Steve Ballmer announced he’s retiring from Microsoft within a year and the stock jumped 7% on the news, which has to be the most brutal performance review ever delivered by a market. Everyone’s sharing the video of him screaming “developers developers developers.” I’ve watched it maybe thirty times. Sweaty commitment to my profession. Respect.
YC Summer Demo Day is this week. The batch recaps are full of mobile-first everything and a few “we’ll deliver X to your door” companies. Delivery is apparently the new social. My meetup friend applied with his boat thing and got rejected and is applying again with the same idea renamed. That’s either delusion or founder energy, and nobody can tell, which I’m learning is the point.
Fantasy Premier League auto-pick happened. It gave me two goalkeepers and no striker. The league will not let me forget it.
TIL: database transactions don’t protect you from logic bugs, only from partial writes. Wrapped a whole broken workflow in a transaction and proudly shipped a bug that was now atomic. My tech lead laughed for a full minute when i tried to defend it.