Salvatore

2 time exited founder, Fractional CTO, Lifelong Software Engineer

teaching kids to code
Built and sold

[Salvatore @dested]

Hey @cnbc did an article on us! Huge thanks to @microacquire as always for getting us over the finish line.

https://t.co/J4BH7qIRpL

[Salvatore @dested]

@erasmolbj holy shit i am not mentally prepared for the bottom to fall out of this thing

[Salvatore @dested]

I am trying to back up my computer so I can reformat and claude code thinks I'm writing the world's most useless worm and it's blocking it

[Salvatore @dested]

@jarredsumner cigars and monocles and top hats

[Salvatore @dested]

@troop_hater Yeah, Efrim Menuck didn't say that, but it was in an episode of sopranos where Tony Cicero's character says it to Tony

[Salvatore @dested]

when number go bigger makes number go bigger makes number go bigger

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Opus 4.8: it builds on Opus 4.7 with sharper judgment, more honesty about its own progress, and the ability to work independently for longer than its predecessors.

Available today at the same price.

[Salvatore @dested]

@Witchotronic @mikubeam @PositivFuturist

[Salvatore @dested]

@mikubeam @PositivFuturist Incorrect. If you use OOP this will always happen.

[Salvatore @dested]

Sometimes I catch a glimpse of the code and it makes me miss being a software engineer.

[Salvatore @dested]

@vyrotek @keegabit I’d give anything for an internship. I’d crush it so hard

[Salvatore @dested]

Incredible

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

[Salvatore @dested]

@rwhitegoose This hurt

[Salvatore @dested]

This is BRILLIANT

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

🚨 How the TanStack npm attack actually happened:

1. Attacker opened a normal-looking pull request (#7378) on the TanStack repo.
2. GitHub automatically ran CI tests on that PR.
3. Code inside the PR stole the workflow's GitHub Actions Cache write token during the test run.
4. The attacker used that token to plant poisoned files in the shared build cache. The PR could be closed afterwards. The poisoned cache stays.
5. The official release workflow later pulled from the cache, baked the malicious files into the build, and signed and published 84 malicious package versions to npm.

[Salvatore @dested]

Wo, 5.5 can solve nonograms. That's new lol

[Salvatore @dested]

@MikeReissWriter @ThomasConnorsJr Not a single year passes that I dont sing "lisa its your birthday happy birthday lisa" to my sister.

[Salvatore @dested]

@slimjimmy Double click on button -> write code for on click. We still have never achieved that level of developer ergonomics and I fear we never will.

[Salvatore @dested]

@mitsuhiko "need to find the source of indeterminism"

[Salvatore @dested]

@nut_history KRUK?? From the Phillies??

[Salvatore @dested]

Opus 4.7 is fully sideways for me right now, across like 4 chat windows. fraught with bugs and shit. I'm going down to 4.6 and eating the tokens. Stay safe out their friends