Allen Vailliencourt

@AndrewCGower Looks at my milestone 0 level 44 mason and cries. 🤓

The rock eaters have arrived in the Mine of Mantuban as part of Stonemason Bounties. These hungry blobs want you to serve up a delicious meal consisting of a freshly crafted weapon or shield. You will find that rock eaters are not as fussy as kobolds, and they will be satisfied with any weapon or shield of their favorite flavor (or damage kind as us humans might call it). Stonemason bounties are unlocked by reaching milestone 3 Stonemason and you can pick up stonemason bounties from the bounty board in the Stonemasonry Room. There are two kinds of stonemason bounties: Craft only Craft and deliver to a rock eater

Tailscale + Border0. Border0 is joining Tailscale to help us build a more modern, usable approach to privileged access management. It’s already integrated with Tailscale today, and we’re excited about what comes next. tailscale.com/blog/border0-j…

Brighter Shores - Filtration Station, Kobold Arena and Blacksmith bounties are now live! There are three kinds of blacksmith bounties: Craft only - Craft the weapons listed in the bounty for extra rewards. Craft and deliver weapons to the Kobold Arena - The kobolds in the Kobold Arena are hungry for battle, but they need the shiniest metal weapons you can make to really show off their skills. Filtration Station - Spongle has been placed in charge of the new filtration station, a machine designed to clean the corruption from the river. However, getting the water to the right place can sometimes be more work than one goblin can handle, and Spongle wants your help.

And I can’t type. Meant to say - doing a hands-on demo. 😎

Woohoo! Excited to be do a hands-on @Tailscale demo today at #scale23x

@jmrphy Welcome to @Tailscale Hit us up if you have any questions. 😎

Wait Tailscale wtf? this is a thing? You’re telling me you can have a private mesh computing network in 5 minutes with all the computers in your house and no middleman? or hundreds of friends around the world? for free? Wtf

Introducing LM Link ✨ Connect to remote instances of LM Studio, securely. 🔐 End-to-end encrypted 📡 Load models locally, use them on the go 🖥️ Use local devices, LLM rigs, or cloud VMs Launching in partnership with @Tailscale Try it now: link.lmstudio.ai

Psst…@Tailscale

Remember LAN parties? Plug in and everything just worked. At @AllThingsOpen, Allen on the Tailscale Solutions Engineering team recreated that across AWS, a home lab, hotel WiFi, and MongoDB Atlas. Watch it here - allthingsopen.org/articles/stop-…

Red Robin is a case study in how to kill a restaurant chain from the inside out. In 2015, the stock hit $92.90 per share. Revenue peaked in 2017 at $1.4 billion across 573 locations. Families loved the place. Bottomless fries. Birthday parties. “Gourmet” burgers when that word still meant something in casual dining. The brand had real equity. Then management panicked about rising minimum wages and made the single worst decision in the company’s history: they fired all the bussers. January 2018. CEO Steve Carley cut bussers across every location, eliminated expeditors, and replaced kitchen managers with generic “back-of-house” roles. The logic was pure spreadsheet thinking. Labor costs were rising, so remove labor. The savings looked great in quarterly earnings. The second and third order effects were catastrophic. Tables stopped getting cleared. Wait times ballooned. Walkaways increased 85% year over year. 75% of the dine-in traffic loss came during peak hours, the exact window when the restaurant makes money. Ticket times out of the kitchen jumped a full minute on average. Customers who waited 20 minutes for a table and another 20 for a burger stopped coming back. Red Robin’s own CEO at the time, Denny Marie Post, admitted the damage was self-inflicted. And here’s the compounding problem. While Red Robin was gutting its own service model, it simultaneously launched a “Tavern Double” value menu at $6.99 to drive traffic. Orders of the cheap burgers jumped from 9% to 15% of all orders, which cratered the average check. So Red Robin was now serving worse food, slower, in a dirtier restaurant, at a lower price point. That combination is how you enter a death spiral. Meanwhile, 16% of locations were in malls. Mall traffic was already declining. Those locations saw 5.5% sales drops versus 3% at standalone stores, dragging the whole system down. Management acknowledged the problem quarter after quarter and did nothing about it for years. Five CEOs in 10 years. Think about that. The one leader who provided stability, Michael Snyder, was with the chain from 1979 to 2005. After that, it was a revolving door. Every new CEO launched a new turnaround plan. Every plan was abandoned by the next CEO. The North Star plan. The First Choice plan. New menu rollouts. Loyalty program reboots. None of it addressed the core issue: they’d trained an entire generation of customers to think of Red Robin as the place where the service is terrible. The contrast with Chili’s makes the failure even clearer. Kevin Hochman took over Chili’s in 2022 and did the opposite of what Red Robin did. He simplified the menu, invested in operations, launched a $10.99 “3 for Me” deal that went viral on TikTok, and let the food speak for itself. Chili’s just posted 31% same-store sales growth. Red Robin’s comparable revenue was down 1.2% for all of 2024. Both chains were in roughly the same position three years ago. One chain invested in the customer experience. The other spent a decade cutting it. Red Robin’s $65M market cap and Chili’s $3.3B market cap tell you which approach works. The stock went from $92 to $3.61. That’s what happens when you optimize for the quarterly earnings call instead of the customer walking through the door.

Over the next week: what’s next for Tailscale as we expand from secure user connectivity into a platform for modern infrastructure access (AI workloads, services, cloud, Kubernetes, privileged access). tailscale.com/blog/winter-up… #TailscaleWinterUpdate

100 MILLION VIEWS WE ALL LEARED

🚨 Here is the full 42 minutes of my crew and I exposing Minnesota fraud, this might be my most important work yet. We uncovered over $110,000,000 in ONE day. Like it and share it around like wildfire! Its time to hold these corrupt politicians and fraudsters accountable We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening, the fraud must be stopped.

Woohoo! Excited to get this today! @monsterhunter45 !

BREAKING: Brown University mass shooter yelled “Allahu Akbar” before opening fire on campus according to sources. How come the media is suppressing eye witness testimony about how the shooter at Brown University allegedly shouted Allahu Akbar before he opened fire on campus the night before the first night of Hanukkah? The media is only saying “he shouted something” before he opened fire. Source tells me he yelled Allahu Akbar, but it’s being kept quiet by police and the Democrats who run Rhode Island. TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THE TRUTH! TELL THEM WHAT WAS SHOUTED!

@SermonAudio your streaming platform is soooo laggy. Not sure if it's the org using it or your backend stuff but really really bad. :( Was trying to watch a Christmas program (video) and constant freezes, lock ups, and pixellation.

Hey that’s me speaking! If your around drop by my talk. 😎

Super fun event for sure.

@robleathern Psst…use @Tailscale and call it a day instead. (Biased take as I work there).

My team built a VPN at Google. Summary of my advice on VPNs: 1) Never ever use a free VPN. 2) Be wary of any influencer-marketed VPNs with big discounts. Up to you but I wouldn’t use Nord/Express/etc based in Lithuania/Cyprus/Panama. 3) Mullvad is the best consumer VPN and it’s not even close. (more below)