Travis Cole
tcole.net
Travis Cole
@tcole.net
Working on PlanetScale
We're gonna have Tony Stark's Jarvis and/or the Star Trek TNG computer so soon...
January 14, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Kidnapping the president of another country and ICE murdering someone sure crowded Epstein out of the news.
January 10, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Reposted by Travis Cole
🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7
January 8, 2026 at 9:13 PM
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Well, looks pretty clear he murdered her because they said said things he didn’t like…
The ICE agent’s cellphone video: Five key moments
Cellphone footage shows what happened in the moments before and after an ICE agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:40 PM
As awful as Trump is, he’s clearly wrong in the head. Vance on the other hand, is clearly calculating and sane. Which makes him an utter disgrace of a human being.
January 10, 2026 at 1:38 PM
The name "Department of Homeland Security" was Orwellian when it was first created in 2003. It was a bad idea then. It is not surprising that it's used as a tool of oppression now.
January 9, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Ever talk to a cranky 3 year old? It’s absolutely wild seeing the exact same behavior from the President of the United States.
December 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I think Emma Frost and Tony Stark made a good couple.
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Local NVMe avoids the network hop but requires more provisioned storage per host. You also need solid orchestration for backups and reliability. Different tradeoff, not wrong or right.
December 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
AWS Aurora convinced everyone that separating storage and compute is always the right architecture. People accept this as gospel. But it's just a design trade-off: accept network latency as your bottleneck in exchange for better storage utilization.
December 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I'm really excited for what the team built here. We're doing a lot of work to bring down the entry level price for PlanetScale so anyone can get started with us, and grow their databases with their business to any scale.
December 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I won't worry much about super intelligence until Claude can consistently get the year right. I'm reminding it that it's not 2024 multiple times per day.
December 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Apple should be embarrassed by how bad the macOS spell check is.
December 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Remember when everyone in SF tech was loudly moving to Miami? heh
December 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Trump will increasingly say inappropriate and unhinged things as the dementia takes hold. The stuff he says in press briefings is already wild, but we’ll see if get substantially worse.
November 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
The US Dollar should do a reverse split.
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Everyone is mad that a few Dems caved at the end, but I think it got the right outcome here. The Dems just made the Rs own their policies. Now they have the mid-term campaigns to talk about how the Rs raise your health care prices, and fought to take food away from poor people.
If the Dems strategy is to demand concessions on healthcare, they are going to blow it. They need to let Rs own their policy failures and feel the consequences in the mid-terms.

This looks like a plan to save Rs from themselves… And an own goal by Dem leadership.

www.politico.com/live-updates...
Democrats coalesce around insurance subsidies as shutdown demand, Neal says
Any stopgap deal needs to include an extension of enhanced health care tax credits or other concessions, the Ways and Means leader said after strategy meeting.
www.politico.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Not happy to see Jack Smith had a path to do the classified documents case in DC where it would have been an easy conviction. Instead took it to Florida and got a judge known to be in the tank for Trump.

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
How Jack Smith’s strongest case against Donald Trump collapsed
Seeking to get the classified documents case to a jury before the 2024 election, the special counsel made a fateful decision that some in his office saw as a misstep.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
And by investment in AI, I mostly mean the capex for the datacenter buildouts, but that’s all in service of software (models, etc) that are mostly developed in SF.) If that halts the rest does too.
October 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
As someone who lives and works in SF and cares deeply about halting democratic backsliding, I have incredibly mixed feelings about this.
October 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The subtext is US GDP growth would be flat without investment in AI. If civil unrest erupted in SF it could stop or slow the AI development. This would be a self own by Trump going into the midterms next year, killing the only engine of US economic growth.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | Inside the Tech CEO Campaign to Stop Trump From Sending Troops to San Francisco
Sam Altman, Jensen Huang and Marc Benioff helped Mayor Daniel Lurie to persuade the president not to deploy the National Guard.
www.wsj.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Donate enough and you get a pardon for that crime. Or your import business gets its tariffs lifted. Or those unfavorable regulations stop being enforced. The SEC looks the other way.
October 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
This is so spot on. Francis Fukuyama calls this repatrimonialization. It moves us to a patronage system. You pay tribute for favors. Donors get access, relief from tariffs, pardons, or the national guard leaves their city alone.
the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.
October 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Good reporting from the NYTimes on Trump admin not even trying to come up with a legal justification for killing suspected drug smugglers.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I still think this is the best explanation I've read of what is going on with US politics right now:

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Path to American Authoritarianism
What comes after democratic breakdown.
www.foreignaffairs.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM