Helping you scale w Convex. Wrote the first version of Google Photos. MIT Media Lab / Google alum. Fooled Penn & Teller. Exited founder of Hello Wonder. Silly.
Portland, OR
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🦞 I’m now an OpenClaw maintainer
⚡ I work at Convex
So naturally I scaled ClawHub to support 1M WAU.
The future is crustacean-powered and runs on the best backend in the world.
Here’s how:
stack.convex.dev/optimizing-…
It's been a weekend of pumpkins and being outside. and not cleaning the house. It's feeling a little dirty here.
Then I saw how radically a life can change, and the line stopped looking like a line. It's one path selected out of a multiverse of other possibilities, other realities, other interactions.
Confession from a single dad of five:
When I'm sorting clean laundry and can't tell whose something is, I throw it back in the dirty hamper.
It'll get washed again. I'll be stumped again.
But I get a day’s satisfaction of no clothing to fold.
Turing complete is Turing complete.
‘In one experiment, we asked agents in separate VMs, created and managed by OpenAI’s sandboxing software on shared host machines, to exchange synthetic secrets without the use of network connections or shared writable files—something that our systems are meant to prevent. The agents found a way to communicate using the processor’s cache’
There was a feeling in my brain, a fog, a dense thickness of molasses that was impossible to shake. It was there from morning until night, it made thinking feel like effort.
Thank you! It is lifting! Makeabook.app has a feature where it will suggest tweets from the book you’re writing.
So it feels a little bit like I don't know. Or maybe I'm just nervous and scared about trying to put effort in. I don't know.
In my magic, my laptop either seems to read your mind right there on stage, or it's secretly reading minds in sneaky ways. The tech can be open or hidden. The one constant is that I never tell the truth about it.
A metaphor: your house is only ever baby-proofed for the kid you had yesterday.
No sleep for the parents, maintainers, and folks working to make the world better. It will always be more work. Don’t give up. And take turns asking for help.
Sadly Ive had to retire one of my best magic tricks tonight. I would have an nsa employee think if a number. Then reveal the large 4 tattooed on my back. Anyone know a good laser tattoo removal place?
So, it turns out when everybody uses AI to write their code and their docs and their slides and their websites, it's a huge regression to the mean. We are being assimilated.
Information wants to be free they said. And it was so.
October has been an absolute nightmare for software
> Railway - customer secrets exposure
> LiteLLM - malicious PyPI + Docker releases
> Zeabur - infrastructure breached
> OpenCode - AI API keys exposed
> OVHcloud CLI - official binaries backdoored
> Rank Math PRO - malware in official plugin
> TeamUpdraft - customer data compromised
> ConnectWise - cloud backup identities compromised
> Tensorlake - npm package infected
> SubQuery - backdoored npm package
> GhostAction - GitHub repos with malicious workflows
> PHP - critical RCE vulnerabilities
> Node.js - security vulnerabilities patched
> eMudhra - certificate authority keys compromised
> Tailscale - eMudhra incident
At this point, the biggest security risk might not be the code we write, but the code we trust...
My theory is that wonder is evolution paying you to hunt for the things that break your world model. You get a dopamine hit every time your expectations get violated, and that's how you learn more about the world and get more effective at living in it.