if you have trouble getting things done, try doing them in a hurry. you should be doing things in a hurry. if you're not engaged, you're just not being urgent enough. if you're not urgent you're not trying
im a software engineer. i grinded through data structures and algorithms, learned about compilers, computer architecture, and read stack overflow posts at 3am. i interned at tech companies and learned about how the work gets done in industry. im a software engineer. abstractions, code reviews, customers, systems, debugging, test cases. needed a better job so i did leetcode. faang rest and vest. pip and layoffs. promos and onsites. im a software engineer. i talk to claude more than my coworkers. claude can write code better than me. i manage git trees and keep agents on track. i forgot why we cared about type safety and my company is leaning out. im a software engineer. the code works the tests pass and and and the customers are happy the tokens brrrr my paycheck still clears the refactors are clean the ideas keep coming the codebase grows we dont stop because claude works and i watch claude works and i watch im a software engineer
My man @uwukko is building my favorite browser (helium) on an M1 with 16gb RAM.
I’m donating $2,000 to help him get a better Mac.
If one of my rich friends wants to match it, he can get 64gb. If two do, he can do 128 👀
many new ways to make your browser feel "just right" dropped in helium today:
- centered address bar
- minimal address bar
- new dynamic layout
- improvements to vertical layout
- and experimental zen/frameless mode (flagged, bit buggy, but cool!)
https://t.co/j2NpMH6laB
Apple CEO Tim Cook: "I don't want people looking at their smartphone more than they're looking in someone's eyes."
"If they are just scrolling endlessly, this is not the way you want to spend your day. Go out and spend it in nature."
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.
Past few months have been surreal
Going from automated research researcher to automated research founder feels very full circle, and the intention is to add a few more loops there.
We’ve iterated a bunch in our private alpha. Super excited about our public beta.
Stay tuned ⬢
sent this to the team today
everything great comes from being able to delay gratification for as long as possible
and it feels like we're collectively losing our ability to do that
Unveiling our new startup Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs).
We just completed our seed round: $1.03B / 890M€, one the largest seeds ever, probably the largest for a European company.
We're hiring!
[the background image is the Veil Nebula - a picture I took from my backyard, most appropriate for an unveiling]
More details here:
https://t.co/eWHyGLXwCA