Vice President of Software Engineering. Clojure developer for over a decade.
Denver, Colorado
Joined January 2009
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Bro how was the show Silicon Valley so consistently 10 years ahead of its time 🤣
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You have massive obstacles everywhere in life...and you will either:
Give up --> Leading to feelings of inferiority & hesitation in future obstacles.
Overcome --> Leading to confidence that you can figure future things out.
Every Obstacle is a Test, Not Fate.
Daniel Glauser retweeted
The market doesn't care about your passion.
It doesn't care about your hard work, your tears, your sleepless nights, or your upbringing.
It cares only about the value you create.
Both demoralizing and incredibly freeing.
Daniel Glauser retweeted
Tell yourself every day who you really are.
- The one who has overcome,
- The one who can always figure it out.
The messages we tell ourselves about who we are, matter so much.
Get honest about your strengths, not just your weaknesses.
It sets a completely different stage.
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Execution is 100X more important than your idea.
Having a bunch of startup ideas is extremely common.
Being able to run a company is not.
Hiring. Delegation. Sales. Problem solving. Decision making. Marketing. Ops.
These things all take real skills and grit.
That’s why almost everyone you know has dozens of startup ideas yet they’ve never built anything or made a sale.
The execution is what's truly valuable and it's way harder than it looks.
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DeepSeek just proved the 'worthless' GPT wrapper startups are actually the ones with real moats.
A week ago, nothing was more LOW status than being a 'GPT wrapper' startup.
But I think we're learning that's DEAD wrong. Turns out they were just early to the only game that matters
While DeepSeek, Meta, Anthropic and Microsoft battle over benchmark scores, these 'wrapper' companies have been quietly building the only moat that matters: interface loyalty.
Because of how big owning the LLM is for national defense and the economy, the next breakthrough model is always 2 weeks away. DeepSeek launches today, someone else drops a better one tomorrow.
But getting millions of people to make your product part of their daily workflow - that's the real barrier to entry. ChatGPT didn't win because it had the best model. It won because it was dead simple to use. And I think it has staying power because of that.
This is why all those AI startups we dismissed are actually positioned to win. They're not competing on model performance - they're competing on being the default way humans interact with AI.
Frontier models are becoming commodities. User habits aren't. While everyone obsesses over the next architecture breakthrough, the real game is being played in the interface layer. The moat isn't in the model - it's in being the tool people reach for without thinking.
Technology advantage is temporary. Interface lock-in is forever.
Keep shipping those wrappers, my friends.
Daniel Glauser retweeted
This might be one of the best reddit posts I've seen in a while no cap fr fr
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Contrary to belief, knowledge is not power...execution is power.
Don't get stuck in the bad habit of endless learning.
Make the move, and jump in.
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I had so much fun watching Christoph Neumann's (@enigma2a) Clojure/conj talk on his work enabling live sports and e-sports programming.
I haven't watched e-sports much, but I did watch the documentary of Google DeepMind’s AlphaStar, where it played some of the best StarCraft II players in the world. The event was so brilliantly done, and was hosted by professional commentators, who helped explain and give context to what we were observing.
It was so good that I made my kids watch it, and I’m not ashamed to say that it actually made me cry! (As did watching the documentary on Google DeepMind AlphaGo — holy cow. Move 37 FTW!)
(I'll include the links to those videos at the bottom of this tweet.)
Christoph gave an amazing talk on how the code he wrote enables these types of live e-sports broadcasts of some amazing gaming brands:
- Heroes of the Storm (including the draft tool to facilitate team hero selection in real-time, as well as enabling the commentators to do their job, too)
- Hearthstone (including tools to analyze and display the game state live on-air)
- Overwatch (including integrating live game statistics for the Overwatch League)
He also describes some of the work he did to help brands such as Blizzard Entertainment (home of StarCraft II, which was obviously the game that AlphaStar competed in), NFL, Overwatch League, Heroes of the Storm, Activision, Call of Duty League, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, NEP, Twitch, Wimbledon Championships.
One reason I was nerding out so much during Christoph’s talk was because he had hinted at so many of these things in his awesome Functional Design in Clojure podcast (@clojuredesign), but never really elaborated on what he actually did. I’ve listened to every one of their 100+ episodes that he did with Nate Jones, @ndj, and always hoped they would go into more detail about what they’ve done in e-sports.
Wish granted! It’s such a cool talk.
Among other things, he talks about the high stakes involved in live events — mistakes are seen by everyone, and could actually jeapordize events where hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people are watching!
Christoph: "You have hours of boredom followed by seconds of terror."
Ha!
Everything he's built is done in Clojure, whether it's a event in front of an audience, broadcast over the airwaves, or streamed to a channel.
"My hope is that by the end of this talk, you're going to have an idea of what's involved in pulling off a live sports production, and then how to build a system using it."
Yes!!!
1/n
Source: youtube.com/watch?v=kIhY4VDa…
Also: the amazing video of StarCraft II AlphaStar live broadcast: youtube.com/watch?v=cUTMhmVh…
Daniel Glauser retweeted
This is good!
NIST is proposing some welcome changes for password requirements:
🔒 Allow longer passwords (up to 64 chars)
❌ No special character requirements
🛡️ Support password managers and paste functionality
🔄 Discourage periodic password changes without reason
socket.dev/blog/nist-new-pas…
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This absurd "one-liner" will show you the name of the command running on each port on MacOS, which is something I need to do constantly so leaving it here:
```
sudo lsof -iTCP -sTCP:LISTEN -n -P | awk 'NR>1 {print $9, $1, $2}' | sed 's/.*://' | while read port process pid; do echo "Port $port: $(ps -p $pid -o command= | sed 's/^-//') (PID: $pid)"; done | sort -n
```
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Talking to real customers with real problems is so much better than trying to predict the future.
When you become customer-obsessed, you can magically solve an entire world of problems because your focus is grounded in reality.
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Screaming at employees doesn't make you a tough boss. It makes you an asshole.
Great leaders are demanding, not demeaning. They set high expectations and create accountability without abuse.
Yelling is unprofessional. Treating people with dignity is not optional—it's required.
