Dave Gandy
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@davegandy
I make @FontAwesome, @WebAwesomer, and other things. YC S15, MIT Course 2, MO, MA alum.
AOC: “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that”
🚨 Live Now! Watch the Build Awesome Q&A Livestream with Zach Leatherman + special guest @davegandy! youtube.com/live/XBMSvupE7…
🚨 Update: We’re pushing today’s livestream to 12:30pm ET / 11:30am CT / 9:30am PT! 🎨 Dave’s demoing a new color theming tool 💬 AMA on Build Awesome + funding open source 😵💫 Tell us about your CMS/hosting headaches Come hang → youtube.com/live/XBMSvupE7…
I came back to code because AI made it possible for me to build at a level I couldn't before. I'm not coding despite being CEO of YC. I'm coding because this is the most important technological shift since the internet and I'd be an idiot to experience it from the bleachers. I'm 45, running the most important startup institution in the world, and I can ship production software at 2am. That's not a distraction from the job. That is the job understood correctly.
I had received some questions about President @realDonaldTrump's recent posts, and here are my thoughts: I do not believe President Trump would knowingly depict himself as Jesus Christ—that would certainly be inappropriate. I’m thankful the President has made it very clear that this was not at all what he thought the AI-generated image was representing—he thought it was a doctor helping someone, and when he learned of the concerns, he immediately removed the post. When I looked at the illustration, I didn’t jump to the same conclusion as some. There were no spiritual references—no halo, there were no crosses, no angels. It was a flag, soldiers, a nurse, fighter planes, eagles, the Statue of Liberty, and I think this is a lot to do about nothing. There is so much ill-intended speculation. I think his enemies are always foaming at the mouth at any possible opportunity to make him look bad. And the illustration from someone else he reposted on Truth Social yesterday, I must say that I like the fact that this is a picture of Jesus whispering in his ear, or at least His hand on his shoulder, guiding him. We all need that—we all need to be listening to Jesus. Again, I think there is an attempt to spin this into something that it isn’t. Remember, President Trump didn’t draw this, he didn’t create it, he reposted it on his social media because he thought it was nice—I would have to agree. I’m not a Catholic, I’m an evangelical, but I appreciate how President Trump has defended religious freedom for people of all faiths, including millions of evangelicals and Catholics in the U.S. and around the world. He is the most pro-Christian, pro-life president in my lifetime, and he doesn’t shy away from it. I would hope that the President and Pope Leo can meet at some point, and that the Pope would have the opportunity to thank the President for his efforts to protect religious liberty for Catholics and people of all faiths.
Just shipped in GStack today: our skills now have greatly upgraded user experience (UX) capabilities augmented by Steve Krug's principles from "Don't Make Me Think"
Day 2/15 of Building My Portfolio with AI 🚀 Spent the evening moodboarding some of the best portfolios out there. Then I tried the new /Design-shotgun skill by @garrytan and it kind of broke my brain (in a good way). Instead of forcing one idea, it generated multiple design variants instantly. Side by side exploration + structured feedback made things way clearer. It also made me realize how much I’ve been defaulting to one direction… instead of exploring properly. The output? An evolving .md file that’s now becoming my roadmap. It’s still messy… but for Day 2, the vision is starting to click! #BuildInPublic #ProductDesign #AgenticCoding
The full deck on Sid’s cancer approach is here: sytse.com/cancer/ Worth a read. Raw data for download is also available and linked in the deck
Gaudí is undefeated.
When I was consulting for @HBO Silicon Valley, zero-loss compression was the holy grail Richard Hendricks chases that perfect middle-out algo could shrink everything w/out breaking a single bit. Google just did something even more practical for the AI era: TurboQuant compresses LLM key-value caches down to 3 bits per value using random orthogonal rotation + PolarQuant scalar quantization & optional 1-bit QJL residual correction. =>> 6× memory reduction, up to 8× faster attention (on H100), & 0 degradation on LongBench, Needle-in-a-Haystack, and RULER for models like Gemma. No retraining, no calibration needed. Fiction just got out-engineered by reality. 😅💚💚
When I was consulting for @HBO Silicon Valley, zero-loss compression was the holy grail Richard Hendricks chases that perfect middle-out algo could shrink everything w/out breaking a single bit. Google just did something even more practical for the AI era: TurboQuant compresses LLM key-value caches down to 3 bits per value using random orthogonal rotation + PolarQuant scalar quantization & optional 1-bit QJL residual correction. =>> 6× memory reduction, up to 8× faster attention (on H100), & 0 degradation on LongBench, Needle-in-a-Haystack, and RULER for models like Gemma. No retraining, no calibration needed. Fiction just got out-engineered by reality. 😅💚💚
