Gareth Lewin

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Engineering @ Reality Labs - Trust
Former Tech Fellow at SunPower.
Former Principal Engineer at Twitch where I (among other things) founded the Trust and Safety product team.
Before that, 15 years of game development.

♫Old, but I'm not that old. Young, but I'm much more bold♬.

Angel Investor.

I like gaming, coding, 3d printers, and human rights.
I hate bigots, racists, and fascists.

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Gareth Lewin6d ago
My gifts for myself from my Japan Trip.
Gareth LewinMar 26
Mark ReidMar 25
OH: “What is it about DNS that people find so difficult? It’s just cache invalidation and naming things.”
Show threadGareth LewinJan 31
@eon not open source but I’ve been using Yahoo! weather on iOS for years and I assume there is an android version. So far no AI. Doesn’t require a sign in and has a pretty clean and simple interface.
Gareth LewinJul 31, 2025

What is the most readable programming language? (I have an opinion but I want to know what others think.) Not asking for favorite language, but easiest to read.

#programming

Gareth LewinMar 18, 2025
It was getting long in the tooth, and I ordered an upgrade about a year ago. But by then, I did know who Elon was, and I was uncomfortable with the order. Then, he posted a typical “Jews are to blame for everything” post, and a friend of mine pointed out the hypocrisy of me having an order on a Tesla while having those issues with Elon. I cancelled the order. 4/5
Show threadGareth LewinMar 18, 2025

I went from literally dreaming about owning a Tesla to being a proud Tesla owner to being ashamed of owning a Tesla.
Yesterday, I traded my beloved X (and lost my lifetime free supercharger access) in for a Polestar 3.

5/5

Show threadGareth LewinJan 15, 2025
@brook I voted customer non-owner because that is where my life is right now. At the right timings I might be very much interested in worker owner.
Show threadGareth LewinJan 9, 2025

@rl_dane honestly you don’t even need a book. Go is a very easy language to learn.

Start with the official tutorial https://go.dev/doc/tutorial/getting-started and then https://gobyexample.com and you will have learnt everything relevant.

Tutorial: Get started with Go - The Go Programming Language

Gareth LewinNov 23, 2024
This is an astonishingly well written article about bluesky and the current state of decentralization, with great criticism of Activity Pub. Her slight touch on threads felt like I want to know more there. This is my first brush with Christine Lemmer-Webber and I’m now a big fan. I rarely have the capacity to read long articles and I read every word. https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/ you can find her at https://social.coop/@cwebber or dustyweb.bsky.social
How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms

Gareth LewinNov 11, 2024
One really annoying aspect of the fragmentation after Twitter died is that my feeds on all of the things I am trying are full of app based tribalism. A large part of the discourse is people being smug about what app they are using or moving to or moved from. (Im aware of the irony of this post).