Derek Cavaliero

@kenwheeler These people truly don’t catch enough public backlash. They don’t understand/care they’re creating a race to the bottom they just want to get their bag and run away and pass the hot potato of responsibility to someone else.

“hey everybody, let’s saturate the trades and drive their rates down while we’re waiting for robotics to catch up before we can build the fuckin elysium space ship”

@polar12121 @stevennatalie @WallStreetApes Show me a single time a CEO actually went to jail. Wind the clock back to the financial crisis of 2008 all those banking CEOs got a slap on the wrist and a bailout from the US taxpayer for decimating trillions of dollars and ruining lives.

@stevennatalie @WallStreetApes I understand what you are saying to some extent and this CEO was way over paid however CEO’s have all the legal stuff on them not the worker bees-the CEO. That is a big risk if someone screws up and the CEO goes to jail -hence the salary.

WOW 🚨 Delta Dental is considered a nonprofit but the CEO skyrocketed her pay from $4.5 million per year all the way to $48 million over 4 years That’s $1 million dollars per month pay for one employee as a nonprofit “Delta Dental is considered a non-profit, and as such you can be their taxes online. So I got curious in their 2014 filing, the IRS requests for the organization's top accomplishments. Delta Dental reported that over 95% of claims electronic, online and paper were processed without any manual intervention. That means when your care is denied, there is less than 1 in 10 chance a human reviewed it — That same year, Delta dished out up to a 30% pay cut on the care that doctors deliver, and for a decade, they did not raise what they pay for your dental care by a single penny. Meanwhile, their CEO's salary skyrocketed. She went from 4.5 to $15 million a year. From 2014 to 2018, she made off with almost $48 million before leaving her position. That's a million dollars a month. Must be nice. And she's not even a clinician. She's a CPA. You don't have to be an accountant to do the math. Dr. Pay cuts stagnant reimbursements. They were never about saving patients money on premiums.”

@jahmashackmuse @MikeBartner Look how many times Ovi’s teams finished 1st in the conference (or won presidents trophy) and get back to me. They were choking dogs for years until their boogeyman was exhausted and still took that series 6 games the year they won. Get out of here with that, they had good teams.

@DerekCavaliero @MikeBartner It’s almost like Ovi of the better player but Sid has had way better teams

Hand up, I regret how I phrased this tweet. I should’ve spoke more on how impressive this record is than immediately talking about how I think others can/will reach it. It’s a great record and Crosby is top 3 all time (but I still do not think it’s unbreakable).

@jahmashackmuse @MikeBartner Ovi has nearly 900 goals and all that hardware yet is 1-3 vs Sid’s Pens head to head & only got to a cup final because the Pens were gassed from 2 straight cup runs. C >> LW/RW - always will be, more responsibility in all 3 zones & harder position to play.

@MikeBartner 1. Gretzky 2. Mario 3. Orr 4. Yzerman 5. Ovechkin 6. Crosby McDavid will also pass Crosby the second he wins one cup Ovechkin more Harts, 9 Rockets, is the best goal scorer ever (Crosby isn’t the best anything ever) and in a fair world same amount of Conn Smythes (Phil Kessel)

@GinoHard_ Two bad legs and he still shrugged him off like a fly.

It was today Matthew Tkachuk learned… you don't hit Sidney Crosby 😭 Sid's center of gravity is just unmatched 💪

Opus 4.6 has been hot trash today.

@MikeBartner Sid played in a much harder era to thrive as a forward, not to mention a large portion where glorified goonism and headshots were considered acceptable.

Not to be that guy it’s an impressive record, but McDavid or Celebrini will so touch 21 seasons if they want to play till they’re 40. Why are they acting like it’s Gretzky’s points record level untouchable rn lol.

@MarkMaddenX Give me a generational C over a generational LW/RW 11/10 times. Ovi is great, but he scored nearly 900 goals and still only made it to a single cup final (and the only reason they did is the pens were out of gas from 2x cup runs).

No. 1-2 center punch is a keeper.

@DuaneStorey There’s 0 need for a database driven CMS (barring scale) at this point with AI. The winners will be those who version control their content and schema, and remove the need for a DB entirely and only adopt when necessary. Statamic is far and away a better CMS than both WP/EmDash.

I find it interesting the amount of mental bending people are doing trying to jibe WordPress with the EmDash release. We need to be honest about WordPress is and what it isn't at this point. For one, the admin looks almost the same in the WordPress backend for over a decade. That EmDash kind of looks the same might be evidence that it just kind of works, so no sense re-inventing the wheel. But WordPress seems like a house in desperate need of a paint job, and it has for a very long time. Gutenberg has been going on for how long now, seven years? And they are still arguing over the data model. Second, every post talking about how great WordPress is always talks about the 60,000 plugins and the 20,000 themes. I agree, those are great. But lately I've been wondering, why there are so many? Does WordPress really do so few things out of the box that we need 60,000 add-ons to make it do something? Is more better? Of course, some do very specific things, but lots of them try to make up for core-defects in the CMS itself, like lack of any type of disk caching, inflexible database layer, and SEO improvements. So what is WordPress at this point? Is it just a PHP bootstrapping engine to get ACF and WP Rocket loaded? Is it just a demo for Gutenberg that you can quickly hide using the Classic Editor plugin? I can't help but compare it to AirBNB at this point - a website dedicated to helping you rent properties that it doesn't own, in the same way WordPress helps you load plugins and themes that likely weren't made my WordPress/A8C that help run your website. I gave 16 years of my life to WordPress, and I owe a significant part of my success to people who supported my efforts in that space. I organized three WordCamps, and spoke at various others around the world. I once cared and still care about WordPress, especially the community. But I won't support WordPress anymore, mostly because the values displayed by its leaders these past few years aren't my values, nor do I think they represent what I thought WordPress and open-source were about. When the leader of the community is literally doing hostile take-overs over other plugins in the community while screaming about the benefits of open-source from the rooftops, and doing posts about other open-source contributors like DHH, asking "why are you so small?", there is key problem. And it's not one we should ignore. WordPress isn't likely to be killed by any one project, but I do see it slowly starting to fade away. Nobody thinks it can happen to them - Napster, MySpace, Friendster, Moveable Type - but then one day you wake up and realize the landscape shifted while you were standing still, and that the solutions of yesterday aren't the solutions that are needed today.

@aarondfrancis @AnthonyCastrio This is like one of the life lessons/rites of passage every dev/swe learns, right up there with always using UTC timestamps in your DB over localized ones for time zones.

@AnthonyCastrio Cause of the leading zero amiright

ZIP codes are strings not numbers FYI

@JadenJTW Window lickers already available.

We need a slur for people who use Microsoft products

@vlad_mihalcea Marketing. Lots of overpromising/hype, in practice you still have to smack dumb robot hands.

Why is it that software developers have higher expectations from AI and expect it to be always correct when the vast majority of software projects that were built without AI were of average quality?

@grac3nTruth Bonuses to C-suite should be voided (or taxed to high heaven even more than they already are) too, mass layoffs is a direct signal that leadership failed.

Any company that has layoffs should be banned from requesting new foreign visa workers of any kind for at least 5 years. They shouldn’t be able to renew or convert to green card either

@eastdakota @photomatt Gutenburg is the sole reason I don’t want to use WordPress, it’s gross please don’t.

Think this is a fair critique from @photomatt of EmDash. I remain hopeful it’ll bring a broader set of developers into the WordPress ecosystem. ma.tt/2026/04/emdash…

@aarondfrancis @samhuckaby Yep, WordPress is one of, if not the largest reason PHP has a negative stigma around it, get them away from it.

@samhuckaby The more we can disassociate Wordpress and PHP the better. Godspeed to EmDash

This actually sounds incredible - sorry PHP friends, though I know Wordpress isn’t really good PHP…

@joshmanders Dude is annoying, muted a while back.

Garry Tan is the biggest LARP in startups.

@kenwheeler No way

i’m at this airport bar called the “Bud Light Lounge” Bud Light logos on the tables. Bud Light logos on the walls. Servers wearing Bud Light shirts. You are not going to fucking believe what they don’t have in draft or bottle form, at all, not even on the menu.

@robinebers Give me Laravel + Inertia w/ React or Svelte over NextJS 15/10 times. Works just fine with AI BTW.

yeah, but no context is important here svelte is for tinkerers and shiny object chasers next.js works and there’s no real reason to switch other than not wanting the deep vercel integration focus on building stop chasing “the next thing”

@jeffrey_way It takes the reward feeling of figuring out a problem away - the puzzle/challenge factor is mostly gone.

I think there should be a new proverb that's something like, "If it can be accomplished with AI, it *will* be. So we all just default to assuming that everything we see is generated with AI. That's the depression, I think. "Look what I built" => "Look what AI mostly built."

Can you relate to this awkward tension I feel of being endlessly excited by what AI now unlocks (you can build anything you want), but with this constant underscore of depression that I can't explain?

@kenwheeler He looks like Filbert from Rocko’s Modern Life.

why does this guys face always look like he’s super uncomfortable making billions of dollars