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Some thoughts on the role of platforms (especially open ones like the Web) and how to think about long term progress.
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Dion Almaer
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Dion Almaer
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- CEOs: “hmm Elon is running Twitter great with a small percentage of the engineers. It’s going well… we should consider…” On Blind:
- The Pfizer and Modena vaccines were both effective, protective and safe. But the Oxford one seems to be effective, protective, and safe.
- Reached the “oh right, CORS” stage of the project.
- Do you charge your Macbook on the left or right side? Turns out right is better! apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3633…
- “Rust is faster than JS in some cases, but those cases are rarer than we expected, and the performance gain is on the order of 2x some of the time, not 10x most of the time.” WebAssembly is amazing, but it isn’t a silver bullet to make “everything faster”. zaplib.com/docs/blog_post…
- Replying to @dalmaerThe work of a genius.
- What is the name for the size a company gets when the company laptop becomes fully managed and you can’t use the apps that have made you productive no mo? 🤔
- ★ The @remix_run team has joined Shopify! Win-win as we put the power of Shopify behind #Remix allowing them to accelerate their roadmap & focus on pushing the web forward & they will help deliver next-generation web experiences for our merchants & devs.
- Today is my last day working at Google (again!). I have been an engineering director and product director (which meant two interviews this time around!), and got to work for many product areas. This has given me the opportunity to work on many developer platforms... 🧵
- This is one of the most impactful things I read when I first saw it at Google: “How orgs are like slime moulds” by the platform thinker that is @komorama komoroske.com/slime-mold/
- GitHub Copilot is awesome, but now and then it makes you stop in your tracks, have you google, and ponder the world that resulted in this happening. #WhoIsWritingThisCode
- Replying to @dalmaerthe 4 remaining twitter engineers
