charliebwrites

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Open source advocate

Builder of open source and massively distributed systems

Product @ Gradle

Previously Product for: k6 - Performance testing at scale Loki - Prometheus for Logs DB Sauce Orchestrate - accelerate software tests near your infra w/ Docker Workers KV - Cloudflare’s globally distributed key value store Cloudflare Queues / PubSub

Coder, writer, runner, gardener, “chef”

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Comment · 11 days ago
It’s slowing changing though

My friend groups are all moving to Partiful to plan events for example because so many of us are getting off Facebook

Not the same as town level engagement obviously, but a sign the audience is moving

Comment · 17 days ago
If my reviewers reviewed the “intent” of my code vs the actual code quality, I would’ve made Architect years ago…
Comment · 25 days ago
The missing piece for connecting an agent to your credit card or other financials is financial liability.

If Meta/OpenAI/etc would guarantee they’d compensate you in full for anything that wasn’t supposed to happen —and had an established track record of doing so— it would make trusting agents to make financial choices easier

Comment · 2 months ago
I’m just waiting for one of these private rocket companies to buy a private nuclear enriching company

We could reach Lex Luther level villainy in no time at all

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Comment · 5 months ago
That’s literally how Facebook started

I remember begging my older step brother for an invite since he had the college email to get in

Comment · 5 months ago
If you’ve ever wondered why the symbol of health is a snake spiraling a staff (the Greek god Asclepius’s staff to be specific), it’s because in Ancient Greece they used small amounts of snake venom to treat serious illnesses

We’ve come full circle

Comment · 6 months ago
Anecdata, sample size of one:

When I was looking for my next role after being laid off, I didn’t get much of a response with my human handmade resume despite my experience

Just for kicks, I asked ChatGPT to “Analyze my resume and give it a score for what percentage it was in” then I asked it to revise it to make it score as high as possible

I still tweaked and fact checked it but after I started sending that out, I got a much higher hit rate than before

But who knows, maybe the market changed, was a better time of year, etc

I still had to pass interviews and prove my worth. But it probably helped me get my foot in the door

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