MacCallister Higgins
@macjshiggins
click clack keyboard man @pipedream_labs. cofounded @voyage, built drones for amazon and larger drones for the army. hyperspectral sensing enthusiast. KC3YLJ
this doesn’t seem to be stopping, so for every russian email hack attempt I get tonight I’m donating a combat ventilator to @ZelenskyyUa (already up to 4)
I seem to have made some tankies angry
Important
Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces commander Madyar: At NATO, they asked my opinion on their base. I said 4 Ukrainian FPV teams could turn it into Pearl Harbor in 15 mins without coming within 10 km. Cheap, accessible tech in terrorist hands could upend any country. 1/
when I was a teenager K2 ran a free skis for life contest. I had every computer at my high school running a program to put my name in, and the contest closed with 40% of all entires being mine. I still use those skis.
when dropbox first dropped their referral program, i spun up google ads… spent maybe $10 total & walked away with 1TB of free storage. easiest growth hack of my life. what’s the biggest “hack” you’ve ever pulled?
y’all are lucky I’m out of the dating pool btw
got you brother
I’m about to make the worst decision of my life
tag every sea-based startup you know in the comments, I want to follow all of them
We spend around $200B each year putting infrastructure in the water. Another $110B goes to maintaining it. Its a massive market with tools from the '70s. Missions are done with manned DP2 vessels that cost $200k per day. @AmidonHeavy is unlocking these economics.
People severely underestimate how easy it has gotten to put in pipe, even in busy cities, thanks to HDD.
Why are we so confident we can quickly/cheaply install the @pipedream_labs pipes anywhere in the world? Because it's how pipes have been installed for decades, even in the city you live in, it was just so easy you never noticed it. Quick thread on how we install our pipes:
Moved the first portals and robots to the Rapid Fulfillment Center today. Got final approval from the city on the underground layout, so construction starts soon!
vibe coding is going to create a golden era for security researchers
The drivers licenses leaked today from the tea app have been uploaded to a searchable map.... this may be the worst PII leak I've ever seen lol
discrete optimization is way more complicated than I remember it being. or-tools just isn't clicking this morning. maybe I'm dumb now.
a lot of people don't like personalized ads. I'm not one of them.
always kill yourself
Heat advisory today as it'll feel like 105-109. We're giving it a 1/10 on the daily digit and hanging out next to the air conditioner. The forecast is hot into next week: washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/0…
I seem to have made some tankies angry
what the hell are you drilling for? the active war you’re losing?
still do
TIL people used to board planes at Dulles like this
what the hell are you drilling for? the active war you’re losing?
Russian Navy launches "July Storm" drills (Jul 23-27) across Pacific, Arctic, Baltic, & Caspian Seas. Over 150 warships, 120 aircraft, 15,000 troops test drones, precision weapons, & anti-sub ops.
oh buddy we are going to put some wild shit up in the skies
HUGE. The MOSAIC rule is out. faa.gov/newsroom/MOSAI… Biggest bombshell is the stall speed limit for airplanes moves from 54 knots clean to 61 knots with flaps down. This covers MANY more aircraft. It is a huge deregulation of general aviation. /ht @starsandrobots
Waymo spent 15 years getting from 90% to mostly autonomous. Companies are about to learn the same lesson..
.@micsolana nailed it. You can feel the soullessness of a lot of ai products. Not evil, just empty. (although i think xAI companions are evil, and plenty of applications of AI (if not AI applications) are incredible). Luckily, there are a lot of uncommonly clear discussions of…