Peter van Hardenberg

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Peter van Hardenberg

Peter van Hardenberg

@pvh

Ink & Switch lab director. Heroku alum. I don't come here anymore. Masto: @[email protected] BSky: @pvh.ca

Victoria, BC Katılım Temmuz 2008
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Nora Ammann@AmmannNora·
I’ve recently accepted the Programme Director role at ARIA, taking over from davidad in running the Safeguarded AI programme. 🧵 about the programme’s strategic vision + our upcoming funding efforts in cybersecurity + we're hiring!
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Alex Warth
Alex Warth@alexwarth·
I've been working with @pvh on a local-first task framework at @inkandswitch. It distributes computation across users' computers, keeps working while you're offline, and syncs results back to everyone when you reconnect. First lab note is up. inkandswitch.com/patchwork/note…
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statusfailed@statusfailed·
there is something interesting going on with edit optics 🤔
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Sync Conf@sync_conf·
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Geoffrey Litt
Geoffrey Litt@geoffreylitt·
Life update: last week I wrapped up my time @inkandswitch 🥲 Back in 2019, I remember being intrigued by the work coming out of this mysterious research lab. At the time there was barely even a website! But I could tell they had a big, compelling vision for a more humane kind of computing, and I wanted to be a part of it. I ended up working with the lab every summer while I did grad school at MIT, and then for a couple more years since finishing my PhD. During that time we got to explore all kinds of questions related to malleable software. How do you build a new kind of software environment that end-users can tweak on the fly? How do you weave together the best parts of docs and apps? How do you make tools that compose on shared local-first data? These are huge questions without easy answers, but we always tried our best to share what we found. (See our recent Malleable Software essay for some thoughts on these topics!) Looking back, two things made this a special experience. The first is the world-class collaborators. Each person brought a unique genius to every project, and I learned so much. Small teams of people who care are the best. The second is the unique context and structure of the lab. There aren't many places that are free of the time pressures of companies shipping products, but also free from the peculiar incentives of modern academia. Getting to do the work that we thought mattered, and share it in the ways that we thought would move the needle, was a big challenge and a rare opportunity. There's a lot more I could say about what makes I&S special, but I'll leave it at that for now. I'm super grateful to everyone at the lab, but especially @pvh for taking a chance on hiring me and for leading the lab through an incredible period of growth. There's so much cool stuff brewing and I can't wait to see where the mission goes from here. As for what's next: I'll be continuing to pursue the vision of malleable software, but in a different way! More on that soon...
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Nilesh Trivedi
Nilesh Trivedi@nileshtrivedi·
Reminder (h/t @pvh)
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@t_crayford @BenjDicken Those factors are all relevant, with the rise of NoSQL databases allowing developers ironically to embrace non-standard Postgres features like JSONB. The major missing piece I would add is that Oracle bought MySQL and this both damaged community trust and starved development.
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Ben Dicken
Ben Dicken@BenjDicken·
Serious question: Why is Postgres so popular? As I've spent more time with it the past few months I see many of its benefits, but also many of its flaws relative to MySQL. My thinking: the extension ecosystem + faster dev cycle was/is a big driver of it's surge to popularity.
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Antranig Basman
Antranig Basman@amb26ponder·
Thanks to @geoffreylitt, @pvh and team to take the time for an Infusion 6 demo yesterday - genial colleagues to have! I was sobered by @pvh' report that he considers noone alive fully understands how CSS layout happens. Looking forward to the CSS- initiative and fully support it!
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Tuomas Artman
Tuomas Artman@artman·
How did @linear become a Unicorn? Gradually, and then suddenly! To become a company valued at more that $1 billion was something that felt almost unreachable when we started the company with @karrisaarinen and @jorilallo more than 6 years ago. But through hard work, good timing and a healthy dose of luck, this milestone drew ever closer as we continued working on our mission to make Linear the standard in building software. Today we’re announcing our Series C, lead by Accel with participation from existing investors 01A and Sequoia among others. Thank you and congrats to the entire @linear team for building this beautiful piece of software. Thank you to all of our customers for trusting us with their business and to all of our investors for believing in us. We're just getting started. -> linear.app/blog/building-…
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