Raffy Alcoriza

product software engineer

[Raffy Alcoriza @raffya]

Hmm goodbye Fantastical? 🤔

[Raffy Alcoriza @raffya]

So you know it isn’t AI?

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

Side note I hate that I can tell they're doing something a little more "handheld" and a little less smooth with the steadicam work in this keynote lol

[Raffy Alcoriza @raffya]

They finally fixed it: less chrome on sidebars is back!

[Raffy Alcoriza @raffya]

I agree. If the goal of the new design system is to focus on content, this does the opposite: the way I see it, the higher the elevation, the more important it is; unless these navigation elements collapse like how Arc does it.

[Raffy Alcoriza @raffya]

This and the keycaps material on their keyboards

[oofus @oxfus]

this is why i hope that the touchscreen macbook pros actually fix whatever coating they're using for the macbooks now because it's honestly really bad and it attracts dust and fingerprints so well

[Christophe Boutry @Ced_haurus]

Palantir vient de publier son manifeste. Lisez-le.

Pas pour ce qu'il dit sur la tech. Pour ce qu'il dit sur le politique. Sur l'idéologie de Karp et Thiel. Sur la guerre. Sur vous.

Quand une entreprise privée se donne pour mission de définir qui doit être surveillé, ciblé, prédit, neutralisé, et qu'elle publie simultanément un texte expliquant pourquoi contester cela serait de la faiblesse civilisationnelle, on n'est plus dans la stratégie d'entreprise. On est dans la privatisation du souverain. Le droit de décider de l'ennemi, qui fut toujours le geste politique fondateur des États, est en train d'être racheté par une entreprise cotée au Nasdaq.

Ce manifeste repose sur un seul tour de passe-passe, répété sous vingt formes différentes : rendre l'inévitable ce qui est en réalité un choix. Les armes à IA ? Elles seront construites de toute façon, alors autant que ce soit nous.

La surveillance algorithmique ? La réalité géopolitique l'exige.

Le réarmement de l'Occident, la hiérarchie des cultures, la disqualification du pluralisme comme naïveté dangereuse ? Simple lucidité face au monde tel qu'il est.

C'est le geste idéologique par excellence : ne pas interdire la question, mais la rendre indécente.

Ce que Palantir appelle réalisme est en fait une décision philosophique radicale : le conflit est la vérité permanente du monde, la délibération démocratique est une fragilité que l'adversaire exploitera, et une élite technologique privée est mieux placée qu'un peuple pour tirer les conséquences de cette vérité.
C'est du schmittisme en hoodie. C'est littéralement la structure de leur pensée.

Le danger n'est pas qu'ils soient fous. Le danger est qu'ils soient riches, cohérents, et déjà à l'intérieur des États. Palantir ne frappe pas à la porte des gouvernements pour vendre un outil. Elle arrive avec une cosmologie complète : voici comment fonctionne le monde, voici vos ennemis, voici pourquoi vous ne pouvez pas vous permettre de débattre, et voici notre contrat.

Palantir est l'ennemie des peuples et de la démocratie. Ce qu'ils construisent, c'est un pouvoir technocratique que personne n'a élu et que personne ne pourra destituer.

[OM @om]

The launch of MacBook Neo has me feeling a little philosophical. About Heidegger. About missing Steve Jobs. About Aristotle and the sheer joy of colors. In the end, this is my essay about the essence of a machine. https://t.co/TvfgoacH1H

[Nan Yu @thenanyu]

PRDs are more alive than ever. When the cost of implementation goes down, describing what to implement and why is where all the leverage goes.

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

Apple is the only company with a great proposal here: let parents, who buy the devices used by kids, set up kids accounts and decide what they're allowed to do, then pass those decisions to apps through parental controls -- without demanding anyone's identity papers.

[Raffy Alcoriza @raffya]

https://t.co/mbM8OP7Mz5

[Kevin Naughton Jr. @KevinNaughtonJr]

are software engineers convinced yet that communication skills matter?

our entire job requirements are slowly just becoming the ability to clearly articulate your thoughts

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

Product skills of the future:
- Intuition about what's worth building
- Clarity in describing the solution
- Taste in knowing when it's great
- Agency to do the above without being asked

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

A timely read on product engineering: and why the frontend/backend split just doesn’t make much sense any more (at startups, the very least, and at nimble teams and companies) - by @leerob

https://t.co/PLWzrei4rJ

[Maurizio @themgmtconsult]

It took me a decade and a receding hairline to understand it.

If you want to become better at influence, at negotiation, at consulting, at parenting, or pretty much anything that involves humans and egos, try this:

DO NOT say the thing just because it feels good. Say the thing only if it helps you get where you want to go.

My most recent newsletter on Consulting Intel explores this idea...

Link in the comments.

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

Quality first.

People should have a life outside of work. Place to enjoy life, develop their tastes, gather inspiration. When you feel better, your work is better. It naturally bleeds into what you make.
https://t.co/GaGDB5DMfl

[solst/ICE of Astarte @IceSolst]

This is what a postmortem should look like.

- starts with an apology & acknowledgement of the impact
- thorough breakdown of what caused it
- “Unfortunately, there were assumptions made in the past,” (imo most interesting bugs are caused by bad assumptions)
- detailed timeline

There is some Twitter discourse (eg idiot lunduke) around one module that’s in Rust. This seems irrelevant: Bad assumptions can cause bugs in any code. Recently rewritten code MAY introduce new bugs or eg worse error handling, but that also applies to code in the old codebase. We also can’t tell what issues the new code prevented, that we wouldn’t have known about.

As much as I would love to say “rewriting is risky”, so is adding ANY code, or NOT adding any code. All code has risk. All assumptions have risk. What’s important is how you handle it, and they’ve demonstrated how to respond well.

[Steve Huynh @ALEngineered]

The highest-performing developers I worked with at Amazon asked better questions than everyone else.

After 18 years in tech, here's what I learned: while average engineers jump to solutions, exceptional ones pause to ask the right questions first.

The 6 questions that separated high performers:
"What problem are we actually solving?"
"What happens when this fails?"
"How will we know if this is working?"
"What's the simplest solution that could work?"
"Who else has solved this?"
"What are we NOT going to do?"

The career-changing insight: The quality of your questions determines the quality of your solutions.

These thinking patterns apply beyond engineering to any complex problem-solving role.

More systematic approaches to advancing your tech career: https://t.co/PCtle2FWwH

[Brynn Putnam @BrynnPutnam]

Introducing Board – the first ever face-to-face gaming console that combines the best of board games and video games into one beautiful new platform. Available today!! https://t.co/yK0QjdzbSc

[Raffy Alcoriza @raffya]

I only want one thing from @Spotify: multi-user support on TVOS 26 with automatic sign-in, so we don't have to constantly log-out-and-back-in to switch users

[Spotify News @SpotifyNews]

From new ways to watch video to even more personalized recommendations, our Spotify listening experience on Apple TV just got better. Take a look.

[Raffy Alcoriza @raffya]

Big yikes

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇦🇷

Enjoyed my discussion with PM Netanyahu on how AI education and literacy will keep our free societies ahead.

We spoke about AI empowering everyone to build software and the importance of ensuring it serves quality and progress.

Optimistic for peace, safety, and greatness for Israel and its neighbors.