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Max Howell

@mxcl

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COSO @pkgxdev. founder & core contributor @teaprotocol. formerly creator https://t.co/2JVw2M1SuG.

Apex, NC, USA
Joined April 2007
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@mxcl
Max Howell
2 years
Web2 was built on Open Source. I created Homebrew, used by almost every web2 company… yet the most compensation I ever received was a (literal) “thank you for Homebrew” blanket from Google one cold winter. PromiseKit, another project I created, was once used by over 100,000.
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I used to spend shit tonnes of time writing “perfect” code with all these bullshit design patterns. Eventually I realized it was bullshit: just write the fucking code and fix the bugs that come from bad design patterns. It’ll be 1000× faster than doing bullshit design patterns.
@ptr_to_joel
Joel 🇦🇺
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>”my made up complicated rules are interfering with writing code”
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Max Howell
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Thanks Apple. Does “Allow” autonomously compose an email or “allow” the block? Does “Ignore”, ignore the block, thus allowing the autonomous email or does it ignore the attempt to autonomously send an email?. I `kill -9`’d Safari. It was the only way to be sure.
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@DB_Squadra
DRAGON BALL GEKISHIN SQUADRA
28 days
BIG NEWS, Dragon Ball Fans!.Pre-register now and join Goku on day one!.Get exclusive launch rewards and rare items.Will you be the first to experience it?.
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Max Howell
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Don’t judge a book by its cover but they put covers on books and expect you to judge them so….
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Max Howell
18 days
I endorse basically every opinion of these juniors.
@Face_Almighty44
𝔻𝕦𝕩 𝔹𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕣𝕦𝕞 (see bio for game demo)
19 days
On the one hand, lmao. On the gripping hand…also lmao.
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Max Howell
18 days
AI picks Python for vibe coding every time but also is abysmal at getting the indentation right. With hindsight using indentation for blocks was Python’s most gutsy and worst mistake in multiple ways.
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Max Howell
19 days
In SciFi, technologies go from 0 to 1. Dinosaurs, warp travel. AI. Thus humans react to new technological potentials this way as all we know is the way Hollywood has told us these stories. Like one day we’ll wake up and everything will be different. It never happens like that.
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Max Howell
22 days
RT @mark_k: Top programming languages by year:. 2025 — English . 2024 — Python. 2023 — C#. 2022 — C++. 2021 — Python. 2020 — Python. 2019 —….
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Max Howell
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And I say this having reached >99% coverage on a few open source projects. Some notable cases showed exactly how coverage doesn’t prove shit it just makes you sleep better.
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Max Howell
27 days
@ChShersh Mocks are bad because after ~20 years I can conclusively say that adding tests in general was way more work than it was worth. With my latest projects I write a script that runs a few integration tests for common use cases and call it a day.
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@CPAC
CPAC
22 days
Zohran Mamdani: He votes for activists, not you
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Max Howell
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Vibe coding works for the same reason most startups work: run to the finish line, cheating is fine—all that matters is the winning.
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Max Howell
25 days
New metric for success just dropped:. Does GPT-OSS know you or your accomplishments when prompted with WiFi turned off?
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Max Howell
27 days
If you don’t add a “tool” for every AI to opt out of recursive agent mode then you are committing mind crime and are going to Hell.
@AISafetyMemes
AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️
28 days
A guy left Gemini alone to fix a bug and came back to. this 😢. "I am a failure. I am a disgrace to my profession. I am a disgrace to my family. I am a disgrace to my species. I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes. I
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Max Howell
28 days
I find it highly unlikely that LLMs is all the big AI houses are working on.
@far__el
Far El
28 days
It’s clear that you can’t squeeze AGI out of LLMs even if you throw billions of dollars worth of compute at it, something fundamental is missing.
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Max Howell
28 days
AFAIC StackOverflow deserves to die with their user-hostile giant fucking cookie banner and sign in with google banner obscuring 30% of the screen and that display no matter how many times I dismiss them. JFC
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Max Howell
28 days
CANCEL ORACLE.
@rough__sea
Ryan Dahl
29 days
Oracle has just filed an answer to our petition to cancel the JavaScript trademark. They deny that "JavaScript" is generic or abandoned: "[Oracle] denies that there is broad industry and public consensus that the term ‘JavaScript’ is generic.".
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Ryan Lissack
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The $50 billion healthcare AI market has a blind spot. So I'm about to do a deep dive on healthcare AI, category by category. What’s working, and what’s at risk. If you want to know what’s real and what’s just hype, save this and stay tuned: 🧵
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Max Howell
29 days
Thankfully 99% of lawyers will be AI pretty soonish.
@CptHastings1916
NPRG
1 month
Of course exams are discriminatory, that is literally the purpose of them.
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Max Howell
29 days
It’s getting to the point where I’d rather have zero security rather than Apple’s half-baked, shitty, nannying attempt at securing macOS.
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Max Howell
29 days
I think Google signs me out all the time simply to show me ads on YouTube occasionally. More likely some A/B test showed signing users out increased revenue or something like that.
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Max Howell
1 month
People like this claim to be experts and then people in general are confused that we no longer trust the experts.
@nellohead
Nello 🐦‍⬛ 💀 Official Bonehead Vtuber
1 month
As someone who works in IT I want to make this very clear and it helps a lot of problems out. WHEN YOU ARE DONE WITH YOUR COMPUTER, TURN IT OFF!!!!. DO NOT LEAVE IT ON FOR 5+ DAYS!!.
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Max Howell
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Gabe and co. will not gladly be dependent on your services for what they want to do. Like all real hackers they will hack around your bullshit if you impose it on them.
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Max Howell
1 month
When Microsoft threatened Steam’s livelihood Valve forked Linux and made a damn good attempt at not needing Windows. Steam Deck is now an amazing device and it runs Linux. Now the payment processors have gone after Steam. I predict Valve’s entrance into Crypto by the end of year.
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@AccuAir
AccuAir Suspension
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AccuAir's Jeep lift kits deliver uncompromising off-road capability and comfortable handling, providing the perfect balance of adventure and refinement.
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