🙏When my house burned down, my next-door neighbors were also impacted. One of the people who lived there was an older, autistic gentleman who loved his baseball card collection & classic, B&W 50's/60's TV shows on DVD. If anyone would like to donate items for him, my PO Box is:

My good friend and colleague Sarah Perez is also on Threads, Mastodon & Bluesky experienced a massive fire at home. Please help if you can. gofundme.com/f/yd78gx-sarah…

Once again on a Saturday: here’s the latest edition of my newsletter. This time it’s about Stack Overflow and LLMs — and my journey down the productivity rabbit hole. siliconfilter.com/the-stack-over…

Hire Catherine Shu 🧶. Full stop.

Just got laid off from TechCrunch — If you're hiring for a reporter / editor with experience across tech, culture, science and transportation, lmk! email is [email protected]

Personal news: I was laid off at TechCrunch today along with a handful of Ops, Biz and editorial folks. All the best.

TechCrunch has been my home since 2008. I grew up at TC. I traveled the world with TC. I became the fucking best at TechCrunch and it's their loss.

DMs open.

Btw that Matt Burns I mentioned? He's also up for grabs! What a bounty TC has delivered for you, deep-pocketed employers, today.

Laid off from TechCrunch , the website I built over the past decade with the help of many wonderful humans including Jordan Crook, Panzer, Alexia Bonatsos, and Matt Burns to name just a few. Open to work if you're hiring, and also snap up morgan sung and Harri 🏳️‍⚧️ both also impacted

Great to spend some time with our Googlers before going on stage with Frederic Lardinois to talk about AI in the cloud at #TCDisrupt2023 .

NEW: TechCrunch has acquired StrictlyVC
— Its founder Connie Loizos (@Cookie) will lead TechCrunch as GM & Editor-in-Chief
— Deal shows Yahoo’s commitment to tech coverage
— Loizos says TC will lean into coverage of startups/VC world
Story on Axios
axios.com/2023/08/29/tec…

Reminder: if someone tells you they can 100% get your company covered by a specific news site, they’re lying.

@haje's story below is scammer-focused, so it’s diff, but I’ve heard from founders that some PR firms “guarantee” that they’ll get their clients covered by TechCrunch or…

Nach etwas mehr als acht Jahren und 420 Episoden geekweek 😳😅 haben Frederic Lardinois und ich unseren Podcast unter ein neues Banner überführt 🏴‍☠️🤓 Seit heute Morgen gibt es schon die dritte Episode GOA, wie immer live und „in Farbe“ produziert 🎙️

Had a good chat w/ Frederic Lardinois a few weeks ago at Collision. See his TechCrunch piece to read how Akamai is challenging legacy cloud models by opening the door to a modern, distributed design for cloud computing techcrunch.com/2023/07/12/aka…

Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux techcrunch.com/2023/07/11/why… < giant, detailed writeup by Frederic Lardinois of this important story. In cloud, we like all the distros, including our own Container-Optimized Linux OS.

Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux tcrn.ch/3O9tsTu by Frederic Lardinois

The ratio of organic tweets vs. auto-posts in my feed now feels like 1:10.

Threads' algorithmic feed makes Twitter's look smart. No crappy ads but thirsty brands (and celebs) instead.

In the aftermath of the pairs airshow, the airlines industry seems to be in good health. But even though airline stocks are performing well at the moment, they are subject to lots of volatile factors. Russ Mould argues it is better to trade these stocks, rather than own them

Excited to be speaking on the new SaaS stage at @techcrunch Disrupt in SF this Sept! Alongside an all-star line-up @whitneybouck cathy gao 🙋🏻‍♀️ Michelle Zatlyn Matthew Prince 🌥 Thomas Dohmke Ines Chami david desanto Navrina Singh Itamar Sivan 🤩 thanks MVP Frederic Lardinois 🫶 techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/ann…

Suddenly got very quiet on here.