Todd Berman

@davemorin @imkylelambert Close but nope. It was An Internet Startup. And it was because we needed a name to get emails at for payroll to run. The name we used internally before we released was also different but An Internet Startup lived on in our WiFi ssid for years!

@imkylelambert Fun lore: Rdio’s stealth name was “An Internet Company” so that anytime someone would ask employees where they work they could answer “an internet company.”

if you know, you know

@arfrank Rude

Tag your almost unemployable friends below, I'll start @tberman

"Almost unemployable" really hits home

@kurt Backups? Why? What is this? 2004?

External HDs that I buy for backups have always been around $300, but now they're $750, so that's cool, I guess.

The line for La Taq is the best proof for the collective idiocy of people I’ve ever seen.

@sbilstein I feel the same way when someone calls me Gen X!

Nothing upsets my younger millennial co-workers more than referring to them as gen-z.

@anaisbetts If software is free and solved that wouldn’t matter!

@tberman Why would anyone at Anthropic care about the billing page, they never have to use it themselves! Many such cases 😭

Anthropic's billing dashboard is the biggest AGI bear case I've ever seen.

@JustJake Whoever complained about their growth problems hasn’t seen contraction in their previously high growth company!

Whoever said "growth solves all problems" wasn't growing at 50% MoM

tech twitter is just starting to look like a stupider version of the hacker news base

@JustJake More a mark of a mark than anything else, this condo is a dog!

Real mark of how fucked the SF market is: Does Ryan’s condo (finally) sell?

@samlambert No shame in your game sir!

@tberman it was a weekend

the most boring type of people tweet things like "omg i am so different i wear new york clothes in san francisco"

@mschoening need this to reprogram keypads!

My house has a high end smart home lighting system that a previous owner installed (Lutron Homeworks QS). It’s extremely reliable and I’ve had zero issues with it over the years. But, I’d never buy it myself. You can’t reprogram it without calling a certified installer. In the Bay Area that’s a $500 trip. 🙃 It bothered me so much that I even considered getting certified and selling just enough Lutron gear to get an installer login. Until I introduced Opus 4.6 to the problem, that is. I now have full access and a working Rust implementation reverse-engineered from a terrible C# app (that Opus rewrote to avoid phoning home to Lutron). 🤯 Claude: 1 Lutron: 0

@levi Sometimes I wish you were like 10% less of a nerd, then I could draft off of you even more!

@tberman on an old computer in my garage, using tailscale to access it from my devices

Over the weekend, I had OpenClaw make me a private Linear clone that spawns Codex or Claude Code workers when I assign tasks. It even broke down my specs -> review -> implement -> code review workflow and built specialized tooling for that. So impressed.

@sophaskins Odds he does seem low to none which is how he ended up with the legacy he has. I am hopeful I’m wrong!!

@donjay @GeneBattaglia @SalSports It’s seeming possible. That said the Seahawks look very good. But even getting there is crazy if it happens!

@tberman @GeneBattaglia @SalSports if the god damn patriots luckbox into the superbowl this year i'm walking into traffic

Listening to @SalSports, I think he’s spot on. You don’t make this move, unless you have the next guy lined up.

@donjay @GeneBattaglia @SalSports Regrettable nose tap. I’m no Bills fan and this is a great move from my perspective so a bad one for yall!

@GeneBattaglia @SalSports It’s either that or bbb is a moron who won a power struggle and thinks it’ll all work out

@JustJake @martin_casado Gretchen, stop trying to make hyperstructure happen

@martin_casado I’ll take the other side. Reason: Human context is the new bottleneck If the agent moves at breakneck speeds, you need a way to visualize, and load, the hyperstructure

AI coding has made me incredibly impatient for any config that isn't in repo. I wonder if we're in a massive cycle away from the dashboard / UI in infrastructure. It sure seems so ...

@dleffel That’s my plan for all of 26!

I'm doing sober January - no IDE coding.