Praveen Mohandas

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/vLmiBKTtX3

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Agency > Intelligence

I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?

Grok explanation is ~close:

“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.

People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.

It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

[Tim Misiak @timmisiak]

Absolutely insane the number of people calling this a "Microsoft outage". Yes, I know Windows isn't perfect (I worked on the system responsible for analyzing the crashes, after all), but short of getting rid of kernel drivers, it doesn't seem like much blame is on Windows.

[Mario Fusco @mariofusco]

Unpopular opinion: this book is almost 30 years old and in all honesty didn't age very well. If you own a copy do yourself a favor: bury it deeply in your bookshelf and forget about it forever.

[Jeff Hollan @jeffhollan]

This is one of my favorite 'hidden' features of GitHub, it's a mystery to me why it's impossible to discover. I'm pretty sure it's entirely undocumented with no UI. Not sure why it's not an option in the "Code" dropdown 🤷‍♂️

But hey, now you can be in on the secret too

[Alex Durrant @ADurrante]

TIL 🔔, that you can boot directly into the BIOS by using the shutdown command:

shutdown /r /fw /f /t 0

No more guessing which startup keys work! 👍

[FOX College Hoops @CBBonFOX]

Coaches picked their top 3 environments 👀Check out these rankings! 😎

[Death Star PR @DeathStarPR]

If we stop blowing up planets now, that would be extremely unfair to the planets we've already blown up.

[David Fowler @davidfowl]

Microsoft's Graph's journey to .NET 6 https://t.co/ngz83soYVi #dotnet

[Steph Smith @stephsmithio]

In 1994, Jeff Bezos famously spotted a stat that made him leave his high-paying PE job to start Amazon:

💡 The Internet was growing 2300% per year.

What are the generation-defining stats of today?

I'll post a few to kick things off...

[🔎Julia Evans🔍 @b0rk]

bash cheat sheet: what (), {}, $(()), $(), ${}, [], [[]] mean

permalink: https://t.co/5KOFmzGz1g

[Richard Campbell @richcampbell]

So much software...

[Weisong Shi @shiweisong]

@SuperBahl @MSFTResearch @satyanadella @kevin_scott Very impressive! Congratulations!

[Marko Denic @denicmarko]

Mystery Solved!

[James Newton-King ♔ @JamesNK]

.NET 5 gRPC benchmark numbers. gRPC on #aspnetcore is fast 🔥

[distributedNews @distributedone]

Paxos vs Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus? https://t.co/lswScnjTWL #distributedNews

[Rich Turner @richturn_ms]

WOOT WOOT WOOT! For those who haven't seen it yet, Windows 10 Insider build 19603 now exposes a "Linux" node in File Explorer enumerating your installed WSL distros, through which you can access their file systems 😁

[Praveen Mohandas @pmdas1]

@distributedone Link is broken

[Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll]

httpmole is great for testing stuff! You can edit the HTTP response by editing a file without having to restart the server. https://t.co/wsOpgnzE2G

[Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll]

Google is using an in-house built user space networking service for a long time instead of the kernel networking stack. Rolling out new versions take a week instead of months, and is providing 3x Gbps/core performance improvement for RPC workloads. https://t.co/U3IOyDAozc