Back that shit up with evidence. I was once asked, “What can I say to make you stay?” I listed the new job vs my old one then said, “But… if you thought I was worth it, I would already be getting that.”

Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business in four years.

if i see the word agentic 1 (ONE) more time i will scream

A cool thing about being fucking terrible with names is that you're not going to accidentally deadname your friends (we've known each other for years and I straight up don't remember what your parents named you)

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We outsourced to the cloud for feature velocity. We outsourced to SaaS for feature velocity. We outsourced to AI for feature velocity. All this focus on feature velocity and your product still sucks. Now you also have a less experienced staff. Why is that?

What’s the name of the emotion where you feel a sort of existential dread and general malaise because why aspire when the world is on fire, your efforts go unacknowledged, you don’t feel like you belong, nothing you’ve done seems to have the impact you wanted, and so doing anything new seems futile?

For roughly six hours a day for the past three days I’ve heard a guy at the booth next to the one I’m working at shouting “HENTAI! GET YOUR HENTAI HERE! GET YOUR YAOI HERE!” with the inflection of a circus barker Here to report that this has now become a vocal stim for me lmfao

Our fandom is rarely without some kind of controversy. It’s been like this since the times of message board wars and it feels like social media has only exacerbated this tendency towards grab…

So, two years ago today, almost to the minute, I was getting checked into the hospital after a Pretty Fucking Good suicide attempt I mark that day as my Re-Birthday, the day I chose to be here. Things have certainly not been easier since that day, but they have certainly been better.

One of the worst things about jobs that require a lot of travel is trying to remember what the fuck countries you've been to in the last 5 years when it comes time to renew global entry

Between 2014 and 2022, DigitalOcean sent free t-shirts to developers who completed the Hacktoberfest challenge. For entirely sensible reasons related to sustainability and spammy entrants, they stopped doing physical merchandise in 2023. I'm the sort of hip fashionista who only wears free conference t-shirts. GDS@GDSTeamWe support open source. And we’ve got the t-shirts to prove it (thanks @…

this technology that i cant even get my own employees to use without literally threatening them is definitely going to be profitable one day

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Another day, another rug pull. At least that’s what the cynical might say, as we as an industry once again are discussing the fallout of another company changing their software from what was previo…