Gareth Townsend

Builder of things. Engineering Lead @Blocks @CashApp

Cyclist/Guitarist/Photographer/He/Him.

[goosewin @Goosewin]

you should add megabool to your projects

[Jon Bershad @JonBershad]

Please watch this movie trailer through to the very end so that you can experience the greatest title reveal of all time.

Watching this in a theater made me lose my mind.

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

(Thread) In the first What If? book, I answered a question about cooking a steak by dropping it from space. At one point, I commented—jokingly!—that if anyone put a steak in a hypersonic wind tunnel to gather better data, I’d love to see the video.

Well, I have good news.

[Adam Tornhill @AdamTornhill]

”The quality of a system is defined by our ability to change it!”

Great opening keynote from @davefarley77 at #YOW22

[Gareth Townsend @quamen]

This is neat

[Sam D'Amico @sdamico]

We’ve raised a $20M Series A from @Lux_Capital @fifthwallvc @lachygroom @constructcap and many others to accelerate decarbonization in the home.

This is in addition to a $5M seed round last year from @Lux_Capital, @constructcap, and @lachygroom.

https://t.co/dLGzhuffAz

[Gareth Townsend @quamen]

@ZachACole Both are above freezing mate 🙃

[Jamu Kakar @jkakar]

It’s important to understand that DRY increases coupling. Combined with microservices, which often require migrations to make changes safely, they make a system more brittle and difficult to change and maintain over time. This also leads to greater blast radius when things break.

[Fausto @fausto_st]

Sharing it again because it is genius:

(from The Almanack of @Naval Ravikant)

[Gareth Townsend @quamen]

https://t.co/vfX3lcUDjm

[Gareth Townsend @quamen]

@alanjrogers @haileysaccount Stop using slack on your phone. Simples. Desktop app is so much better. (I still hate it, but it’s better)

[Vinod Khosla @vkhosla]

Block (@Square) users are putting their paychecks in @CashApp per https://t.co/wZA1qH9lJp . Likely this puts Block on path to be among the largets bank like institutions in number of account holders.

[kdin @wooperbot]

hey man i don’t make the rules

[Gareth Townsend @quamen]

@brianmichel Fuck that.

[Gareth Townsend @quamen]

@rileycrane We’ve all started listening to Mariah already haven’t we?

[rands @rands]

Give them ample warning. Give them context so they can prepare. Remind them frequently of its importance. Be calm when it happens. Don’t panic when it goes sideways (it usually does). Look for learnings. Share those learnings. And repeat. Like forever.

[Ólafur Waage @olafurw]

Mastodon's big idea is that there is no one server, it's all distributed.

But then humans arrived and did their human thing so most of them picked one server, and now that server is down.

[Ben Orenstein @r00k]

After five years of incredible work, our CTO @SpencerCDixon has decided to move to a part-time IC role at the company.

We're now looking for a CTO to lead our small but mighty engineering team (and work closely with me!).

https://t.co/sMDGsjWWUx

[Gareth Townsend @quamen]

@thephw Ha ha ha ha