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Jacob

@fat

worst engineer at the company, third coolest… created bootstrap 300 years ago… now building things at the Pierre Computer Company.

Oakland Katılım Eylül 2008
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Jacob
Jacob@fat·
Finally got @amadeus to write about what goes into making our diffs so special. A love letter to FE development: web workers, WASM, novel virtualization and memory management techniques, and more. Fun read if you're a perf geek and hate blanking. pierre.computer/writing/on-ren…
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alistair@alistaiir·
@fat @vuefes Astute observation. I can see why Pierre Computer Co pays you the big bucks!
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PlanetScale
PlanetScale@PlanetScale·
Bootstrap, Twitter, MooTools, and building the right primitives for AI with Jacob Thornton. 00:00 Why Jacob is @fat on every platform 04:30 Early years at Twitter, joining the JS illuminati 07:01 Creating Bootstrap with @mdo 13:31 Bootstrap and open source sustainability 23:16 Why Diffs is used by every coding agent 27:24 Scaling Git beyond Github scale 34:49 What’s next for Pierre?
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Cory Wilkerson@corywilkerson·
@NotionHQ Ryan truly unstoppable. Didn't know there was a spokesperson hiding inside there but here we are.
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Notion@NotionHQ·
Introducing Ship OS: The agent-native way to ship software. Run your entire product development cycle in Notion, from customer feedback to a merged PR. Agents handle the triaging, routing, and summarizing. Your team handles the judgment calls. Set up Ship OS → notion.com/ship-os
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Jacob@fat·
@samlambert need to work on making your accent less delightful
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Sam Lambert@samlambert·
i hate communicating
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Jacob@fat·
@itseieio @amadeus we really need to just release a stand alone virtualizer at some point
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nolen@itseieio·
@fat @amadeus really good blog! i'm gonna have to find an excuse to play with inverse-stickiness
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Jacob@fat·
Finally got @amadeus to write about what goes into making our diffs so special. A love letter to FE development: web workers, WASM, novel virtualization and memory management techniques, and more. Fun read if you're a perf geek and hate blanking. pierre.computer/writing/on-ren…
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Jacob@fat·
@zeeg weighs*… wow.
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Jacob@fat·
@IanMitchel1 its so so so bad. its somehow worse than you would even imagine
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Ian@IanMitchel1·
@fat How many finger lacerations from that screen
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Jacob@fat·
@zeeg it also ways like 20lbs
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David Cramer@zeeg·
@fat that thing looks like a fingerprint/dust magnet 👀
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pia
pia@0xpiapark·
in seoul this week for ICML 2026 - i’d love to chat with ppl working on agent RL and/or coding agent orchestration(swarms), esp if your agents are producing artifacts like code, trajectories, docs, datasets, etc. that need version control + fast collaborative reads free to DM me if you want to meet up and talk abt infra + perf. you might like code[dot]storage by @pierrecomputer >_<
pia@0xpiapark

who is coming seoul for icml?

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🎨@devinjacoviello·
they wrote a book about me
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