😱 Brian Morearty

Retired SW eng, tech lead. Node, Rails. Ex-Airbnb. #BLM. Sadly, not Sherlock Holmes’ arch-enemy🕵

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.

[😱 Brian Morearty @BMorearty]

@Scottfu90305281 @SpencerHakimian “Radical judges” because they follow the law

[😱 Brian Morearty @BMorearty]

Holy crap

[𝖊𝖛𝖆𝖉𝖊 @encrypted]

wait... you did what?!

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BLUMENTHAL: Was the Capitol attacked on January 6?

SCHWARTZ: There was definitely trespass and violence at the Capitol

BLUMENTHAL: So the Capitol was attacked violently?

SCHWARTZ: You're asking me to weigh in on sort of public characterizations

BLUMENTHAL: You know what makes me angry? You're insulting our intelligence. Do you really expect us to accept these canned, rehearsed, practiced answers, repeated again and again by judicial nominees who have an obligation to be truthful and independent? You both know better

[😱 Brian Morearty @BMorearty]

@TherealkingBigB @the_smart_ape You’re right to put “easy” in quotes but it’s still probably the last, best option. I would assume there is an arbitration clause in the terms but that doesn’t stop you from initiating a lawsuit.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

What? It's not sufficient to park their money in an index fund or a blind trust? Lawmakers need to be active traders to take care of their families?

[shirish @shiri_shh]

HOLY SHIT 😭

Dude just recovered 5 BTC (~$400K) that had been locked for 11 YEARS… using Claude AI.

He got high in college, changed the password to “lol420fuckthePOLICE!*:)” and forgot it.

Tried trillions of guesses. Paid recovery services. Nothing worked.

He then... dumped his entire old college computer into Claude.

AI found the old wallet file, spotted a bug in the recovery tool, fixed it, and extracted the keys.

[😱 Brian Morearty @BMorearty]

As Paul Revere famously said, “One if by hear, two if by see.”

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: Drugs coming by sea meaning coming by water. A lot of people don’t know what I mean by sea. They think I mean vision. I’m talking about sea like the sea.

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@elvissun I thought instant-unsubscribe links were common. Users would get unsubscribed by their corporate email?

[😱 Brian Morearty @BMorearty]

@protosphinx > Airbnb, Uber DoorDash are maybe 10x outcomes at best for retail investors.

In fact Airbnb is far worse than 10x. I remember IPO day. ABNB instantly shot up from $68 to $140. Today, six years later, it’s $141. The only reason I did well on it is because I had been an employee.

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Total Jobs Created by Party (1989-2026):

Democratic Presidents
50,600,000

Republican Presidents
1,469,000

The biggest scam the GOP has ever pulled off is convincing people that Republicans are good for the economy.

[Sara McGee for Texas HD 132 @SaraForTexLege]

If there is ever a social phenomenon that needs to be studied, it is how the GOP has been able to hoodwink people for decades into thinking that they the party of “fiscal responsibility” when there is absolutely ZERO evidence to support that claim.

And I mean ZERO.

[Patrick Heizer @PatrickHeizer]

Every Democrat since Carter has decreased the federal deficit.

Every Republican since Eisenhower has increased the federal deficit.

[😱 Brian Morearty @BMorearty]

(The Force Quit modal will only show mem usage when you have run out of memory.)

[😱 Brian Morearty @BMorearty]

My Mac ran out of memory the other day, quite a surprise. WhatsApp was using 60 GB. (Screenshots weren’t working so I took a pic.)

Nice that it can summarize memory for a whole app instead of just per process like Activity Monitor does. Anyone know of a free tool for this?

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

I haven't seen anyone tracking all of the alleged (or open) Trump corruption, self-dealing, and quid pro quos in one place. For the last 15 months, I've been tracking every single tip+story I can find and organizing it. Today, I published a 6,000 word piece with every example.

[😱 Brian Morearty @BMorearty]

Funny because last week in the @LaunchedFM podcast @joeallenpro told @_chuckyc his Captions app was seemingly rejected from the App Store for having an agents.md file in its package.

[Aaron @aaronp613]

Apple accidentally left Claude.md files in today's Apple Support app update (v5.13)

[😱 Brian Morearty @BMorearty]

Coding with AI is so fast I haven't needed to start an issue tracker for my project. A google doc is more than good enough because I never get more than about 3-4 issues deep.

[😱 Brian Morearty @BMorearty]

Beautiful gesture and beautiful response

[Ben Springwater @benspringwater]

In 2019 my girlfriend (now wife) sent Patrick Collison a cold email for the ages. Patrick replied 3 minutes later, warmly, with a yes.

A few weeks later I met Patrick at Nopa at 9pm. He ordered tea, I ordered something stronger. He was congenial and energetic, and 90 minutes flew by.

The whole episode was special. My wife sending that email was a remarkable gift. Ditto Patrick's generosity.

They say never meet your heroes but I think the better advice is to choose the right ones.

[😱 Brian Morearty @BMorearty]

gitlab been playing the long game...