Building @marlolabs: marketing that compounds. Writing about building companies and AI. Prev @BurgerKing, @Blendspace (YC W12, acq @tes), @microsoft.
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Today @meta_angels is releasing first-of-its-kind NFT lending capability. Here is the behind the scenes of how and why we built this, and why we hope it’ll become common practice in NFT projects going forward.
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My 11 yr old has become that super tech oriented friend I send new cool things to play with. We built a complete Minecraft server over SSH this weekend and I already sent him github.com/yc-software/minec… to hack on next one.
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This sounds logical but my brain just took a 360 and realized I could be using the best tool for the job, not the best tool I feel comfortable, for the job
Anthropic rewrote its Messages API in Rust. Zero Rust devs on the team.
Claude wrote the code. Humans wrote the plan and checked old vs new matched on real traffic. CPU dropped 40-50%.
Pretty sure "never do the big rewrite" is dead advice.
@katelyn_lesse on @latentspacepod
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I've always been a fan of @mitchellh and his work. He randomly got obsessed with terminals, which sounded crazy coming from someone who built something as impressive as Terraform. Now terminals are the one place everyone is spending all their time working with their agents. Next level future vision
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This will be the case for your enterprise's 12 vibe coded marketing apps. Come talk to us at @marlolabs instead
Security called me at 6:12 AM today.
"Patch every PHP server immediately."
I asked what happened.
"Two critical vulnerabilities. Remote code execution. No authentication required."
Cool.
How many PHP servers do we have?
According to inventory: 12
According to reality:
Nobody knows.
We found one running WordPress.
Three running old internal tools.
One under someone's desk.
Two inside vendor appliances.
A forgotten employee directory from 2016.
And a server named:
PHP-OLD-DO-NOT-TOUCH
Naturally, that one runs payroll exports.
Then we found a PHP 5.6 box.
I asked who owned it.
The documentation said:
BRIAN.
Brian left in 2019.
We called Brian.
He said:
"Oh wow, that's still running?"
Excellent.
By 8 AM, leadership joined the incident call.
CEO:
"Can hackers actually get in?"
Security:
"Potentially yes."
CEO:
"Without a password?"
Security:
"Yes."
CEO:
"Then why do WE need passwords?"
Not the lesson.
Finance asked if we could wait until the weekend to patch because downtime affects revenue.
Security explained that the alternative was letting strangers execute code on our servers.
Finance asked for a cost comparison.
At 9:17, someone suggested temporarily taking the vulnerable websites offline.
Marketing refused.
"Our campaign is live."
So for the next hour, the company officially decided maintaining a landing page for 20% off webinar registration was more important than preventing remote server takeover.
We finally patched everything we could find.
Then our scanner discovered another PHP server.
Hostname:
TEMP-PHP-2014
Uptime:
4,512 days.
Nobody knows what it does.
Nobody owns it.
Nobody can shut it down.
But every time we block network access, the warehouse stops printing shipping labels.
Security has classified it as critical infrastructure.
It is running PHP 5.4.
The vulnerability has existed longer than half our employees.
The emergency patch took four hours.
Finding out what PHP actually runs took eleven.
The internet isn't held together with code.
It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.
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The feeling of promising to get something crazy done by EOD and finishing at 11:30 pm is priceless.
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gabceb retweeted
You have the same 24 hours a day that Elon has
You have the same 24 hours a day that Zuck has
You have the same 24 hours a day that Jensen has
They use the same AI tools you do, same apps, same internet.
It's the greatest time ever to be building and it's not even close
I continue to be extremely impressed by @Muse and specifically the simplicity around it. I have become an active advocate to get my family to use it (including the privacy warnings that come with it). I also finally gave it read access to my calendar which is not something I do easily but the value I am getting from it outweighs the privacy concerns I have.
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I am on day 3 of working out after telling Muse to make me do it. I told him I enjoy working way too much so everything that takes time away from it has to be as enjoyable as working. It has me on a 2-weeks habit building loop and is sending me work-related videos to watch as I work out. If this ends up sticking, I’ll consider AGI to be here 😆
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Love the new Gmail iOS app redesign except for the loading experience. Why is the screen expanding from the top left to the bottom right instead of showing an actual loading experience. Feels like a high schooler Powerpoint slide transition.
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gabceb retweeted
CLAUDE FOUND THE SEEDS
anthropic.com/research/ecdsa…
