Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 10/08/2025Maybe Ken Thompson? "You cannot trust code that you did not totally create yourself" www.cesarsotovalero.net/blog/revisit...cesarsotovalero.netRevisiting Ken Thompson’s Reflection on Trusting TrustCreating software entirely from scratch is impractical today. Every component, library, and tool we use in software development relies on open source libraries and compilers. In his talk “Reflections ... 000
Reposted by Mike BrevoortPete Ehlke @rfc822.net · 08/04/2025I cannot find the person who made this- during the 45 admin- but there is no better representation of my current thinking, and I am 100% making my own for the next local rally. 1273
Reposted by Mike BrevoortAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too). 331810588817797
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 19/03/2025Hi! Yeah, attempting to interpret the magnitude of each line is confusing me. Does it have a meaning? 000
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 19/03/2025Stacks of wood from the Airbnb we rented in Colorado mountains near Jefferson. Best stacks of wood I’ve seen since Austria 😊 040
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 19/03/2025But first impression was indeed tweaking my head to try to understand what the point is… animation over time could help, especially as you switch between the shortcut nav times, maybe 110
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 19/03/2025First thing is the color contrast of these gray links and constellations on light blue 010
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 19/03/2025More likely from c,b,a. I tend to value personal domains more because it feels like the author has more skin in the game. Medium last because most content nowadays feels click-baity 🤷 020
Reposted by Mike BrevoortSung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 18/03/2025@shadcn.com just open-sourced the app he built to test Tailwind v4. • Tailwind v4 + React 19 • Custom themes, colors & scaling • Data Table with filters • Draggable & editable rows Website: v4.shadcn.com/dashboard Repo: github.com/shadcn-ui/ui... 0142
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 09/03/2025Apple Watch + Health should be so good but chronically seems to fall short. The sleep analysis charts are pretty useless for identifying trends… especially when the data doesn’t add up 😅 (end rant) 030
Reposted by Mike BrevoortFloofMcGoof @floofmcgoof.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Senator Chris Murphy took to the Senate floor on Friday to break down the corruption flowing from the WH. He connects the dots, and makes a clear argument regarding who what where and why Shitler and Muskrat are destroying our govt!! This needs to be shared far and wide!! youtu.be/hycoCYenXlsyoutu.beMurphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. HistoryYouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy 8282422411705
Reposted by Mike BrevoortCALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 02/03/2025This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second. 20255395336869
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 16/02/2025“Ten people who yell make more noise than ten thousand who keep silent.” -Napoleon Bonaparte 030
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 01/02/2025The DeepSeek success is a great reminder that “necessity is the mother of invention” 020
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 31/01/2025The values and character of Slack resonated more deeply with me than any other company I’ve worked. The depth of humanity was humbling. Captured well by @johnnyrodgers.is and @alirayl.bsky.social ❤️ buildingslack.com/values/?ref=...buildingslack.comValuesWe did many things fairly well at Slack. One thing we never did well, however, was figuring out how much office space we’d need. We outgrew our Clementina Street office in July of 2014, just five mont... 050
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 17/01/2025CV role: ats.rippling.com/mytra/jobs/8... RL role: ats.rippling.com/mytra/jobs/c...ats.rippling.comAI Engineer, Computer Vision | MytraRole Overview Mytra's AI team seeks pioneering engineers to architect the neural backbone of our distributed robotic intelligence system. A... 020
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 17/01/2025I am hiring for two AI engineers on my team, one centered on Computer Vision and the other of Reinforcement Learning and optimization. We’ve had a ridiculous amount of interested but if you know someone who would be fantastic, please encourage them to apply and give me a heads up. (links threaded)ats.rippling.comAI Engineer, Computer Vision | MytraRole Overview Mytra's AI team seeks pioneering engineers to architect the neural backbone of our distributed robotic intelligence system. A... 150
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 08/01/2025What are the two holes to the left? Vents? (I want one to!) 040
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 05/01/2025A delightful and nearly therapeutic fluid simulation paveldogreat.github.io/WebGL-Fluid-...paveldogreat.github.ioWebgl Fluid SimulationA WebGL fluid simulation that works in mobile browsers. 020
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 27/12/2024A year wiser! 💰👏 Also, your writing has gotten more concise and engaging 💜 111
Reposted by Mike BrevoortAdam Jacob @adamhjk.me · 12/12/2024I've been thinking about and working to understand Free Software, Open Source, and business for a very long time. Thanks to @kelseyhightower.com, I tried to distill all of that into a single talk: youtu.be/rmhYHzJpkuo - I'm very proud of it, and I hope it helps you. :)youtu.beReimagining OSS Licensing and Commercialization with Fair Source - Adam Jacob, System InitiativeYouTube video by CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] 76619
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 29/11/2024We’ve been training in sim with simulated motion blower and it’s been made a big difference in quality and resilience of our models 010
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 29/11/2024And here was the prompt I started with in case you are curious. 000
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 29/11/2024Here is the source code. It's so cool to be able to generate little tools link this. In total this took me about 15 minutes to create, debug and host: github.com/mbrevoort/mi...github.com 100
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 29/11/2024I created a little gift exchange webapp this morning with the help of Claude. We used it to generate our yearly family "secret santa" assignments this morning, but you are free to use it to. It's stateless with all data stored as base64 URL parameters. www.mikebrevoort.com/mini-apps/gi...mikebrevoort.comGift Exchange-o-matic 110
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 28/11/2024But then run a large set of scenarios through the NN, discarding non-optimal results and keeping only shorter yet optimal task plans. This to produces a new training data set used to fine-tune the model. 3 iterations of this produces a profound improvement roughly 27% more efficient. 2/2 020
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 28/11/2024The Beyond A* paper is fascinating. In it they use algorithmic techniques (A*) to solve a problem to produce a large dataset of training data to use to train a neural network to reach the same level of performance as the algorithm… 1/2 arxiv.org/abs/2402.14083arxiv.orgBeyond A*: Better Planning with Transformers via Search Dynamics BootstrappingWhile Transformers have enabled tremendous progress in various application settings, such architectures still trail behind traditional symbolic planners for solving complex decision making tasks. In t... 1183
Reposted by Mike BrevoortMr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero. 🖖 1257482767618
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 21/11/2024I hope you are having fun. This is once in a lifetime stuff :) 000
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 21/11/2024Compare Bluesky's 20M user milestone at +1M users per day (!!) to Facebook in 2007: 20M users, growing 100k per day. Different times + precedents but this growth the last two weeks is incredible 💙. Relevant clip from recent Acquired pod on Meta (recommended!): share.snipd.com/snip/9727abe...share.snipd.comFacebook's Explosive Growth in 2007 | 54sec snip from AcquiredFacebook's Explosive Growth in 2007 At F8 2007, Facebook announced 20 million users, growing by 100,000 daily. This rapid acceleration followed the recent l… 010
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 21/11/2024This knowledge project podcast episode was so good! fs.blog/knowledge-pr...fs.blogMatthew Dicks: How to Tell a Story so That Everyone Listens [The Knowledge Project Ep. #202]Shane Parrish sits down with Matthew Dicks, a renowned storyteller, author, and teacher, to explore the nuanced art of storytelling. They go deep into the techniques that turn mediocre stories into ma... 010
Reposted by Mike BrevoortKent Beck @kentbeck.com · 20/11/2024In the 3X: Explore/Expand/Extract model people ask about the transition from Explore to Expand. How do you know when it's time? Answer: The market tells you. Like this. You can't force it. 28814
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 17/11/2024I knew it was high but not that high. 🤯 Audible and Kindle are such a convenience monopoly. 000
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 17/11/2024That your following feed is what you read. There’s no default amplification driven by and for user engagement and attention. I get to choose my audience through following and blocking. It also just feels like a nice place to spend time. 110
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 16/11/2024Especially the part about “truth arriving” in the post interview 010
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 15/11/2024This keeps getting truer! However, both knowing how things work and leveraging these tools is like a turbo booster. It’s important to balance the mental atrophy though. 020
Mike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 15/11/2024I sure wish you would have joined us at Mytra.ai 😅 best of luck!mytra.aiMytraSupercharged Industrial Productivity with Bots, Software, and Cells 000
