I make @FontAwesome, @WebAwesomer, and other things. YC S15, MIT Course 2, MO, MA alum.
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When hiring, most of your practices to ensure hiring no one bad also ensure you can’t hire anyone who is fantastic.
E.g. requiring a college degree. Or a certain numbers of years of experience. Or dumb brain teasers.
Every low pass filter is also a high pass filter.
Dave Gandy retweeted
I was 37 when I started YC. It changed my company and my life.
I’m sharing that because a lot of founders quietly think they missed their window. Too old, too settled, should’ve done it at 25.
You haven’t missed it. The experience you think makes you late is often what lets you build.
One side says the bad guys are the immigrants. The other says it’s the billionaires.
Both ideas just as idiotic with the slightest bit of scrutiny. But boy do they play well with their base.
Watch out for anyone who tells you your neighbor is the enemy.
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Curious about collaborative editing in Build Awesome Pro?
Join Zach Leatherman as he shares very early demos of our collaboration and editing features. Come hang out, ask questions, and talk all things Build Awesome Pro.
📅 May 8 at 11am ET / 10am CT / 8am PT → youtube.com/live/Qr-NLgVrsMQ…
Such a fun time showing off one of our new projects, Look Awesome.
Stream link below. We’ll be doing a lot more of this in the future.
🚨 Live Now! Watch the Build Awesome Q&A Livestream with Zach Leatherman + special guest @davegandy!
youtube.com/live/XBMSvupE7Bc…
Let’s talk theming! See you all at 11:30a CT.
🚨 Update: We’re pushing today’s livestream to 12:30pm ET / 11:30am CT / 9:30am PT!
🎨 Dave’s demoing a new color theming tool
💬 AMA on Build Awesome + funding open source
😵💫 Tell us about your CMS/hosting headaches
Come hang → youtube.com/live/XBMSvupE7Bc…
Dave Gandy retweeted
May the 4th be with you! 😊
#starwars #starwarsunlimited #cardart #kylepetchockart #art #artwork #digitalart #maythe4thbewithyou
Dave Gandy retweeted
We just backed @eleven_ty PRO by @fontawesome on @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/fon…
btw, here is Awesome Build Awesome list: github.com/anyblades/awesome…
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🎙️ Live Q&A with Build Awesome creator, Zach Leatherman!
Got questions about Build Awesome (@eleven_ty) or the Kickstarter? Ask away.
📅 April 29 at 11am ET / 10am CT / 8am PT
🎤 AMA, open source funding, and live site reviews.
🔗 Submit your questions! youtube.com/live/KkwOTAAJ3gs
Dave Gandy retweeted
Totally with Garry here.
I'm 58 and still building stuff at 2am.
I was similarly obsessed when building for the early web in the 1990s. But this is way more fun.
I came back to code because AI made it possible for me to build at a level I couldn't before.
I'm not coding despite being CEO of YC. I'm coding because this is the most important technological shift since the internet and I'd be an idiot to experience it from the bleachers.
I'm 45, running the most important startup institution in the world, and I can ship production software at 2am. That's not a distraction from the job.
That is the job understood correctly.
Dave Gandy retweeted
this is excellent
>GitLab founder diagnosed with rare cancer (osteosarcoma)
>standard care works but cancer comes back later
>medical team says there's not much else to do
>"It became my own job to keep myself alive. Nobody else was going to do it for me at this point"
>starts researching, assembles his own medical team, uses AI for deep research
>“I’ll talk to anyone, I’ll go anywhere, and I can be there anytime" to collect information
>does as many diagnostic tests as he can find as often as he can (maximal diagnostics)
>develops his own therapeutic ladder with repurposed drugs, personalized medicine, etc
>Sid’s cancer currently in remission
The full deck on Sid’s cancer approach is here:
sytse.com/cancer/
Worth a read. Raw data for download is also available and linked in the deck
Literally in Barcelona today because is this tweet. Gaudi is indeed undefeated. 200 years ahead of his time.
When I was consulting for @HBO Silicon Valley, zero-loss compression was the holy grail Richard Hendricks chases that perfect middle-out algo could shrink everything w/out breaking a single bit.
Google just did something even more practical for the AI era: TurboQuant compresses LLM key-value caches down to 3 bits per value using random orthogonal rotation + PolarQuant scalar quantization & optional 1-bit QJL residual correction.
=>> 6× memory reduction, up to 8× faster attention (on H100), & 0 degradation on LongBench, Needle-in-a-Haystack, and RULER for models like Gemma. No retraining, no calibration needed.
Fiction just got out-engineered by reality. 😅💚💚
