Manny Becerra

Tuned in to @vercel.com Ship 2025 earlier this week from The Big Island… so friggin good. Excellent job @rauchg.blue @leerob.com @evilrabbit.bsky.social and the many other Vercilians behind it including the developer and partner communities!

Manny’s Ticket Vercel Ship 2025

Let's go - and ship w/@vercel.com vercel.com/ship/ticket/...

Progress doesn't wait. Someone, somewhere in your world, is waiting for a leader to step up — to take ownership, solve a problem or chart a path forward. Why not you? Now go — make it happen.

#BiasForAction

Agree, it’s so good Josh

Excited to support Bluesky’s growth. Domains ftw!

Winter is Coming (Circa 2022; Reno) 🤶🏼❄️

⇰ exp.nv.guide

#Reno #Neon #SantaCrawl

Goodbye, Twitter. Here's how you can find and follow me: Subscribe to my RSS feed Sign up for the Big Medium Newsletter Follow me on Threads Follow me on Bluesky Follow me on Mastodon Connect on Li...

✎ Goodbye, Twitter. It's heartbreaking to have to walk away from a place that's been such a crucial part of my career and life. Read me: bradfrost.com/blog/post/go...

Mind the Gap: Foundation Models and the Covert Proliferation of Military Intelligence, Surveillance, and Targeting Discussions regarding the dual use of foundation models and the risks they pose have overwhelmingly focused on a narrow set of use cases and national security directives-in particular, how AI may enab...

Instead of crafting solutions for hypothetical harms, we advocate focusing on already existing and very significant safety issues--namely AI’s reliance on personal data & the vulnerabilities created by foundation models' use in nat’l security. 2/

arxiv.org/abs/2410.14831

‘night dan 😴🌌

How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (Vercel's CEO) Listen to this episode from In Depth on Spotify. Guillermo Rauch is the CEO of Vercel, a frontend-as-a-service product that was valued at $2.5b in 2021. Vercel serves customers like Uber, Notion and Z...

For my #entrepreneur peeps, if you're looking for PMF, tune in to this interview with @rauchg.blue (@vercel.com); it's good and Guillermo's a good dude too:

▶ links.mannyb.io/vercel-pmf-w...

Indeed 💔

"The goal of a design system is to help its parent organization achieve its goals more efficiently and consistently with the least possible burden.

Adoption is a part of that, but it’s equipment used for the journey, not the destination." — @danmall.bsky.social

The rest of Dan's write-up was🔥

Signal president Meredith Whittaker rejects ‘mass surveillance’ U.K. law Whittaker said Signal would not abide by the proposed law, and highlighted concerns about privacy and the need for tech leaders to take a stand against socially accepted surveillance.

Signal president @meredithmeredith.bsky.social says the company will not comply with the proposed U.K. ‘mass surveillance’ law requiring mandatory message scanning before

https://fortune.com/2023/07/13/signal-president-mass-surveillance-uk-law/

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I really enjoy creating presentation decks and sharing a compelling story; I can get in the zone foreva

Aerial view of the Reno Rodeo at the Reno-Sparks Livestock Event Center with Soarks in the far background (June 24, 2023)

Aerial view of the Reno Rodeo at the Reno-Sparks Livestock Event Center with downtown Reno and the Sierra Nevadas in the distant background (June 24, 2023)

Aerial view of the Reno Rodeo at the Reno-Sparks Livestock Event Center adjacent to the carnival rides (June 24, 2023)

Reno Rodeo 2023. One of the few events in which folks from all backgrounds in the community come together for a bucking good time. Dig it 🤠

View toward the top of a mountain where the Sun surrounded by a few clouds seemingly awaits.

Beautiful evening for hill training ⛰️

Nice write up y’all and a continued source of what’s possible 🙌🏽✨

DAIR, Credo AI and Signal Foundation on AI Ethics Dr. Alex Hanna, Director of Research, Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), Navrina Singh, Founder & CEO, Credo AI and Meredith Whittaker, President, Signal Foundation discuss the ethics of AI wit...

Insightful and moving panel discussion on AI Ethics:

These models can perpetuate histories of marginalization and inequality to who gets to use them... - Meredith Whittaker

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2023-06-22/dair-credo-ai-and-signal-foundation-on-ai-ethics?srnd=all&sref=gni836kR

Happ Solstice ☀️🥶

Another rainy day in Reno. The past week has felt like the PNW in a place that rarely ever gets this special treatment 🌧️⚡️

excelente

Ay Dios 😂

Hope y’all peeps had a nice day✌🏽

Instead of coding, designing or wrangling whatever techie related thingy is usually on the horizon, I spent the day installing our new induction stove top with a custom mount. Wrangling electrical can be nerve wrecking as well, but I’m pretty happy and proud of how it all turned out ✨

Happy Pride Month Adam

Good stuff Kathy, congrats 🎉

Trees are amazing 🌳

RSC From Scratch. Part 1: Server Components · reactwg/server-components · Discussion #5 RSC From Scratch. Part 1: Server Components In this technical deep dive, we'll implement a very simplified version of React Server Components (RSC) from the scratch. This deep dive will be publishe...

ok there we go. if you’ve been curious about what React Server Components are (it’s a little bit nerdy), i wrote just about that. you should be able to follow if you have some react — or perhaps even just web experience. questions welcome. https://github.com/reactwg/server-components/discussions/5

Highly recommend this long read from @meredithmeredith.bsky.social Relevant to AI discussions.