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drew dillon @drewdil.bsky.social · 4h

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drew dillon @drewdil.bsky.social · 4h

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drew dillon @drewdil.bsky.social · 9h

I learned all the wrong lessons from this experience.

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drew dillon @drewdil.bsky.social · 6d

My mom’s so proud of me going viral with the phrase, “Your glutes go dormant.”

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drew dillon @drewdil.bsky.social · 24d

Pushed last night 😂

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drew dillon @drewdil.bsky.social · 26d

The founders' urge to rewrite the whole frontend from @chrismessina.me's feedback instead of shipping the feature you pulled and all-nighter for.

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drew dillon @drewdil.bsky.social · Jul 30

Who’s going to kintsugi all these cracked engineers?

drew dillon @drewdil.bsky.social · Jul 13

If you told me Grok had achieved AGI, I’d still use Claude. Like who’s using this thing outside of Twitter trolling?

drew dillon @drewdil.bsky.social · Jul 12

“Which Robin do you think they’ll bring in?”
“Maybe they’ll already have Nightwing and introduce Damian!”
“Which bad guy is bad enough to bring the Justice League together?”
“Doomsday? Braniac?”
“Who’ll be the big villain of Wonder Woman?”
“Cheetah?”

I wasn’t even talking…

drew dillon @drewdil.bsky.social · Jul 12

Whole family enjoyed Superman. Teen and tween girls were geeking out about the rest of the DC universe the whole way home.

Marvel kinda missed the mark by not having great cartoon material the past 15-20. These kids’ knowledge, through Teen Titans, is DEEP.

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drew dillon @drewdil.bsky.social · Jul 12

See: 90% of managers

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drew dillon @drewdil.bsky.social · Jun 24

I say this after extremely bitter personal experience, but Cursor + me = the best Chrome extension developer you’ve ever met.

drew dillon @drewdil.bsky.social · Jun 17

They basically have an Ohtani station here in Kyoto.

drew dillon @drewdil.bsky.social · Jun 9

a woman is standing in a living room with her mouth open and a lamp in the background .

ALT: a woman is standing in a living room with her mouth open and a lamp in the background .

media.tenor.com

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drew dillon @drewdil.bsky.social · Jun 8

vibe coding over the pacific

drew dillon @drewdil.bsky.social · Jun 6

May I introduce you to offsides?

drew dillon @drewdil.bsky.social · May 29

lol, when the vibe coding agent has learned too much of your vibe

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drew dillon @drewdil.bsky.social · May 25

You have got to get this under control, @beehiiv.com. I get like three new newsletters a week I never signed up for.

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drew dillon @drewdil.bsky.social · May 23

If only I had all the funding the AI SDRs in my spam filter think I do.

drew dillon @drewdil.bsky.social · May 22

This is the single oldest story in the history of tech (maybe all) acquisitions:

1. Company is valuable because they work w/multiple providers.

2. Company gets bought by Provider.

3. Acquisition value decreases as Company eventually supports only Provider.

Over and over until we die.

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · May 22

Business interests starting to become visible across AI IDEs?

Anthropic made Sonnet 4 available on launch (today) for Copilot and Cursor. But not for Windsurf!

I will speculate this could be b/c of reporting that OpenAI (Anthropic’s rival) in the process of buying Windsurf

drew dillon @drewdil.bsky.social · May 21

Woody: Can I get you a beer Mr. Peterson?

Norm: Isn’t it a little early for that?

W: Beer?

N: Stupid questions.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · May 21

"Man walks into a bar. It's the starting point for a million jokes," James Poniewozik writes in a Critic's Notebook. "And for season after season on 'Cheers,' some of the best of those were delivered by George Wendt, who died on Tuesday at age 76, as the long-suffering Norm Peterson."

Everybody Knew His Name: ‘Norm!’

www.nytimes.com

drew dillon @drewdil.bsky.social · May 19

redemption

drew dillon @drewdil.bsky.social · May 16

Should be obvious, but how you remember yourself is not how others remember you.

drew dillon @drewdil.bsky.social · May 12

Beehiiv is such a freaking spam vector. I get like three new increasingly weird trumpy crypto newsletters a week.

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drew dillon @drewdil.bsky.social · May 12

The key is not to have the balloon explode, which I failed at twice 😂

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