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Engineering and things. Currently @ Stripe. Happy to chat about distributed systems, async processing, and Go. 📸 👉 https://glass.photo/bigdubs
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Can't go to Benihana and have a bad time.

[NICHE LIBRARY ALERT] If you ever wanted to process a graph of tasks using a topsort that executes everything at the same pseudo-height at once with Temporal, here's a library for you: github.com/wcharczuk/te...

We go now live to our economics editor who has broken out the good whiskey and seems to be playing with a revolver. How are the markets reacting Greg

WTB; an iMessage integration that applies Gmail style filters to text messages.

Seattle 2025

Messing around with the Claude CLI in my personal monorepo; I'd place it somewhere just above "precocious high-school intern" in terms of skill. Cool as a novelty, not sure I'll use it seriously, I kind of want to make a local version if only to plug and chug on chore tasks.

If you (like me) maybe wanted the shirt Lochlan Ratliff was wearing on the boat this week, here you go. tombolocompany.com/products/rep...

"Billionaire proof" social media is an interesting angle, but "large disinfo operation proof" is broadly more useful. How do you track nation state actors? how do you add reputation to a platform? How do you create a space for constructive debate safely? Are more interesting problems to me.

Checkpoint 60s typing test: 123 WPM.

Severance vibes in the Computer History Museum

Sunsets in San Francisco.

Bombing.

Last few from a recent stint in NYC.

NYC (2025)

NYC congestion pricing kicks in tonight at midnight; as someone who lives solidly within the affected zone, I will be saddened to be no longer treated to men from Nassau county doing full throttle straight pipe pulls while blasting Pitbull at 110db. A part of the city is dying tonight.

"We call them skeets"

No more Cyberpunk for this guy, that is enough Cyberpunk.