Ethan McQuhae

Platform Engineer

[Ethan McQuhae @ethanmcqu]

has no one heard of tmux?

[Brian Graham 🦬 @iroasmas]

me as i read 40% of what claude wrote back and type in “continue”

[Ethan McQuhae @ethanmcqu]

Someone really said California Pizza Kitchen😭😭

[vas @vasuman]

Startup ideas:

- airport gym
- peptides for ai agents
- pizza in SF that doesn’t suck
- rl environments for giraffes

[Mat @matisanengineer]

The loudest people shitting on GitHub are usually the ones who’ve never had to build or operate software at that kind of scale.

Everything looks like a simple fix until you’re the one dealing with the complexity.

[Ethan McQuhae @ethanmcqu]

claude you are a senior engineer, make sure this is 100% secure, make no mistakes

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Ghostty is leaving GitHub. I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008. I've visited GitHub almost every single day for over 18 years. It's never been a question for me where I'd put my projects: always GitHub. I'm super sad to say this, but its time to go. https://t.co/DQDemHdytV

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Pull requests disappeared on GitHub for many (all?) users.

This is just the latest outage on a platform where reliability has been beyond unacceptable the last few months.

A fair question: at what point would customers move? How much pain is too much? And where do they move?

[David Crawshaw @davidcrawshaw]

We raised a Series A for https://t.co/EZoI6mCDiS. We are going to build a new cloud. https://t.co/DSVWzSNzgN

[wukko @uwukko]

thinking about the trillion token stare again

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

Here's my update to the broader community about the ongoing incident investigation. I want to give you the rundown of the situation directly.

A Vercel employee got compromised via the breach of an AI platform customer called https://t.co/7PY6gGtzgI that he was using. The details are being fully investigated.

Through a series of maneuvers that escalated from our colleague’s compromised Vercel Google Workspace account, the attacker got further access to Vercel environments.

Vercel stores all customer environment variables fully encrypted at rest. We have numerous defense-in-depth mechanisms to protect core systems and customer data. We do have a capability however to designate environment variables as “non-sensitive”. Unfortunately, the attacker got further access through their enumeration.

We believe the attacking group to be highly sophisticated and, I strongly suspect, significantly accelerated by AI. They moved with surprising velocity and in-depth understanding of Vercel.

At the moment, we believe the number of customers with security impact to be quite limited. We’ve reached out with utmost priority to the ones we have concerns about. All of our focus right now is on investigation, communication to customers, enhancement of security measures, and sanitization of our environments. We’ve deployed extensive protection measures and monitoring. We’ve analyzed our supply chain, ensuring Next.js, Turbopack, and our many open source projects remain safe for our community.

The recommendation for all Vercel customers is to follow the Security Bulletin closely (https://t.co/BLVnic9fJC). My advice to everyone is to follow the best practices of security response: secret rotation, monitoring access to your Vercel environments and linked services, and ensuring the proper use of the sensitive env variables feature.

In response to this, and to aid in the improvement of all of our customers’ security postures, we’ve already rolled out new capabilities in the dashboard, including an overview page of environment variables, and a better user interface for sensitive env var creation and management. As always, I’m totally open to your feedback.

We’re working with elite cybersecurity firms, industry peers, and law enforcement. We’ve reached out to Context to assist in understanding the full scale of the incident, in an effort to protect other organizations and the broader internet. I also want to thank the Google Mandiant team for their active engagement and assistance.

It’s my mission to turn this attack into the most formidable security response imaginable. It’s always been a top priority for me. Vercel employs some of the most dedicated security researchers and security-minded engineers in the world. I commit to keeping you updated and rolling out extensive improvements and defenses so you, our customers and community, can have the peace of mind that Vercel always has your back.

[kate @whoiskatrin]

today project Think is officially out!

we bet on agents that run non-stop, survive failures, cost nothing when idle, and enforce security through architecture

agents that any developer can build and deploy

agents that have sub-agents via Facets, Session API and full execution ladder wired in!

https://t.co/CwXvWHX2mE

[AWS Developers @awsdevelopers]

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[Ethan McQuhae @ethanmcqu]

Yo who’s still using cornell notes in 2026?

[Ethan McQuhae @ethanmcqu]

2026: finance bros in the cli

[Ramp Labs @RampLabs]

Today, we're releasing Ramp CLI to let agents manage your company's finances.

50+ tools across cards, bills, expenses, travel, and approvals. Fewer tokens than MCP, and comes with pre-built skills like receipt compliance and agentic purchasing.

[Sebastian S. Cocioba🪄🌷 @ATinyGreenCell]

Loving the new @plasmidsaurus feature where a transposon is detected at the dashboard level of a results readout. So cool to see my suggestion turn into actual tooling. Community driven feedback is the best way forward! Thanks guys for the consideration and effort!

[Niko McCarty. @NikoMcCarty]

I spent 1.5 years at MIT co-designing a new undergrad program in Genetic Engineering.

The full report is now publicly available. It describes what needs to be built to educate the next generation, and why.

Appendix II includes notes from interviews with 100+ biotech company CEOs and scientists about what they look for in new hires.

Appendix III includes a huge analysis of all existing curricula in biotechnology and genetic engineering globally. It also features dozens of photos from my visits to biotechnology centers across the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

Hopefully this will be a useful resource for educators looking to adapt or expand their curriculums, too.

[Malika 🧬 @malikules]

10 biotech companies doing groundbreaking, scientifically rigorous, and most importantly, ethical work to restore your faith in bio:

Until Labs (@untillabs )
BiomEdit
EVERBLOOM
Spore Bio
Biosphere (@biosphereio )
CryoBio
Pow Bio (@powbio )
Generate Biomedicines (@generate_biomed )
Nutropy
Transition Biomining
+ Plasmidsaurus (@plasmidsaurus )

[plasmidsaurus @plasmidsaurus]

🦖 Something HUGE just hatched.

Plasmidsaurus now offers RNA sequencing for gene expression analysis with:
• As fast as 3 day turnaround
• $50/sample for academia, $80 for industry
• Up to ~10M unique transcript 3’ end reads per sample
• Interactive results that let you explore changes in genes and pathways

Explore Plasmidsaurus RNA-Seq today.

[Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66]

Excited to announce the start of ARTIC2! 🎉
This builds on the success of ARTIC to make sequencing more equitable & accessible.

EVE Group at @SwissTPH is a key team member - we'll be making sequences easier to store & share via Loculus & @pathoplexus!

https://t.co/ggNMAdBuVV

[Marcus Stoiber @Stoibs11]

Dorado 1.0 🚀release with new RNA modified base models for 2’Ome as well as improvement of all DNA and RNA modified base models including massive improvement in 6mA for open chromatin prediction! Also a lot more non-mods related features😆! #NanoporeConf

https://t.co/dWP6WfaLcb