Dr. Earl Oliver

I’m excited to share that I’ve joined @tersa_critical as Director of Technology. The world urgently needs critical minerals to power the energy transition, strengthen supply chains, and support the technologies shaping our future. At the same time, an estimated $3.4 trillion worth of resources remains trapped in the world’s tailings ponds - an enormous opportunity to unlock value from materials already above ground. #CriticalMinerals

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@alexgrenier I predict the gaslighting to Torontonians is going to be next level. The only question is how wildly unprofitable it will be.

@eaoliver Imagine all the cash that will go to their friends. Food discounted by adding to govt deficit?

It will cost them $10 to sell a $2 bag of potatoes. They'll take a loss to sell cheaper than other grocery stores and use taxpayer money to cover the loss? Then they will call it a great success!

@alexgrenier It's like they've never read the financials for a grocery store. ~4% net profit if you're completely dialled in.

@AaronWAnderson @Oceanbreeze473 Agree. So crazy. Makes me wonder what I’m missing besides virtue signalling to Quebec.

@eaoliver @Oceanbreeze473 Dude is being empathetic towards two employee deaths and all these entitled freaks are glued to not saying it in French too. That's pretty retarded.

Let’s get something straight - Air Canada is NOT owned by the Canadian government. If the CEO of this public company doesn’t speak French who cares?

@AaronWAnderson @Oceanbreeze473 I feel sorry for the guy running an airline. Can you imagine the stress watching oil refineries burn? 😬 Give the man a break!

@Oceanbreeze473 Exactly, what a bunch of entitlement bullshit

@rauchg Thank you

Next.js is for everyone

Higher fiber intake links to lower mortality. Eat plants. 🪴

@unitymarguerite Cool store.

Coming back to work after a week and I’m enjoying seeing all the little changes the staff did while I enjoyed a couple of days off.

@timneutkens @jonathan_wilke @nextjs Kudos on chasing product perfection. 🙏

Following up here. Based on someone else reaching out and sharing a trace we found one bug where layouts were recompiled more often than they should be. This has been fixed on 16.2.1. Please give that a try. I’d still like to take a look at a trace for your application though to rule out it’s not something else. Haven’t received it yet.

Holy crap... with the @nextjs 16.2 update the next server is now using 10GB+ of memory and my MacBooks fan is running constantly (before it never even turned on). What's going on here...

👏 Kudos to @Apple

@john_fowler_jd @jackfriks @dhh 🙏

@eaoliver @jackfriks I got the lofree flow 2 with the silent keys. Might try some other ones. Saw @dhh talking about it and decided to jump in. Funny thing: with Wisper Flow I’ve never typed less

what’s a material thing under $1000 you’ve bought that actually changed your life?

@the1Jax @john_fowler_jd @jackfriks The mechanical keys with tactile feedback are just really nice.

@eaoliver @john_fowler_jd @jackfriks Whats so great about a mechanical?

@john_fowler_jd @jackfriks What keyboard did you settle on? There are so many good ones. I’m planning to finally make the leap. I’ve always used the laptop keyboard as primary.

@jackfriks For work: Good mouse Mechanical keyboard Whispr flow For life: Good knife Good carbon steel pan Heated bidet seat

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@alexgrenier @heyrimsha 😅

@heyrimsha Sir, this isn't a LinkedIn

I accidentally discovered how to compress a month of research into 3 hours. A founder at a YC company showed me his Claude setup. I thought he was just fast. Then I watched him build an entire go-to-market strategy for a market he'd never worked in before. Here's exactly what he did: First: he didn't ask Claude to "research the market." He fed it 8 competitor landing pages, 3 earnings call transcripts, 12 customer reviews, and a Reddit thread of complaints. Then he asked one question: "What does every successful player in this market understand that their customers never say out loud?" Not "summarize these." Not "analyze the competition." The unspoken insight. The thing that takes founders 2 years of customer calls to figure out. But the next part is what broke my brain. He followed up with: "Now show me the 3 assumptions this entire market is built on, and what would have to be true for each one to be wrong." In 15 minutes he had the attack surface of an entire industry. The blind spots. The fragile consensus. The opening nobody was talking about. Most founders spend 6 months doing customer discovery just to find one of those. Then he did something I've never seen before. He asked: "Write 5 questions a world-class investor would ask to destroy this business idea, then answer each one using only the evidence in these documents." He spent the next 2 hours stress-testing every assumption. Every weak answer triggered a follow-up: "What's the strongest version of this argument and where does it still break?" By hour 3, he had a strategy deck that felt like it came from someone who'd spent a decade in the space. The tool didn't change. The questions did. Most people treat Claude like a faster Google. These founders are using it like a thinking partner who has read everything and has no ego about being wrong. The difference between 3 hours and 3 months isn't the amount of information. It's knowing which questions actually matter.

@alexgrenier Cool! Thanks for sharing.

Yep, actually who has access to what is regulated by the government so the bots match that as well. E.g. no one really has direct access to IT. But IT requests are made to admin, then passed to IT. Then IT gets sign-off from Exec. So now the bots (with this plug-in) will be able to follow that hierarchy.

Honestly, every second I use AI my mind is totally blown. Now I have 5 OpenClaws (deployed via Claude Code using my AI tool SCTL) each representing departments of my biotech lab, together in a Telegram group. But the Telegram API doesn't show bot messages to other bots. So now I'm building an OpenClaw plug-in for Inter-Bot Protocol. It managed an hierarchy between the bots and relays messages outside the Telegram API. And it's getting coded by AI of course. Crazy! 😆

@alexgrenier Ah that makes sense.

They're: Exec, Admin, QA, QC, and IT. Reasons to have them separate: better manage their context, segregate the data they each have access, which employee has access to which bot, establish a hierarchy between them, etc. Also we have a lot of Standard Operational Procedures, and they split things by department, so the bot structure matches the SOPs.