wrighty
@wrighty.bsky.social
Engineering leader Vercel. Formerly LaunchDarkly, GitHub, Etsy, Firebox
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My "All postmortems are blameless, but this one is especially so" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
October 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
My "All postmortems are blameless, but this one is especially so" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
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(guy who's about to invent fermentation) nah i bet it's still good
September 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
(guy who's about to invent fermentation) nah i bet it's still good
Wholesale stealing Single Point of Excellence for future use…
ok I had to do it, tag urselves
June 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Wholesale stealing Single Point of Excellence for future use…
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I've had parts of this written down for a while - but I thought it was about time to document the detailed version of what happened during Balatro development
localthunk.com/blog/balatro...
localthunk.com/blog/balatro...
The Balatro Timeline — LocalThunk
It’s been approximately 3 years since I began work on Balatro - and in that time I have personally documented almost nothing about the journey. This is something that has bothered me since the game la...
localthunk.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I've had parts of this written down for a while - but I thought it was about time to document the detailed version of what happened during Balatro development
localthunk.com/blog/balatro...
localthunk.com/blog/balatro...
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Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?"
Me: "That's the documentation deliverable."
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Me: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Me: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"
Me: "That's the documentation deliverable."
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Me: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Me: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"
February 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?"
Me: "That's the documentation deliverable."
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Me: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Me: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"
Me: "That's the documentation deliverable."
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Me: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Me: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"
Mark is good people
Two of my biggest clients had successful exits last year! 🎉 I’m thrilled for them—but my 4yo CTO (Chief Toddler Officer) has reviewed the budget and determined we need new clients.
February 20, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Mark is good people
How yesterday has been brewing for months: stratechery.com/2025/deepsee...
DeepSeek FAQ
DeepSeek has completely upended people’s expectations for AI and competition with China. What is it, and why does it matter?
stratechery.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
How yesterday has been brewing for months: stratechery.com/2025/deepsee...
If you see this, quote with a photo of a bridge from your gallery.
January 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
If you see this, quote with a photo of a bridge from your gallery.
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what idiot called it DeepSeek and not DeepSix? Certainly it feels like that's what it's going to do to plenty of folks in the valley's ambitions.
January 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
what idiot called it DeepSeek and not DeepSix? Certainly it feels like that's what it's going to do to plenty of folks in the valley's ambitions.
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Wrote about the irrationality of the boss revolt mcfunley.com/on-misery
On Misery
Not every fun activity or moral good is a waste of time.
mcfunley.com
January 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Wrote about the irrationality of the boss revolt mcfunley.com/on-misery
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January 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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I (finally) wrote up my thoughts on "Founder Mode" and the Brian Chesky morality tale about how he turned around Airbnb company culture.
This has made it into the Silicon Valley water table; it must be dealt with. There are some good nuggets within; let's dig them out.
charity.wtf/2024/12/17/f...
This has made it into the Silicon Valley water table; it must be dealt with. There are some good nuggets within; let's dig them out.
charity.wtf/2024/12/17/f...
“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking
I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot …
charity.wtf
December 17, 2024 at 5:56 PM
I (finally) wrote up my thoughts on "Founder Mode" and the Brian Chesky morality tale about how he turned around Airbnb company culture.
This has made it into the Silicon Valley water table; it must be dealt with. There are some good nuggets within; let's dig them out.
charity.wtf/2024/12/17/f...
This has made it into the Silicon Valley water table; it must be dealt with. There are some good nuggets within; let's dig them out.
charity.wtf/2024/12/17/f...
Interesting to see how much is now possible on (an admittedly high end) laptop, rather than a data center of servers til.simonwillison.net/llms/embed-p...
Embedding paragraphs from my blog with E5-large-v2
Xeophon suggested that E5-large-v2 as an embedding model that was worth a closer look.
til.simonwillison.net
December 14, 2024 at 11:55 PM
Interesting to see how much is now possible on (an admittedly high end) laptop, rather than a data center of servers til.simonwillison.net/llms/embed-p...
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Someone on substack shared this as the best thing they read recently. I don't have a ranking system but it's pretty damn good indeed open.substack.com/pub/experime...
Underrated ways to change the world
How to get a good heart unstuck
open.substack.com
December 14, 2024 at 12:46 PM
Someone on substack shared this as the best thing they read recently. I don't have a ranking system but it's pretty damn good indeed open.substack.com/pub/experime...
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Ben Folds and Jeremy Irons should get together and start a dry cleaning business.
They could call it Ben and Jerry's.
They could call it Ben and Jerry's.
December 10, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Ben Folds and Jeremy Irons should get together and start a dry cleaning business.
They could call it Ben and Jerry's.
They could call it Ben and Jerry's.
Bell Brothers never miss. Kevin McCallister gets about youtu.be/X7-zid7QD_Y
All I Want for Christmas Is Home Alone
YouTube video by Bell Brothers
youtu.be
November 22, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Bell Brothers never miss. Kevin McCallister gets about youtu.be/X7-zid7QD_Y
The definitions of false positives and false negatives here are useful, I’m stealing them for later.
This works in situations where a waterfall development style would work. ie - where it’s feasible to understand all the requirements up front.
bsky.app/profile/gerg...
bsky.app/profile/gerg...
From an email:
"Do you know of any teams that have had positive experiences with offshore teams - where directors and eng managers were in the US, and devs in another country? Why and how did these teams work so well together?"
My take: this (almost always) will not work. Everyone learns...
"Do you know of any teams that have had positive experiences with offshore teams - where directors and eng managers were in the US, and devs in another country? Why and how did these teams work so well together?"
My take: this (almost always) will not work. Everyone learns...
November 17, 2024 at 7:55 PM
The definitions of false positives and false negatives here are useful, I’m stealing them for later.
What’s a good way of deleting all my old tweets? After manually deleting it’s now not showing any posts for my account, but I know I wasn’t done.
November 17, 2024 at 7:16 PM
What’s a good way of deleting all my old tweets? After manually deleting it’s now not showing any posts for my account, but I know I wasn’t done.
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the onion acquisition of infowars with the full support of the sandy hook families is such a candle in the darkness
November 15, 2024 at 4:44 AM
the onion acquisition of infowars with the full support of the sandy hook families is such a candle in the darkness
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I'd say eighteen books in this set of twenty occult tomes deal with getting ghosts either into or out of things or people.
Possession really is nine tenths of the lore.
Possession really is nine tenths of the lore.
November 15, 2024 at 8:53 AM
I'd say eighteen books in this set of twenty occult tomes deal with getting ghosts either into or out of things or people.
Possession really is nine tenths of the lore.
Possession really is nine tenths of the lore.
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Here’s a few things you can expect temporarily when there’s an outage:
- “Invalid Handle” everywhere
- Likes don’t seem to work (they’re just being slow)
- Your post isn’t showing up (same, just being slow)
- Random errors or blank screens, the usual app broken stuff
- “Invalid Handle” everywhere
- Likes don’t seem to work (they’re just being slow)
- Your post isn’t showing up (same, just being slow)
- Random errors or blank screens, the usual app broken stuff
November 14, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Here’s a few things you can expect temporarily when there’s an outage:
- “Invalid Handle” everywhere
- Likes don’t seem to work (they’re just being slow)
- Your post isn’t showing up (same, just being slow)
- Random errors or blank screens, the usual app broken stuff
- “Invalid Handle” everywhere
- Likes don’t seem to work (they’re just being slow)
- Your post isn’t showing up (same, just being slow)
- Random errors or blank screens, the usual app broken stuff
Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do
- gas station attendant
- gardener
- door to door salesman (for a day, never went back)
- gas station attendant
- gardener
- door to door salesman (for a day, never went back)
Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do
- Movie theater janitor & concessions
- Library book shelver
- Desktop publisher
- Movie theater janitor & concessions
- Library book shelver
- Desktop publisher
Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do
- sign holder (very temporary. You wouldn’t believe how many people flip you off when you do this)
- receptionist
- campus mailman
- sign holder (very temporary. You wouldn’t believe how many people flip you off when you do this)
- receptionist
- campus mailman
November 11, 2024 at 2:43 AM
Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do
- gas station attendant
- gardener
- door to door salesman (for a day, never went back)
- gas station attendant
- gardener
- door to door salesman (for a day, never went back)
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BOSS: you're late
ME: *grabs cup out of his hand* it's pronounced "latte" but thanks
ME: *grabs cup out of his hand* it's pronounced "latte" but thanks
August 28, 2024 at 4:28 PM
BOSS: you're late
ME: *grabs cup out of his hand* it's pronounced "latte" but thanks
ME: *grabs cup out of his hand* it's pronounced "latte" but thanks