Shaun McAvinney

What if a VM could shutdown and spin up, memory in tact, statefullness preserved in milliseconds.

Do you have customers asking for SDKs in languages you don't support? Or, even worse, are you paying hundreds of dollars a month per SDK? Now presenting Sterling, an open source OpenAPI to SDK generator for 13 languages!

hm, what if football fields were longer, like really really long.

Pro tip for sales hiring managers: give your best and final offer upfront. Here’s why. When you make an offer, tell candidates directly: “This is our best number. We’ve benchmarked it against the market and we’re confident it’s competitive. This isn’t a test of your negotiation skills – we just want to be fair and transparent with you.” Then ask: “Will this work for you?” If they say yes, follow up immediately: “Great – when can you sign? We’ll send the DocuSign before we hang up.” Momentum is everything in a close. Every hour between “yes” and a signature is an hour for a competing offer to land, for cold feet to set in, or for the candidate to feel like the excitement has fizzled. Send it while they’re still on the call. Why this whole approach works: It saves everyone time. The back-and-forth negotiation dance can drag on for days. Candidates prepare counter-offers. You loop in finance. Everyone loses a week. Skip it. It’s fairer to people who don’t negotiate. Research is clear: people who negotiate hard get paid more than equally qualified people who don’t. That gap often breaks along gender and cultural lines. If your compensation is actually competitive, just say so and mean it. It signals the kind of company you are. Starting a relationship with “here’s our real answer, not our anchoring position” tells a candidate exactly what kind of culture they’re walking into. Transparency from day one builds trust. It still lets candidates walk away. This isn’t pressure – it’s information. If the number doesn’t work for them, you both find out faster. No one wastes months in a role that was never going to feel right financially. The candidate who’s going to thrive in your sales org doesn’t need to prove it by wrangling their own comp package. They need to trust you. Make the offer you’d want to receive. Then close it.

I did this and now I'm retired.

Vers fleets are insanely fun to work with. Super excited for Ty and the team.

vers.sh is now open beta! we got tired of everyone being proud of running 5 claude codes at once. we think you should be running 500.

Back in 2020, @jakestein and I were chatting about the brutal legal doc turnaround times we dealt with at Stitch Data. Deals slipping, contracts stuck in review, the whole thing. Even then, Jake had a vision for what AI would eventually be able to do with contract redlines. At the time, honestly, it sounded like a dream to me. Seeing his vision land the way it has is pretty special. Jake and @bengarvey's relentless focus on making legal review actually painless is inspiring to see. - 90% of contracts reviewed in under 3 minutes - Fast escalation routing to the right person - Automatic learning from negotiation history so turnaround time gets crushed the more you use it. Simply wild. Congrats to the whole @UseCommonPaper team!

@dotbrt @AgnoAgi Hey Bart, can you DM me and we can get this going.

Hey @AgnoAgi team! Is there a chance to receive DPA doc? I want to push the OS in our org but we can't move without reviewing that doc

@bennstancil I agree with your sentiment, but this example is clearly fake. You can't get provisioned a twilio number capable of texting let alone calling in one night. There are all sorts or regulatory hoops to jump through.

It's not sentience or Skynet; it's this. Yes, this example is mostly harmless. But how engineers are running Clawdbot on computers that have keys to the most important software in the world? x.com/AlexFinn/statu…

This is not my usual flavor of grump or doomerism, but ALL THIS CLAWDBOT STUFF NEEDS TO STOP. IT WAS FUN FOR A MINUTE, BUT IT NEEDS TO STOP. I don't know how; I don't know if it even can be stopped at this point. But good god, we are inches from the edge here.

I had a product idea to use the Meta gasses to text a simple assistant to book meetings, like with a friend. Getting texts setup with twilio took so long that Meta built the feature and rolled it out first.

Apparently it just reopened!

I took my wife away to a swank Bucks County Inn for her birthday; I think we're the only guests.

@AlexNoonan6 Thanks man. Thankful for you too.

I'm thankful for everyone who let me down and disappointed me over the past year

I figured out why I hate the FYP here. Every post I see is a quote-tweet, which breaks normal reading flow. FYP is now "read half of post, read quote, click quote to get context, go back, read original post." It's terrible.

I started making sourdough again, and it's like I've reset. I'm consistently overproofing.

Boss said "if he can sell trash from a dumpster he can sell recruitment ads"

My BIL told me about a Wendy's & Airtran promo loophole. I dumpster-dived for months, selling packs of thrown out cups to family&friends that could be exchanged for round trip tickets with Airtran. BIL's boss heard about this and I got an interview for sales.

@AlexNoonan6 As a dad with a swing I've given up.

Remember: the quality of your lawn next summer depends on your actions in the next few weeks. Lesson there

@floydophone Very *janic GitHub star growth

very organic github star growth