Edward Thomson @ethomson
Product at @TrustVanta focusing on privacy and data security. Formerly @Vercel, @GitHub, @Microsoft. Maintainer of @libgit2. edwardthomson.com Cambridge, UK Joined April 2008-
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It’s October 1 — the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act takes effect today! Do you know where the personal data lives in your organization? What tools are you using to track this and maintain records?
Throughout my career, I’ve focused on developer tools… mostly because I checked the wrong box on a form once…
I don't understand why squash merging is not the default on GitHub. The other options make no sense, and just slow things down. Similarly, it's confusing that people *still* use `git merge`. It makes everything so complicated. Always rebase, never merge.
@jldec Personally, I'm a big v0 fan; it nailed a weird React server component refactoring that I had been struggling with.
@jldec He's used a variety of different tools, he regularly shoots me a slack describing the pros/cons of whatever he's using today.
I thought "vibe coding" was silly... until I watched my design counterpart — who has never written a line of code in his life — create a real outcome. Watching him succeed with these tools was the breakthrough for me to become a believer. What made vibe coding real for _you_?
@webprofusion Wow, that's incredible. a) which rowing machine? b) is it public / open source?
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Celebrating by watching @ethomson's really cool talk on hidden Git features and functionality at NDC London last week youtu.be/DZI0Zl-1JqQ
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Great talk by @ethomson about git Worth watching 📺 link in the comment 👇
Perhaps my finest contribution to Vercel was printing the LFG stickers.
@matheusfrndes @vercel In other words, if @rauchg was the original tastemaker behind Vercel, how did he get the rest of the company to think that way. Careful hiring? Indoctrination? Something else?
@matheusfrndes @vercel I’d love to unpack that another layer - how and why does it have great taste? And how do you keep an entire company having “good taste”? How do you scale tastemaking?
What’s an example of a developer tool with “great taste”? And why? What does that phrase mean to you?
Update: it didn’t arrive in March… new delivery date: September. A rare Amazon logistics failure, but what a complete failure it is.
Update: it has not yet arrived, but it still has a month to get here!
@rauchg @SwiftOnSecurity Finally; this is the year of macOS on the desktop.
@_sarahyo American in UK, the dream: I get US and UK holidays. In fact: there’s no such thing as a holiday.
@rauchg @bryan_johnson Guaranteed *only* five, or is five the low bar?
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