📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
Linear has a 30-minute weekly meeting called "Quality Wednesdays." I sat through one and WOW
Devs show a quality or perf-related fix they did last week. It can be big, or small. We went through 17 issues, from massive backend performance wins, to this tiny one. Can you see it?
I've been in the cycle where I set up everything to get me instant updates of the state of the world and my corporate life. And it fucking destroyed my mind. This is how humans function. Notifications are a cancer I've been iteratively excluding more and more.
The freight guys have really started freaking out over the past 48-72 hours:
🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
This is my jam. Build a shitty prototype that enrages engineers that I did it wrong. Then they build a good version. I call it a “leadership skill”
+1000. My team is currently building the subdomain for one of our core systems out of necessity because we failed following this pattern previously. Would have saved us so much trouble. Thanks for articulating this, very useful!
For sure would pick UW any day. Made that change 7 years ago (34") and am terribly annoyed every time I have to use a dual-setup. Just get a window manager, e.g. moom for Mac, and you're good.
