Jason Spafford

Software Engineer

[Jason Spafford @JasonSpafford]

@pause_ai @jackclarkSF Different priorities. We may be the software innovation capital but we can’t do anything else.

Paris: we’re building our 10000th train

San Francisco: we might have 1 high speed rail in the next 50 years

[Zach Tratar @zachtratar]

I’m thrilled to announce that Embra is joining Notion! 🥳

Notion is the ultimate interface and data platform for agent <> human collaboration. At Embra, we’ve spent 3 years building a Graph Context Engine to power B2B AI.

Let me tell you why I’m so excited. 👇

[Jason Spafford @JasonSpafford]

Projects like @TryEmbra are going to revolutionize working by making planning and validating ideas much faster.

Support them on product hunt! https://t.co/J39boSGwoq

[Jason Spafford @JasonSpafford]

@brian_armstrong @leanthebean Thank you!! 🙏

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Welcome to Base!

[aklil @_aklil0]

Very excited to welcome @leanthebean @JasonSpafford
and the @ironfishcrypto team to @base. Privacy is essential to help bring 1B people onchain, and we’re just getting started🚀🔒

[Jason Spafford @JasonSpafford]

@strager I have heard airlines say this the more correct way, which sparked my thought process around this.

[Jason Spafford @JasonSpafford]

Airport micro UX bug: a passenger asked if they should stand in line because they missed their boarding group. 1/3 👇

[Jason Spafford @JasonSpafford]

@strager This is the correct answer to solve this UX problem. However United did not make their announcements that way and created this UX failure.

[Jason Spafford @JasonSpafford]

UX that only serves experienced users is a failure. This is almost always the case with most transit UX. 3/3

[Jason Spafford @JasonSpafford]

This passenger probably doesn’t fly much and the airline failed to design a system that made this clear. 2/3 👇

[Jason Spafford @JasonSpafford]

I'm proud to announce our teams hard work providing the tech to support amazing projects like Chainport. Chainport is an amazing bridge providor that is extremely secure, supports many chains, and is the first bridge to support private USDC!

[Iron Fish @ironfishcrypto]

📢 Big announcement! Iron Fish is launching the first Universal Privacy Layer today, launching private USDC transactions across 20+ EVM chains, including Ethereum, Optimism, Base, and Arbitrum. 🌐

This is a major leap for blockchain privacy.

Here’s why 👇

1/8

[Avichal Garg - Electric ϟ Capital @avichal]

My long-standing belief has been that *everyone* would use privacy tools if they were easy-to-use

IronFish's desktop node + self-sovereign wallet gives me a lot of hope that is true.

It's the easiest to use privacy product I've seen in a long time.

Nice work @ironfishcrypto!

[Jason Spafford @JasonSpafford]

How to avoid FTC requirements for email spamming.

Get your lawyers to update your privacy policy once per month so you can send an email to every customer without any way to unsubscribe from privacy policy update emails.

You'll be at the top of every customers inbox. 👌

[Jason Spafford @JasonSpafford]

@shaun_vids @ThatOwlDev That is a generic argument that could apply to all automation. I don’t find this has any value. Obviously technical craftsmanship can exist side by side with automation, and masters of craft can inform automation techniques.

[Jason Spafford @JasonSpafford]

@m_ou_se @rust_foundation Are you implying engineers should not help the crypto community reduce their energy usage? I very much disagree with that. Also, which part of cryptography is a ponzi scheme? Parametric curves? Decentralized algorithms? Zero knowledge proof protocols?

[Jason Spafford @JasonSpafford]

Your company should be opt into email, not opt out. If you're an IC on your team and your PM suggests this to you, you need to tell them they are making the internet worse for everyone.

[Jason Spafford @JasonSpafford]

Small rant about Silicon Valley. Product Managers across Silicon Valley have collectively ruined email as a technology for everyone.

[Jason Spafford @JasonSpafford]

Listen here PMs. You’re only doing this for career progression so you can point at “increased engagement” to pretend you're adding value to your company because actually improving your product in some way is harder than writing up a new spam email that no one will read anyway.