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We just got acquired! I feel lucky and grateful to have been part of this journey for the past 2 years — and we are only getting started. Excited for what’s ahead with @databricks.bsky.social ! Congratulations to everyone at Neon! www.wsj.com/articles/dat...

Many product teams underestimate the value of continuous iteration within the same area. Frequently jumping to the next feature too soon hurts collaboration, quality, and domain expertise. Let folks wander, experiment, and come up with the next steps and connect dots with other areas organically.

I’ve been praying for years for Microsoft to pull one last Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

We at Neon are hiring a full-stack engineer. We have ~130M in funding (including from Microsoft’s M12), and an interesting product with cool people working on it. Fully remote within Europe. jobs.ashbyhq.com/neon.tech/44... And you’ll get to work with me! Ping/DM me to chat

My son learned to ride a pedal bike without training wheels at 3 years 7 months and my daughter just learned yesterday at 3 years 3 months. Neither wouldn’t have been possible without the Woom 2 bike, I just can’t recommend this thing enough! woom.com/en_INT/bikes...

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With its low taxes, toothless courts and (de facto) nonexistent regulations, Bulgaria produced its own type of equality amongst its people: even if you get rich, you’re still in the same shit as everyone else.

As someone from Eastern Europe, I can only look knowingly and welcome my American friends to the wonderful world of oligarchy!

When it comes to banning/restricting TikTok/social media, a lot of people focus on security, privacy and freedom of speech. To me however, the most important aspect is health. We must ban or restrict social media the same way we ban or restrict hard drugs, cigarettes and alcohol.

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Facebook is a social cancer. Our governments should be targeting it with much stricter regulation to make it abide by our norms and values — or have it leave our markets entirely. The days of Mark Zuckerberg shaping discourse and controlling communication must end.

UX resumes were all “passionate about solving complex problems”, and now they’re all “crafting experiences passionately” or whatever. Can’t we do better than cliches, buzzwords and trends?

My expectations about having a girl was that she’d be quieter and far more chill than my son. Now she’s 3 and I need a stun gun, bear spray and Jiu Jitsu skills just to brush her teeth and put her to bed, Jesus…

Beloved murderer canceled after old tweets surface

"Talk to customers" is the same kind of advice as "lift weights" — it's directionally correct and also lacking sufficient detail to be useful. In the same way that you can spend hours in the gym and see no results, you can spend hours with customers and get nothing out of it.

I really hate it when people use the word, “Empathy,” bc it’s a fluffy word that lacks practicality. People need to talk about the practice of figuring out nuanced intent, user behavior, what is top of mind in the micro-context, and how that’s translated into cause and effect.

In the age of AI, short form video and hot takes, the competitive advantage of the future is the ability to go deep, read the docs, build something new, learn hard things that take time.

Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

Do you guys know any #PostgreSQL committers (or folks who've written PG extensions) job-boards.greenhouse.io/neondatabase... Or systems #engineers with interests in storage tech job-boards.greenhouse.io/neondatabase... We may hire them, refer them to me.

My current boss's boss posed for a picture with my former boss's boss's boss's boss's boss :)

SQL from the frontend? I mean, you kinda can now, and Neon Authorize makes it pretty easy to get going with. Give Gomes' post a read and give me your spiciest take on it. neon.tech/blog/sql-fro...

The social conservatives of today are the liberals of the past. Today, there are openly gay / pot-smoking / of color folks who self-identify as conservatives in the US and Europe. A century ago, they would've probably been shot by the conservatives of that time.

Got an amazing job? Sure, you worked hard to make it happen. But also, someone who would've made a better fit (there's always someone) didn't apply at the same time you did. Perhaps they had the flu! Luck is a massive part of your success. Admitting that isn't impostor syndrome, it's humility.

"What will really cost us democracy is the attention economy." I relate with this so much and then I quote and translate it here and hope that a lot of people will see it because it is important. It's complicated.

Unfortunately not surprising

Nowadays, if teenage guys want to get into harmless things like gaming/working out & sports/self-improvement, etc, a lot of the online content will slowly drag them into extremist right-wing rabbit holes. They won't even know it and don't have the tools to deal with that

To paraphrase Alfred North Whitehead: All Self-Help literature is just a series of footnotes to Marcus Aurelius.

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