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Procrastination enthusiast and espresso machine operator. And a lot of AI. 🇺🇸🇸🇰

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@exQUIZitely Great Norton Commander

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@_trish_xD Borland, Turbo C 2.0

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@TecnoSinHumo At the moment of impact, I heard “kurwa/kurva”?

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@NYCMayor The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money - Thatcher

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@elonmusk I’d love to, but my Model Y Performance order from February 13 has had its delivery date pushed to May - June 2026.

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@MichaelStockw16 @Tesla @wholemars @SawyerMerritt The same here - I placed my order on February 13, 2026, and I just checked the app. The delivery date has been pushed to May - June 2026. Crazy.

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@RektByHielke @robbertleusink Wi-Fi definitely not — it was largely developed by an Australian team (CSIRO) and standardized globally, not a Dutch invention.

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@KoshkaBaluga @Franc0Fernand0 https://t.co/hGTeSWXOud

[Akhilesh Mishra @livingdevops]

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.

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@dr_ericberg Eggs and cottage cheese for breakfast

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@BowTiedMara Traveled BA → El Calafate → El Chaltén → Bariloche → Mendoza → BA in December, but I’ll be back to visit Ushuaia as well. Argentina is such a beautiful country. 🇦🇷

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@aditiitwt Feeling nostalgic - Norton Commander, Borland Turbo C 2.0, good times 😜

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@buildanything @deedydas That’s true. Many nineteen-year-olds would sign whatever termsheet VCs put in front of them.

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@iAnonymous3000 @Heypocket That was the first thing that crossed my mind, how they handle consent.

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@Olamilekhan10_ @DailyLoud Tree wells are extremely dangerous.
https://t.co/KgA6xRiuai

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@tunguz Las Vegas has diversified quite a bit, so it’s no longer just “Sin City”.

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@Warren_pr1 @briandstone Same model, same color, same delivery date as mine 😜

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@StormCat5_ I was checking the weather forecast all weekend and decided to leave Truckee on Sunday afternoon instead of Monday.

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@accuweather I was checking the weather forecast all weekend and decided to leave Truckee on Sunday afternoon.

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@sharifshameem Solid. Any chance you’ve got the GPX file?🙂

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@firstadopter @petejkim Two different cities.
SF in 2000 felt alive, a tourist mecca with great energy, creative people, and a sense of ease. Tech folks were around, but they didn’t define the city. It also felt safer, more balanced. Same city today, very different soul.