Gavin Morgan

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🖥🖥 eXtreme Programmer @ 💽 Silicon Valley
Pivotal -> Pivotal -> VMware -> 🍃
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@kainino0x Sorry I missed your session at #siggraph2025! How can I catch myself up?
There are two kinds of #hackathons; those before which product owners pitch prospective teammates, and those before which sponsors pitch product owners.
@mistersql So, text embeddings?

Seriously, #OCaml?

This is some of the most opaque code I've ever read:

```
module Syntax = struct
let ( let* ) = Option.bind
let return x = Some x
end
```

Why an #OpenPlanOffice? Research shows that people are about 30 times more likely to laugh in social settings than when alone.

All things being equal, open plan offices are funnier, and funnier workplaces are more sustainable!

Laughter is the appropriate background noise in the open plan office of a #software #startup, because laughter is the sound of resilience in the face of an unpleasant surprise. One must welcome, and relish, the sudden appearance of a novel monstrosity. One may express outrage, but feigned—like Pantalone, the archetypal miser of Comedia dell'Arte—or one's lost. Only heartfelt appreciation for the absurd, the conflict-ing, and the Except-ional permits sustained intimacy with one's work.
The guy who gets paid $80K/yr to do nothing - My First Million

Sam Parr and Shaan Puri brainstorm new business ideas based on trends & opportunities they see in the market. Sometimes they bring on famous guests to brainstorm with them.

Pocket Casts
@enoch_exe_inc @jeffowski But we have, arguably, designed working software by other means.
Who wants in?

"It's not that poor quality [#software] has no cost. The costs are simply invisible, because they show up as a decrease in value rather than an increase in expenses. How do you measure the cost of not working on code, of not building a feature, because it would be too expensive or risky to try? How do you even notice it?"

https://benchristel.com/posts/code-quality-costs-benefits/

Code Quality: Hidden Costs, Unexpected Benefits