Giorgio

Professional beep bopper, Quarkdown project lead, engineer at @falconer_ai

[Giorgio @iiamgio]

Months later, every day I spend in California still feels like a dream

[Dave Nunez @capitaltruist]

Open source is not dead. One of our engineers @iiamgio made GitHub Trending this week and hit the Hacker News front page for Quarkdown, his OSS project with 13.5K stars.

Quarkdown hit #1 on HN last year as well. That's how we found him and convinced him to move to SF from Sicily. I cold emailed him and offered him a job.

I initially assumed Quarkdown was built by a staff-level engineer with a bunch of maintainers, but it was just one student's project in Sicily.

Loved his write-up about the journey from overseas student to SF startup engineer.

https://t.co/0SeZX0Q64w

[Giorgio @iiamgio]

@capitaltruist When you suddenly remember you run a Company Brain company

[Giorgio @iiamgio]

@capitaltruist @liliancaylee cooked 🍳

[Giorgio @iiamgio]

Agent loops are the topic of the week, and I guess it's time to cut through the fog.
I broke it down for @falconer_ai:

https://t.co/5bpWyOvUg1

[Giorgio @iiamgio]

@AryamanAgrawal5 huge

[Giorgio @iiamgio]

@AryamanAgrawal5 glad my beep-bopping left a mark, my friend!

[Giorgio @iiamgio]

Maintaining an open source project changes how you see software you depend on.

When we hit friction with the libraries @falconer_ai relies on, we did something unusual for a startup: rather than working around the issues, we fixed them at the source:

https://t.co/TkLi6FFyM6

[Matt Zhao @XueyanZhao]

https://t.co/pnEGDFBRLZ

[Giorgio @iiamgio]

@capitaltruist Homebrew is a bless

[Giorgio @iiamgio]

@capitaltruist @superonbrand founders seek 10x engineers but keep overlooking 10x communicators. you’re unreal @superonbrand

[Giorgio @iiamgio]

@zentalksai the only upside of copypasted slop websites: they let those blessed by a bare minimum of human creativity pop way better

[Giorgio @iiamgio]

The new Quarkdown + skill combo scores a solid 92% on agentic tests, nearly 30% higher than without the skill.
Eval: https://t.co/SZZpUhs571

[Sentient @sentient_agency]

RIP LATEX.
RIP NOTION.
RIP POWERPOINT.

Quarkdown is a free open source typesetting system that compiles the same Markdown file into a print-ready PDF, an interactive presentation, a static website, or a full documentation wiki with one command.

Link: https://t.co/yBRv3VSnFA

[Giorgio @iiamgio]

@github as a maintainer, THANK YOU for showing the release tag in issues

[Giorgio @iiamgio]

Quarkdown v2.1.0 is here! Biggest highlights:
• Built-in skill for AI agents
• PDF artifacts are up to 90% smaller
• A lightweight JVM comes bundled. @CelestinEiffel you'll like this one

https://t.co/dXwvuh1F2k

[Giorgio @iiamgio]

@NotionHQ cool enough--just 5 years late. good thing I brought this feature to @falconer_ai long ago!

[Giorgio @iiamgio]

@falconer_ai going to surf the vibes

[Giorgio @iiamgio]

@apoorvaShityeah design loop is looping

[Falconer @falconer_ai]

Sales prep still looks like 2015. Search email, Notion, Slack. DM an engineer. Find an outdated doc.

Meanwhile your buyer waits on an integration question.

Outdated context means AI tools hit a dead end faster. Falconer gives reps cited answers in real time.

[Dave Nunez @capitaltruist]

https://t.co/1wXWreHrkv

[Giorgio @iiamgio]

@falconer_ai cheat code to stress reduction 🙇