endures * what his terminal-cancer diagnosis taught him about the meaning of money * why the shift from saving to spending in retirement is so psychologically difficult * what Jonathan's final year, spent eating good food with good friends, can teach us all about living well Listen here:

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

• Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

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Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.

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Design engineer and illustrator; makes visual essays on programming, anthropology and what language models do to the way people write.

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• Happy 10th birthday to Slack 🎉 Happy 20th birthday to Flickr 🎉 Time for me to take a little break 😅

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• minamarkham — I specialize in CSS architecture & design systems. Based in Oakland. Currently @ Slack.

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Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.

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Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.

• After 12+ years of being an independent company, today Slack joined Salesforce. Together, we’re going to do great things. Let’s go!
  Quoting@btaylorFor me personally, the most exciting thing is the opportunity to work with @stewart, @iamcal, and @TYehoshua every day. Lots of entrepreneurs set out to change the way we work; few do. What a privilege to work with the best product designers in enterprise software!

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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