
Software Engineer @SlackHQ, erstwhile founder/CTO @GoTurbine, Ex-Twitter/TiVo, 10x pedant, fundamentally OK guy
Alameda, CA
Joined April 2010
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I was an IC on this team and then a lead and then a manager; I built it from 3 to 10 engineers. I hope I instilled a culture of trust and rigor. It’s heartbreaking to see it undone. Big hugs to every member of team Gizmoduck, those I worked with and those I didn’t. Users matter.
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I’m pumped we won’t wreck the global economy and all, but it’s kind of a bummer that the thing everybody could agree on is making it harder to eat for people who can’t afford to eat.
Can only assume he read my article medium.com/@9len/on-code-rev…
This was Twitter 1.0, so I’m assuming 2.0 will have both a “makes money” and “is not user hostile” button.
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It’s amusing to poke fun at the hot takes on just how easy it is to run the site, or be distracted by the latest Elon shitpost, but let’s not lose track of the fact that $13B debt added to the balance sheet killed the company way more effectively than firing all the SREs.
I think @rishair made this at the end of his internship?
Gonna be awkward tomorrow, like when you say goodbye to your date, but then you both walk the same way for another block.
Shoutout to the 3000 people who followed me in 2010 because I worked for Twitter. Thanks for sticking it out this long.
Best case is OK->OK, but OK->BAD seems more likely.
Fifteen years(!) and two days after its original launch, I am re-launching istwitterdown.com
Blog post with more context: theryanking.com/post/is-twit…
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I was laid off from Twitter this afternoon. I was in charge of managing badge access to Twitter offices.
Elon just called me and asked if I could come back to help them regain access to HQ as they shut off all badges and accidentally locked themselves out.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
While a number of people in the replies are taking this literally, this is a joke.
Just a few days earlier, this same user claimed to have been laid off by a different company:
twitter.com/anothercohen/s…








