Fall cleaning thread. If you want any of these items then send me a message.
Matthew Sanabria
@matthewsanabria.com
Christian. Husband to my beautiful wife. Engineering at @oxide.computer. Podcasting at @fallthrough.fm. Wife's chocolate shop at lilyandsparrow.net. matthewsanabria.com
I don't love that voting puts more emphasis on receiving the "I voted!" sticker than researching candidates.
I wish Wickr won instead of Signal for private communication.
Back to helping my dad this weekend. Many people say they want to quit tech for manual labor jobs. Most of you can't handle it.
cool job alert. internal tools and automation in Rust and TypeScript, fully remote, lots of autonomy, $275k
Operations Support Engineer | Careers | Oxide Computer Company
Apply for the Operations Support Engineer position at Oxide Computer Company.
oxide.computer
We raised a few bucks. We'll try not to spend it all on DRAM. Thank you to our investors for this round and thank you to my amazing colleagues for building a great company worth investing in! oxide.computer/blog/our-445...
Our $445M Series D | Oxide Computer Company
Our Series D round of financing.
oxide.computer
We'll try not to spend it all on DRAM. No promises though.
Oxide Computer Company@oxide.computer · 4d agoToday we're announcing our $445M Series D and announcing that we've reached profitability. Huge thanks to Eclipse for leading the round, which included participation from existing investors USIT, Jane Street, Riot Ventures, Intel Capital, Friends and Family Capital, and Counterpart Ventures.
Today we're announcing our $445M Series D and announcing that we've reached profitability. Huge thanks to Eclipse for leading the round, which included participation from existing investors USIT, Jane Street, Riot Ventures, Intel Capital, Friends and Family Capital, and Counterpart Ventures.
Punctuation has historically been not about grammatical correctness but about the feel of how written text is meant to be read -- what lengths of pauses to use, and so on. Modern semi-formal writing tends to balance the two. LLM prose tends to overindex on the first, which makes it suck
People still be trying to shoulder me in NYC. You don't win that game papa. Not many people do.
You can see the effects of laptop thermal throttling with and without fans. The MacBook Air is fantastic until it has to do sustained workloads. The Framework 13 Pro is better since it can cool the CPU.
I much prefer the 3:2 aspect ratio over 16:10 or 16:9 for laptops. If you haven't tried one you should.
Our first technical blog post is out! “When random is not actually random enough” by @stdlib.bsky.social ersc.io/blog/when-ra...
When random is not actually random enough
A short lesson in API design
ersc.io
I was recording this on my iPhone Air with an active Fitness workout tracking my walk. When I hit the mile split my recording stopped and Siri told me the split time. Had to do another take. It's user experiences like this that give me pain.
Matthew Sanabria@matthewsanabria.com · last wk.You're using AI wrong.
"Use it on real problems." Amen!
Matthew Sanabria@matthewsanabria.com · last wk.You're using AI wrong.
I'm just 2 personal Slack workspaces away from deleting Slack from my personal life. Feels good.
My wife made delicious hot chocolate today for the local street fair! Plain and pumpkin spice.
The primitives you expose that others use and build upon matter. Actually, that's sometimes all that matters about a product.
Kelsey Hightower@kelseyhightower.com · 2w agoThis is what makes automation so hard. Writing the code isn't the problem, it's finding an interface that allows you to complete a task, or query the state of the world so you can determine the next step.
Slides for my #monktoberfest talk today, "Execution in the Kingdom of Agents: Reflections on Abstraction and Complexity"; video to come! speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/ex...
Execution in the Kingdom of Agents: Reflections on Abstraction and Complexity
Talk I gave at Monktoberfest 2026; video to come!
speakerdeck.com
How many times per year do you need to be randomly selected by TSA for an extended check before it's not random anymore?
It's 2026 and our best option for community chat applications remains Slack and Discord. I'm beginning to wonder if all these "builders" are actually building anything.
In no particular order. Definitely some titles missing that I didn't have space for.
Repeat after me for a free marketing lesson. Purchasing a product does not subscribe people to marketing emails. Purchasing a product does not subscribe people to marketing emails. Purchasing a product does not subscribe people to marketing emails.
AI is gonna wipe out most jobs, but not mine because... ...I'm building software factories ...I'm using AI to accelerate ...I started a community using AI ...I use these 7 steps follow me to learn ...I ship 500 PRs a second Shut up and go build meaningful relationships.