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Dustin Curtis

@dcurtis
44 posts
2026-02-27
If you're not a software engineer, this should be a wakeup call to what has happened in the past few months with AI engineering tools. Everything has changed. Now we get to watch as companies learn how to either use these tools in earnest or slowly fall behind.
2026-02-27 View on X
CNBC

Block says it is laying off 4,000+ of its 10,000+ employees, saying AI tools have changed “what it means to build and run a company”; XYZ jumps 15%+

Block said Thursday it's laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its headcount.

If you're not a software engineer, this should be a wakeup call to what has happened in the past few months with AI engineering tools. Everything has changed. Now we get to watch as companies learn how to either use these tools in earnest or slowly fall behind.
2026-02-27 View on X
Reuters

Block reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $6.25B, gross profit up 24% to $2.87B, driven by a 33% surge in Cash App, and forecasts Q1 gross profit up 22% to $2.8B

Block (XYZ.N) on Thursday said it will cut over 4,000 jobs, nearly half its workforce, as part of an overhaul …

2025-05-16
“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.” — Alan Kay Apple has lost the plot. https://www.youtube.com/...
2025-05-16 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple rolls out CarPlay Ultra, the next generation of CarPlay, in new and existing Aston Martins in North America after months of delays, before a wider rollout

here's all the new features Aston Martin USA : A world first as Aston Martin debuts next-generation Apple CarPlay Ultra® Emma Roth / The Verge : Apple's CarPlay Ultra is finally he...

2025-05-15
“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.” — Alan Kay Apple has lost the plot. https://www.youtube.com/...
2025-05-15 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple rolls out CarPlay Ultra, the next generation of CarPlay, in new and existing Aston Martins in North America after months of delays, before a wider rollout

After months of delays, Apple today officially announced the launch of next-gen CarPlay, now with a new brand name of ‘CarPlay Ultra’.

2025-03-25
23andMe has filed for bankruptcy. Good riddance. The company constantly ignored obvious, huge opportunities for improving the health and understanding of humanity with genetic testing, and instead spent years executing poorly on insignificant, mundane junk. Fast and complete
2025-03-25 View on X
Bloomberg

23andMe files for bankruptcy to “maximize the value of its business”, and co-founder and CEO Anne Wojcicki steps down; 23andMe was valued at $3.5B in June 2021

Most corporations are not going to look out for your privacy.  And we now have a federal government intent on using your data for bad purposes. Frank Figliuzzi / @frankfigliuzzi : ...

2025-02-22
Apple should not have acquiesced—especially for an advanced western democracy like the UK. Weakening encryption is bad for humanity and something worth fighting to the bitter end.
2025-02-22 View on X
Bloomberg

Apple removes Advanced Data Protection for iCloud in the UK after the government ordered it to build a backdoor, something the company says it will never do

Better no security than a false sense of one. Ari Cohn / @aricohn.com : Apple's UK user data is now more vulnerable.  It's not Apple's fault; they're PROTECTING users by not giving...

2025-02-21
Apple should not have acquiesced—especially for an advanced western democracy like the UK. Weakening encryption is bad for humanity and something worth fighting to the bitter end.
2025-02-21 View on X
Bloomberg

Apple removes Advanced Data Protection in the UK for new users, pulling the optional E2EE feature rather than complying with the UK's order to build a backdoor

- Company removes Advanced Data Protection feature for UK users  — “We never will” build backdoor to user data, iPhone maker says

2025-02-05
For many years, I tried to build a brand around a dot. The dot follows you around, has some personality, and eventually becomes your companion. I could never quite get it right. So glad to see OpenAI execute on the idea so insanely well. This is awesome work.
2025-02-05 View on X
Wallpaper*

OpenAI unveils a visual rebrand, featuring a new bespoke typeface called OpenAI Sans, a refined “Blossom” logo, and a new color palette based in greys and blues

A new typeface, word mark, symbol and palette underpin all the ways in which OpenAI's technology interacts with the real world

2025-01-07
Dell getting rid of the Inspiron, XPS, and Latitude product names is great, because they were terrible. But why did they replace them with the exact same names Apple uses? It's bizarre. So many people must have been involved with this change—and none of them had the power, [image]
2025-01-07 View on X
The Verge

Dell rebrands its PCs as Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max, each with Base, Plus, and Premium tiers, killing names like XPS, Inspiron, Latitude, and Precision

someone came to me with “I heard it is discontinued, can you help me choosing a new laptop?”  —  what actually happened: they saw in the news that Windows XP was being discontinued...

2024-11-26
@elonmusk @paulg This is the dumbest product design decision made by X so far, and the suggested workaround is ridiculous and doesn't solve the problem.
2024-11-26 View on X
Mediaite

Elon Musk appears to confirm that X deprioritizes posts with links in their main text, to stop “lazy linking”, and tells users to “put the link in the reply”

Anyway, here's the biggest loser of all, admitting to throttling links and blaming the user for wanting to link:  —  https://www.mediaite.com/... Bluesky: @davidjoffe64.bsky.social...

2024-10-11
I thought the Robotaxi seats looked familiar—they're inspired by the Conn and Ops chairs on the bridge of the Enterprise-D. [image]
2024-10-11 View on X
Business Insider

Experts question the feasibility of Tesla's robotaxi plan, getting scale without rideshare partners, and cite Musk's history of missed FSD dates; TSLA down 7%+

- Tesla's driverless taxi plan has been met with skepticism over its feasibility and competition with rivals.

The Tesla event could have told a huge, inspiring story about the future, explained the philosophy behind what they're building, and then put everything into the context of how human life is going to change for the better.
2024-10-11 View on X
Business Insider

Experts question the feasibility of Tesla's robotaxi plan, getting scale without rideshare partners, and cite Musk's history of missed FSD dates; TSLA down 7%+

- Tesla's driverless taxi plan has been met with skepticism over its feasibility and competition with rivals.

The Tesla event could have told a huge, inspiring story about the future, explained the philosophy behind what they're building, and then put everything into the context of how human life is going to change for the better. Instead, Musk randomly and briefly showed off a couple
2024-10-11 View on X
Business Insider

Experts question the feasibility of Tesla's robotaxi plan, getting scale without rideshare partners, and cite Musk's history of missed FSD dates; TSLA down 7%+

- Tesla's driverless taxi plan has been met with skepticism over its feasibility and competition with rivals.

The Tesla event could have told a huge, inspiring story about the future, explained the philosophy behind what they're building, and then put everything into the context of how human life is going to change for the better.
2024-10-11 View on X
TechCrunch

Elon Musk unveils a Tesla Cybercab prototype, claims “you will be able to buy one” for under $30K, and expects the robotaxi to be in production “before 2027”

1,028,294 viewsStreamed live 6 hours ago  —  Lady: “I want two drinks” … Gabe Lerman / Pivot to AI : Elon's double nothingburger: robotaxis any year now, bro. And robots, bro. Trus...

The Tesla event could have told a huge, inspiring story about the future, explained the philosophy behind what they're building, and then put everything into the context of how human life is going to change for the better. Instead, Musk randomly and briefly showed off a couple
2024-10-11 View on X
TechCrunch

Elon Musk unveils a Tesla Cybercab prototype, claims “you will be able to buy one” for under $30K, and expects the robotaxi to be in production “before 2027”

1,028,294 viewsStreamed live 6 hours ago  —  Lady: “I want two drinks” … Gabe Lerman / Pivot to AI : Elon's double nothingburger: robotaxis any year now, bro. And robots, bro. Trus...

I thought the Robotaxi seats looked familiar—they're inspired by the Conn and Ops chairs on the bridge of the Enterprise-D. [image]
2024-10-11 View on X
TechCrunch

Elon Musk unveils a Tesla Cybercab prototype, claims “you will be able to buy one” for under $30K, and expects the robotaxi to be in production “before 2027”

1,028,294 viewsStreamed live 6 hours ago  —  Lady: “I want two drinks” … Gabe Lerman / Pivot to AI : Elon's double nothingburger: robotaxis any year now, bro. And robots, bro. Trus...

2024-10-02
@photomatt ... Really interesting term sheet. Is 8% of gross revenue a standard rate you request from other partners?
2024-10-02 View on X
The Verge

Automattic demanded an 8% cut of WP Engine's monthly revenue to use the WordPress trademark in a seven-year deal proposed on September 20; WP Engine declined

Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, asked rival hosting service WP Engine to hand over 8 percent of its revenue each month …

2024-09-27
Automattic's bizarre, unconvincing fight with WP Engine is bad for Wordpress, bad for open source software, and bad for the web. There has to be more to the story than a petty fight over disabling revision history. It makes no sense.
2024-09-27 View on X
The Register

Matt Mullenweg says WP Engine no longer has free WordPress.org access and directs WP Engine customers having trouble with their websites to WP Engine support

disrupting essential work for #WordPress users, agencies, freelancers, and plugin developers. Please read: https://wpenginestatus.com/... Brian Gardner / @bgardner : My heart is br...

2024-09-26
Automattic's bizarre, unconvincing fight with WP Engine is bad for Wordpress, bad for open source software, and bad for the web. There has to be more to the story than a petty fight over disabling revision history. It makes no sense.
2024-09-26 View on X
The Register

Matt Mullenweg says WP Engine no longer has free WordPress.org access and directs WP Engine customers having trouble with their websites to WP Engine support

WordPress on Wednesday escalated its conflict with WP Engine, a hosting provider, by blocking the latter's servers …

2024-09-01
This is the best overview of the Brazil/Musk/X dispute I've seen, and it appears well sourced. https://www.techdirt.com/... (Note to Techdirt: your choice to disrespect X by calling it “exTwitter” in this article does nothing to help the story or your readers, and it damages your
2024-09-01 View on X
Associated Press

Brazil blocks X, following an order from Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country

The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians …