Excited to share that I’ve been promoted to Director of Engineering at HubSpot! I had no idea how impactful my decision to join HubSpot would be when I was looking for jobs as a college senior. These past 10 years have been a wild ride and I’m looking forward to taking this next step.

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says

At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

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Well at least I got to finish A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms before I had to cancel my HBO account

The gross "AI washing" of tech layoffs continue. It sounds much better to say AI creates these magical new efficencies than to own that your business is struggling

Block shares soar 24% as company slashes workforce by nearly half

Block said Thursday it's laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its head count.

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I was trying to understand how this was a joke about the Red Sox owner for too long

Ryan Moulton@moultano.bsky.social · 6mo ago

john henry - verb, transitive: to do something by hand that a machine can already do better, esp. for your own self respect. “I john henried the code for old times sake to see if I still could.”

Is anyone talking about what the future of product teams look like with generative AI? As I'm getting back to work after my sabbatical its clear to me that we need to change the way product teams work. Increased engineering velocity and output mean more pressure on PM and UX.

A year ago, I thought LLMs were kind of neat but not that useful. I saw the code autocomplete and thought, meh. Last summer just flipped. I never ever thought I would see automated code generation like we see now. I know there’s baggage but you need to know the coders are being real about this

Really enjoying using Conductor for coding at work and on my personal projects. I rarely need to open the IDE anymore but it’s there if I need it

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

ai.com just ran a Super Bowl ad and is now 503ing. I’d hate to be answering that pager right now

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Who is going to be on call for these apps? Who is going to make sure it integrates with other applications? Home built software is going to be the new complicated Excel sheet

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Lots of product teams are being tempted to save costs by vibe coding a replacement to some SaaS app. Managers on such teams need to ask two questions: what will it cost to maintain and who will train people on the tool? Someone will make a lot of money solving the proliferation of vibe coded apps.

Looking for some users to try out a new project. Online shopping usually involves doing the same search across many sites or getting fast fashion spam from Google. I built an app that lets you pick out your go-to brands and search across them all. Let me know if you have any feedback costitch.com

Costitch — Find your next fit, from the brands you love

Search across your favorite brands, filtered to your style and budget. Discover pieces from 200+ curated brands.

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This is the way, make “ok, abolish only ICE” the moderate position.

Truthout@truthout.org · 6mo ago

Amid growing calls for the abolition of ICE, Rep. Delia Ramirez is calling for the entire DHS to be dismantled. Highlighting how much experience the officers who killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti had, Ramirez said, “DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity.”

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

One armed goon loses his shit at an observer who's backing up, and then several more armed goons tackle the observer to the ground, and then even more armed goons form a protective shield around the armed goons handcuffing the observer for hurting an armed goon's feelings. This can't be "reformed"

amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I'm reading Project Hail Mary right now and it is wild how out of date the AI voice assistants already seem. The book is only 5 years old

HOW IT WORKS IN MOVIES: 1. Government lies 2. Brave heroes release video showing the truth 3. Press says “the government is lying!” HOW IT APPARENTLY WORKS IN REAL LIFE 1. Brave heroes release video showing the truth 2. Government lies 3. Press says “Oh no, what now? So confusing! So hard!”

Politico@politico.com · 6mo ago

A battle over the truth erupts after deadly Minneapolis shooting

In an effort to be objective and neutral modern news organizations have completely lost the plot

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible. It leads on "sharply contested narratives" It has a dramatic skew to the US government It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.

BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/bdd9...

I wonder what the angle here is for Databricks. Would they keep Neon's low touch business model or repurpose the technology?

Alex Konrad@alexrkonrad.bsky.social · last yr.

Scoop: Databricks is in talks to buy Postgres startup Neon for about $1B, sources tell me @upstarts.bsky.social. The deal could go higher with employee retention. This news comes just days after we scooped that Datadog is buying startup Eppo for $220M. M+A for infra / data startups is heating up!

A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App Store

A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App Store

The judge called Apple’s insubordination a “gross miscalculation.“

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Celtics take Game 4 and a 3-1 series lead. Jayson Tatum: 🍀 37 PTS 🍀 14 REB 🍀 3 AST 🍀 3 STL

Surreal experience of feeling a small earthquake in Boston. I was on a zoom with someone in Maine and they felt it first

I invite you to join a Somerville, MA Discord server: discord.gg/4vfnkeDzjf #somerville

It does not feel intuitive that the way to edit list membership is to go to the about tab

Does anyone have monitor recommendations for a MacBook Pro. Mine are kinda old and I’m looking at upgrading

Massive away win for the little fella.

www.intel.com/content/www/... This seems like a very bad sign for Intel trying to recover as a leading chip maker. And generally bad news for the US chip industry

Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger

David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus named interim Co-CEOs. Holthaus also appointed to the newly created position of CEO of Intel Products. Frank Yeary named interim executive chair.

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