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Bryan Cantrill
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Bryan Cantrill
@bcantrill
Co-founder and CTO of @oxidecomputer. According to @fieldofschemes, "tech exec and Oakland A's fan" -- but more of a Ballers fan now. @bcantrill.bsky.social
Joined August 2010
This photo of Dr. Katie Bouman seeing the first image of a black hole upon reconstruction is perhaps the most evocative photo of intellectual breakthrough that I have seen -- of anyone, ever. 1/
- How about a conference called "In Retrospect" in which presenters revisit talks they've given years prior -- and describe how their thinking has evolved since?
- Replying to @AlannaBennettEarly in my career, my mother was visiting my (cluttered) office and left a note on the whiteboard: "Note to Bryan's colleagues: he was not raised like this."
- Real reason we open sourced everything: it's easier to search the internet than it was to search our internal wiki
- "Mistakes are expected, respected, inspected, and corrected." -- words to live by from my 7th grade son's math teacher
- A defining aspect of the Theranos failure is that everyone deferred to someone else in terms of technical diligence, collectively dismissing as malcontents those technologists who actually HAD dug deep and came away unconvinced. Do you see why I am bringing this up, web3?
- If you are a C or C++ programmer somehow still on the fence about whether or not you should take #rustlang seriously, consider this piece from Cliff Biffle an absolute must-read:
- Santa came early to @oxidecomputer -- and we must have been pretty nice, because it powered on and the software came up!
- I can no longer contain my thoughts on the A's temporary move to Sacramento, and want to get a couple of things out there. So with my apologies, a thread... 1/
- Comically bad leadership advice from the (fired) CEO of WordPerfect, ca. 1994
- Am waiting for the year that reInvent goes full Red Wedding, locking the doors and announcing that every attendee's product or service is now a forthcoming AWS offering. Or maybe that was this year?
- So, my thoughts on engineering performance management have always been a bit idiosyncratic, but Matt's tweets today have me reflecting, so... storytime. 1/Replying to @bcantrill and @adamhjkI've seen this talk, and not surprisingly it's close to my own thinking and experience. Can you summarize the evolution in your thinking?
- Next week, the most arrogant person I have ever met in my life (yes, that's really saying something!) is going to release a programming platform that will offer a "100X" gain in productivity -- and I'm not sure there's enough time to make all of the popcorn I will need
