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Mishra

@build1point0

AI & Infrastructure at @HashiCorp (aquired by @IBM). Prev. @Hootsuite. Creator of @runatlantis. 📖 https://t.co/QpnzewzNfK. ⚽ @ManUtd.

Vancouver, British Columbia Katılım Haziran 2009
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Mishra@build1point0·
@GergelyOrosz I really enjoyed this conversation. I've always admired what the WhatsApp team accomplished with so few resources. I remember reading/hearing about it back in the day. This is a clear example of what "engineering" should truly stand for.
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Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz·
How did a tiny team of 30 engineers build WhatsApp, more than a decade ago? From Jean Lee, engineer #19 at the company. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:39 Early years in tech 06:18 Becoming engineer #19 at WhatsApp 13:53 WhatsApp’s tech stack 18:09 WhatsApp’s unique ways of working 25:27 Countdown displays and outages 27:07 Why WhatsApp won 28:53 The Facebook acquisition 33:13 Life after acquisition 39:27 Working at Facebook in London 44:07 Transitioning to management 47:27 Performance reviews as a manager 53:29 After Facebook 58:53 AI’s impact on engineering 1:02:34 Jean’s advice to new grads and startups 1:06:45 Empowering employees 1:08:17 Book recommendations Watch or listen: • YouTube: youtu.be/5Kn32cIWPSY • Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/56bXJZ… • Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bui… Brought to you by: • @statsig  – ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. statsig.com/pragmatic@SonarSource – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review. sonarsource.com/pragmatic/ • @WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready WorkOS.com Three interesting observations from this episode: 1. WhatsApp had no code reviews after in-place. WhatsApp cofounder, Brian Acton, reviewed the very first pull request of each new hire, and after that, there were no more code reviews. Jean recounts how Brian reviewed her debut PR in extreme detail. This first (and only!) review set the bar high, and she wrote code to that standard from then on. 2. WhatsApp had close to zero formal processes. WhatsApp had no Scrum, no Agile, no TDD (test driven development), and no formal code reviews beyond the first commit. In contrast, Skype had 1,000 engineers and mandatory Scrum training, but WhatsApp still outcompeted it and won. Jean’s response to hearing of all the formal processes Skype used in order to execute faster: “I’m surprised to hear they thought they were shipping faster because of it.” Perhaps process is often a substitute for trust, not quality?” 3. Saying “no” to features was a competitive advantage. WhatsApp’s CEO, Jan Koum, rejected 99% of feature requests from the team. While competitors shipped dozens of shiny, new features, WhatsApp ruthlessly prioritized reliability and simplicity. Jan repeatedly told the team what the mission was. “I want a grandma living in the countryside to be able to use our app”, he said.
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@theo nah, we are cooked 😂
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Theo - t3.gg@theo·
If you recognize this image, I hope you enjoy your upcoming retirement
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Mitchell Hashimoto@mitchellh·
I’ve been forcing myself to use the GUI agent apps the past week just to learn. One week isn’t enough experience yet, but I think they all miss the mark (so far) and I’m deeply fighting the urge to do one with my own taste. I’m not gonna do it. I’m not gonna do it.
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@mitchellh Forging the path on how contribution programs should be! ❤️
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Mitchell Hashimoto@mitchellh·
Happy to share that we've signed 5 contributor contracts for Ghostty totaling ~350 committed hours (~$21k) covering community management, graphics, Unicode compat, and GTK. This is a big milestone, Ghostty is paying contribs for the first time! ghostty.org/docs/sponsor
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Mishra@build1point0·
Heroku didn't just build a PaaS, it basically invented the modern developer experience. git push → live app in seconds, free tier that launched so many side projects, and the 12-factor methodology. The shoulders we all stood on. We'll miss you, Heroku.
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Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support. Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features. We know changes like this can raise questions, and we want to be clear about what this means for customers. There is no change for customers using Heroku today. Customers who pay via credit card in the Heroku dashboard—both existing and new—can continue to use Heroku with no changes to pricing, billing, service, or day-to-day usage. Core platform functionality, including applications, pipelines, teams, and add-ons, is unaffected, and customers can continue to rely on Heroku for their production, business-critical workloads. Enterprise Account contracts will no longer be offered to new customers. Existing Enterprise subscriptions and support contracts will continue to be fully honored and may renew as usual. Why this change We’re focusing our product and engineering investments on areas where we can deliver the greatest long-term customer value, including helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI in a secure and trusted way.

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Mitchell Hashimoto@mitchellh·
@afterlithiumx If I ask someone to hammer a nail and they take the hammer, shove it up their ass, and say they fixed it then yes I would
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Mitchell Hashimoto@mitchellh·
I'm not presently hiring, but I think a really effective engineering interview would be to explicitly ask someone to use AI to solve a task, and see how they navigate. Ignore results, the way AI is driven is maybe the most effective tool at exposing idiots I've ever seen.
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Mitchell Hashimoto@mitchellh·
My other fun YAML story is that I was at a conf and after some chit chat the guy next to me tells me he is the creator of YAML. Some HC employees sitting behind me start giggling cause they knew my feelings. I was polite. He was very polite. One of the nicest people I've met.
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Mishra@build1point0·
Mind blown learning about IBM Z and mainframes! The evolution of these systems is incredible, but the sheer level of reliability engineering is truly impressive. 🤯
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Mitchell Hashimoto@mitchellh·
@TheOriginalNid zsh is the child process running within Terminal which is a terminal emulator. They communicate via a pty which is implemented as a kernel driver. The thing I care about is the terminal. And that’s what this job posting is for. You’d clearly not get the job lol
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Mitchell Hashimoto@mitchellh·
I've been trying to find the person(s) responsible for macOS terminal for years. I know culturally it's not their vibe, but I'd be more than happy to make libghostty a great base for a better Terminal app. If anyone from Apple is reading this, hello! jobs.apple.com/en-ca/details/…
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Jake@JustJake·
@build1point0 Yea I can almost peek through walls on my 34” Ultrawide lmao
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Yo, Valorant stretch res is literally the cheat code! 🔥
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Mishra@build1point0·
It’s crazy that RTX 5070 is will give you 4090-level performance for $549!!
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@DrJimFan The only thing I know is that my 4090 is only worth $500 now

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Shantanu Gadgil@shantanugadgil·
@build1point0 Haha, what a coincidence, I was querying ChatGPT for an "awesome Ghostty config", to mimic the settings of the Gnome Terminal on Linux. (CTRL T for new tab etc) First it gave me a YAML file, then a TOML file, then an INI with some made up settings. Quite hilarious!!! 😂😂😂
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Damn, Grok knows about Ghostty! 👻
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