Karl Wilbur

The Karlness.

[Karl Wilbur @karlwilbur]

@orkuno Yes. Started for me at about 12:15 US/Eastern (16:15 UTC). Still happening.

[Karl Wilbur @karlwilbur]

@delton I got the same error message on my Android phone about a minute before your post. I've been trying things on my end like force-stop, clear cache, log out, use the desktop app ... all failed. I've just now decided to go to X to see if I am now alone.

[Karl Wilbur @karlwilbur]

@still_hustling I remember the good old days when this kind of thing used to only happen down around Warsaw and Grand. Pretty soon they'll be shooting each other up in Bridgetown.

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.

400 of them are now worth over $100 million.

These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.

Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.

Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."

The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.

Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

[Akhilesh Mishra @livingdevops]

No disrespect to Linus Torvalds, But Ken Thompson might be the biggest geek who ever lived. 🫡

And almost nobody knows his name.

At 28, he created Unix.
> The OS that inspired every modern operating system on the planet.

At 66, the age when most engineers retire, he co-created Go.
> A language millions of developers love, and used to build most of modern Devops tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.

But that is still not the full story.
- Dennis Ritchie built on Thompson’s B to create C.
- Linus built Linux inspired by Thompson’s Unix.
- He co-invented UTF-8, the encoding behind every website you visit.
- He built grep, a tool developers still use daily in 2024.

The internet you are scrolling right now exists because of him. And he did everything without Claude, cursor, ChatGPT.

Ken Thompson. Remember the name.

[Karl Wilbur @karlwilbur]

@Tkewoody126 @still_hustling I couldn't take it anymore. I bailed out. I still hear gunshots from time to time but it's just a little different down here in the country.

[Karl Wilbur @karlwilbur]

@GoesTooSlow @DoingFedTime I *just* downloaded Devuan yesterday to try it out in VirtualBox to see if it can replace Ubuntu as my primary OS. Been on Ubuntu since 2006.

[Akhilesh Mishra @livingdevops]

Dennis Ritchie created C in the early 1970s without Google, Stack Overflow, GitHub, or any AI ( Claude, Cursor, Codex) assistant.

- No VC funding.
- No viral launch.
- No TED talk.
- Just two engineers at Bell Labs. A terminal. And a problem to solve.

He built a language that fit in kilobytes.

50 years later, it runs everything.

Linux kernel. Windows. macOS.

Every iPhone. Every Android.

NASA’s deep space probes.

The International Space Station.

> Python borrowed from it.
> Java borrowed from it.
> JavaScript borrowed from it.

If you have ever written a single line of code in any language, you did it in Dennis Ritchie’s shadow.

He died in 2011.
The same week as Steve Jobs.
Jobs got the front pages.
Ritchie got silence.

This Legend deserves to be celebrated.

[General Mike Flynn @GenFlynn]

Breaking: Daylight Savings

We are NOT saving any daylight and there are NO savings.

We need to stop this daylight savings time nonsense.

I think the cows in Indiana will forgive us.

[Karl Wilbur @karlwilbur]

The Diesel Engine story https://t.co/dLpkVjxzjo

[Karl Wilbur @karlwilbur]

@84longhorn84 @AIPandaX It's "co-opt".

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

We will never stop debating and discussing.

We will never stop standing up for what America is and what she should be.

And we will never let Charlie’s voice die.

To those who would stop us, I have two words: FUCK YOU.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

To give you a sense of the immense and growing size of illegal immigration!

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

18 days ago, President Javier Milei was inaugurated in Argentina. Since then:

-Eliminated 12 out of 21 cabinet posts
-Firing 5,000 government employees
-Ending 380k government regulations
-Banned woke language in the military
-Bill to affirm the right to self-defense
-Bill to legalize homeschooling of kids
-Proposal to punish all riot organizers
-Future welfare cuts for road-blocking
-Legalized paying contracts in bitcoin
-Privatization of state-run companies
-Opened up the Argentina oil industry

[Karl Wilbur @karlwilbur]

Trump's Big Health Care Win: Hospitals Must Disclose Prices Starting in 2021 https://t.co/QaaShOJ3lB

[Karl Wilbur @karlwilbur]

https://t.co/MkL0fyjnEs

[Karl Wilbur @karlwilbur]

Microsoft’s sneaky plan to switch Chrome searches from Google to Bing https://t.co/2L0ruqSY87

[Karl Wilbur @karlwilbur]

https://t.co/k4A4ncT3x8

[Karl Wilbur @karlwilbur]

https://t.co/0qwC9Om7J4

[Karl Wilbur @karlwilbur]

https://t.co/DfTH6WqUSa