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Zach Holman @holman.bsky.social · 4d

Single hardest thing in computer science: getting the people who wanted to beta test your software to actually beta test your software.

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Zach Holman @holman.bsky.social · 8d

I see endless people dragging WNBA & NWSL teams for “losing money” (“the NBA is subsidizing the WNBA”, etc)… but the Yankees, Clippers, Mets, Everton, Barcelona, etc aren’t losing money… they’re “investing in the club”.

Just can’t *quite* put my finger on the difference here.

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Zach Holman @holman.bsky.social · 16d

fox, always with their one-track mind

Zach Holman @holman.bsky.social · 17d

i wanted to capture the sicko audience too

Zach Holman @holman.bsky.social · 17d

No, but I wanted to come up with something normies might use

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Zach Holman @holman.bsky.social · 17d

I built a calendar again! Sort of. This one is super tiny: take all the bunch of calendars you might have, and then spit out a single URL that you can share with others.

Here's a post: zachholman.com/posts/calend...

And here's Calendearing, the product:
calendearing.com

Shipping Calendearing

Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

zachholman.com

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Zach Holman @holman.bsky.social · 23d

yeah; I’m pretty excited about the EU Inc stuff happening- sounds like there’s a lot of people working to streamline things over there

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Zach Holman @holman.bsky.social · 23d

It's going to end up taking 1x-2x longer to get my new LLC registration and EIN than it was to create the actual code and product for a new company. Wild.

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Zach Holman @holman.bsky.social · Sep 9

I think the funniest thing that best describes the iPhone 17 Pro is that Apple doesn't even let you compare it against the iPhone 16 Pro. It... would not look that impressive.

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Zach Holman @holman.bsky.social · Aug 15

i don’t care about the liquid glass hot takes in iOS 26; the single greatest thing about these betas is it hides every single political spam text i get

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Zach Holman @holman.bsky.social · Aug 13

not all legal docs are created equal

Zach Holman @holman.bsky.social · Aug 13

wild that we all used to just raw dog legal PDFs instead of dropping them into chatgpt to get an understanding of them before signing

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Zach Holman @holman.bsky.social · Jul 21

Wrote a quick thing this morning about the WNBA, among other money-losing organizations:

Losing money is the point: zachholman.com/posts/losing...

Losing Money is the Point

Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

zachholman.com

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Zach Holman @holman.bsky.social · Jul 20

the whole thing is really hilarious, and really underlines that 1) rich investors are sometimes complete morons 2) the importance of always having trusted people around you to call you out when you’re an idiot. too many yes-men and you lose touch with reality and yourself.

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Zach Holman @holman.bsky.social · Jul 13

someone asked me recently what i was building my latest project with and i told them "ruby on rails", but then i realized they weren't asking about the language, they were asking which LLM i was using.

welcome to the future of software

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Zach Holman @holman.bsky.social · Jun 30

lol. nailed it!

Reposted by Zach Holman

Cork Gaines @corkgaines.bsky.social · Jun 30

USMNT Dad training his kid to be a soccer fan.

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Zach Holman @holman.bsky.social · Jun 30

oddly enough, I know that guy too

Zach Holman @holman.bsky.social · Jun 30

haha just a history of growing up hating UND!

Zach Holman @holman.bsky.social · Jun 30

excuse me I am full Bison

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Zach Holman @holman.bsky.social · Jun 30

my nephew, actually! gotta start them young

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Zach Holman @holman.bsky.social · Jun 25

Generally, I think it’s a great thing to take some time off from work, so you stay fresh and like, be a human. But keep in mind if you’re taking an official leave or sabbatical, it’s a great time for the company to fire you. It happens allllll the time.

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Zach Holman @holman.bsky.social · Jun 16

gist.github.com/holman/0fa80...

Run it in your main ~/code directory or whatever. My high score:

SHA: 9421910463604520978aea4a680232cae4b55150 Numeric prefix length: 19

What's yours?

inthunter

inthunter. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

gist.github.com

Zach Holman @holman.bsky.social · Jun 16

One of the dumbest things I've done for as far back as I can remember is to check the start of every commit sha1 and see how long the first number is. So commit `78867d` is a nice five-int sha.

So yes, here's a script to look through every repo in a dir for your personal record:

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Zach Holman @holman.bsky.social · Jun 5

2010, companies we'd talk to about switching to GitHub: "NO WAY WE CAN USE YOUR THIRD-PARTY SERVICE, OUR SPECIAL CODE IS SO PRIVATE AND IMPORTANT"

2025, every engineer fuckin around: "oh whatever i'll just oauth every repo in our org to whatever AI is hip this morning"

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