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Happy to see the Shopify logo up in the Anthropic presentation!

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James Duncan Davidson @duncan.dev In SLC, UT bryanwjones.com/2025/05/jame...

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I wish I’d been in an A seat for this approach. Still, it always brings a smile to my face to see the Bay Area out the window.

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What’s up?

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Thanks @craigmod.com craigmod.com/books/other_...

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I’m totally stoked about this: zed.dev/agentic. Yes, Cursor and Windsurf and even using Copilot in VScode are good. But, I’ve got a soft spot for @zed.dev and I’m so happy to see their new agent mode ship. Great agent in a super fast editor. 🎉

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You know what I really dislike about GraphQL? All requests look the same in HTTP logs. I really miss not having that when I’m trying to figure out why something something that somebody is doing in their app is blowing up our SaaS provider. (intentionally left vague to protect the guilty)

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I think the lesson I’m taking away is that I should accept more invitations to group chats that I don’t recognize. 😳

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Woke up. Packed. Checked out. Got car to airport. Checked in. Flight delayed. Flight delayed. Flight cancelled. One hour in line. Flight rebooked. Lunch. Connecting flight disappears. Rebooked. Connecting flight disappears. Talk to support with two airlines.

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Oh hai, Toronto. You look… welcoming.

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Let’s go

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Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?" Me: "That's the documentation deliverable." Manager: "What's the status of that?" Me: "We're halfway there" Manager: "Why is progress so slow?" Me: "You fired Tommy" Manager: "So?" Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"

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Long day.

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Love this: “Instead of buying new clothes, take that money and go travel. Because people there haven’t seen your old clothes yet.”

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Dammit. I love em dashes — I wonder what this means about me.

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OH one of the devs on my teams: “So, I lost some uranium in my house and was looking for it...” ☢️ 🫠

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Breathe, my friends. Breathe. Don’t forget to breathe.

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My driver from the airport today in Toronto: “Last year, I was excited to see Trump win. I wanted to see him get in and shake things up. But now, now, I think we’ve got idiots on both sides and I’m worried there’s going to be a recession and people are going to go hungry because of it.”

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So, we’re on approach on a 777 and the ceiling is low. Something about how the pilot is flying feels like he’s on edge. I start thinking “pilot is gonna do it. He’s gonna hit the TO/GA switch”. Not five seconds later, thrust comes up and we’re zooming up.

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In retrospect, “guy who has long wanted to build payment services and mint crypto currencies to replace USD manages to get access to government payment mechanisms” wasn’t on my bingo card just yet. I guess I assumed it would be harder than that.

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Fuck it. It’s an “imma gonna put sugar in my coffee” kind of morning after reading up on the news.

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Somebody wants to come along.

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With the big scale solutions costing so much capital, and in this case precipitated by embargo, Deepseek was inevitable. Simon Sinofksy writes: hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/228-deepse...

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Reading Avery’s @tailscale.com post from earlier this month injected some optimism into my day. The c10k problem is now the c10000k problem. It’s a thought-provoking piece showing how we can do more than ever, with less than ever. Are we keeping up with our tools? tailscale.com/blog/living-...

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Happy to see the Shopify logo up in the Anthropic presentation!

James Duncan Davidson @duncan.dev In SLC, UT bryanwjones.com/2025/05/jame...

I wish I’d been in an A seat for this approach. Still, it always brings a smile to my face to see the Bay Area out the window.

What’s up?

Thanks @craigmod.com craigmod.com/books/other_...

I’m totally stoked about this: zed.dev/agentic. Yes, Cursor and Windsurf and even using Copilot in VScode are good. But, I’ve got a soft spot for @zed.dev and I’m so happy to see their new agent mode ship. Great agent in a super fast editor. 🎉

You know what I really dislike about GraphQL? All requests look the same in HTTP logs. I really miss not having that when I’m trying to figure out why something something that somebody is doing in their app is blowing up our SaaS provider. (intentionally left vague to protect the guilty)

I think the lesson I’m taking away is that I should accept more invitations to group chats that I don’t recognize. 😳

Woke up. Packed. Checked out. Got car to airport. Checked in. Flight delayed. Flight delayed. Flight cancelled. One hour in line. Flight rebooked. Lunch. Connecting flight disappears. Rebooked. Connecting flight disappears. Talk to support with two airlines.

Oh hai, Toronto. You look… welcoming.

Let’s go

Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?" Me: "That's the documentation deliverable." Manager: "What's the status of that?" Me: "We're halfway there" Manager: "Why is progress so slow?" Me: "You fired Tommy" Manager: "So?" Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"

Long day.

Love this: “Instead of buying new clothes, take that money and go travel. Because people there haven’t seen your old clothes yet.”

Dammit. I love em dashes — I wonder what this means about me.

OH one of the devs on my teams: “So, I lost some uranium in my house and was looking for it...” ☢️ 🫠

Breathe, my friends. Breathe. Don’t forget to breathe.

My driver from the airport today in Toronto: “Last year, I was excited to see Trump win. I wanted to see him get in and shake things up. But now, now, I think we’ve got idiots on both sides and I’m worried there’s going to be a recession and people are going to go hungry because of it.”

So, we’re on approach on a 777 and the ceiling is low. Something about how the pilot is flying feels like he’s on edge. I start thinking “pilot is gonna do it. He’s gonna hit the TO/GA switch”. Not five seconds later, thrust comes up and we’re zooming up.

In retrospect, “guy who has long wanted to build payment services and mint crypto currencies to replace USD manages to get access to government payment mechanisms” wasn’t on my bingo card just yet. I guess I assumed it would be harder than that.

Fuck it. It’s an “imma gonna put sugar in my coffee” kind of morning after reading up on the news.

Somebody wants to come along.

With the big scale solutions costing so much capital, and in this case precipitated by embargo, Deepseek was inevitable. Simon Sinofksy writes: hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/228-deepse...

Reading Avery’s @tailscale.com post from earlier this month injected some optimism into my day. The c10k problem is now the c10000k problem. It’s a thought-provoking piece showing how we can do more than ever, with less than ever. Are we keeping up with our tools? tailscale.com/blog/living-...

Same! I was quite surprised to find out that the diagram wasn’t from the original work, but something that came 60 years later.

beautiful. resonant. theoatmeal.com/comics/150_c...

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