Pierce Freeman

Excited how this new mountaineer-email lib is shaping up for public release. Email design in react, data passing from Python, dependency injection with any other FastAPI function, and a slick web UI to preview.

Quick sync - want to boil the ocean, lift and shift, dogfood the bleeding edge, yak shave the greenfield, rubber duck the guardrails, and make sure it's idempotent. Very idiomatic. Ship it.

Two years ago I started working on a series of conventions for building full stack apps in Python. Fullstack webapps: Mountaineer Typehinted database: Iceaxe Auto-scaling postgres: autopg + a handful of other utilities that I've reused across each production stack I've shipped (auth, billing, email, etc). At some point I was going to bundle these into a paid offering but honestly yolo My goal is for mountaineer to peel the layers off of self deploying everything and showing it can be as enjoyable to develop software as going through a platform-as-a-service. Full control but with a great DX. Going to be repackaging each of these components and putting them out under a MIT licenses within the next week or so. First up: cloud integration.

Never seen anything like this in tech history - someone hacks something on GitHub, posts it on X, a tech lead responds, and an official feature ships the next day. Even in the corporate labs you still have AI being roadmapped in public in real time.

@sama all I'm saying is at least 2 people want this to happen

@sama odds we can convince you to come on the pretrained pod and talk about codex? our studio's right in russian hill and we have great coffee

There are few places as positive-sum as the bay area. You can be legitimately cynical about the incentives all you want (helping you -> deal flow -> money) but for most people it's genuinely some mix of "I've done this before and it's fun to pay it forward" and caring about more than money. Contrast this with a friend of mine who was raising in New York and got warned constantly to 'look out for the sharks'. No thanks - I prefer the Pacific.

really could use a ruff rule to flag when I'm running code that has `.to(device)` instead of just `with torch.device()` ... CPU->GPU weight copying is way more inefficient than just allocating directly on the destination in the first place

here comes @peta 's next national campaign

:%s/kills two birds/feeds two birds with one scone/g

2026 is officially the year "use my vibe coded app" replaces the old "buy my course"

Companies used to IPO when they had $47M in revenue. Now the average amount is $189M.* That's a 4x reduction in the ability for retail investors to capitalize on new trends because most are shut out of the private markets. Either they don't have the accreditation status to trade at all - or they do but they can't get allocation in the companies that are growing. Companies stay private because private capital is cheaper than public capital; and there's way less annoyances with SEC scrutiny. Fix that: raise the shareholder limit that triggers SEC reporting requirements - or restructure reporting so companies can easily manage a larger investor pool. People can gamble on bitcoin or prediction markets already. It's not like the accreditation status is doing anything to protect retail investors. Stop being paternalistic and throw it away (or bring all non-public assets under the same burden). Employees are often limited by their options contract to sell secondary stock. This is silly. If people want to sell their stock off market they should be able to! They own the asset - and with no eyes on an acquisition or an IPO, if someone wants to buy it let them. Let the people benefit. *all numbers adjusted for inflation

The things we do for our podcasts man

I'm always surprised how many founders are willing to trade their brand for one extra sale. People /will/ remember how you outreach to them. Cheap outreach methods (like boilerplate that reeks of LLM personalization) forever make me disregard your business. And I /will/ look you up in the future to see if you've ever sent something like that to me. These approaches are pernicious because they feel like they're working. You're running them on such a large number of outreach targets that it looks like you're moving the needle. But people usually forget about the impact of the denominator here & how many people start to hate you because you're just spamming their inboxes. The way we've ended up with such aggressive political phone spam in the US is by misaligning actor/agent incentives in the same way. Political campaigns usually outsource their cold texting to agencies that are paid only when people donate. They don't give a shit about the campaign brand or the next electoral cycle - so they spam their lists at all costs to juice a few extra dollars. Outbound sales is headed in the same direction. You end up creating spam that looks good enough during a POC and is horrible when you're receiving them. In the long arc of time I think people will regret outsourcing their voice to logit decoding.

Fast enough to push a full docker release & publish our latest youtube video

The last two united flights I've taken with starlink might be the first time I've gotten meaningful work done on a plane in the last 5 years Objectively they've cooked with these upgrades - available at the gate, one click login, nearly symmetric 100mbps

I was forced into switching out my mx brown switches (way too loud for an sf apartment) and eventually bought some zilent v2s Hated them at the jump, way more force required and had a rubber feeling like the old logitech keyboards. But tbh I've come around they're great

Bringing your crazy keyboard to the office probably starts more conversations than a new porche out front Not that I would know about the porche