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@paulg @amaldorai Seconded, I just went, awesome store. Picked up the most compact fountain pen I’ve ever seen

@amaldorai I've heard of it. I've been meaning to go there.

Brands I love: Lego, Leuchtturm, Oxford University Press, Pentel, Schöffel, Aqualung, Paradores, Staedtler, Birkenstock, Braun, Knoll, Patagonia, Herman Miller, Iittala, L.A. Burdick, Artemide, Aman, Thames & Hudson, Yeti, Rimowa, L.L.Bean, Timbuk2, Eschenbach, Ridge, Maui Jim.

@pitdesi Sounds like Caltrain to Bay to Breakers, just better in every way

TIL Sugar Bowl (Tahoe) was designed for the railroad Southern Pacific owned the land and there was a rope tow directly from the train station There was a "Snowball Special" from Oakland at midnight with a bar car. Arrive early morning, ski all day, and take the train home!

@pitdesi Holy hell that sounds so fun

@rahulvohra @rrhoover For sure same question. Whoop has started strength training input, but if I don’t need to tell it what I’m doing, 100% worth it

@rrhoover Looks great! Would you use this instead of a Whoop?

Just preordered a Fort

@paulg @Jo_Minimis Yup, this is such obvious whataboutism. It’s going to kill us (the left)

@Jo_Minimis I would too. That was not a good faith reply. It also illustrates a big problem on the left: the pervasiveness of friendly fire. How can we stand up to Trump effectively if we waste so much effort fighting among ourselves?

our dog longevity drug LOY-002 has earned FDA safety approval we now have 2 of 3 major sections of our New Animal Drug Application complete (!) if (when) we earn FDA manufacturing approval, Loyal will launch the *first FDA-approved lifespan extension drug*

Some thoughts on how being "pretty good" can be a curse for actual growth. tevonsb.com/thoughts/subtl…

@eastdakota Who knows, maybe we can replace $8m in Italian revenue in 24 hours?

@eastdakota Just signed up for a paid cloudflare plan. Your free plan is beyond generous, way more than I need, its so good I feel the need to pay for it. Keep up this work!

Yesterday a quasi-judicial body in Italy fined @Cloudflare $17 million for failing to go along with their scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests. No judicial oversight. No due process. No appeal. No transparency. It required us to not just remove customers, but also censor our 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver meaning it risked blacking out any site on the Internet. And it required us not just to censor the content in Italy but globally. In other words, Italy insists a shadowy, European media cabal should be able to dictate what is and is not allowed online. That, of course, is DISGUSTING and even before yesterday’s fine we had multiple legal challenges pending against the underlying scheme. We, of course, will now fight the unjust fine. Not just because it’s wrong for us but because it is wrong for democratic values. In addition, we are considering the following actions: 1) discontinuing the millions of dollars in pro bono cyber security services we are providing the upcoming Milano-Cortina Olympics; 2) discontinuing Cloudflare’s Free cyber security services for any Italy-based users; 3) removing all servers from Italian cities; and 4) terminating all plans to build an Italian Cloudflare office or make any investments in the country. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. While there are things I would handle differently than the current U.S. administration, I appreciate @JDVance taking a leadership role in recognizing this type of regulation is a fundamental unfair trade issue that also threatens democratic values. And in this case @ElonMusk is right: #FreeSpeech is critical and under attack from an out-of-touch cabal of very disturbed European policy makers. I will be in DC first thing next week to discuss this with U.S. administration officials and I’ll be meeting with the IOC in Lausanne shortly after to outline the risk to the Olympic Games if @Cloudflare withdraws our cyber security protection. In the meantime, we remain happy to discuss this with Italian government officials who, so far, have been unwilling to engage beyond issuing fines. We believe Italy, like all countries, has a right to regulate the content on networks inside its borders. But they must do so following the Rule of Law and principles of Due Process. And Italy certainly has no right to regulate what is and is not allowed on the Internet in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Brazil, India or anywhere outside its borders. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT FIGHT AND WE WILL WIN!!!

@nickarner @jeffreyhuber I've found them to be extremely good. 1) they can check their work with compiler, 2) rust is quite idiomatic and there is a "correct" way to write it, 3) generally far fewer external dependencies or runtime needs that I find LLMs struggle with

@strandbrown Interesting thesis I know @jeffreyhuber had found them to be quite limiting in writing Rust at the time, but, perhaps they've gotten better? Similar problem to Swift; not enough training data compared to JS/Python

2026 is going to be the year of rust (the programming language). Because of LLMs and Claude Code. It is simpler and easier to write with LLMs than python given the strong correctness guarantees of the compiler. AND it is safer and far faster. I predict 100% growth by EOY.

App usage time Most visited sites Messages (who and when) Podcasts Any requests for other context? Github here: github.com/tevonsb/qualif… Post here: tevonsb.com/projects/getti… Happy 2026!

I'm working on improving my screentime this coming year. Way more of your info than you'd think is stored in plain dbs on your laptop. Here's a little tool I built to safely extract useful info and give you some stats:

@paulwarren_ @AppStore @readwithmargins Love the app. especially how easy progress tracking is!

Excited to share Apple is featuring Margins, the app for book lovers, as App of the Day! #OnTheAppStore @AppStore @readwithmargins

@paulwarren_ has been building this beautiful app! I've been using it for months, particularly cause I can list both audiobooks and print books I read. Most recent rec: Stoicism and the Art of Happiness: A Teach Yourself Guide by Donald Robertson.

@zck So freaking sexy. gotta be the land rover green one

If I won the lottery I wouldn’t tell anyone but there would be signs

<3 you del

Introducing our new series, In The Arena. Episode 01 out now: youtube.com/watch?v=lA_16M…

@celinehalioua @joshk @firstround @loyalfordogs @AssortHealth @withdavidai At least her tongue makes an appearance

@joshk @firstround @loyalfordogs @AssortHealth @withdavidai I told them to put della on the cover…

Today Forbes revealed their 2025 Next Billion-Dollar Startups List – and it was amazing to see that 20% of them were seed funded by the @firstround team! Congrats to @LoyalforDogs (and @celinehalioua for gracing the magazine’s cover), @AssortHealth, Collate, @withdavidai, and @reductoai

@bhalligan @PalmerLuckey

Other than Elon, who has founded more than one "legendary" companies? Looking at some second time legendary founder companies at Sequoia and trying to pattern match a bit.