Nate Ritter

blog.railway.comSecurity Disclosure: Wednesday October 21st | Railway BlogRailway detected anomalous activity involving systems that store customer environment variables and recommends your immediate attention

29 Jan

Replying to @nateritter.com

The 0 to 1 work is some of the hardest work there is. I can’t believe I’ve been doing this stuff fo 25+ years. The biggest wins I’ve had though have been optimizing. Revenue, tech, whatever. Give it to me. I’ll make it fly.

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P(aul) Frazee

@pfrazee.com

If you're a railway customer, you need to jump on this immediately. "We strongly recommend that you immediately roll all environment variables, including any API keys, stored in Railway" blog.railway.com/p/security-d...

Big day for hackers. PHP, NodeJS, TLS. Check the sites you host. Update security patches. Stay safe out there.

nightshade →home, for now@nightshade.technology

details leaked. this vulnerability is a full unauthenticated unconditional remote code execution exploit against any service running on a PHP version from 5.4 until latest yeah if anything deserves CVSS 11, this is it. this is CATACLYSMICALLY bad.

Question: I use the "For You" tab here in Bluesky. How do I prime/juice it to tune it better?

Similar here. I just wanted to create value and exchange some of it for money. And then exchange that for time. Code just used to have the biggest distribution channel and was something hard so not everyone could do it. The game is the same. The pieces changed.

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I've been quietly running a human vs bot test behind the scenes at an org with self-learning/self-updating techniques. Humans have been ahead so far. Still getting better too. But bots are now as good as humans were and still climbing. (Humans also using AI in background). The future is here.

These stats alone lead to questions, but there are more checks and graphs than this behind the scenes that I can't share.

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Any other Pickleheads users and pickleball players on Bluesky? pickleheads.com

The real tell that Bluesky feels like OG Twitter... I just had an extremely interesting real call with @bencurtis.com Interesting people. Interesting topics. Positive environment. Need I say more?

People don't buy features, they buy outcomes, even if they try to build inferior products themselves.

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Elon realizes Grok sux

CTOs and founders: Think back to the last time you changed how your team ships code, whether that was review, process, tooling, or hiring. What happened right before you decided to change it?

Follow-up on PR reviews: Every founder who answered had already built their own fix. AI pre-review, bot-vs-human triage, review dashboards. One said the hard part wasn't the tech. Devs fought giving up human review even though they all hate reviewing. So who's still stuck with PRs waiting weeks?

Great answers so far. Now flip it: Whose team is still stuck? Where do PRs wait a week or more for review?

Nate Ritter@nateritter.com

How are all you CTOs handling the increase in PR reviews?

How are all you CTOs handling the increase in PR reviews?

Insta-purchase.

Jason Cohen@asmartbear.com

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I don’t want to build a software factory. I want a customer factory.

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Fun times.

Literally showing up and being nice and helpful where people are mean (YouTube comments, Reddit, cliquey private groups) will win you customers. The bar is very low in some places.

7 Sept

Your SaaS finally has real cash in the bank. Now you're hunting. Would you still want it if the money weren't there? If not, be careful because it was the cash that created the itch.

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7 Sept

writings.founderlabs.ioBeing Stoic when the Money Starts FlowingThe trap when things start going right

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31 Aug

Wrote the follow-up to my partnerships piece. This one's about the conversation – why walking into the first meeting with a proposal kills the deal, and why you need to figure out what the partner is focused on before you pitch anything at all. Same product, wrong currency = a waste of time. Link ↓

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31 Aug

writings.founderlabs.ioUse Partners to Increase your DistributionWhat to say once you've built the list

20 Aug

"Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities" - Voltaire

12 Aug

I mean, really. AI is amazing. (actual travel data from 4 sources being turned into a map-based travel journal). Time in our RV around the US in orange, and flights in blue.

12 Aug

It syncs with a sidebar on the left (not shown) that has specifics, including vlog videos, notes, photos, links, and other resources from the time in the area or along the journey.

12 Aug

Now it zooms in/out with aggregated icons as numbers like the real estate apps for places where there is a collection of stops. So freaking cool.

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Jason Cohen

@asmartbear.com

Replying to @nateritter.com

Average and not human. We'd rather see a human make a video/blog/podcast imperfectly than an AI do it "perfectly", regardless of one's definition of "perfect." Just as we don't want computers play chess, even though they're all better than us.

With attention diminishing, building getting easier, and the rise of the comparison algos, the things we will say have quality will be those we spend an inordinate amount of time to produce. This is why you hate AI writing. Not because it's wrong. But because it's easy and average.

Outliers spend time on deliberate practice. This is why domain experts get better results from AI than generalists. We know quality when we see it. But doing it ourselves is not the same thing as seeing it in others. So commit yourselves to mastery. Go all in. Be obsessed. Practice deliberately.

It's the only way you'll stand out. (Hint: This post is not about AI)

The highest quality will continue to require mastery, even if AI assists. The expert still shoots an arrow at a target, just like a novice does. But the expert lets unconscious dynamic quality take over, after years of discerning, filtering, strengthening, repeating.

I'm dying inside right now. Sad.

31 July

Build something 100 people love, not something 1M people kind of like. ~ Brian Chesky

24 July

About to be 3 days offline. It's weird to be nervous/excited about not seeing the next AI feature get released over the weekend. Digital detox, here we come.

23 July

The testable unit is (offer x channel) as a pair. Every test is a distribution test.

13 July

I took 3 years to switch out of startups, do consulting, and travel with my family. Sometimes a break is needed We did some stuff in Scotland. Watch the long form video if you need some rest. youtu.be/fr7off8Sov0 S3E8 - Living in Scotland for A Month

8 July

If you want to be great at something, you have to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Over-performance necessitates getting uncomfortable.

8 July

BTW, this is just table stakes to being good. Not causal.

7 July

I love my kids but if I have to hear of one more story about a VR game called Gorilla Tag….

27 June

I’m convinced this morning that my love language is not creating shit for me to maintain or clean up.

19 June

@andrewbeeston.com 🤝 Good luck sir. 🇦🇺 v 🇺🇸