Software @ airbnb Previously:  • SpringBoard • visionOS

Venice, CA
Joined July 2008
I had fun updating my personal website with some of my favorite work. I used the same design language as my resume which is 👌🏽 nilsou.com
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Hitler wasn't "far right". He was far left, and today's woke left shares nearly identical ideology with him.
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So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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Every day we are fighting to prevent French stats from looking like this.
Every day we are fighting to prevent American streets from looking like this.
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🏁 SwiftUI vs. UIKit 🏁 Build a native version of the chat screen in Campfire. One prompt, but this time with skills. SwiftUI got Apple's Xcode 27 skills, UIKit got ones I wrote. Winner is UIKit 🥳 (2-0) vs. SwiftUI. UIKit/Swift passed every test. UIKit/Objective-C was the fastest and used half the memory 🏎️ SwiftUI is still slow (5s of stutters!), even with Xcode's swift-ui-specialist skill. What would you like me to test for round 3? Code is in the repo (next comment).
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$TSLA stock tomorrow
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Our design language has evolved since the last reveal: from S3XY to Cybertruck, Cybercab & Optimus Roadster is inspired by the SR-71 & F-35
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What on earth
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Well neighborhoods without overhead utility wires are about to become a lot more attractive.
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The only thing that's stopping me from going all in on @bot is that it doesn't play nice with the @Apple ecosystem: no Password app integration, impossible or clunky iCloud contacts/calendars, etc. I don't want to have to change my own behavior to fit the bot. Anyone else?
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Everyone is asking, even my @bot !
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does anyone actually understand the difference between chatgpt chat, chatgpt work and codex?
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😭😭
Just watched the craziest video on tiktok😂😭
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I analyzed the range of ratings on booking sites and it's pretty crazy Airbnb goes just from 4.5 to 5 with a median of 5! But most others aren't better, they all range from about 4 to 5, and almost all have a median of 4.25, with not many scores outside of it! The best site in terms of honest ratings is actually Yelp, whatever they're doing it's working, it shows an actual normal distribution and ratings you can trust Hotelist itself is a normal distribution with median at 3.5, which was my goal, most stays are average/okay which I'd consider 3.5/5
Airbnb's entire rating scale is now 4.5 to 5.0 You can't make this up 😂
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The "Palestinians" don't want a state. They want the Jews gone or, if possible, dead. Everything else you hear about it is complete bullshit.
The Palestinians have rejected a state of their own more times than any national movement in modern history. 1937 — Peel: a Jewish state on a sliver of the coast. Arab leadership said no and turned back to violence. 1947 — UN partition plan: an Arab state beside a Jewish state. The Arab Higher Committee said no, started a civil war, and then five Arab armies invaded. 2000 — Camp David: a Palestinian state with a capital in eastern Jerusalem. Arafat walked, proposed no counteroffer, and launched the Second Intifada. 2001 — Clinton Parameters: a Palestinian state with a capital in eastern Jerusalem, 96% of the "West Bank" plus 4% of Israel, all of Gaza and a connecting corridor. Arafat said no as the Second Intifada raged. 2008 — Olmert: 94% of the “West Bank” plus land swaps to make up for the other 6%, a capital in East Jerusalem, and the Old City under an international committee. The PA, this time under Abbas, never even bothered to answer. 2020 — Trump’s plan: a Palestinian state, a capital in a part of East Jerusalem, and $50 billion in economic aid to build their country. Abbas called it the “slap of the century” in 2018, two years before the text existed. On the day it was released, he said “a thousand times no.” He refused Trump’s call and refused to even take a copy. They do not keep saying no because the borders were wrong. They keep saying no because the real demand is not a state beside Israel. It is a state instead of Israel.
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96% of Jews in Poland were murdered by the Nazis. That is genocide. 3% of Gaza’s population, mostly male combatants, died in the war they started. That is not genocide.
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Turns out shabat dinners is the only place we can get accepted to in sf
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I made this with one prompt using Opus 5.5 I spoke to my computer for 5mins, claude worked for 12 hours, and I woke up to this full prompt:
Claude Opus 5.5 has the best visual design of any model I have tested so far
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🇺🇳 António Guterres: “The scale of killing in Gaza is unlike anything I've witnessed in my years as Secretary-General.” FACT-CHECK: ❌ Under Guterres's watch since 2017: 🇸🇾 Syria: 120,000+ killed 🇸🇩 Sudan: 150,000+ killed 🇪🇹 Ethiopia: 162,000+ killed 🇾🇪 Yemen: 200,000+ killed
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We had so much fun building widgets for visionOS, glad to see one of my most used apps adopt them!
I never got around to finishing the SolarWatch visionOS update with widgets. Closing that gap now.
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This is my Judaism.
This is a pre Yom Kippur music concert with Hanan Ben Ari (a Jewish Religious Zionist). The words these mostly young people are singing are: “Turn us back to You, O LORD, and we will be restored; renew our days as of old.” They are not ‘Messianic Jews’. They are not believers in Jesus. This is what Judaism looks like. This is what worshipping the God of Israel looks like. This is the fulfilment of the words of the prophets: “I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.” Jeremiah 31:31. You can’t improve on this. We know who we are.
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