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Never bet against a few passionate people who want to unblock tens of thousands of companies.

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When you zoom in, you see the same stages underneath a single company too. - Early stage: Elitism among teams - Advanced stage: Monopoly on decision making and execution - Terminal stage: Blaming successful teams Culture matters. It can save you or accelerate your decline to the terminal stage.

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Decentralize everything. Open things where possible. Everyone wins.

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The biggest winner of the AI race will be distributed systems people. Everything is converging onto a distributed network of stuff and it is only accelerating in the last two years.

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Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン @rakyll.org · 24/01/2025

People are wondering why I'm enjoying the LLM period: - Thick client vs thin client fight - Actor model vs RPC fight As an engineer, I cannot think of a better way to challenge our conventional thinking. It entertains me intellectually but is also making me a better engineer.

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For someone who is programming for over 30 years, it's hard for me to believe every system, every model, every chip, every program will be fungible and regeneratable. There will be new systems/patterns that will end up becoming the new infra overlords, we just don't know which.

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Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン @rakyll.org · 17/01/2025

When you have a highly ambiguous systems problem, try to solve it for the distributed case first. When you solve it for the distributed case, it's easy to pack things together in a monolith. The opposite is almost always impossible.

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Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン @rakyll.org · 16/01/2025

Good software engineering is about encapsulating complexity while avoiding hiding away failure modes.

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Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン @rakyll.org · 09/01/2025

This month is my last at Google. In a month, I'm joining Google DeepMind. Our job will be making DeepMind's work publicly available in ways that wasn't possible before. While this is one of the biggest challenges in my life, it's potentially going to be the most rewarding.

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Building is very easy but it also lowers the bar to build stupid things.

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I like to be used as OCD as a service.

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The most fascinating reality to me is you have to build a whole new person around languages you speak, especially if they have distinct communication styles or are from different language families.

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Trying to have a deep, meaningful conversation in three languages is an exercise in futility. The mental juggling and context switch inevitably distracts even native speakers. Speaking multiple languages myself, I wouldn't put anyone through that, not even my worst enemy.

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I am debating how close I became to retirement and people are in denial because they knew that I always wanted to work until 80s. My justification is simple: I don't want to stop working. I want to start working ;)

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We need to normalize being a solo developer again.

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 07/01/2025

This is the closest I've ever come to truly wanting to retire. It's a complicated feeling.

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WARNING: This product contains programming languages known to the State of California to cause memory unsafety

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Immersing myself in the Dune universe for an entire day, with "Prophecy" and both films, was probably not ideal before coming back to work after a long holiday. I'm now completely indoctrinated against the thinking machines.

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I am genuinely surprised to learn that reading a document could make you physically sick. It seems our brains can become so entrenched in a particular way of thinking that encountering alternative perspectives, even similar ones, feels like a violation, almost a primal rejection.

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Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

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Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン @rakyll.org · 03/12/2024

Once big mountains are very hard to move, people only work on tactical problems. Then, you end up with a saturation of narrow use case projects.

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Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン @rakyll.org · 02/12/2024

Large language models made few hard problems in NLP and IR relatively tackable for the first time in my lifetime. Working on agglutinative languages, we table flipped on several of these problems without much progress 20 years ago. In the last two years, I’m actually considering going back.

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Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン @rakyll.org · 02/12/2024

Travel sucks. I have been doing nothing but sleeping in the last 72 hours with fever (+nightmares) due to stomach flu. I ate almost nothing in the last three days. I’m slowly recovering but I’ve never experienced anything like this before and it’s been harder than the hardest recovery.

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adafruit @adafruit.com · 02/12/2024

RadioShack Crystal Phone (1990s)📞✨

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Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン @rakyll.org · 27/11/2024

People coming from startups to large companies sometimes underestimate how much damage could be done by shipping crap. If you ship crap, it sometimes drags the company and cause exponential damage. People build layers of crap over crap. At a startup, the damage is contained.

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 27/11/2024

Never underestimate the power of creating a good user experience over an existing workflow.

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Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン @rakyll.org · 27/11/2024

Flying with A380 makes me quite emotional at times. This machine is a manifestation. The wing size of the aircraft alone blows my mind. Looking from side to side, I barely can see where the wing starts and where it ends even though I have access to three windows.

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Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン @rakyll.org · 26/11/2024

AI won’t replace developers. The job will become catching up with the latest paper, product, framework, tool etc. One day every project will be famous for 15 minutes.

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Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン @rakyll.org · 26/11/2024

I’ve been to London Heathrow for 4 times in the last 7 days. AMA about life, morale, and survival.

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Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン @rakyll.org · 26/11/2024

I had the funniest exchange at Zurich airport today. Security: Ma’am you have to prepare your bags following <insert completely made up rule>. Me: That sounds very Swiss! Of course, I’d do my best to obey <insert rule>. Security: You understand us, 😱. Thank you.

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Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 25/11/2024

Here's how you can host your own Bluesky PDS from your house In the video I'm running it from a raspberry pi 5

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How to run your own Bluesky PDS Server

YouTube video by Justin Garrison

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 22/11/2024

Amazon S3 just grew "append"! It's only available for the more expensive, lower latency S3 Express One Zone bucket class but you can now append data to an object up to 10,000 times - previously you could only atomically replace a whole object with an updated version simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/22/...

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Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports the ability to append data to an object

This is a first for Amazon S3: it is now possible to append data to an existing object in a bucket, where previously the only supported operation was to atomically …

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Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン @rakyll.org · 22/11/2024

Chop wood carry water if you want to see things getting done.

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Unpopular opinion: When you design by committee, you are mostly focusing on designing pieces that are narrow and poorly put together to make the individuals in the committee happy, rather than building anything that is cohesive and representative of the broader problem space.

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No one gets promoted for removing chaos or saying no to prematurely built artifacts that are guaranteed to drag the company down. Until this culture doesn't change, I don't expect anything to change.

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The older I get, the more optimistic I am. No one told me that this is how it could work.

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I don't agree with the idea that our generation is a lover of echo chambers and bubbles. We grew either with the Internet or with the promise of it. We built tech and global networks that removed many barriers. Language barriers are lifted, country boundaries become less rigid when collaborating.

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I don’t know if anyone needs to hear this but waking up in the morning and being truly energized by your work is one of the rarest privileges in life. No money or status could buy it. If you ever end up being there, stick to what makes it possible when you can.

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