𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭

Software Engineer @SlackHQ, erstwhile founder/CTO @GoTurbine, Ex-Twitter/TiVo, 10x pedant, fundamentally OK guy

[𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 @9len]

I was an IC on this team and then a lead and then a manager; I built it from 3 to 10 engineers. I hope I instilled a culture of trust and rigor. It’s heartbreaking to see it undone. Big hugs to every member of team Gizmoduck, those I worked with and those I didn’t. Users matter.

[Guy Dickinson @gdickinson]

My first and last team at Twitter, notable for having a silly (fantastic) name, has made it to the Washington Post for being totally hollowed out.

I assure you that this service requires care and feeding and without someone to keep it going, nothing good will happen.

[𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 @9len]

@sampullara @awscloud *Serverfewer

[𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 @9len]

@RSGAT @fobbioblivion *mahwage

[𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 @9len]

@RSGAT Long walk, but worth it

[𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 @9len]

@RSGAT Notorious B.I.G. Homage fried egg sandwich cart run by Bartolo Colon called BIG’s Eggsy

[𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 @9len]

@RSGAT I’ll allow it

[𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 @9len]

@RSGAT Perfect, always properly applied irony

[𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 @9len]

I’m pumped we won’t wreck the global economy and all, but it’s kind of a bummer that the thing everybody could agree on is making it harder to eat for people who can’t afford to eat.

[𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 @9len]

@RSGAT Upper right might be Jerry Casale

[𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 @9len]

Star Wars themed mix and match basics boutique called and/or

[David Loftesness @dloft]

@gdickinson Gizmoduck 💪

[𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 @9len]

@coffee_dad Thank you sir

[𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 @9len]

@zkiehl It’s to your credit that you can empathize, but realistically it’s been years since anyone has told him anything resembling ground truth. He’s high on his $xxB supply. To quote another miserable billionaire: SAD!

[𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 @9len]

@ZoeSchiffer He’s learning how to tweet!

[𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 @9len]

Can only assume he read my article https://t.co/RKotJvM8TQ

[Zoë Schiffer @ZoeSchiffer]

New email from Elon Musk to engineers: “please be prepared to do brief code reviews as I’m walking around the office.”

That’s it — that’s the whole email.

[𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 @9len]

This was Twitter 1.0, so I’m assuming 2.0 will have both a “makes money” and “is not user hostile” button.

[𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 @9len]

Honk

[James Waldrop @HiveTheory]

It’s amusing to poke fun at the hot takes on just how easy it is to run the site, or be distracted by the latest Elon shitpost, but let’s not lose track of the fact that $13B debt added to the balance sheet killed the company way more effectively than firing all the SREs.

[𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 @9len]

Goodbye to the best of us

[𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 @9len]

Honk

[𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 @9len]

@HiveTheory @Todd_Segal Gonna go with “single machine failure” because I’m a pessimist