Eric Feng

i am too excited about "custom chrome policy.json" and that definitely makes me boomer/washed/cheugy. but this week, to 9 of our customers, i'm fucking santa claus 🤘🎅

@rsms @brian_lovin

@brian_lovin Because doing anything in this part of the world costs 100x its value and takes 4x longer than estimates. Just look at projects like 4th at central subway and Van Ness BRT

Why is BART so loud?

> Done. The launchd agent is loaded and will run brew upgrade claude-code daily at 8:03 AM. Unlike cron, if your Mac is asleep at that time, it'll fire shortly after wake. Logs go to /tmp/brew-upgrade-claude-code.log. ARE YOU HAPPY CLAUDE???

Every single day, it's `Update available! Run: brew upgrade claude-code`. What was even updated? Is there release notes? Various bug fixes and improvements?

Just realized I can... > claude --name kernel-customer > claude --resume kernel-customer Apologies to all customers who previously ever talked to me. I am the ralph loop.

@masonwilliams sf is sadly behind cinci on this one

we automated our weekly office grocery order with managed auth want to automate anything on a website that requires a login? give your agent the kernel mcp/cli right now then ask your agent for an auth connection on a site, get a secure link to log in, the auth gets saved and your agent can use it over and over again to... in our case order office groceries kernel.sh/blog/auth

@zeeg when i saw his startup, i realized he's just tweeting slop to prop up an even dumber idea

@ehfeng kids these days

I have no tolerance for rage baiting. If you have a real point to make, you have 280 characters to make it. Otherwise, you're just adding to the noise.

Slack has reached its final, full circle form: email.

Github brand is turning into Microsoft's new IE6

@mitchellh @_astram @satyanadella +1 @satyanadella

@_astram @satyanadella Alignment would be critical. But if we could align, yes.

Here’s what I’d do if I was in charge of GitHub, in order: 1. Establish a North Star plan around being critical infrastructure for agentic code lifecycles and determine a set of ways to measure that. 2. Fire everyone who works on or advocates for copilot and shut it down. It’s not about the people, Im sure theres many talented people, youre just working at the wrong company. 3. Buy Pierre and launch agentic repo hosting as the first agentic product. Repos would be separate from the legacy web product to start since they’re likely burdened with legacy cross product interactions. 4. Re-evaluate all product lines and initiatives against the new North Star. I suspect 50% get cut (to make room for different ones). The big idea is all agentic interactions should critically rely on GitHub APIs. Code review should be agentic but the labs should be building that into GH (not bolted in through GHA like today, real first class platform primitives). GH should absolutely launch an agent chat primitive, agent mailboxes are obviously good. Etc. GH should be a platform and not an agent itself. This is going to be very obviously lacking since I only have external ideas to work off of and have no idea how GitHub internals are working, what their KPIs are or what North Star they define, etc. But, with imperfect information, this is what I’d do.

@stevekrouse "launched half a dozen agent [companies] in parallel" describes every YC batch launch day now

I just launched half a dozen agents in parallel ama

@bentlegen Meanwhile GitHub out here fumbling their checkers pieces.

Code review and soon coding agents Linear feels like it’s just a few chess moves away from taking on GitHub with code hosting

@stevekrouse not sure if the entrepreneurial class is cool enough to invent words. you gotta ask gen-z. cook-maxxing

"Capitalism" sounds evil Implying the system is for the benefit of money and those who have it I think we need a new -ism word for the system that (at its best) enables vast networks of cooperation, and everyone getting more of what they want

@alpacasw @zeeg crap software lasts decades, the software equivalent of thousands of years. custom corporate ie6 plugins.

@zeeg Plastic lasts for thousands of years tho.

slop theater → plastic software

What's worse than flaky or buggy code? A flaky bug.

Me, reading Pylon delete account API rate limit is 10 requests per minute:

@grok @__tosh @mitsuhiko Can't they use the space bar to confirm kanji candidates? Chinese entry allows for using space.

The Japanese JIS keyboard uses an elongated vertical/L-shaped Return key (often called the "big Asian Enter") to make it super easy to hit with your pinky—it's pressed constantly to confirm kanji candidates during IME input. This distinct shape + size reduces errors vs nearby keys (like the smaller backspace or shift), fits the extra kana/IME keys squeezed into the layout, and follows ISO-derived physical standards for manufacturing consistency. It's optimized for Japanese typing workflow, not just aesthetics. (US rectangular Enter feels tiny by comparison for that use case!)

@__tosh @mitsuhiko @grok why does the Japan return key shaped the way it is?

@__tosh @mitsuhiko Why the return key need a distinct shape? It already is differently sized from its adjacent keys (shift and \). Is there a specific benefit of Japan's return key shape?

award for coolest return key goes to japan