Brian Michel
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If you're looking to talk about software engineering or engineering management I've updated my open office hours with morning and evening slots (in EST) and would love to chat! Hit me up,
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Coming realllll soon to the Windows app....
(still needs a little polishing, but almost ready!)
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Can't believe we built a browser on Windows using Swift!
Arc on Windows is finally here.
No more waitlists, no more betas.
Download Arc today.
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People are going to dunk on Twitter for killing Fleets, but honestly killing high-visibility, not great products should be the norm. Not letting products become a junk drawer is hard, especially at scale.
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Now is the perfect time to bring back the Apple Cube since we have chips that do so much better with power consumption. I’d absolutely pick up an M2 Max Cube
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Tried to sign into
@JetBlue
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Started working on an idea I've had for a while yesterday. When I'm overwhelmed I love using an Eisenhower matrix to try to sort out what's actually important and not falling into the "everything is urgent" trap.
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Two weeks from this coming Friday is going to be my last day at Twitter 😔. It's been a fun and wild ride to help build up the NYC office and learn a whole lot about distributed teams.
My team and peers have been excellent, I'm so thankful for everything.
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Does anyone else use their nose with their Apple Watch, or is that just me?
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The feeling of seeing someone use the software that you’ve helped to build is still so so magical
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Yesterday was my 1 year anniversary of joining
@browsercompany
so I felt it was the right time to reflect a bit on how the last year has been and what it's been like to join a start up again.
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First day at a new job is basically like the first day of school, except you’re old and everyone is allowed to be on their phone.
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Shoutout to all the members who helped us get Arc for Windows 1.0 out the door
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Take that Google Authenticator and uhh… Cleanup: Phone Storage Cleaner??
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Next week is my last full week
@CashApp
, it's been a blast to get to work through a few different problem sets these last 2+ years. I've had the pleasure of helping the business and org grow in wonderful ways, but it's time for something new.
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We only love downward sloping lines when it comes to crash rates 📉
Gnarly crashes fixed! More perf improvements coming to
@arcinternet
soon!"
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I'm pumped to say that I'm going to be joining the great folks
@browsercompany
in the coming weeks! Looking forward to a little break between roles, but then diving in deep to make a better way to use the internet ❤️
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Do you ever just read your own Tweets, and are just like, damn, people are really missing out by not following me?
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Had to write an obituary for one of our fish today at the office. Probably my best piece of writing all year. RIP 🐟
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I don’t think I’ve grown a team as quickly as I have had to
@CashApp
, super fun to build out effective org structures and ship some rad stuff so soon into joining!
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☑️ Work email removed from phone
☑️ Vacation responder set for after my departure
☑️ EOY and peer feedback summarized and submitted
☑️ Desk cleaned out of personal belongings
☑️ Beta builds removed from phone
☑️ Send off drinks scheduled
☑️ Sadness setting in
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Ah yes, the three ways I prepare espresso; single cup, double cup, and Dreamcast.
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"Congratulations on being 35, your back hurts now."
- Me, to myself
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Really fun first week
@browsercompany
, got to get my hands dirty all around the codebase. Can’t wait for week 2! 🏄🏻♂️
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It's 8:51am on Monday, January 6th 2020. I have no job, I am making coffee and listening to Converge.
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Amazed no stable coin has emerged pegged to the value of these calculators, the one true currency
Got my daughter the king of graphing calculators for school, yes it still costs $120+ 🫠
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The irony that Apple Music's web experience is more stable and fast than the native application is not lost on me and hopefully not others
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Falling back in love with making things look like actual things!
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If you've ever wanted to re-shape the core payment experience on
@CashApp
, this Tweet is for you! I'm hiring iOS and Android engineers to join us in figuring out the future of how humans send money. DMs are open, and here are some direct links 🧵
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Who the fuck asked Science?
Science says dogs aren't really that special compared to other animals
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Love to come home and no one is on the roof except me and my beer
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Made dumplings instead of dealing with wifi again (please don't judge my baby crimping technique 🥺)
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I am now taking seltzer & coffee endorsement deals
Here’s what iOS 16’s new battery percent indicator should have looked like
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It’s incredibly humbling being at a new job where you know nothing which is really scary, but also invigorating since there’s so much to learn
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Now knowing that Yahoo was also thinking about buying a video service makes so much more sense why they pushed us to do dumb video shit.
However the best “yahoo doesn’t understand” moment is when an executive they installed wanted to make Tumblr “the next PDF.”
Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer reveals she regrets buying Tumblr instead of Netflix or Hulu.
Yahoo bought Tumblr in 2013 for $1.1 billion, but by the time it was sold in 2019, the value of the platform was reportedly down to $3 million.
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First day
@twitter
today, pretty excited to meet everyone and learn how it all works under the hood!
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Clearly the high point of my career at Twitter is getting people good stickers and pins 😂
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Seeing friends quit working at Tumblr makes me feel incredibly happy for them, but bummed for what I remember Tumblr as and what it was important for millions of people exploring online. The company is a shell of what it was and would be better served completely imploding.
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I have successfully completed my goal of giving everyone feedback that has asked before leaving the company!
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I usually shave my beard every year (but never got around to it last year) and today is also my Mom's birthday so this is my gift to her 😀
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I realized today that most people I know in my life have only ever seen me in the same pair of glasses for the last 10 years. That changes today.
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Finally fucking around with the flashes I got.
The setup: The portrait:
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Interesting to see people finding out that most engineering teams are smaller than they think and lots of the good work that they see is primarily people that advocate and do extra work in the free time they likely don't have
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I only have 1 more set of student loans to pay off, which I think I can do very soon. TBH I never really thought this day would come.
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Recruiters that send emails that are like “hello {person} your experience seems good, please click this link to schedule a time to chat” have gotta be kidding, right? Where’s the romance?! Where’s the emotion?!
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Cannot believe my friends didn't tell me this was a bad look
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If you haven’t read this thread you should. I’ve known Rachel as a friend for over a decade and know how much she cares about her jobs and how hard she has worked to be in tech. She is a good person, and this fucking sucked.
Here is what happened to me at Microsoft and why I am not at all surprised about the email that was going around internally. thread....
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Today is a big day. I finally changed my
@SwarmApp
avatar from roughly 10 years ago. Please say some kind words for younger, cooler me.
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When your Mom sends you a care package on the day before your birthday to work!
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One year at Square working on
@CashApp
today. So much we’ve done as a team to scale, but so much more to be done. Certainly a bit of drinking from the firehouse that I still have to do though :)
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Some good crazy on the subway tonight of someone telling the entire car he was going to kill another member. Not fight, kill. And I’m just like, uhh, man, c’mon my day was really hard someone chained themselves to our front door, just fucking relax.
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Crazy to think we’re gonna have a baby this time next week
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Last interview done for the day, officially on vacation for the next 2 weeks 😎
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….and I’m on vacation for the next 3 week. Huge shoutouts to my teams and leads for being absolutely excellent and letting me be able to do this!
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Kind of crazy to think that Arc for macOS is at 1.0 today. Feels great, and excited to ship Windows!
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Just saw an email that opened with "Happy March 366th 2020 everyone." and it really fucked me up.
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So much for avoiding politics at work, huh?
1/ Starting today, Coinbase will begin integrating our crypto policy efforts right into our app. These will help our 103M verified users get educated on the crypto positions held by political leaders where they live.
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Feels like we're entering the "no nudes tumblr" era of Twitter
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I'm looking at furniture, please say a prayer for my wallet 🙏
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This is good
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