Trust has always been a first principle at Intercom, from our early investments in security and privacy to the globally recognized certifications that shape our approach today.
As AI becomes...
You’re staring at perf top showing 60% CPU time in pthread_mutex_lock. Your latency is in the toilet. Someone suggests “just use a spinlock” and suddenly your 16-core server is...
My father Stan and I in our default states.lsof -ti:3000 | xargs kill -9 2>/dev/null; npm run devI’ve been wandering up to 60 for a while. During my extreme-extroversion...
December 2020Jessica and I have certain words that have special significance
when we're talking about startups. The highest compliment we can
pay to founders is to describe them as "earnest." This...
AI doesn’t fail because the model is bad, it fails because ownership is missing.
Once someone owns it, everything changes. Your resolution and automation rates climb, the system becomes self-improving,...
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Game Development, Around the WorldIn the previous post, I determined what kind of vegetation should grow where in my procedurally generated world....
#244: Devout Real Tree Person
December 6th, 2025
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85 minutes
Holiday traditions and reflecting on a big project.
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The world cannot evolve past allowing entitled people's behavior to slide because that means we would be eradicating a social hierarchy that is integral...