Kurtis Nusbaum 🌃🥑🌐🏃👨‍💻

I like computer's and running
@devmission_ CTO & Co-founder
currently at @chronosphereio

He/Him

[Kurtis Nusbaum 🌃🥑🌐🏃👨‍💻 @klnusbaum]

Show me some one with a reliable integration test and I will show you a bold-faced liar. #unittests

[Lee Robinson @leerob]

You might believe you should spend less time thinking about code because of AI.

I strongly disagree! We’re watching this play out live where tons of AI generated code becomes a liability.

At the end of the day, an engineer needs to be responsible / on call for code that gets shipped to production. If you don’t understand the system you’re trying to debug, you’re probably going to have a bad time.

Yes, AI can help with all of this, if you set up the proper systems. You can have agents triage prod logs, look at errors, etc. You can speed up parts of the investigation, but an engineer needs to make the call. There might be serious customer or financial implications from that change.

I expect the trend continue for trimming dependencies, vendoring code so you can modify it directly, preferring simpler systems with fewer abstractions, and spending waaaay more time thinking about system design and code maintenance.

I’ve said this before, but it’s a great time to get familiar with CS fundamentals and some of the history behind what great software looks like. Many parts will be different in the coming years as AI progresses, but also a lot more than people realize will stay the same.

[Kurtis Nusbaum 🌃🥑🌐🏃👨‍💻 @klnusbaum]

I formally submit my application for the role of CEO of HTMX @htmx_org @gitpush_gitpaid

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

Unironically, adding a walkable coffee shop and a pub to a suburban neighborhood would make them 10x more enjoyable and dynamic.

Imagine the run-ins you’d have every morning on your walk for coffee, or spontaneous games you watch with the dads at the pub.

Sounds kinda awesome.

[Kurtis Nusbaum 🌃🥑🌐🏃👨‍💻 @klnusbaum]

This is such a bad/confusing take. Democrats have been in charge of Seattle for decades! If we have a housing shortage it's because of policies we, as Democrats, decided to put in place.

What we need is to change our policies to let developers build they housing we say we want.

[Pramila Jayapal @PramilaJayapal]

Seattle has one of the worst housing crises in the country. I see it every time I’m home in my district.

People working full-time jobs who can’t afford rent. Teachers, nurses, and transit workers who can’t live in the city they serve. Families on housing assistance waiting lists that have been frozen for years.

This is a policy failure, not an inevitability.

We built this crisis by choosing developers over people. We can choose differently.

Housing is a human right. We fight for it like one.

[Kurtis Nusbaum 🌃🥑🌐🏃👨‍💻 @klnusbaum]

You can say "tax the rich", but then you have to care about them staying. You can say "I don't care if they leave", but then you can't build a bunch of taxes dependent on them. You gotta pick one!

[Kurtis Nusbaum 🌃🥑🌐🏃👨‍💻 @klnusbaum]

You can't say "tax the rich" and then turn around and say "I don't care if they leave". Those two things are in direct opposition. It's an incoherent postion. If they leave, then you can't tax them!

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

We can’t let the alt left talking point “fuck them, leave” take hold in California like it has in Washington

After the billionaires leave, the bureaucrats turn their sights on the savings of the middle class

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Thank you Jimmy Carter

[Special Ops Magazine @specialopsmag]

Peter Wang was a freshman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. He was also an Army JROTC cadet who dreamed of attending West Point and serving his country.

On February 14, 2018, when the shooting started, Peter was in study hall. As panic spread through the corridors, he moved towards the exit. Not to flee, but to hold the door open for his classmates to escape behind him. He was shot and killed in a third floor hallway.

He was found still wearing his JROTC uniform. He was only 15 years old.

For his actions he was posthumously awarded the ROTC Medal for Heroism by the US Army, and also posthumously admitted to the United States Military Academy at West Point for the class of 2025.

The West Point class of 2025 voted to give Peter their Honorary Graduate Award, because as one cadet put it, he embodied duty, honor, and country before he ever had the chance to wear the uniform for real.

He never made it to West Point. But he already lived everything West Point stands for.

[Kurtis Nusbaum 🌃🥑🌐🏃👨‍💻 @klnusbaum]

If the entire world ran their energy grid like Texas, we'd be making significant progress on climate change.

That feels like a *wild* statement to say. But I think it's true.

[Simon Mahan @SimonMahan]

The world is changing right in front of us and no one knows it. Texas is running its world-class economy on 70% renewables, right now. Gas is there if we need it, but for today, we can save the fuel for another day.

[Marc Joffe @marcjoffe]

35 years after throwing off the yoke of Communism, Poland becomes the world's 20th largest economy.

The warmth of capitalism is lifting an entire nation out of poverty.

https://t.co/62N56GVCn3

[Andy Masley @AndyMasley]

Whenever you see a contextless large number you should be pretty skeptical.

My hometown of 17,000 people uses 1.5 million gallons of water per day. Enough for 21 data centers like this. If you saw someone saying that the American west cannot afford to have 17,000 more people move there I think you'd be a little suspicious.

Irrigated alfalfa farms use about 3-4,000 gallons per acre per day, and there are 6 million acres of irrigated alfalfa in the west. That one crop (which mostly goes to feed livestock) is using as much water as 500,000 data centers at this size.

Data centers are always going to basically round to zero on the list of the west's water issues.

[Kurtis Nusbaum 🌃🥑🌐🏃👨‍💻 @klnusbaum]

Clarification: by "trying times" I meant "the siege of Kpop upon the realm of HTMX".

(I'm actually happily employed at a job I love, but I appreciate all the support!)

[htmx.org / Jim Cramer of Crypto (same thing) @htmx_org]

remember: you can add CEO of htmx to your resume and you are NOT lying b/c *everyone* is CEO of htmx & if someone emails [email protected] asking if you are CEO or htmx I will respond with one word: "yes"

[Kurtis Nusbaum 🌃🥑🌐🏃👨‍💻 @klnusbaum]

In these trying times, I'm formally submitting my application for CEO of HTMX. I mostly do backend, but sometimes I do frontend (same thing).

@htmx_org #htmx

[Kurtis Nusbaum 🌃🥑🌐🏃👨‍💻 @klnusbaum]

My counter intuitive take: the increase in productivity makes engineers "cheaper" and we actually see an increase in demand for SWEs à la Jevons Paradox

[rahul @rahulgs]

in the last 24 hours, 57% of merged PRs at ramp came from our background agent

[Kurtis Nusbaum 🌃🥑🌐🏃👨‍💻 @klnusbaum]

Imagine living in fear the way a plate in a Greek household lives in fear; with those more powerful than you ready to celebrate your demise at a moment's notice.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

I think this was a really bad year for American politics, a mediocre year for the American economy, and an exceptional year for America.

In 12 months, you’ve got
- the largest decline in murder rate ever recorded
- huge declines in traffic fatalities, drug overdoses, and suicide
- first ever personalized gene editing treatment and breakthroughs in HIV and cancer therapy
- continued advances in GLP1 technology that seems to reduce weight and inflammation and a bunch of other stuff
- declines in teen anxiety and despair
- surge in self-driving car technology*
- all this happened in a period when both the SP500 and inflation adjusted median wages hit record highs

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

One of the perils of rent control: Ghost Apartments 👻

New York City has roughly 50,000 vacant apartments. About a quarter are simply waiting to be rented. The rest are effectively off the market because legal rents do not cover operating costs or required renovations.

The unit pictured below is in the East Village, one of the most desirable neighborhoods in NYC.

It was previously rented to a long-term rent-controlled tenant. Historically, once that tenant moved out, the owner could renovate the apartment and reset the rent closer to market. That changed in 2019 with the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act.

Under HSTPA, the rent can no longer be reset to market. The maximum increase allowed here is $347, putting the legal rent at $955 per month. The unit needs roughly $100k in renovations. The math does not work, so the apartment stays vacant. That is wasted housing in one of the most expensive cities in the world.

This is a common outcome under rent control. The right solution is to eliminate rent stabilization entirely, let rents rise to meet demand, and allow landlords to reinvest in their buildings. Always remember - rent control does not primarily help the poor... it helps those who have been in their apartments the longest.

more:
https://t.co/LsSVnargms

h/t: @margrev

[Kurtis Nusbaum 🌃🥑🌐🏃👨‍💻 @klnusbaum]

@dimension20show who's in charge of snacks? Can we get a documentary about them? I wanna learn all the DnD snack secrets.

#DnD #snacks

[Kurtis Nusbaum 🌃🥑🌐🏃👨‍💻 @klnusbaum]

AI + DnD = awesome. I still write most of my own stuff when I DM or create characters, but there's a lot of tedious things I just let AI help me with now. Saves me time. I've also never been much of an artist, so for the few things I want to draw, AI is a huge boon.

#ai #dnd

[Kurtis Nusbaum 🌃🥑🌐🏃👨‍💻 @klnusbaum]

@GoodVibePolitik "Golden Gates" by @ConorDougherty

He's, you know, an actual Journalist (unlike many of the other suggestions I'm seeing here)