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gulder.bsky.social @gulder.bsky.social · 20h

It seems to be a core principle within Silicon Valley. There is merit in being contradictory and unconstrained, especially in the pursuit of new ideas. But like... you can't run a society without guardrails.

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gulder.bsky.social @gulder.bsky.social · 21h

It's been bothering me that one of the key reasons Musk is seen as capable is that he ignores laws and systems. The more this is incentivized, the more we think laws and systems are inherently bad. And it stops working when laws and systems stop existing.

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gulder.bsky.social @gulder.bsky.social · 3d

It tastes amazing and I’d thoroughly recommend trying it once

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gulder.bsky.social @gulder.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve seen a negative feedback loop be very useful- i.e. have a way to acquire and parse feedback from people who disengaged. Make it as easy as possible to provide and parse it very clearly and quickly.

Solves ‘yes well my churn is increasing and trial stickiness is reducing but why?’

gulder.bsky.social @gulder.bsky.social · 6d

Sorry to hear that. It’s never easy, even when you’re expecting it

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gulder.bsky.social @gulder.bsky.social · Sep 16

I see, that’s unfortunate. Plenty of companies will see the MSFT tag and be open to hiring you now though

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gulder.bsky.social @gulder.bsky.social · Sep 16

It’s good to hear that you feel better off. I’m confused by why you feel they wouldn’t hire you back though. I don’t believe any large company holds layoffs against the person laid off.

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gulder.bsky.social @gulder.bsky.social · Sep 9

Gave up on it after the bees cause I was just not having a good time. Sorry to hear that there isn’t even a toy at the end of it

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gulder.bsky.social @gulder.bsky.social · Sep 3

Oh interesting

gulder.bsky.social @gulder.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hmm. Wonder if Yuzheng will keep posting on the YT channel

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gulder.bsky.social @gulder.bsky.social · Aug 14

That’s fair. Not knocking the need for a hobby, I just found it interesting that the personal ‘state’ or sense of self being rooted in building didn’t really go anywhere, just found a new outlet. Happy to hear this is fulfilling

gulder.bsky.social @gulder.bsky.social · Aug 14

I find it funny that you decided to ‘take a break’ and went straight into building something else :)

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gulder.bsky.social @gulder.bsky.social · Jul 13

Tired of looking at BAD SCREEN
Can’t wait to get home and look at GOOD SCREEN

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gulder.bsky.social @gulder.bsky.social · Jul 13

Happy birthday! This will not help.

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gulder.bsky.social @gulder.bsky.social · Jul 7

So sorry to hear that

gulder.bsky.social @gulder.bsky.social · Jun 30

Agreed. The actual experience wasn’t very fun for large periods

gulder.bsky.social @gulder.bsky.social · Jun 29

Artifact power and legendaries were a trash fire but nothing has topped Suramar or the class halls for me yet. Was such a shame to abandon them.

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gulder.bsky.social @gulder.bsky.social · Jun 26

Feels like the first line here was understood by a wider audience but the rest was not

gulder.bsky.social @gulder.bsky.social · Jun 26

Congratulations! Hope whatever’s next keeps you happy and fulfilled.

gulder.bsky.social @gulder.bsky.social · Jun 23

Might need a priest tbh.

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gulder.bsky.social @gulder.bsky.social · Jun 12

It would be nice to have something to be collectively excited about besides internet and internet-adjacent things because it really feels like we’ve run out of ideas, but are trundling along because we don’t know what else to do.

gulder.bsky.social @gulder.bsky.social · May 30

This might help: nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyrann...
(writer used to work at Google)

The Tyranny of the Marginal User

why consumer software gets worse, not better, over time

nothinghuman.substack.com

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gulder.bsky.social @gulder.bsky.social · May 28

This is the first time I’ve seen you bring it up so.. how often do people do/say this sort of thing? Sounds frustrating to need to manage.

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gulder.bsky.social @gulder.bsky.social · May 28

I think that’s a fair critique. My annoyance with ‘this will change the world’ frameworks is that they can’t be countered, because you move the framing so far out of the current way we perceive things that it boils down to a FOMO conversation.

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gulder.bsky.social @gulder.bsky.social · May 27

Okay but www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/t...

There’s a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. And here is the interesting observation: they are probably wrong. The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming:

It’s harder to read code than to write it.

This is why code reuse is so hard. This is why everybody on your team has a different function they like to use for splitting strings into arrays of strings. They write their own function because it’s easier and more fun than figuring out how the old function works.

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