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Always learning. Software engineer on MSL @meta.

Albany, CA
Joined June 2009
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I used Figma to do vector editing recently (for team swag) and, after doing CAD in onshape, the vector editing tools in Figma feel barbaric. I want a vector editor that’s basically the Sketch mode in onshape, with constraints like tangency, mirror, coincident, etc
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Some will appreciate my Muse, Bono.
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Stoked to have had the opportunity to work on this! Get started with: curl -fsSL dev.meta.ai/install.sh | bash
muse code in beta is live. first coding agent from msl, built on muse spark 1.2. install: curl -fsS dev.meta.ai/install.sh | bash here's what you should know:
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Apple Intelligence👌
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It's unbelievable that I still can't make an event in Google Calendar from a natural language input.
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My number 1 piece of advice for engineers is: review your own PRs before anyone else does. Getting out of the editor and reviewing in a pull request puts you into a different mindset.
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On the other hand, working at Google straight out of school was incredibly valuable in 10 years of startup experience afterward.
It's depressing to see so many talented people from top schools with amazing resumes go work years at FAANG, and the most they can point to having shipped are a few buttons in one minor workflow. I mean I know FAANG can afford it, but you can't. Work at a startup!
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What? But I conformed to NSItemProviderReading for you.
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Does anyone have experience with FCC approval for devices with bluetooth modules? Is it feasible as an individual? Would be interested to chat.
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How does Google Calendar not yet have natural language event creation?
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“Life is short; don’t waste it. Tell the truth. Technology should enhance human creativity. Process matters. Beauty matters. Details matter. The world we know is a human creation—and we can push it forward.”
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“Now, as you live your arc across the sky, you want to have as few regrets as possible. Remember, regrets are different from mistakes. Mistakes are those things that you did, and wish you could do over again. Regrets are most often things you didn't do, and wish you did.”
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“And Apple was a very bottoms-up company when it came to a lot of its great ideas. And we hired truly great people and gave them the room to do great work. A lot of companies—I know it sounds crazy—but a lot of companies don’t do that. They hire people to tell them what to do.
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“We hired people to tell us what to do. We figured we’re paying them all this money, their job is to figure out what to do and tell us. And that led to a very different corporate culture, and one that’s really much more collegial than hierarchical.”
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“Can somebody make a three-hundred-dollar box that hooks up to your television on one side and maybe hooks up to ISDN or a cable modem on the other side and allows you for, three hundred dollars, to have a web browser on your TV and to access the entire internet?” - SJ, 1996
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Damn I'm old enough to remember this lol
“Already, when I want to find out the movies that are playing around Silicon Valley, I just go up on the local web page and check it out. It’s a lot faster than going through the newspaper, and a lot faster than calling the theaters, et cetera.”
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“Already, when I want to find out the movies that are playing around Silicon Valley, I just go up on the local web page and check it out. It’s a lot faster than going through the newspaper, and a lot faster than calling the theaters, et cetera.”
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Great deep dive into our powerful team management features @capitalxyz
1/ We just shipped something @capitalxyz that makes managing your team seamless. Our customers are founders with ops/finance/legal teams who require varying levels of access to the company acct. This was surprisingly challenging, from both a product & engineering perspective.
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Random little tip for founders who manage a Google Workspace domain: You can ban senders and domains from emailing your whole company with Blocked Senders in Workspace Admin.
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This can be vital to blocking known phishing attempts, but is also really useful (delightful even) for silencing unwanted solicitations. You know those people who reach out literally to everyone on your team? Solicitations with no unsubscribe option? Yeah, you can stop that.
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Nobody loves Game of Thrones as much as Facebook thinks I do.
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