Zach Holman

with no one reading code anymore, now is the time to start adding your expert proficiency for every single programming language to your linkedin profile

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a CVE patcher.

yes, i still cover my mouth and turn away when i cough when i'm on a zoom call, it's only polite

i love the stuff my agents generate. have you ever noticed that other people's agents generate slop, but your agent generates stuff?

so much of my career started with 468x60 and 88x31, shout out to two legendary combinations

If you like this AI stuff and think it's pretty cool and you want to just *build* these days... you should just go get an LLC: zachholman.com/posts/you-sh...

don’t talk to me unless you have sound effects enabled on linkedin i only talk to winners

if you're telling someone about their own job from 15 years ago, TURING TEST DENIED zachholman.com/posts/llm-wr...

Added a new runway feature to signed.com to sort which of my portfolio companies are facing cash crunches. (As a side note, always fascinated by startups who run out of cash and haven't talked to their investors about it. That's what they're there for, to help!)

Still really enjoying Muse. I use Things.app for all of my todos, and though it has cloud sync they (still) haven’t added an official API. I told muse to build it and a minute or two later I have ongoing todo sync from my LLM across all my Apple devices. Wild.

as you get older you realize that the hardest problem we all face in life is what to eat for dinner this time. like we just had dinner last night why do we have to make this decision again

i just had muse set up my vestaboard to display messages in my zoom background about whichever meeting i'm in next. worked great. then i told it to do a fun one for me in the meantime. this is the message it chose and then this is what it told me in chat after lol send help

friends, i’m sadly here to say that meta has cooked with muse and it’s everything every personal ai assistant has tried to be. it just like… works. i remain skeptical and continue to be really impressed

best we can tell, an onlyfans or similar model has been using our address for her simps and we keep getting bouquets of flowers this week for her apparent birthday (or for one guy, their two week anniversary together). the house is now mostly flowers.

Opening day is incredible. It’s basically like back-to-school days, where you get to see all the familiar faces and see what everyone was up to over the summer. Granted, we’re doing it at 9:30am at the pub, but it’s basically the same thing. ⚽️

Had a lovely time talking with Marcia Dawood about angel investing, building Signed, investing in sports, and how AI can help unlock all three of those. Yes, I used `unlock`. That's how you know it's business-oriented™. Full episode is on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtca...

imagine: running an agent which was solely trained on the hardest problem remaining in computer science: staying signed in to any anthropic service for longer than a few days

finally succumbed to the bluesky custom domain vanity url

MRI results came back today from a human doc: a herniated disc. Obviously I had tossed the raw scans in to LLMs last week; Opus and Fable missed it, Sol caught it. This is now the gold standard in analyzing performance of frontier models. First step: herniate your back.

the most stressful question while living in san francisco is do you pay 6x the price for a waymo or do you instead suffer a human driver

Quick new post: no, I probably won't pass you on to another investor. (I wish founders would stop asking me, too, for their sake.) zachholman.com/posts/invest...

GitHub, university, and football. I owe a lot of the good things in my life to reaching out to people I didn't know: zachholman.com/posts/cold-e...

i can't believe we used to type code with our fingers

"Make the strongest possible case that my worst investment was actually my best one, and that I'm the only person who can see it." Been having a lot of fun with our new MCP server in Signed: signed.com/blog/mcp-ser...

walking directly behind a woman on the street and i was horrified to cat call her. by that i mean i have my cat in a backpack and he’s absolutely whining about having to go to the vet, but i still feel awkward about it

Every developer should volunteer for a non-profit on the side these days. There’s unlimited things to do, a magic tool for your knowledge that accomplishes things in minutes, and you learn a *ton* about a huge undervalued chunk of the world.

Open sourced a repo for angel investors and VCs and others called `deckk` that will extract a PDF out of a docsend link (and eventually others). PDFs rock. github.com/holman/deckk

Founders need to stop worrying about the check size when they raise from angel investors: zachholman.com/posts/minimu...

all my friends are just building shit again, it’s an incredible time to want to do things

it's very fun to work on a financial product so I can add real quick wins like this; i wish more apps had flexible behavior like this

The IRS made a typo on my company name and incorporated it with the typo, lol. Off to a great start here.

i'm pretty sure Messages has been indexing since the first Obama administration and this message has never changed. apple still hasn't figured out how to use the `LIKE` keyword in sqlite, stg

Did a post on the actual mechanics of angel investing: from banks to legalese to mostly complaining a lot more about banks: zachholman.com/posts/the-to...

LLMs: Over the last three minutes I've written 67,283 lines of code to build a sophisticated system to manage failover infrastructure in high-throughput environments, with zero bugs. Also LLMs: I've spent the last 13 minutes designing a bold new brand identity for your startup.

Prevailing sentiment is to treat agents like a "very smart intern", but I feel like that's exactly wrong. I treat it like "the dweeb who only has read a specific RFC for the last 30 years". I no longer get stuck for days on some dumb technicality that's blocking me.

back doing my first talk in eight years 🤘

writing a new talk for the first time in nearly a decade and i'm really off to a great start imo

can't believe nas just dropped a track named "git ready" when he could have used "git init" instead

It’s amusing seeing all the “[project] is moving off of GitHub” posts on Hacker News lately. When I first started there, HN had near-constant “[project] is moving to GitHub!” posts. It’s the life of software. Improve or die.

Hella excited to be joining the ownership of Serie A’s Cagliari. Some real over-the-moon excitement for the club and for The Island. LFG!

i mean that’s not how this works but okay

zachholman.com decided to redo the blog for maybe the tenth time. turns out if you write every now and then and do it for over fifteen years that leads to a shit ton of posts, wowza. how did you all listen to me for so long?

Just finished up a two-month jury duty stint and I’m really realizing how much solo projects depend on inertia and motivation. You take a break and it takes ages to get back in the swing of things.