Interesting pandemic effect: 30-40% increase in open source contributions. https://t.co/QHlE8RBr3A

The Moore's Law Update NOTE: this is a semi-log graph, so a straight line is an exponential; each y-axis tick is 100x. This graph covers a 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000x improvement in computation/$. Pause to let that sink in. Humanity’s capacity to compute has compounded for

"Building trust as a manager […] trust is based on your actions as a manager – not your words as a manager, nor your actions as a friend"

Releasing moondream2 - a small, open-source, vision language model designed to run efficiently on edge devices. Clocking in at 1.8B parameters, moondream requires less than 5GB of memory to run in 16 bit precision.

DALL-E 3 is not quite able to render mermaid diagrams yet… but I appreciate the sentiment!

Just switched from GitHub Copilot to @continuedev and - very happy. The vscode integration is great, but mostly it’s wonderful to be able to switch between codellama and the GPT4 API at a whim. Well done!

"If three pigeons are sitting on a tree, and I shoot down one, how many pigeons will be left?" Don't trust any risk assessment that uses math to answer "two"

“Speed” is how fast, “Velocity” is speed plus direction. It’s easy for people or teams to be moving with speed (doing work) but unaligned velocity (different goals, not leveraging each other), making for low total velocity despite the massive investment. (HT @shaneparrish)

I remember feeling derisive about marketing as a young techie — it wasn’t creating the value. Nowadays, I often marvel at how much amazing value is present that people just don’t know about. If only there was a way to bring it to their attention…

Somehow Cloudflare has a ~1500 word postmortem with charts up by 8 AM Central for an incident that happened *today*. That's incredible. https://t.co/izSTkUhPMq

Subaru Winterfest is this weekend! Featuring live performances from @Twiddlemusic, @Kitchendwellers, Kind Hearted Strangers and Brendan O'Hara, this three-day mountain & music festival is gonna be off the charts.

It should only be a meeting if: - It has a clear agenda - It’ll take longer offline - Real work will get done - It gives energy to the attendees

Use it or lose it.

This is the UI of a company with a $170bn market cap

Maybe only .001% of all software system behaviors and bugs ever need to be closely inspected and understood, but that tiny percentage defines the success of your business and the happiness of your users. And you CANNOT predict what will matter in advance.

This is the maintainer who fixed the vulnerability that's causing millions(++?) of dollars of damage. "I work on Log4j in my spare time" "always dreamed of working on open source full time" "3 sponsors are funding @rgoers's work: Michael, Glenn, Matt" People, what are we doing.

Sad that https://t.co/r5yjtdrHd1 is going away? Now shared scheduling is built into Google Workspace Individual! Thanks to @kelseyhightower for being on top of this a full week ago :)

The sad truth about work is that 97% of the victims don’t have a blue team, no SIEM, no SOC and don’t monitor Twitter for new threats They have an admin or IT service provider that manages users, mail boxes, installs printers & once in a while a new AV

Big fan of @mikejulian's Jedi wisdom on building a customer and team-friendly consulting practice. Time tracking is TOIL.

"Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is." - Richard P. Feynman Via:

New profile, who dis? 👀 Write, creator & now... co-founder I've been working on something over the past few weeks with @nedmcclain. Say hello to @BlockbaseDev Send your email directly into @NotionHQ Love for you to check it out, follow, & claim your free email