Steve Hook

Software Engineer

[Steve Hook @steevehook]

The single piece of relevant info I need configured, just does not work, won't let me set any url. It literally took me 10m to add the Google integration and this one has been days of failed attempts

[Steve Hook @steevehook]

The state of the @Meta shit pile, for anyone who didn't already know. I am trying to create an app, got my business verified, the single piece of info which makes the app relevant literally does not work, trying to open a bug, no chance, they say they no longer support it

[Steve Hook @steevehook]

how to make an amazing developer experience, create a shitty and buggy platform, nothing properly works, create a bug portal which does not accept bugs, done

[Steve Hook @steevehook]

@Meta do I really need 24 hours to be able to tell you show shitty your developer experience is? 🤦‍♂️

[Steve Hook @steevehook]

Respect to anyone who's had the patience to set up an OAuth app on the absolute shit experience @Meta gives a developer. The silent failures and the super confusing errors and the lagging UI brings me back to 2000s days

[Steve Hook @steevehook]

@Hetzner_Online Sorry but I ditched it in exchange for @modal the guys are so much friendlier and give a much better deal, saying this as a solopreneur who has no stake in any of the 2

[Steve Hook @steevehook]

@Hetzner_Online is that how you treat everyone who signs up, or just people from third world countries? Curious who's buying your info.

Asking for a friend 😑

[Steve Hook @steevehook]

@Hetzner_Online Is that applied for everyone though or only to non western countries? But I suppose you will avoid answering that question. I think my credit card, which I cannot remove now before I give you my documents was enough information and don’t think it has anything to do with security

[Steve Hook @steevehook]

holy shit, Claude Design is good boi 🤯

[Steve Hook @steevehook]

anyone messing with gemma4 yet? thoughts?

[Steve Hook @steevehook]

@JetBrainsHelp @jetbrains @GoLandIDE Disabled Junie and AI Assistant plugins it seems to have disappeared, will keep an eye on it

[Steve Hook @steevehook]

@jetbrains @GoLandIDE guys what's up with the unexpected freezes, it's just annoying no matter how much CPU or Mem you have available after a few good minutes of coding it will just freeze when scrolling through the code, tried disabling plugins, but it's kind of a guessing game

[Steve Hook @steevehook]

@arctic_melting @Strava Pretty sure it was broken for me a week ago as well 😁

[Steve Hook @steevehook]

Apparently @Strava doesn’t want me as an user anymore. As a matter of fact, fuck you and your subscription, can’t even record activities anymore. Does anyone have any better recommendations?

[Steve Hook @steevehook]

Jack is definitely on point, everyone should fire half their company, let’s see what’s gonna happen in 1 year

[jack @jack]

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.

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today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone.

first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay.

we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.

i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures.

a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers.

we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold.

to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward.

to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow.

jack

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Clawdbot 😂

[DHH @dhh]

Linux is so hawt right now! I should actually checkout the latest @Razer laptops. Would be nice to give it the same treatment as the Asus G14. Everything working out of the box.

[Steve Hook @steevehook]

If Teams could store credentials in your pants it most probably will. This fucking thing is annoying. Just can't seem to get rid of its cache, somehow someway it pull my older accounts from its ass

[Steve Hook @steevehook]

Can we all agree @Apple s KeyChain is absolute dog shit. Wanna lose hair follicles, try deleting a key from the Keychain both from their UI as well as via the terminal.

Talk about building a database that works like shit. God I just wasted my morning with this stupid Apple again