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Chad Metcalf
@chadmetcalf.com
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CEO of Continue. I love dev tools and open source. I advise and build early startups. I’ve been fortunate to be part of Arch Rock, Cloudera, WibiData, Puppet, Docker, and Gitpod.
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Chad Metcalf @chadmetcalf.com · 1d
My favorite kitchen shears are on sale. Love them so much I got another set.
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Ellie Huxtable @ellie.wtf · 8d
Finally sharing what I’ve been building for almost a year now! 🐢✨

Atuin Desktop: runbooks that run

It’s open source and in open beta now 🥰

Built for engineers who need repeatable, reliable workflows. No more copy-pasting from slack or outdated docs
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Chad Metcalf @chadmetcalf.com · 11d
I’d be couch locked with a party sized Cheetos bag watching cartoons and likely asleep soon.
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Chad Metcalf @chadmetcalf.com · 11d
I want the sword. I’ve got so much pine to chop from three ponderosa we had to drop for fire safety. Pine is fine for a good time. youtube.com/shorts/dJhtD...
Wood Splitting Sword
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Chad Metcalf @chadmetcalf.com · 28d
This makes me unreasonably happy. The navigator is just silly with the virtual directories being year/month and tag. There are other little details but I'll leave you to find them all.

Maybe now I'll write more blogs.
A blog theme index that looks like a terminal. Post list via a mock ls command and a working git log. A blog post navigator that looks like you are in nvim with virtual directories that are the years/month/tags for a blog.
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Chad Metcalf @chadmetcalf.com · 28d
So one day I was looking at Ghostty (thanks @mitchellh.com) in a TUI and I said I want this as my blog theme. So I sat down with @continue.dev and made it happen. justademo.sh The tech blog that looks like ghostty + zsh/nvim/starship.rs.
Just A Demo –Just A Demo
A tech blog with terminal aesthetics –
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Chad Metcalf @chadmetcalf.com · 28d
I've been spending a lot of time in terminals and TUIs like @continue.dev 's new CLI. I have always felt more comfortable in a terminal then in an IDE. I love my terminal and I spend entirely too much time messing with my dotfiles.
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Chad Metcalf @chadmetcalf.com · Sep 4
Ship it is a company value.
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · Sep 4
So 🔥
I love when startups do research and just ship in product. Skip the benchmarking theatre.
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Nate Sesti @natesesti.bsky.social · Sep 4
Introducing Instinct 🐺, a new state-of-the-art open Next Edit model trained by @continue.dev

Runnable with @ollamabot.bsky.social and available today in VS Code
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Chad Metcalf @chadmetcalf.com · Sep 4
Proud of what the team accomplished here. And the best part is you can try it with Ollama right now.
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Nate Sesti @natesesti.bsky.social · Sep 4
Introducing Instinct 🐺, a new state-of-the-art open Next Edit model trained by @continue.dev

Runnable with @ollamabot.bsky.social and available today in VS Code
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Chad Metcalf @chadmetcalf.com · Aug 28
I had to get new glasses for reading and screen use. I went with clear frames for readers and black for screens. Just for this reason. In a bit when progressives come my way tortoise shell.
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Chad Metcalf @chadmetcalf.com · Aug 18
It was a weird summer. It really wore me down this year. I find myself not wanting to leave the mountains. May or may not be related to fogust.
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Chad Metcalf @chadmetcalf.com · Aug 16
I left the continuous wind, fog, and cold of SF this morning. A drive and a few yard chores later it’s time to remind myself to remember that it’s summer somewhere. 82 with blue skies as far as the eyes can see.
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Chad Metcalf @chadmetcalf.com · Aug 15
I can’t find my Diet Coke picture… but I submit that @scott.hanselman.com might be the tech individual I most associate with Diet Coke.
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Chad Metcalf @chadmetcalf.com · Aug 11
Slap a new title on it, increase the pay bands, and market like your life depends on it because if you have a deeply technical product like, oh I don’t know AI, your life does in fact depend on hiring a lot of them.
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Chad Metcalf @chadmetcalf.com · Aug 11
Where the account is on fire and folks are spun because they stuck their neck out for this product. It’s a tough job with a short tenure. Most sales engineers move on in 18m, go back to eng, to product or product marketing. So you’re always recruiting.
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Chad Metcalf @chadmetcalf.com · Aug 11
Folks are talking about it and talking it up because as always there are enough engineers who like talking to people about their challenges. Folks who in this age are going to have to lean in hard on being a mile wide and an inch deep on their skills. Folks who get parachuted into crappy situations
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Chad Metcalf @chadmetcalf.com · Aug 11
Feels similar to my life before. Could have been called a sysadmin in years before. Was called an infrastructure engineer, dodged devops engineer, and now would probably have been called platform engineer.
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Chad Metcalf @chadmetcalf.com · Aug 11
… unfavorably. So it was the solution title for awhile. Engineer or architect. Meant nothing. Didn’t mean the person was particular technical. So now FDE. Just a way to get to a title for a hard role that you have to want to do.
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Chad Metcalf @chadmetcalf.com · Aug 11
I think I get it. My team at Docker was deeply technical. You could drop any of them in a prospective customer using any cloud, any tech stack, anywhere and they’d get them on the right path. The industry doesn’t call them engineers. Sales engineer is forever tainted. Product looks at that title…
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Chad Metcalf @chadmetcalf.com · Aug 11
First day of home alone I spent chipping wood with my brother in law. Scraping paint sounds like a way to feel like you got shit done.
Blue sky, faded red horse barn in the back ground, red 1986 F250 with a bed of freshly chipped wood, and a proud but very sweaty author standing on top of the chip mound with a rake.
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Chad Metcalf @chadmetcalf.com · Aug 11
And it blurs the lines between pre post, post sales, and proserv. I believe though it came from Palantir and similar where it was used for proserv folks that were bundled with the product and “deployed” for years implementing.
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Chad Metcalf @chadmetcalf.com · Aug 11
My first sales gig, I was a sales engineer, then at Docker I hired solutions engineers because sales wasn’t something engineers wanted on their resumes. Now I would be hiring these. If your product is technical and you need engineering support in the sales cycle you need a way to get folks onboard.
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Chad Metcalf @chadmetcalf.com · Aug 4
… um. Well. Ah… damn. All three.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · Jun 23
Which kind of former coder are you: baking bread, too many synthesizers, or woodworking?
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Chad Metcalf @chadmetcalf.com · Aug 2
It’s worth it just for Lua. I rewrote my previous config and it’s much cleaner easier to read and update.
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Chad Metcalf @chadmetcalf.com · Aug 1
Give me dig and curl and we will figure it out. It DNS, its TLS, no wait I think it is...

DNS.

Its always DNS.
a man in a black jacket holds a cup of coffee and says " still got it "
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