John Wittrock

You can find me at @wittrock.bsky.social

I work on packaging and updates for Fuchsia @Google. Formerly @sidewalklabs, @appnexus. Views are mine, etc.

[John Wittrock @johnwittrock]

@bertmuthalaly https://t.co/ySEkYXDXpf

[John Wittrock @johnwittrock]

I'm done here, this has become TruthSocial Lite.

You can find me on BlueSky, @wittrock.bsky.social

[John Wittrock @johnwittrock]

The tradeoff between startups and FAANG is often:

Startup - ship a whole app to a small number of people and hope it goes global (with vanishingly small probability)

FAANG- ship a button or two to millions or billions of people

Expected value is generally higher at FAANG

[John Wittrock @johnwittrock]

My button isn't even visible to users, it's the update check button on Nest Hubs.

And yeah, I think it's pretty neat.

[Siqi Chen @blader]

It's depressing to see so many talented people from top schools with amazing resumes go work years at FAANG, and the most they can point to having shipped are a few buttons in one minor workflow.

I mean I know FAANG can afford it, but you can't. Work at a startup!

[The Unicode Consortium @unicode]

Unicode thanks Blue Blocker, our newest Silver Sponsor! #UnicodeSponsor https://t.co/vW4kLZatXU

[Douwe Osinga @dosinga]

This is one of the coolest things we've build with @NeptyneHQ - automatic research in a spreadsheet. You give it a news search query and the things you want to know and it does the rest.

https://t.co/sSq6N6MfW3

[jackamadeo @jackamadeo]

A visualization of compost bins filling + emptying in NYC. Made with @NeptyneHQ + @plotlygraphs animations. The tyne here ingests the data and creates the visualization: https://t.co/NJ1nWMGMmi

[John Wittrock @johnwittrock]

@jackamadeo @NeptyneHQ @plotlygraphs I love that you can infer the routes of the trucks from this. Great job!

[John Wittrock @johnwittrock]

@JNJNews the point of enforcing a patent is preventing access. Stop the corpspeak. Release the patent.

[Johnson & Johnson @JNJNews]

It is false to suggest—as some recently have—that our patents are being used to prevent access to SIRTURO® (bedaquiline), our medicine for MDR-TB.

In fact, we have already entered into a collaboration with the Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility (“GDF”)—the largest procurer of TB medicines—which enables them to invite potential generic suppliers and purchase generic versions of SIRTURO® 100mg. On April 5, during a World Health Organization meeting, the GDF shared its intent to launch a tender for generic versions of SIRTURO® 100mg in the third quarter of 2023: https://t.co/6m49h5g7tn

In addition, we have shipped more than 660,000 courses of SIRTURO® to 159 countries since launch. Our patents made this possible, enabling us to assist countries to scale-up their use of our medicine responsibly and sustainably and invest in multiple, critical, anti-TB efforts. For instance, in the face of rising drug resistance, we support stewardship efforts that ensure MDR-TB patients can benefit from our medicine today and in the future.

Unfortunately, the most significant barrier to treatment access for patients today is the fact that millions of patients with TB go undiagnosed every year. This is a challenge that we have invested significant resources to overcome and must all get behind if we are to achieve the global goal of ending TB.

[John Wittrock @johnwittrock]

@JNJNews it would be an excellent business, PR, and morally correct move if you let your TB drug patent expire.

And it will be reprehensible if you don't.

#PatientsNotPatents

[John Wittrock @johnwittrock]

@taylormclarke I thought you were a wowowow girl

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@taylormclarke @mmmoresco

[John Wittrock @johnwittrock]

A Blackburnian Warbler today at the Vale of Cashmere

[Kyle Bradshaw @SkylledDev]

As of today, there are now three retail devices that can officially run Google's Fuchsia operating system. The world just got a little bit pinker.

[John Wittrock @johnwittrock]

@jackamadeo @NeptyneHQ Amazing job on the launch! But when will you migrate your monitoring dashboards to Neptyne?

[John Wittrock @johnwittrock]

Not a great look when the evidence control warehouse catches fire.

There's ash and debris raining down in Sunset Park

[NYCFireWire @NYCFireWire]

Brooklyn *2nd Alarm* Box 3810. 700 Columbia St. Fire at the NYPD Evidence Control & Impound warehouse

[John Wittrock @johnwittrock]

@feldman "Did you succeed?"

"Well, we blew up the lab, but that seems promising in this case!"

[Hensley Lab @SCOTTeHENSLEY]

We developed a new multivalent mRNA vaccine against all known influenza virus subtypes. Our study describing the vaccine was just published in @ScienceMagazine. 1/n
https://t.co/HxTKm47EC3

[John Wittrock @johnwittrock]

So the entire Twitter Android team resigned on the day I switched to a Pixel? This bodes well.

[John Wittrock @johnwittrock]

The latest @matt_levine column is a triumph