Zach Holman

Prevailing sentiment is to treat agents like a "very smart intern", but I feel like that's exactly wrong. I treat it like "the dweeb who only has read a specific RFC for the last 30 years". I no longer get stuck for days on some dumb technicality that's blocking me.

we’ll see! not sure if i’ll publish this one or not

back doing my first talk in eight years 🤘

writing a new talk for the first time in nearly a decade and i'm really off to a great start imo

I think Republicans are overestimating liberals' emotional attachment to Bill Clinton.

can't believe nas just dropped a track named "git ready" when he could have used "git init" instead

It’s amusing seeing all the “[project] is moving off of GitHub” posts on Hacker News lately. When I first started there, HN had near-constant “[project] is moving to GitHub!” posts. It’s the life of software. Improve or die.

Hella excited to be joining the ownership of Serie A’s Cagliari. Some real over-the-moon excitement for the club and for The Island. LFG!

i mean that’s not how this works but okay

Zach Holman Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

zachholman.com decided to redo the blog for maybe the tenth time. turns out if you write every now and then and do it for over fifteen years that leads to a shit ton of posts, wowza. how did you all listen to me for so long?

Just finished up a two-month jury duty stint and I’m really realizing how much solo projects depend on inertia and motivation. You take a break and it takes ages to get back in the swing of things.

Added a free/busy calendar to Calendearing this morning: calendearing.com — so now you can have a more public calendar without any of your personal data visible.

1p has been parsing forms a lot worse over the years, and the existence of forced email 2fa has been super annoying

not very well

will check it!

that’s how i do

The year is 2013:

- password managers worked
- you could get most TV content from one or two streaming services
- you could paste links into chats and previews would actually unfurl correctly
- google results contained actual search results

Taking Money off the Table Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

Taking money off the table: zachholman.com/posts/money-...

Wrote a bit this morning about tender offers and that "oh god do I sell my stock?" decision startup employees face.

Single hardest thing in computer science: getting the people who wanted to beta test your software to actually beta test your software.

I see endless people dragging WNBA & NWSL teams for “losing money” (“the NBA is subsidizing the WNBA”, etc)… but the Yankees, Clippers, Mets, Everton, Barcelona, etc aren’t losing money… they’re “investing in the club”.

Just can’t *quite* put my finger on the difference here.

fox, always with their one-track mind

i wanted to capture the sicko audience too

No, but I wanted to come up with something normies might use

Shipping Calendearing Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

I built a calendar again! Sort of. This one is super tiny: take all the bunch of calendars you might have, and then spit out a single URL that you can share with others.

Here's a post: zachholman.com/posts/calend...

And here's Calendearing, the product:
calendearing.com

yeah; I’m pretty excited about the EU Inc stuff happening- sounds like there’s a lot of people working to streamline things over there

It's going to end up taking 1x-2x longer to get my new LLC registration and EIN than it was to create the actual code and product for a new company. Wild.

I think the funniest thing that best describes the iPhone 17 Pro is that Apple doesn't even let you compare it against the iPhone 16 Pro. It... would not look that impressive.

i don’t care about the liquid glass hot takes in iOS 26; the single greatest thing about these betas is it hides every single political spam text i get

not all legal docs are created equal

wild that we all used to just raw dog legal PDFs instead of dropping them into chatgpt to get an understanding of them before signing