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Cory Wilkerson

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4 years

GitHub needs a ‘I left some comments but approved; but maybe consider my comments but you really don’t have to but would be great if you did’ button.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

I helped lead the migration from local macOS dev to Codespaces and went from skeptic to believer along the way; cloud-based development is the future.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

Logging in to any MSFT system is a true stress test of http, dns, and tcp/ip. The number of redirects is staggering. It's a wonder that it works at all.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

5 years

@natfriedman Close. We are going to finally announce that @github is pronounced ‘jithub.’

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

👋 A few things I wanted to convey as a small addendum to the “GitHub’s Engineering team has moved to Codespaces” blog yesterday. Hopefully what follows below provides a bit more context / answers some common questions I’ve seen...

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

One thing I always enjoy @github (amongst many other things) is the use of handles instead of names. Always really striking during an incident when the mood is serious: "Has anyone asked goatsinthemachine if the read replica has caught up yet?"

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

7 months

@defunkt I did come across this gem which was being passed around internally a few years ago. Can't tell if real.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

2 years

First day @retool ! Wish me luck!

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

🚢 @github Codespaces + cli. Codespaces from your home in the terminal. ssh and make something great!

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

7 months

Today is my last day @retool . I've had a great time building good software with good people. Retool is far and away the best player in this category. It's always strange when I see a quadrant with one of the legacy players in the top right hand corner; whatever advantage they

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

6 years

Thi mac pro keyboard i a total piece of hit.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

4 years

New @github 'outrun' hoodie is💯

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

👀Copilot is incredible. If you’ve used it, you know the deal. We’re well past novel and well into game-changing. And it’s still early days. Also incredible: Copilot is hiring eng leaders for Foundations, IDE, and Model Improvement teams. See🧵for open roles...

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

2 years

One thing I really, really miss about @github is the daily use of handles. What's goatsinthemachine up to? Can you get dinnermonster on the zoom? p0 as in priority or p0 as in Pavel?

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

6 months

Today's my second day @replicate ; I was a little too excited to tweet about things over the course of the first day. Replicate feels familiar to me already — so much of the "getting to know you" process felt like I was catching up with old friends & colleagues. There's a real

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

2 years

Truly, @github is incredible. All of it. ❤️

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

11 months

Things getting increasingly awkward for this old friend.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

Hubbers get a new patch for every anniversary at @github . Here’s 2021.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

2 years

There is some extremely good ‘holy shit this is going to be incredible’ energy inside of @retool right now. 🖤

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

6 years

I didn’t want to post it but my sister is all in. Love you Emi, and I’m sorry.

Jennifer Aldridge

@JenAldridge3

6 years

@corywilkerson @TheEllenShow

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Cory Wilkerson

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1 year

Not sure who made this gem! Just found it on my camera roll cc @github ...

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

6 years

My wife to me at 3am in a very hushed voice: ‘you’re using the decorative pillow.’

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

If you have small children (I have two under 5) and manage to 1) not be extremely exhausted always and 2) stay up after you've put them down to get some things done and/or enjoy kid free time — tell me how. Need every tip.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

Watch 2700 jelly beans get dumped on my head.

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@github

3 years

LIVE: Learn how we got our developer environment creation time down from days to 10 seconds using Codespaces. It's happening at

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

4 years

How I imagined spending my 40s vs. how I'm actually spending my 40s.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

6 years

@searls That's reserved for staff engineers.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

2 years

@jasonlong It was all downhill from here...

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

8 years

Amazing satire spotted in Noe. @NoeValleySF #millennials

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

2 years

🖤 @github

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

Copilot going into full BOSS mode 😳

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

2 years

It took five years+ but as of two weeks ago — both of my children sleep through the night. I feel totally reborn. 🎉

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

Had my first ‘ok my heart lives outside of my body now’ parenting moment. Took littlest to ER Sunday night for extremely labored breathing and so thankful we did — it was indeed an emergency. 48 hours later he’s on the mend and we’ve learned our pandemic baby is an asthmatic.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

2 years

Fun to watch the momentum from @planetscaledata — this happens when you have good taste, good people, and you’re your own customer. It does not happen when 12 people with big titles need to get aligned before anyone does anything.

PlanetScale

@PlanetScale

2 years

Put your data where your users and applications are! Today, we’re launching PlanetScale Portals. Learn how PlanetScale Portals lets you create read-only regions in seconds with just the click of a button to better serve your users worldwide.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

2 years

Every Hubber will tell you that you should run your business in repos.

Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

2 years

Every Ex-Googler will introduce Bazel at their new gig, every Ex-Facebooker will introduce Facebook Workplace. People who didn’t work in either of those companies know of those tools only because they worked with an Ex-Googler/Facebooker.

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Cory Wilkerson

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2 years

Cleaning standard since having kids: * House is sanctuary * Ok they have stuff, I’ll control it * Ok it can be in this single room only * Ok two rooms * Ok every room * Too tired to move legos from shower * Fine have oatmeal in your bed and mine * Grey Gardens

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

2 years

A good way to start the day.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

A disclaimer that the team wiki is out of date.

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@coda_hq

3 years

What’s one piece of information that should always be in a team wiki?

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

6 months

For the longest time I thought all these product designers shitting on chat-based interfaces were wrong. My mental model was "chat is basically language which is the most human interface" and now after having worked with models for quite some time I'm happy to admit you all are

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

This week we landed support for Codespaces in the @github CLI but “Codespaces support in the GitHub CLI” doesn’t really communicate the impact. Here’s why I think it’s a really great moment for Codespaces.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

6 months

The @github shop on the second floor was the greatest thing ever. It was lawless and should have stayed lawless — we could've kept it afloat until it was Microsoft's problem.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

lil guy

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

2 years

Two weeks of solid funemployment!

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

5 years

@natfriedman

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

5 years

A very good lion

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

4 months

The view from my desk on summer mornings is immaculate.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

8 years

@Chris_arnade can you put me in touch with Cheyenne somehow? What kind of engineering? I'm from that region & have all sorts of feels for it

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

5 months

@isamlambert I remember like my second week at GitHub I asked you to draw an architecture diagram. You drew a box with a line to a database. You wrote Rails on the box. You wrote MySQL on the database. You said ‘that’s about it.’

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

8 years

Hello, Willow.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

2 years

The day we left sf — I’m gross after a morning of cleaning and packing and loading a truck. I’ve missed sf ever since 💔. But mostly I just love how cute and tiny Willow is in this photo.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

4 years

@mschoening Clippy

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

So much fashion

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

7 months

GitLab’s only marketing strategy was to show up in any GitHub moment. Going so far as to bring an ice cream truck to Universe. Lame. Make your own moment.

Mitchell Hashimoto

@mitchellh

7 months

While I was in charge of comms at HashiCorp, I had a rule that when a competitor (even the rude ones) had a big announcement, no one at HC could talk about us. Let them have their moment, their day. Don't use it as an opportunity to advertise alternatives, its a bad look. i.e. a

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Cory Wilkerson

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8 years

Outrageously excited to be joining the team @github !!! Also can't wait to explain a directed acyclic graph to my family at Thanksgiving!

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

2 years

The view from my office today.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

6 years

Didnt really foresee the hours of garbage truck footage I’d be logging with my toddler.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

2 years

All computers are bad, some are useful.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

My vibe after returning to four days of work.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

4 years

If you're not using the @github cli you're missing out on a quality of life improvement. gh pr create --reviewer monalisa,hubot is 💯

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

5 years

Hell of a time to add a newborn to the family. Send pampers, wipes (the butt kind not the bleach kind), uppers/speed/cocaine. Thanks.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

5 years

Octokitten

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

Digging through some old keepsakes. Everything about this is incredible; the execution is flawless.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

4 years

How it started: What’s a second kid when you already have one? Sure. Let’s go for it! How it’s going:

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

I used to joke about driving my 2001 Honda Civic down Sandhill Road in Palo Alto and what a “silicon valley success story” that was. I still drive the car but now my new standard of success is wearing a hoodie with baby milk puke on it to the finest dining I can find.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

Codespaces is always 🤯for me. This morning I browsed to an internal @github repo I'm only passingly familiar with — clicked a button, ran a single command from the README, and I'm up and running/making changes.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

6 years

@dhh We’re hiring — 😎

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

‘Social code hosting’

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

4 years

April 2019 — love this so much. Looking forward to getting back to HQ one day.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

2 years

Freaking love startup energy. I forgot.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

2 years

Funemployment update: I find myself at 630am writing a multipage strategy doc + tactical plan on getting our 2yo and 5yo to go to bed (at least somewhat) independently.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

5 years

Name things what they are. Beyond a team of ten-ish clever service names fall apart. And good luck to the new engineer who has to figure out that some deep LOTR fanfic reference is really just the job queue.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

5 years

Spring in the neighborhood 🌸

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

Everyone, 2021.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

6 years

If I'm in a shared google doc - I'm going to add the Oxford commas you forgot because it's right and the way things have to be.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

Life with a 1.5 year old.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

2 years

Hey there! I'm hiring an eng leader in our "Bootstrap" team @retool , should be a ton of fun. Bootstrap is a portfolio team w/ some real range. The work could be tactical or strategic/wayfinding. It might also be greenfield or incremental. In every case, it's impactful. 👇

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

4 years

Friday

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

2 years

‘Severance is the best show in years’ people, please raise your hand. You are my people.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

airbnb checkout has been ever-escalating to ridiculous. soon it's going to be: $700 cleaning fee but leave house spotless, mow yard, build new east wing, purchase glassware for family of eight (overnight shipping.)

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

0/10 on parent experience hope to never do again! 10/10 on science and medicine. Little guy is home and happy.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

2 years

My 2yo, 5yo, spouse all joined the Covid Crew. Rough few weeks in the household — including a quick trip to the ER — but we're on the other side 🥳 Built an addiction to at-home testing. Spent way too much money just to watch my climb out of covid pit. Worth it.

Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

2 years

I have Covid. Not great!

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

6 years

Thing I didn’t expect: getting reconnected to my guitars and playing better than ever because my toddler demands that I play every single day.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

Hung some 🖼 in the house today.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

6 years

My toddler’s talking school bus decided to randomly go off at 2am. We just moved into a new house and don’t have furniture/rugs - the emptiness amplifies any sound. Terrifying to hear ghost children laughing as they ‘get on the bus.’ Do not want.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

6 years

Anyone know a producer on the @TheEllenShow ? My sister just sent me a video of my niece after wisdom teeth removal — high as a kite and supremely disappointed (sobbing) that Ellen wasn’t there to support her in her time of need.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

6 years

@theomn @dan_abramov One thing that has helped me in the past is to blog for myself and not share it publicly. I get tons of value out of taking the time to gather coherent thoughts for an audience of one.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

7 years

✅ Put Willow to sleep ✅ Trip over a box of airhorns I didn't know I had ✅ Every night

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

Looks away from slack on computer. Immediately opens slack on phone. Healthy.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

Berry picking is going well.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

5 years

Mother of felines

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

Photographic evidence

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

5 years

For now I have a little corner of the house that’s all mine. In the winter months it turns into a cozy space. Probably 20 sq ft but my books, gear, music, ephemera, etc. I love it. Feels like I need to load up Zork.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

4 years

Me one year into my firstborn’s life: can we keep this area of the 🏠 tidy please? Me one year into second born’s life: did willow want to keep this rotting, moss-covered log in the living room or her bedroom?

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

6 years

My toddler won’t accept 1000 dollars in exchange for her eating a piece of broccoli.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

💪 Finally, I’ll say that it took a decent amount of work to replatform to a Linux-based environment but it wasn’t anything magical. Mostly just determination to see it through. Y’all can absolutely do this, too. Cheers!

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

2 years

HN thread on @GitHubCopilot launch is going to read like the output of a model trained on HN comments.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

2 years

She’s grown!

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

6 years

Bought my toddler a cheap record player because she’s obsessed with ours. Last I checked she was outside grinding some vinyl against a pile of rock and sand.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

2 years

One really great part of parenting is making your kids food every night and then watching them not eat it.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

3 years

⌨️ This is covered in the post but I think it’s important to cover again: we’ve shipped some work internally to support Vim and Emacs users. You can do the same! We’d be happy to share how we did this — support will be first-class in Codespaces soon.

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Cory Wilkerson

@corywilkerson

7 years

Good baby

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