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CEO/cofounder (code search for every dev and company), married to , board member

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    Jul 9

    Why I love code (and how I started coding)

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    Oct 9

    .'s main writing environment isn’t , or even a speciality Markdown app- it’s VS Code. Learn how he leverages dev tools to write consistent, high-quality technical prose.

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  3. Oct 8

    And oh I wish that Google Docs natively supported Markdown.

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  4. Oct 8

    Doing Markdown text input right (huge +999 agree): Don't hide Markdown formatting chars. Just style them.

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    Oct 8

    We are so excited to share that has donated $1 million to Hack Club. 🚀💖 This gift will make so much more possible for Hack Clubbers. Learn about we're going to use it:

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    Oct 8
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    The HR folks make the world's most complete and helpful job position announcements. e.g.

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    Oct 7

    In 2020, our nimble team was made up of 50 employees- half of which were engineers. And we knew we needed a career development framework to scale. In this blog you don't just get a peek- you learn how we actually built it. ✨

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  8. Oct 6

    Love the distinction between "abstraction tools" and "complexity-exploring tools" introduced by in . Our Code Graph eng team's handbook page is finding this concept useful: .

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    Oct 6

    helping applying code formatting changes to 14 repositories. 🥰

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    Oct 4

    Unicode thanks Sourcegraph, our newest Silver Sponsor!

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    Oct 2

    Even writing a paper has become more fun with ! Less poring over long complicated documentations, more scanning of existing TeX files on the Web 🤓

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    Sep 28

    tbh is super smart marketing by . Learn about the internals of openvscode-server via showing what can do!

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    Sep 27

    Never understood the appeal of until today. It’s made onboarding to a new codebase spread across multiple repos 1000x easier. Such a pretty UI too 😍

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    Sep 27
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    This is an incredibly insightful read. I like the inspiring ideas for changing one's environment to get the most out of ourselves. Kudos to for promoting employee autonomy to allow them to experiment in this way.

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    Sep 27

    Just deployed on my desktop and it is very easy to get started with. I dig the work those folks are doing. It's by far one of my most used dev tools.

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  16. Sep 24

    I used this for a doc today at . I wrote Markdown in emacs and then *poof* turned it into a gdoc. Worked perfectly!

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    Sep 23

    Found one for you: 🙃 Still unclear why Copilot suggests that, though. Maybe from someone else's private code? 🤔

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  18. Retweeted
    Sep 22

    GitHub code search is such a PITA, was looking for some code definitions on GitHub, got frustrated by the quality of results. Switched to in another tab and BOOM, correct result in the first place. Great work by folks 🤘🏻

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  19. Retweeted
    Sep 21

    I want developers to understand the value of code search the way they understand the value of version control.

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    Sep 21

    "Sourcegraph Code Search - The Developers’ Treasure Trove" 🔥🚀 by

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  21. Retweeted
    Sep 21

    Amazing colleagues, a fully distributed team, building out in the open and a hugely transparent culture with the cherry on the top of a ten year exercise window for options at . What are you waiting for?

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