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@JsonBasedman @Shopify Get a few good waterloo interns access to the ground truth payroll historic data and the union contracts and a well funded anthropic account and they can solve this problem with Claude code in a few weekends. You don’t need us.

"Shopify loves the five-person team. We increase to eight sometimes, but we think the best team size is one, because a single author can do things that is impossible to do for teams, and hit high notes that are unreachable. Most projects worth doing need to be done in teams. There's a magic number at five. It's sort of what military ends up figuring out too. They test these things and come to the same conclusions. You can temporarily go up, but at some point, you have to split teams and parcel out the tasks. Each of these gradations is like a 10x loss of productivity. Our R&D team is three and a half thousand people. It's really lots and lots and lots of small teams." —@tobi

“The great Canadian habit of saying “no” must end. Saying “no” now could kill the country. You don’t like a proposal? Propose an alternative. Find something to say “yes” to. And get to work.“ open.substack.com/pub/dgardner/p…

"Yours to Discover" by internetVin My little talk at Toronto Tech Week 2025. This was a new format and setting for me, I was pretty nervous about it, but I thought I would just try it out and see what I would learn. Thank you for everything so far.

Full post here: kevinyien.com/blog/marriage.…

Millennials were built for Agent Orchestration.

Introducing our first set of Llama 4 models! We’ve been hard at work doing a complete re-design of the Llama series. I’m so excited to share it with the world today and mark another major milestone for the Llama herd as we release the *first* open source models in the Llama 4 collection 🦙. Here are some highlights: 📌 The Llama series have been re-designed to use state of the art mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture and natively trained with multimodality. We’re dropping Llama 4 Scout & Llama 4 Maverick, and previewing Llama 4 Behemoth. 📌 Llama 4 Scout is highest performing small model with 17B activated parameters with 16 experts. It’s crazy fast, natively multimodal, and very smart. It achieves an industry leading 10M+ token context window and can also run on a single GPU! 📌 Llama 4 Maverick is the best multimodal model in its class, beating GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 Flash across a broad range of widely reported benchmarks, while achieving comparable results to the new DeepSeek v3 on reasoning and coding – at less than half the active parameters. It offers a best-in-class performance to cost ratio with an experimental chat version scoring ELO of 1417 on LMArena. It can also run on a single host! 📌 Previewing Llama 4 Behemoth, our most powerful model yet and among the world’s smartest LLMs. Llama 4 Behemoth outperforms GPT4.5, Claude Sonnet 3.7, and Gemini 2.0 Pro on several STEM benchmarks. Llama 4 Behemoth is still training, and we’re excited to share more details about it even while it’s still in flight. A big thanks to all of our launch partners (full list in blog) for helping us bring Llama 4 to developers everywhere including @huggingface, @togethercompute, @SnowflakeDB, @ollama, @databricks and many others👏 This is just the start, we have more models coming and the team is really cooking – look out for Llama 4 Reasoning 😉 A few weeks ago, we celebrated Llama being downloaded over 1 billion times. Llama 4 demonstrates our long-term commitment to open source AI, the entire open source AI community, and our unwavering belief that open systems will produce the best small, mid-size and soon frontier models. Llama would be nothing without the global open source AI community & we are so ready to begin this next chapter with you. 🦙 Read more about the release here: llama.com, and try it in our products today.

WE MUST CHOOSE TO BUILD CANADA A federal election has just been called. This is a pivotal moment to determine Canada’s trajectory. Our economy has been stagnant for a decade with all indications it will only get worse. At the same time, we face the most consequential change to global relations since World War II. Whoever ultimately wins power will face the enormous task of building a Canada that is prosperous, strong, and free. If they do not, everything we have will be called into question. In the next 5 weeks the parties will lay out their plans for how to govern our country. This is the single best moment for Canadians to influence their platforms and ensure we are headed in the right direction. Now is the time to fight for the Canada you know is possible. Build Canada was created as a platform for ideas from Canada’s most successful builders – those who have started and run Canada’s leading companies. Canada was built by people like them, but in recent years rather than celebrating our builders’ accomplishments and reinforcing their successes we have made it increasingly hard for people to follow in their footsteps. If we want our country to live up to its potential, we must change this. Our builders have ideas for how to get Canada back on track. We take these builders' ideas and turn them into policy memos that suggest specific steps that any government could take to immediately make progress Since we launched in early February, we have released 15 memos covering topics from skilled trades and interprovincial trade barriers to pipelines and building an AI-first government. We are encouraged to see both of Canada's largest parties and people from across the political spectrum agree with many of our proposals. Over the coming weeks we will be publishing more bold ideas to push the conversation in a more urgent and positive direction. It starts this week with housing. No other part of our economy more clearly demonstrates how we have failed to build and the dire consequences this has had for people. We will be sharing memos from some of Canada’s biggest builders on how we can fix housing affordability. And we will keep going. There is much that needs to be done in Canada: Unlocking special economic zones, reforming the military, fixing our industrial policy, modernizing the electricity grid, and more. Canada needs to become the best place in the world for anyone to start a business, raise a family, and pursue their dreams. It needs to be the freest, safest, and most prosperous country on Earth. But it will take work. If you believe in these ideas, share them, post about them, share your own stories about why growth matters and what you think we should do about it, contact your MP, go volunteer for a party (any party), talk to your friends, encourage them to also get involved. Our politicians are listening. They want to know what matters to you. You have much more power than you think. Now is the time to build the Canada you know is possible.

I see a lot of people asking if specific MCP servers exist. Fortunately, there's a few directories where you can search for whatever you want. I call them my MCP Toy Stores lol. Here are my gotos: 1️⃣Glama: glama.ai/mcp/servers - this one has a report card for each server so I can quickly tell at a glance if it's secure and of good quality 2️⃣PulseMCP: pulsemcp.com - this one is really nicely organized and has the most exhaustive list. I also love that I can filter by official providers, and there's use cases available on some as well 3️⃣MCP GitHub: github.com/modelcontextpr… - the official MCP github has servers listed in their readme, many they have implemented themselves. However, this list isn't maintained as well as the others

infectionism (in·fec·tion·ism) /ɪnˈfɛkʃənˌɪzəm/ n. An ideology that promotes repeated infections from serious diseases like COVID-19, based on the false belief that unlimited natural infections are beneficial while ignoring evidence of cumulative harm.

It's just so tricky to figure out if vaccines work or not Let's look at polio. The data isn't clear We may never know

I regularly see people, apparently people who would be otherwise considered intelligent, saying things like, "you just want us all in lockdown forever" or "are you going to mask forever?" or something else that also fails to understand the situation. Here's what I want:

12 years ago when I announced @Ghost, I got the most criticism for this line of my original blog post: "No corporate arm of the law. Ghost would be free as in Mozilla, not as in Automattic ... Every decision made would be about improving the software, not the bottom line." Maybe now you can see why I wrote it. Ghost was very deliberately set up as a single-entity non-profit foundation: - No investors. - No commercial entity wheeling and dealing in the background with shady tactics. - No conflicts of interest around ownership of trademarks & domains. I don't personally own anything to do with Ghost. The Foundation owns everything, and it has no share capital, so I own zero shares. If anyone is considering starting a new CMS project and would like any advice, let me know. I'm happy to share the many mistakes we made, and the things I think we got right. The web needs more independent organisations, and it needs more diversity. 40% of the web and 80% of the CMS market should not be controlled by any one individual. If you don't like the way things are working, make something new and show the world how much better things can be by setting an example of how they can be done differently. You don't need permission. Share your ideas, and see where they take you.

Fantastic thread on the game changer PCR-quality covid testing machine, the Pluslife, explained step by step in human language. Pluslife can also test for Flu A/B, RSV and MPox!

Writing good code isn’t what puts food on the table, delivering useful code does. Levels is a solo dev making $190K/month from shipping over 70 projects and iterating on the ones that people want to pay for. When you’re a solo dev, focus on shipping your code and getting people to pay for it (if that’s your objective), and less on the things that don’t matter (like tests and staging environments). If you want to write tests, write tests. If tests will assure you that your code is doing what you think it does, write tests. If something breaks on prod and having tests and a staging env will help you sleep better, do that. Don’t let an idealistic talking point about code being craft blind you to what your personal objective is.

I’m being a little snarky here, but my original post was 100% sincere. SAHMs don’t just benefit their own families, they do a lot for the community that we don’t say thanks for enough.

91.6% of Americans wear their seatbelt. 50% of car accident deaths are from the remaining 8.4% who don't wear their seatbelt. nhtsa.gov/vehicle-safety…

“What are you doing?” 😅

I've spent hundreds of hours studying the top 1% of software engineers. They all share the same 7 skills, here's the breakdown:

Scenario: a team does 1 week of research to validate a decision, and ends up disproving their initial set of assumptions. In output-based org culture, that team is now a week behind. In outcome-based org culture, that team is now a week ahead.