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For anyone seeing the events that occurred at Block and think "man, I feel for them"... If you work in tech, it's gonna suck for you too. These are the people who maintained open source we all use, such as Okhttp, Retrofit, Okio, Turbine, Molecule, Paparazzi, Moshi, KotlinPoet, Java Poet, etc...

27/2/26, 5:41 am4 reposts20 likes

Pablo Baxter

@pablobaxter.com

27 Feb

Even if you don't touch those libraries directly, you may be using libraries, frameworks, and tools that do. This is the prime opportunity to find people who aren't just knowledgeable in many of these tools, but are maintainers and authors for them.

Pablo Baxter

@pablobaxter.com

27 Feb

Worst case scenario, you've just hired some damn great people for your company. Reach out to these individuals.

Pablo Baxter

@pablobaxter.com

27 Feb

To all my former co-workers at Block, I wish everyone all the happiness that you each can muster in this lifetime.

Arka

@archie94.bsky.social

27 Feb

Can't fathom how such quality engineers are asked to leave even when business is doing good. There are always ways of re-deploying talent IMO.