product at 1kc/@OPLabsPBC working on @optimism • previously crypto lead at @twitter • @tessr@macaw.social
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"The standard Seattle Nazi is a white male under 30 who either works in tech or is going to school to work in tech." thestranger.com/news/2017/10…
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I’m thrilled to share that I’ve joined Twitter, to lead a new team focused on crypto, blockchains, and other decentralized technologies—including and going beyond cryptocurrencies.✨
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my mom asked me if I use a password manager.
me, pleased she's asking: "yeah, I use 1password."
mom: "really? I thought you're not supposed to do that."
me: "really? where did you read that?"
[5 minutes later]
me: "wait, one password is the NAME OF THE PASSWORD MANAGER"
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OH, on technical interviews: “if I saw a live-ass engineer at my company hand-rolling a linked list I’d parachute right the fuck on in to figure out why they’ve gone all historical re-enactment on company time”
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it is actually just so wild that these buildings used to exist in San Francisco
the Palace of Fine Arts is just the tiniest taste of what's left from the 1915 expo
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I tried to explain how bitcoin and blockchains work, using emoji: medium.com/@tessr/making-mon…
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how to remember tar flags 🎏
tar -xzf 👈 eXtract Ze Files!
tar -czf 👈 Compress Ze Files!
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I don't get it when "technical" people are snobby about non-technical work. Like, have you DONE non-technical work? It's hard. People are hard. Sometimes they change their minds, given the same set of inputs. If your computer did that you'd throw it out a window and call it day
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this literally happened to me last week. my fully-vaxxed ass was halfway through some pad thai when I realized it didn’t taste like anything—like literally anything at all—so I dropped my fork and RAN several blocks to the nearest late night testing site
ALT Robert Downey Jr clutching his chest in relief, with the caption “when you think you have covid because you can’t taste anything, then you remember you live in Germany”
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Is this a phishing attempt? Goes to "githubverification.com" and asks for username and pw
(if so, it nearly got me!)
/cc @github
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just played Among Us (which is, fundamentally, a game about byzantine fault tolerance) with a group of distributed systems engineers who damn near ruined the whole thing by inventing a heartbeat protocol
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Lamenting over timezone programming led me to this 1857 chart, and suddenly timezones seem GREAT. (At noon in DC, it was 12:08 in Philly!)
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Bezos: "Alexa, buy me something from Whole Foods"
Alexa: "Sure, Jeff, buying you 5000 identi̙c̢͔͍͔a̸͎̟l̩͕̼͈ tw͇̲̙̘̗e̩̭̪̤͓̙͟t̠̞͓͙̥̖̻͜es̸͕̻͎͚
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what the real “pro-life” political agenda would look like:
- paid parental leave
- universal healthcare
- public preschool + college
- living minimum wage
- functional public transit + safe bike infrastructure
- police reform
- gun control
- environmental protections
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live in new york, but leave before it makes you hard; live in san francisco, but leave before it makes you an associate in venture capital
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It's now fashionable for male investors to denounce harassment. But let's judge them by their actions/investments, not by their Medium posts
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Pennsylvania officials are really out here using the same phrase that software engineers use for release dates
Pennsylvania “definitely could” be announced by the end of the day, the state’s top election official said on Thursday. Follow #Election2020 results live here: nyti.ms/3euQctB
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this week’s twitter discourse is making me think of a friend who joined a startup and, by all accounts, worked longer hours than just about anyone else at the company. the company is now worth 2 billion dollars. he got laid off
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there are two kinds of people in the world: 1) people who treat their birthday like a national holiday, and 2) people who are embarrassed to have a birthday at all
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This is the Stack Overflow profile of a Victoria's Secret model: stackoverflow.com/users/2274…
See ya later, stereotypes
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you know what? today I want to hear all the stories about young women who’ve helped startups succeed.
(you can brag on yourself, or on someone you know.)
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PROBLEM: holding a white sign with a message in a photo makes you vulnerable to photoshop trolls
SOLUTION: before they take the picture, hash the message and write the hash across your forehead in sharpie
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dear silicon valley, please disrupt:
- racism
- systemic discrimination
- the patriarchy
please do not disrupt:
- local businesses
thx.
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25 pages into “Principles” and so far Ray Dalio has:
- married a woman who barely speaks english
- punched his boss in the face
- brought the chicken mcnugget to market
- named his first-born after a breed of cattle
and this book is 500 pages long
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people are WFH and posting insta stories of their partners with captions like, "my new coworker! 😍😍😍"
which is very sweet and all that
but personally, I have laid my extra-clicky mechanical keyboard across the dining table in a display of dominance
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next time a conf "can't find any women speakers," remind them of the lineup filled solely with women named Katie katieconf.xyz/
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i am in a lyft line with a man wearing snapchat spectacles who is talking about the "aesthetic" of his .af domain name
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Some very innovative garbage collection techniques are being pioneered in #golang. #gophercon
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for long journeys, google maps gives the walking icon a little backpack and walking stick
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honestly, as someone building a small crypto company, the Coinbase post just makes me feel glum. I've spent years building crypto teams that are diverse and morally motivated, because I believed that it was both the right thing for business, and just the right thing, period.
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want to help shape the future of crypto at Twitter? I'm looking for an experienced crypto PM to join the team!
btw - not mentioned explicitly, but this person will really be my thought-partner in exploring all the opportunities for crypto x twitter 😎
careers.twitter.com/en/work-…
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...I’m finding myself walking this back a tad as I remember that my team helps maintain a binary tree library github.com/cosmos/iavl
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hot take: the new yorkers who are upset about the bagel emoji are actually upset about the steady and inexorable shift of economic and cultural power from NY to California
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1. If u hold down the clap at the end of a Medium series it increments indefinitely
2. Bananas are capacitive
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As I build out the team, we’ll be working to figure out what crypto can do for Twitter, as well as what Twitter can do for crypto. Twitter truly “gets” crypto (hello bitcoin tipping & NFTs!) but there’s so much more to explore here.
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Another highlight from this article: a plan to move into power in tech companies & "pay lip service to diversity" while hiring more racists
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Twitter Crypto will underpin all of this work, and serve as a “center of excellence” for all things blockchain at Twitter. We’ll be hiring for roles in engineering and product. If this sounds exciting, please get in touch! My DMs, as always, are open. ✨
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I had to take a video call from the bathtub so my teammates also got into bathtubs and let me tell you, this is what solidarity looks like
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the stages of grief:
1. denial
2. preparation
3. commitment
4. acceptance
...wait no that's paxos, those are the stages of paxos
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my IDIOT idiot boyfriend has taken a picture of me looking grumpy and FRAMED IT on his WALL
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I am completely confident that, within a generation or two, people will think of cars much in the same way that they currently think of guns: inappropriate for city living, a hallmark of a bygone era, and a marker of American identity that some people will cling viciously to
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hello friends! I have covid. I caught it at an indoor dinner where everyone was vaxxed and almost everyone was tested. I am basically fine but this has been a good reminder that no precaution is foolproof!
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the test was negative, of course, a fact that was corroborated by my ability to smell other things (like, say, coffee beans) as well as my ability to sprint for several blocks straight
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gm frens! thank you for the support and enormous response to Twitter Crypto yesterday. my DMs and mentions are melting down rn but I'll do my best to read and/or get back to everyone over the next few days. 💙
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Incredibly excited to watch the @MinaProtocol ecosystem build the leading zero-knowledge dev platform:
🪶 Easiest way to program ZK smart contracts
🪶 Incredibly active and global community (check that chart!)
🪶 Commitment to accessibility through both tech and culture
Let’s BUIDL, #MinaCommunity.👷
The Mina Ecosystem has raised $92 Million dollars in a raise led by @FTX_Official and Three Arrows Capital to bolster the growth of developers in the community.
Read more here ➡️ minaprotocol.com/blog/92m-ra…
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It's funny, on a flight between SFO and NYC, I can't tell who's from SF and who's from NYC. And on a flight between SF and Seattle, I can't tell who's from SF and who's from Seattle. But on a flight between NYC and Seattle, I can DEFINITELY tell.
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I’ll be honest: I’m starting to feel nervous that the concerns that I see Tech Twitter raising about the Chinese government will eventually evolve into socially sanctioned animosity towards Chinese people and people of Chinese descent
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my new passport has a dozen stamps in an absolutely perfect orderly grid, which I realize, is probably because it's only ever been stamped in Germany and Japan
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And, of course, we’ll be working closely with the @bluesky team to help shape the future of decentralized social media (and to make sure that Twitter stays on the cutting edge of this new landscape, too!).
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my go programmer boyfriend is upset with me because he told me he was full after lunch and I said “that’s because your esophagus is an unbuffered channel”
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This is the ideal make body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
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this was only resolved after she incredulously asked if I used the same password for my bank and my email
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if you want to:
✅ work on an open source Go project
✅ on a remote-first team w/flexible hours
✅ at a market or above-market salary
✅ in an engineer-led company w/minimal meetings
✅ and 25 days/year of PTO
hit me up. do I have the job for you!
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it shouldn’t be surprising that women in crypto are reluctant to talk about that experience, and are more eager to talk about -what they actually do-
after all, we are all about the
😎 proof of work 😎
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the year is 2022 and everyone is talking about multichain, L2 scaling, zk proofs, MEV, DAO tools, token-gated experiences, decentralized ID, music NFTs, web3
in 5 years, we’ll be laughing at a lot of the stuff on this list… and we’ll be taking some of it for granted
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Slack was being funky yesterday too, sending messages out of order and stuff
We could prevent this by making each message contain a hash of the previous mes
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I haven’t seen “crypto twitter” talking much about the protests or police brutality. This is genuinely surprising, given that one of the oft-cited tenets of the technology is resisting state violence and censorship!
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First, we’ll be exploring how we can support the growing interest among creators to use decentralized apps to manage virtual goods and currencies, and to support their work and communities.
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so who is going to write the guide for tech workers on how to move to a new city responsibly while minimizing gentrifying impact
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OH: “my github sponsorship hasn’t gone the way I hoped it would, so I’m thinking of switching to onlyfans”
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Bitcoin is fundamentally about making very expensive tradeoffs in order to avoid trusting other humans, ever. The energy used by proof of work is the most literal and acute example.
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Berlin is a very special city and I feel so lucky to be living here. Some pictures from the last few weeks:
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