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AKHIL 🪡

@fkasummer

8 months

here’s the multiplayer browser engine i’ve been working on in action @braidbrowser Sound ON + rt invite link 👇

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AKHIL 🪡

@fkasummer

3 years

dudes rock

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@fkasummer

2 years

I am doing a project about elderly programmers. If you are a programmer and over 25 please DM

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AKHIL 🪡

@fkasummer

8 months

unironically yes inspired by @figma a while ago and decided the web should be designed like this so stayed in my new york apartment all year and wrote a bit over a million lines of c++ to make it happen

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@fkasummer

8 months

a bit over a million line of c++ in a year prob read ~10m lines of code

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8 months

@fkasummer @braidbrowser The madman, he actually did it

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@fkasummer

2 years

if zuck pulls this off you can never talk shit to him my god

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@fkasummer

2 years

a few days ago i took a medium dose of acid and wrote for several hours straight and admitted some things to myself, mostly about money let's start here: Biden gave me $10K and i resented him for this and also suppressed the resentment

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@fkasummer

2 years

i have a software engineer friend who doesn’t own a personal computer

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@fkasummer

2 years

@GergelyOrosz some engineers who took the severance were asked to name a number for a retention bonus

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@fkasummer

2 years

examples of influential software made by one person?

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@fkasummer

3 years

tf do you do with fuck you money at 24 jesus fuck

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@fkasummer

2 years

we’re about to find out professional software engineering is an activity with immense political consequences

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@krrishd

2 years

lmao this is about to be more destabilizing than the $8 bluechecks

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@fkasummer

2 years

how come software engineers are so underpaid

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@fkasummer

2 years

examples of software with soul?

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@fkasummer

2 years

oh you’re a programmer? what’s your favourite program

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@fkasummer

2 years

building a thing that’s a browser + editor + db + programming language

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@fkasummer

3 years

str*pe offered $280K/yr to a new grad and people are flipping out

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@fkasummer

1 year

dude at the pool is hitting on this girl by explaining how chatgpt works milestone moment for AI

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@fkasummer

2 years

mixed feelings about the realization that i’m into girls with a hint of autism

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@fkasummer

2 years

dudes fucking rock

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@fkasummer

2 years

why are girls into hands

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@fkasummer

2 years

As an adult, programming for long periods of time is a form of depression. If you don't believe me, ask yourself this. Think about the 100 greatest moments of your life. Do any of those moments include programming? Probably not. this comes from a lifetime hacker

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@fkasummer

8 months

@matthew_linkous @braidbrowser @triplit_dev this is a new browser engine built from the ground up to be multiplayer not electron or webkit

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@fkasummer

1 year

deserving is a fake concept

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@fkasummer

4 years

i dont get the hype around productivity, note taking etc. do yall really think thats the next frontier?? like the next revolution is really abt to manifest thru a glorified text editor??

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@fkasummer

2 years

picked up $100K in comp with one conversation

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@fkasummer

3 years

how do you become more alive

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@fkasummer

1 year

what’s a video game you think is art

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@fkasummer

2 years

every girl in manhattan has that black yoga pants + denim jacket outfit on today what’s going on

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@fkasummer

8 months

yes

🤍❤️🤍 🇺🇦 vic𓂿or

@vzverovich

8 months

Men will literally implement a web browser instead of going to therapy.

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@fkasummer

8 months

did literally all of you apply to YC? am i the only one not applying?

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@fkasummer

9 months

do it again goes hard

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@fkasummer

2 years

i think it’s possible to disrupt google

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@fkasummer

8 months

Thank you all for the incredible response I'm working through the stunning amount of DMs I received from this. I'll get back to everyone by the end of the day today. In the meantime, some of you can expect to see this memo in your inbox. :)

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@fkasummer

8 months

here’s the multiplayer browser engine i’ve been working on in action @braidbrowser Sound ON + rt invite link 👇

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@fkasummer

2 years

logged on to facebook for the first time in half a decade what the fuck happened

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@fkasummer

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@fkasummer

8 months

here’s the multiplayer browser engine i’ve been working on in action @braidbrowser Sound ON + rt invite link 👇

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@fkasummer

1 year

mfs have no idea what ten hours of high quality attention can do

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@fkasummer

8 months

nothing feels as good as shipping remember that

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@fkasummer

4 years

oh get the fuck outta here yeah naval coined the idea of leverage jesus fucking christ

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@EricJorgenson

4 years

Since creating the @Navalmanack , I’ve been obsessed with the idea of Leverage — a mental model coined by @Naval . Here is an overview: L E V E R A G E — Thread #1 : Introduction

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@fkasummer

2 years

wow I've had a major lifechanging insight: things are easier when you have money consider being rich right away

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@fkasummer

1 year

oh you work in tech? name five computers

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@fkasummer

9 months

just look at it

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@kenzietuff

9 months

Apparently, all men have a favorite plane. Spill it, gents.

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@fkasummer

2 years

@digilink @KWF in my undergrad program we had this retired guy in his sixties who came back to school to study CS everything is possible

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@fkasummer

2 years

what does it mean if you are kind and encouraging to acquaintances and strangers but cruel to the people close to you

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@fkasummer

4 years

just quit my job yolo

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@fkasummer

4 years

has anyone made an effort to be less disagreeable over time? how did that work out?

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@fkasummer

8 months

@duttakapil @figma @partykit_io @threepointone @arcinternet @browsercompany making your app multiplayer is not the same as making someone else’s already built app multiplayer without any code changes former is easy the latter is ~impossible multiplayer also has very little to do with cursors — that’s just the bit people understand on a cursory look

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@fkasummer

2 years

breath of the wild has so much soul

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@fkasummer

3 years

i get stripe now holy shit

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@fkasummer

2 years

did this happen to literally everyone?!

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@fkasummer

8 months

many such cases i have a thread somewhere

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@sabrinaesaquino

8 months

every time you think you're a good programmer remember that roller coaster 2 was programmed entirely in assembly with no bugs by only one guy

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@fkasummer

1 year

engineers should do studies like painters

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@fkasummer

8 months

@poptimisticity @ErickEr62473106 i have caffeine dripping out of my eyeballs

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@fkasummer

8 months

i am dying to talk about the surprising and juicy overlap between a game engine and a multiplayer browser engine

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@PlayStructs

8 months

@fkasummer @braidbrowser We can’t wait to try this out! The last shared browsing solution we tried for our demo game failed miserably

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@fkasummer

8 months

@riley_stews @braidbrowser internet is about having fun with your friends

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@fkasummer

2 years

too much cope around making money get the money then we will sit around a table and figure out what to do with it get the money

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@fkasummer

2 years

pass it on

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@fkasummer

3 years

why is being a tech optimist so low status so often

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@fkasummer

8 months

@weiner_dawg chrome compatible - implements all the same interfaces. insanely fast, the binary is ~20mb

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@fkasummer

3 years

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”

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@fkasummer

10 months

programming with intent to invent is very different from other kinds of programming

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@fkasummer

3 years

TIL the “MS” in “MSNBC” stands for “Microsoft

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@fkasummer

3 years

hmmm

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@fkasummer

8 months

@tombielecki @braidbrowser nope! works on any browser and any OS

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@fkasummer

2 months

PARC was 25 researchers over 5 years jesus christ

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@fkasummer

2 years

demos out :)

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@fkasummer

1 year

original touch grass moment

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@wwwtxt

1 year

It seems this network is emptying rapidly. Summer is here and many of our friends are losing access to their computers. ↯94MAY

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@fkasummer

3 years

i think about this chair all the time

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@fkasummer

11 months

someone should write about charisma traps in computing ( end user programming, local first, tools for thought )

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@fkasummer

2 years

I don't understand when people say their goal in life is to be happy

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@fkasummer

8 months

example of a successful startup where courage was the moat?

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@fkasummer

2 years

i’m 26yo today lfg

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@fkasummer

3 years

by age 25 you should:

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@fkasummer

4 years

Is there a skill to wanting? Is it something you can learn? Can you learn how to want things?

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@fkasummer

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@fkasummer

6 months

drafting a job description; scope of our ambition is crazy

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@fkasummer

1 year

@BecomingCritter jesus h christ

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@fkasummer

2 years

at 25, i have come to the realization that relationships are important

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@fkasummer

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@fkasummer

8 months

@matthew_linkous @braidbrowser @triplit_dev this is a new browser engine built from the ground up to be multiplayer not electron or webkit

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@fkasummer

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hackers

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@fkasummer

2 years

senior software engineer :)

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@fkasummer

2 years

girls are huge time sink

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@fkasummer

2 years

what is the ingroup tech stack

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@fkasummer

1 year

you wouldn’t know her she goes to us-west-2

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@fkasummer

7 months

we desperately need a concept of beautiful software that goes beyond the visuals new visuals over old systems is getting old

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@fkasummer

2 years

seeing ingroup content on tiktok is jarring

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@fkasummer

2 years

when i think about particularly high performance phases of my life it’s hard to tell how the load is distributed like it took me a while to realize my casual walks were load bearing

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@fkasummer

3 years

me no longer being a big fish in a small pond: Haha fuck yeah!! Yes!! me being a small fish in a big pond: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck

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@fkasummer

3 months

infinite canvas might be the biggest charisma trap in computing so many startups caught up in the figma wake turbulence

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@fkasummer

2 years

hearing people say I don't have any ambition anymore like its something to be proud of what the fuck is going on

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@fkasummer

2 years

someone explain neon genesis evangelion

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@fkasummer

3 years

damn engineers with 2yoe scooping up $350k/yr offers

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@fkasummer

1 year

bluesky urgently needs more drama to grow who is working on this??

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@fkasummer

2 years

new question for first dates: are you happy

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@fkasummer

2 years

every programming language should come with its own keyboard

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@fkasummer

3 years

it’s a real shame that some of y’all are hella interesting but too afraid to take up space

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@fkasummer

4 years

more philosophy of software design pls

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@fkasummer

6 months

my heretic belief is that it is possible to break out everything you need is already out there who ever manages to pull it off will end up redefining computing and build a multi hundred billion dollar business along the way

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@johnnulls

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the os and web environments are really not that amenable to radical designs, especially not when attempted by a small team in many ways, you have to learn to love big brother (microsoft, apple, google) and conform to the laws within their jurisdictions

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@fkasummer

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i should try living on $70K a year i think i can do it

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