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Freeman & Forrest turns one year old today. • 13 amazing full-time team members • 33% of tech's Fortune 100 under contract • More than $1.7 million paid out to technical builders and creators • $0 in funding More numbers from a wild Year 1: www.freemanandforrest.com/blog/3dYzROw...

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tired: I took a bribe wired: I accepted a gift from a person with aligned interests inspired: I got a lil stocking stuffer from emoluments claus

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the only honest SaaS comparison chart

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Vanity metrics? Sir, these metrics encompass the full dark personality triad.

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I’m a little upset by how brilliant the “did you forget to attach a file?” popup in Gmail is. Clippy could never.

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Ran into a gentleman at Google Cloud Next yesterday who told me he was introduced to cloud via the Cloud Resume Challenge 5 years ago. He's now Field CTO at a cloud vendor. Incredible to see how that project continues to show up in people's lives and careers.

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I am at Google Cloud Next! Who else is here?

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The “platinum rule” sounds good but is actually just a lossy compression of the Golden Rule. “treat others how THEY wish to be treated” requires you to be a mind reader and also leaves you open to exploitation. The canonical Golden Rule is formulated exactly the way it is for good reason.

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Update: saw this last night. Theater PACKED with kids. Everybody was chanting along with the lines from the trailer. When the credits rolled a boy in the back row led the whole crowd in a chorus of “I AM STEVE!” again, this movie is going to make impossible, disgusting sums of money

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Testing a hunch. Can you define “AI agent” in one sentence?

submitted 56 days ago • 4 comments

Unless you have a small boy between the ages of 5 and 12, you are not appreciating just what a titanic, ungodly sum of money the Minecraft movie is about to make.

submitted 56 days ago • 4 comments

This was a work-related question, improbably.

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Currently rocking out to our 12-year-old neighbor’s Panic! at the Disco cover band, Picnic! at the Costco

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You can search your own name in the LibGen database to see if Meta trained their AI on any of your books. Looks like they trained on my Wiley book “The Read-Aloud Cloud”, as well as all the Cloud Resume Challenge guidebooks. Needless to say, I did not authorize any of this.

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

IME, only a few very influential tech companies are all in on docs or decks, and at all the others your culture is pretty much determined by whichever of those few companies your VP was last at.

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a cooper is someone who makes barrels and similar large containers, so technically anyone who builds databases is a ... DB Cooper

submitted 71 days ago • 3 comments

there is no more wretched hive of scum and villainy than the scholastic book fair

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Ate a fried egg for breakfast this morning, like a freaking billionaire. AMA.

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When I drew this cartoon several years ago, it was meant to be random absurdity, not satire

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My wife has convinced me to start a TikTok account where I do nothing but talk about my collection of old children’s books. www.tiktok.com/@childrensbo...

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A customer of ours in the AI coding assistant space is looking to hire a full time technical content creator - DM me if interested

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I'm going to business hell for this one

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This is the wildest screenshot I've ever shared in my life. Somehow, my debut novel has sold to Ballantine / Penguin Random House. The elevator pitch is simple: what if Silicon Valley invented the time machine? Look for the book in stores next year! newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/breaking-s...

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Forgot I drew this one. Deeply pleased with it tbh

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oh. oh no

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I wrote this song when Musk was taking over Twitter, and for whatever reason it feels relevant again. youtu.be/4HV0BqAjX8s?...

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LinkedIn comments have the energy of students trying to earn group-participation points on a classroom discussion forum. And those are the human comments.

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Nvidia claims they're called "NVIDIA" but even Wikipedia doesn't believe it.

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It’s unfortunate that Chromebooks have totally captured the K-12 educational market. Imagine if we gave every kid a notebook running Ubuntu Linux. They’d hate it, we’d hate it, school IT would hate it, but computer literacy would skyrocket

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tired: script kiddies wired: chat kiddies copy and pasting code you don't understand is not new, and not a recipe for longterm success

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Software-career thought leaders will warn you against taking an “off-ramp” from engineering. What they don't tell you is that eventually, the off-ramp comes for all of us. Take the off-ramp before it takes you. A letter to my 22-year-old self: newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/you-get-10...

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LOVE seeing teams like @AirbnbEng invest in meaningful software apprenticeship programs. "Candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and unconventional paths are encouraged to apply." - sounds like Cloud Resume Challenge champions to me! careers.airbnb.com/connect-engi...

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I have spent the last 5 years telling myself “Someday I’m going to sit down and figure out what Nix actually is.” So I finally used the US holiday weekend to look into it. Here is what I learned: newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/notes-on-nix

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STDs may have been Trump’s Vietnam, but the TikTok ban is pretty clearly Gen Z’s Iranian hostage crisis

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I am like 1 DraftKings commercial away from becoming a full time Victorian moral crusader against betting ads. Kids see these constantly. Do you have any idea how perverse this is

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Who called it “the childfree lifestyle” and not “cheaper by the doesn’t”

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Nothing has messed me up recently quite like learning that Julius Caesar's horse allegedly had human front feet.

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