Erik van Eykelen
@hackteck
Rieta's husband and David’s dad. CTO @ https://return.energy, building battery energy storage systems. Born at 322 ppm CO₂. 6510 assembly coder.
Same experiences, good advice in this post. Take heed please @webflow and @leinwand
Today in @webflow - "nothing is working for me" - this is a message I got from a colleague. The dashboard was just hanging, not authenticating, perpetual loading spinner. It's not the first time it's happened. Other things I'm noticing since recent updates: - 504 bad gateway…
New project: ✅ step 1, running a barebones program compiled from C++ code
This happens when you've lost touch
So now there's a Chief Scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs, but also Yann LeCun is still Chief AI Scientist for Meta. This feels like when Francis became pope, and the old pope was still just chilling in the Vatican, wandering around, doing pope stuff.
Seems like a great step forwards to reduce air pollution and noise
This is just what we need, but even faster. Vietnam setting bans on gasoline motorcycles next year (in downtown Hanoi), followed by cars Ultimately, 72 million gasoline motorcycles will be banned, plus gasoline cars. electrek.co/2025/07/20/vie…
Remember how Google bought a company for $32B, and its main value prop is "We're going to scan all your infra configurations to make sure you didn't leave anything completely wide open to the internet"? Now you know why
Cybersecurity professionals who can code, build, and problem-solve are in demand, insane demand
Game changer
BYD Atto 1 — A $12,000 EV for the masses electrek.co/2025/07/23/mee…
We're syncing. Oh wait, we're not, we're connecting. Oh wait, we need your help with the configuration. Oh wait, maybe you need to update this program.
I even had one with 5¼-inch floppies
You may be old but, are you this old?
I find it mildly amusing how mathematicians are currently clinging onto the hope that there is something special about their creativity that AI will not also be able to pull off in a year or two.
I’m genuinely worried that in search of efficiency, writing will be seen as a waste of time by teammates and managers
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
Ceremonial drinking cup from ancient Persia, circa 6th century BCE.
bad ass!
I was at the Retro Support Console 3rd floor Building 30 #OTD running TEIs in case you needed to abort the mission and come back to earth.
We removed some marketing bs from our website and it got magically better. Funny how that works!
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
Yes YES 💯
This is officially my favorite tweet, ever. @levelsio doing $248K/mo without knowing what state is. It's proof that solving problems and execution is way more important than whatever you’re currently procrastinating on.
Instant 🧡 buy and I'd go case-less to boot because why not
The iPhone 17 Pro series is expected to come in a new vibrant orange colour. What do you think of it? Image courtesy of @MacRumors