Daniel May

20 years shipping software across the UK & US. Previously EM @riotgames, @amazon, @bnpparibas & more. Now cooking up something new...

[Daniel May @danielrmay]

@amablue_ @_its_not_real_ Serious curiosity: what did you like about it? As the precursor to google+, all i remember is gmail-style threaded replies and a contrived momentary social media play

[Daniel May @danielrmay]

People made these mistakes pre-context-pressured LLM too, I guess it was funnier

[stupid tech takes @stupidtechtakes]

JavaScript (or Java)

[Daniel May @danielrmay]

workflows are cool, this is the most agents i've ever run at once

[Daniel May @danielrmay]

@saraaa7447 missed opportunity to sneak in a SCSI cable and see who can tell the difference

[Daniel May @danielrmay]

@Nekrolm believable theory

[Daniel May @danielrmay]

Love that the future of "sales" is apparently burning half a car-year of co2 every week so a plane can drag your startup's name all over SF like a VC-funded environmental ransom

[Sam Blond @samdblond]

The Monaco Plane: Economics and Impact.

If you've been in SF over the last 10 days, you've likely seen the Monaco Plane flying around. I'm receiving countless messages asking about how expensive it is and if it's working.

So here are those answers:

[Daniel May @danielrmay]

@samdblond does that include carbon offset

[Daniel May @danielrmay]

@ankurnagpal it's always desperation, commercial or personal

[Daniel May @danielrmay]

lol

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

I’ve listened to thousands of hours of great music since. What an awesome streaming service.

[Daniel May @danielrmay]

😭hurts every month

[Daniel May @danielrmay]

@hthieblot https://t.co/1Z8swsuFLK

[Daniel May @danielrmay]

Claude curating your event lists is a choice. I’m sure that will work out wonderfully

[saarim zaman @poolnoodle93]

new york tech week is just one long humiliation ritual

[Daniel May @danielrmay]

@AndrewCDormsn @AnthropicAI Anthropic only accepts vulns submitted with the tidiest kawaii cherry blossom shell theme, usually zsh

[Daniel May @danielrmay]

i'm convinced they're only named "skills" so that we have a free pass to say "skill issue" when a dev has a problem with harness/model

[Daniel May @danielrmay]

it's an annoying feature of scale that utility products with genuinely novel and beneficial applications can't win out. edjy is the best nail clipper but every time i tell someone they say "why the fuck would you care about that" and i'm like "uhh i optimize my whole life"

[Daniel May @danielrmay]

@1a1n1d1y edjy. i just changed your life

[Daniel May @danielrmay]

"Does Visual Studio Rot The Mind?" - Petzold, 2005. I left a link to this in a comment recently on HN but I think it's worth resharing. https://t.co/TXYicsPz7R

[Daniel May @danielrmay]

Currently trying to figure out how to be in two places at once :) Next week is shaping to be LAX->SEA->SFO