AlexTalks

Software engineer, formerly at @CockroachDB, @Spotify, and others. Traveler. Queer Brooklynite. Metro Detroit native. 🇦🇲-🇺🇸. BLM. (Opinions mine).

[AlexTalks @AlexTalks]

@jbarro I mean, minus the wild rumors about pederastic orgies, the gay-for-pay stuff, and the (wtf) “seed round” thing, sure. Gays flock together! News at 11!

[AlexTalks @AlexTalks]

@jbarro But what am I saying… clearly we are thinking about this with far more rigor than the writer of this piece did. 😂

[AlexTalks @AlexTalks]

@jbarro Are you thinking their cited methodology (https://t.co/7BKET0d2zL) is flawed? IMO this piece could’ve used a lot *more* real research and data, even if imperfect, rather than less. As it stands, it’s basically a tabloid trash gossip article.

[AlexTalks @AlexTalks]

@terronk The real tea 😂

[AlexTalks @AlexTalks]

tidbits such as “gays men in tech tend to stick together” and “the Barry’s in the Castro is popular amongst muscled gays” - is simply unconscionable.  This magazine, and the article’s writer, should be ashamed of themselves.

Yours,
An angry gay techie. (7/7)

[AlexTalks @AlexTalks]

An open letter to @WIRED in response to this piece:

I was shocked to see that in 2026, your magazine has deemed it appropriate to publish a front page story as deeply homophobic as “Inside the Gay Tech Mafia”, by @zoeSaintBernard on February 19. (1/7)

[WIRED @WIRED]

Gay men have long been rumored to run Silicon Valley. WIRED investigates. https://t.co/yd7wwx20cH

[AlexTalks @AlexTalks]

your magazine saw fit to print.  For a publication to put out such a substantial anti-gay piece in today’s political climate in service of minimal journalistic content - the takeaways seem to include groundbreaking (in the Miranda Priestly sense) (6/7)

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classic

[Guido van Rossum @gvanrossum]

Next year we should have Python2.7girl at the Eurovision Song Festival.

[Austen Allred @Austen]

"Don't learn to code. Soon GUIs will do it all for you." - 1985

"Don't learn to code. Soon that will all be done offshore for pennies." - 2003

"Don't learn to code. Soon nocode tools will do it all for you." - 2015

"Don't learn to code. Soon AI will do it all for you." - 2023

[Graham Christensen @grhmc]

Every so often I remember shell’s line-continuation character “\” is “just” escaping the newline that comes next in the bytes and I lose some brain cells.

[AlexTalks @AlexTalks]

When you get called out by all your colleagues from @CockroachDB after a little Grand Theft Golf Cart…

Except you were just the fall guy. 😂

[CockroachDB @CockroachDB]

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[AlexTalks @AlexTalks]

Not pictured: code!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Just leaving Twitter HQ code review