Software entrepreneur, developer. 3 ventures so far. Building the next one. Links to other social on my web site.
St. Louis, MO, USA
Joined December 2008
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Well... if @X is going to decline my reports of extremely clear fraud-oriented impersonation (in this case of @farzyness ) I guess there isn't a point in me reporting any more? On the plus side, the fraudulent account did get deleted.
Kyle Cordes retweeted
Humiliating blow for the GOP. Maybe AI slop posting and social media chest puffing while starting wars, spending like crazy, not releasing Epstein files, and not fixing inflation wasn’t the move kings. Who would’ve thought?
I’m sure the Dems will do a great job over the next two years of making total asses of themselves, as each party typically does when they have their moment.
And the clown show of US politics goes on.
This is why we shouldn’t let them divide us.
Kyle Cordes retweeted
remember, it's all 100% self-inflicted
elected to close the border, reduce cost of living, and end forever foreign wars
instead they engaged in:
performative theatrics in blue cities instead of durable border policy
loud trade wars with everyone all at once instead of tactical engagement with China + strategic re-shoring of critical industries
poking every ally in the world in the eye simultaneously instead of doubling down on the ones which will matter for the next century
right before starting a war of choice with Iran at the apparent behest of Israel
skyrocketing the price of energy and most other things, making people feel poor and helpless, while engaging in pointless vanity projects putting their name on everything
all done simultaneously with the most corrupt and grift-laden admin in recent memory
and what, they just thought that the voters wouldn't care??
lmao
This is so true 👇
Business owners by email address:
[email protected]: normal
[email protected]: probably doing well
[email protected]: owns the building you lease
I have a lot of confidence in this completely unscientific ranking.
Kyle Cordes retweeted
I would strongly consider uninstalling any third party js right now if I were you. Especially if it comes from a startup.
Analytics, monitoring, etc are all massive site takeover risks. If you use a tracking script from a third party SaaS, then if they get hacked the hackers have total control over your site too.
This is what took down Polymarket today. They used a tiny script from a SaaS that tracks page load speed. That company got hacked, and the hackers subsequently stole millions from Polymarket users.
If you want to use analytics safely, I would use a product that lets you pin the tracking script and control when it changes. Most of the mature products support this, e.g. Sentry, Amplitude, PostHog, Mixpanel, Heap. If not, you need to trust the company behind it a lot...
Railway got hacked last week. Railway! That's a very competent team, with particularly strong infra chops. The agent swarms are on another level.
A typical analytics company is nowhere near as sophisticated. You should ask yourself: do I trust this company's security more than Railway? I was an analytics CTO in a past life, and I will be the first to admit: we had some great people but we were not on this level.
We (Detail) just uninstalled our session replay, which was a product I loved but is not worth the risk right now.
I hate to write this because I spent a good chunk of my 20s benefitting from product teams taking a chance on a nothing startup and installing our js on their site. But in the past two weeks this risk vector has exploded. It's better for the ecosystem if we move away from third party js as fast as we can.
Kyle Cordes retweeted
If you have an IQ above 115 and think Marxism doesn’t end in violent tyranny because “we’ll do it right this time,” then you don’t have an IQ above 115.
Somebody at GitHub might have vibe coded something they shouldn't have?
someone outside our GitHub org deleted one of our private repos.
no membership or invite or role. nothing in our org or enterprise audit logs gave them access. just one repo.destroy from the gh CLI.
and it's not in deleted repositories, so no restore.
@github how is this possible, what sorcery is this?
While y'all are worried about whether your dependencies are up to date today for yesterday's security emergencies...
I'm trying to figure out why a dependency on a Node.js project is still, in the Year of Our Lord 2026, using Bluebird.
Kyle Cordes retweeted
Conspiracy theorists: the NSA has manipulated the standard setting process so HTTPS appears to be impenetrable, but they have a backdoor because of advanced mathematics beyond your imagination
The real world, so much dumber than they could ever imagine: the secret key is 4
Kyle Cordes retweeted
Churchill could have shortened WW2 by years if he had just “done a deal” with Hitler. George Washington could have done a deal to end the American Revolution. Zelenskyy is in good company.
Kyle Cordes retweeted
Seven widespread misunderstandings about politics.
1. The Democratic Party’s elected officials, staffers, and donors are on average very progressive compared not only to the median voter but to most of the rank and file people who vote for Democrats.
2. The public’s persistently angry mood is not a demand for large policy changes, almost all changes generate backlash and the biggest electoral overperformers are wrong-party governors like Andy Beshear and Phil Scott who don’t do very much.
3. Third parties are most likely to succeed when the differences between the two big parties are small (1992) or at least wrongly perceived to be small (2000) not when they’re both seen as too extreme.
4. Donald Trump’s behavior is very extreme but the main way that his policy platform differs from Mitt Romney’s 2012 platform is that he’s more moderate on social security, Medicare, gay rights, and abortion.
5. How much progress you make on Issue X is more a function of how much you’re willing to drop or compromise on issues A, B, and C than of how aggressively you emote about X.
6. The qualities that are good for winning primaries and raising money are unrelated to (and in some ways antithetical to) the qualities that are good for winning general elections.
7. Increasing political polarization reflects deliberate choices made by highly engaged elite actors and is not an emergent property of the mass public.