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What blows my mind is that Zapier raised money only ONCE. $1.3M back in 2012 (right after YC). They were profitable two years later and passed $100M ARR by 2020. In 2021, Sequoia valued them at $5B (no new money raised, they just bought shares from early investors). This is called "seed strapping". They raised one small round and then let customers and the revenue fund the rest. They ran a tight ship. The 3 founders own most of the company and are probably each worth over a billion dollars (on paper). Very well executed.

BREAKING: DoorDash just agreed to buy Instacart for $17 billion. Here's what that means for customers and shoppers. apnews.com/article/doordash-…

You jolt awake, your pillow drenched in sweat. It takes you a moment to register that you're in the safety of your home. The divorce has been taking a toll on you. For the past few months, you've been plagued by a recurring nightmare where Mitchell Hashimoto, author of Ghostty and co-founder of Hashicorp, ratios you on Twitter in front of your moots. You check the time on your phone. 3:30am. You see a notification that makes your blood run cold. Hashimoto jumpscare.

most ai products right now are built for the 5% of people who are tech savvy. my dad is never going to write a system prompt. my grandfather doesn't even know what a prompt is. that means it's the best time ever to use ai and build products for the other 95%.

poteto.com has landed

someone outside our GitHub org deleted one of our private repos. no membership or invite or role. nothing in our org or enterprise audit logs gave them access. just one repo.destroy from the gh CLI. and it's not in deleted repositories, so no restore. @github how is this possible, what sorcery is this?

I have a better idea: 1) Cloudflare 2) PlanetScale

SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios. The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios. Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said. Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior. Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…

3 steps to becoming an actual software programmer 1. Build personal software 2. Build internal software (for a select group of people) 3. Build public-facing software If you've only ever built personal software you're not qualified to build public-facing yet. As you climb the rungs the stakes get higher, your constraints get tighter, and you need to QA harder. So my advice for anyone who's never built an app is this: Find a small group of testers (even 1 is great) that will actually use an app you built in their real lives. The feedback you'll get will blow your mind. It'll show you how forgiving you are of your own crappy product. You'll begin to focus on process and quality. It'll be frustrating, slow, and hard work. That's programming.

This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax. - 100-500× faster than mermaid.js - 6× smaller bundle - No dependencies - Easy to theme - Responsive to device width In pursuit of making Obsidian insanely fast and cohesively designed, I always found the Mermaid library to be too big, too slow, and too hard to theme. Pele will be the new renderer in the next version of Obsidian, but you can start using it now. Pele [ˈpɛlɛ] is named after the goddess of volcanoes and fire. It's open source under the MIT license. Try the playground!

$TSLA stock tomorrow

I’m not. Will use SpaceX cold gas thruster system with ultra high pressure air in a composite over-wrapped pressure vessel in place of the 2 rear seats.

We got flying cars before GTA 6

Real life, baby