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Engineering and security fiend, CEO @havocshield. @Techstars Chicago 2020. Please send coffee. Tweets are sometimes @frank and always my @own.

Joined December 2008
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Brian Fritton retweeted
Replying to @DeptofWar
Imagine the last thing you hear before sacrificing yourself for the IDF is a speech by Jake Paul 💀
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this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
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This is one of the clearest explanations of how tech companies can set themselves up for failure right now. “The Senior Engineers Are Quiet Right Now. That Is Not a Good Sign.“ by Noah Byteforge on Medium: medium.com/@noahblogwriter20…
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This is what entrepreneurialism feels like. teapaw.org/tannokasa9/status/2079…
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This looks phenomenal!
Introducing OpenShip. An open-source application platform for building, deploying, operating, and scaling applications on infrastructure you own. Replace deployment tools, managed services, and infrastructure workflows with one open-source platform. Available today: - Mail Server (Built in. One click). • Runs on your own VPS • Unlimited domains • Unlimited mailboxes • Modern webmail included • Connect with Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, or any IMAP/SMTP client • Send email directly from your applications using SMTP • No mailbox subscriptions or API fees • High email deliverability - Deployment: • Deploy any stack • Git-based deployments • Zero-downtime deployments • One-click rollbacks • Development, Staging, and Production environments • Multi-branch deployments with isolated environments • Deploy to VPSs, dedicated servers, cloud VMs, or your homelab - Services: Provision the services your applications need in one click. Replace multiple managed providers with services running on your own infrastructure. • Supabase • PostgreSQL • MySQL • MariaDB • MongoDB • Redis • MinIO • Meilisearch • Qdrant • RabbitMQ • Kafka • ClickHouse • Elasticsearch ...and deploy any other service alongside your applications. - Operate: • Live deployment logs • Live request logs • Real-time traffic analytics • Automated backups • Monitoring • Secrets management • Domains • Automatic SSL • Environment variables • Scheduled jobs • Health checks -Multi Environments: • Separate Development, Staging, and Production environments • Deploy every branch independently • Test changes before production • Isolated services, secrets, and configuration per environment - Security & Teams: • Team management • Role-based access control • IP allow/block rules • Rate limiting • Security rules - Developer Experience: • Web dashboard • Native desktop application • CLI • REST API • MCP support for AI agents, just add the mcp and your agent can do the work for you • Manage your infrastructure without living in SSH - Coming Soon: • Multi-server clustering for applications and databases • One-click load balancing • Horizontal scaling across multiple servers • Built-in high availability and failover • Scale from a single VPS to a cluster with the same workflow • Just add servers. OpenShip handles the rest. Open source.
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I thought this was just a joke. Then I tried hiring an FDE. The overlap between “great engineer” and “someone you’d confidently put in front of a customer” is extremely small.
forward deployed engineer just means the guy is not fucking autistic
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To everyone celebrating the first flight on Qatar Force One today, understand what you are actually applauding. A foreign government handed the sitting President of the United States a $400 million plane. American taxpayers then paid to retrofit it, with an estimated cost of at least another $400 million (some estimates far higher), for security and communications work in a Texas hangar since last September. When Trump leaves office, the plane does not stay with the government. Ownership transfers to his presidential library foundation. In other words, he keeps it. You are being asked to treat pure corruption as normal, to shrug at a President personally profiting from a foreign gift the taxpayers paid to upgrade. In any other administration this would be the scandal that ends a presidency. With Trump, it’s Wednesday. abcnews.com/Politics/trump-t…
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Then Jesus said unto the sick, “you better have insurance.” Then Jesus said unto the stranger, “are you here legally?” Then Jesus said unto the hungry, “my taxes better not be paying for these loaves and fishes.” Then Jesus said unto the poor, “this is your own fault.”
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The reflecting pool is now green, the color of all the money wasted on it. Painting the bottom has apparently heated the water and accelerated algae growth. Pure Genius. people.com/reflecting-pool-g…
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