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Read this korrent: Being an asshole to a fellow engineer on this site has practically no upside but a large downside for a software engineer.
Being an asshole to a fellow engineer on this site has practically no upside but a large downside for a software engineer.
Last stated 5 days ago
26 Oct 2026
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Gergely Orosz — holds since 2026-10-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Engineers who are not "product engineers" and do not like being customer-facing will not have a future inside of Amazon — tap to centre the map on it
Engineers who are not "product engineers" and do not like being customer-facing will not have a future inside of Amazon
Last stated 3 days ago
28 Oct 2026
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Gergely Orosz — holds since 2026-10-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Being blunt to the point of abuse on the kernel mailing list is who I am and the right way to run the project. — tap to centre the map on it
Being blunt to the point of abuse on the kernel mailing list is who I am and the right way to run the project.
Last stated 8 years ago
16 Sept 2018
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Linus Torvalds — holds since 2013-07-15 — tap for who they are
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Linus Torvalds — no longer holds since 2018-09-16 — tap for who they are
Same subject: High consequences cannot be what makes work engineering, because most traditional engineering is low-stakes too. — tap to centre the map on it
High consequences cannot be what makes work engineering, because most traditional engineering is low-stakes too.
Last stated 6 years ago
18 Jan 2021
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Hillel Wayne — holds since 2021-01-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Software engineers are in a state of denial regarding the impact of AI on their profession. — tap to centre the map on it
Software engineers are in a state of denial regarding the impact of AI on their profession.
Last stated 2 weeks ago
14 Oct 2026
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Pieter Levels — holds since 2026-10-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A first impression of someone's rudeness reliably signals deeper flaws in their character, including a tendency toward authoritarianism. — tap to centre the map on it
A first impression of someone's rudeness reliably signals deeper flaws in their character, including a tendency toward authoritarianism.
Last stated 2 months ago
1 Sept 2026
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Jeffrey Zeldman — holds since 2026-09-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Every branch of engineering hates waterfall, not just software. — tap to centre the map on it
Every branch of engineering hates waterfall, not just software.
Last stated 3 months ago
29 Jul 2026
HW
Hillel Wayne — holds since 2026-07-29 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The costs of bad software engineering decisions are an externality that almost never falls back on the engineers who made them. — tap to centre the map on it
The costs of bad software engineering decisions are an externality that almost never falls back on the engineers who made them.
Last stated 9 months ago
18 Jan 2026
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Tobias Lütke — holds since 2026-01-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Being rude to a language model makes it perform worse. — tap to centre the map on it
Being rude to a language model makes it perform worse.
Last stated 9 months ago
22 Jan 2026
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Steve Klabnik — holds since 2026-01-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A big switch to desktop Linux is coming, at least among developers, because there is enough dissatisfaction with both Apple and Microsoft. — tap to centre the map on it
A big switch to desktop Linux is coming, at least among developers, because there is enough dissatisfaction with both Apple and Microsoft.
Last stated a year ago
26 Jun 2025
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2025-06-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: All Linux kernel releases are stable and backwards compatible for userspace programs to all previous kernel releases. — tap to centre the map on it
All Linux kernel releases are stable and backwards compatible for userspace programs to all previous kernel releases.
Last stated 11 months ago
9 Dec 2025
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Greg Kroah-Hartman — holds since 2025-12-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Any group attempting to assign severity scores to a Linux CVE without knowing the specific use case is lying. — tap to centre the map on it
Any group attempting to assign severity scores to a Linux CVE without knowing the specific use case is lying.
Last stated 8 months ago
16 Feb 2026
GK
Greg Kroah-Hartman — holds since 2026-02-16 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A business making hundreds of millions from an open source project owes it money or contribution, and can be refused its trademarks if it gives neither. — tap to centre the map on it
A business making hundreds of millions from an open source project owes it money or contribution, and can be refused its trademarks if it gives neither.
Last stated 2 years ago
26 Sept 2024
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Matt Mullenweg — holds since 2024-09-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A codec does not really exist until everyone can decode it. — tap to centre the map on it
A codec does not really exist until everyone can decode it.
Last stated 5 months ago
31 May 2026
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Jean-Baptiste Kempf — holds since 2026-05-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company that will not accept a project’s terms is free to go and use a more permissive project instead. — tap to centre the map on it
A company that will not accept a project’s terms is free to go and use a more permissive project instead.
Last stated 2 years ago
26 Sept 2024
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Matt Mullenweg — holds since 2024-09-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A badly written AI outbound email is evidence of a bad vendor, not of a limit of AI. — tap to centre the map on it
A badly written AI outbound email is evidence of a bad vendor, not of a limit of AI.
Last stated 10 months ago
1 Jan 2026
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Jason Lemkin — holds since 2026-01-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A bigger context window does not give you a smarter model; the intelligence of the model is what decides how much of that window it can actually attend to. — tap to centre the map on it
A bigger context window does not give you a smarter model; the intelligence of the model is what decides how much of that window it can actually attend to.
Last stated 4 months ago
15 Jul 2026
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Dex Horthy — holds since 2026-07-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A body of publications is easy for AI models to consume via pretraining corpora but cumbersome for most humans due to CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls. — tap to centre the map on it
A body of publications is easy for AI models to consume via pretraining corpora but cumbersome for most humans due to CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls.
Last stated a month ago
17 Sept 2026
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Patrick Collison — holds since 2026-09-17 — tap for who they are
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