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joshu

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I'm an angel investor in ~ 250 startups. Previously founded del.icio.us.

2006-current: Angel investor in ~ 250 startups. http://angel.co/joshu

2013: Tasty Labs was acquired by Walmart Labs.

2011: CEO and co-founder of Tasty Labs.

2009-2010: I worked at Google.

2006-2008: At Yahoo! Social Search.

2005: Delicious acquired by Yahoo!

2003-2005: I wrote Delicious in my spare time.

2000-2005: Analyst/Quant at Morgan Stanley.

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joshu··on Exapunks (2018)
that's all true. i'm not really trying to get a huge audience, just make a fun internet thing...
joshu··on Exapunks (2018)
hooray! one potential user, market validated
joshu··on Exapunks (2018)
I've been writing a game off and on that's sort of at the intersection of a Zachtronics game and... Starcraft? I guess? With some Factorio in there, for good measure.

The idea is that you have to break into and exfiltrate data from a laboratory that uses their own transputer-like architecture. Write a mobile program to explore the network, another to start migrating the data, and so on. Migrate too hard and the humans notice and reboot the network, kicking you out. There could be other players in there too. Of course, the nodes run the lab's terrible version of Forth. There's no UI, you connect via a TCP socket, and are expected to write your own tooling.

I'm not sure if this is a good idea or if I'm having a psychotic break.

joshu··on QSOE: QNX-inspired OS with dual-kernel architecture
Where are you based, I can get you something beefier?

I got a Tang Primer for one of my own projects recently.

joshu··on QSOE: QNX-inspired OS with dual-kernel architecture
Use litex to define/build a riscv soc-on-fpga, boot qsoe instead of Linux on said fpga?
joshu··on QSOE: QNX-inspired OS with dual-kernel architecture
will this work with liteX? fascinating project
joshu··on Project Fetch: Phase Two
stop trying to make fetch happen
joshu··on Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further
i can't decide if i want the monochrome or color one
joshu··on I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
fun fact, I originally came up with this idea for the “save to delicious” button. i think there was even a patent filed.

Usage-wise, nobody used them at all.

joshu··on Waymo Premier
camino and san antonio is exactly the problem. my house and office are both off san antonio so it sends me 29 minutes out of the way.
joshu··on Waymo Premier
i had a bunch of good rides and then one highly baffling route where it got off the road it was on to a parallel road, only to get back in the same road a few blocks later. this is literally within a few hundred feet of Waymo HQ so i don’t understand how this could go unnoticed.

i haven’t used it since.

the 25 minute pickup times don’t help.

edit: i just checked the route. 27 minutes for pickup and it diverts 20 minutes out of the way. wtf?

joshu··on Three of our worst VC stories
i raised twice from USV. class acts all around. too many stories to count, but they always had my back.
joshu··on Three of our worst VC stories
partner meeting
joshu··on GTA 6 Developers Unionize
we're probably going to have AGI before GTA 6
joshu··on Mini Micro Fantasy Computer
i haven’t seen hdmi on esp32. any example projects?
joshu··on Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery
iirc the apple color porshes were kremer k935s?

i was actually at laguna for this: https://sportscardigest.com/le-mans-winning-porsche-935-k3-s...

joshu··on XOXO Festival Archive
i regret that i had the opportunity to speak at the last xoxo but was trapped by having to speak at another conference.
joshu··on Stephen's Sausage Roll remains one of the most influential puzzle games
patrick’s parabox, too
joshu··on Stephen's Sausage Roll remains one of the most influential puzzle games
what are some other games that belong to this group?
joshu··on A Brief History of Fish Sauce
it hasn't updated in a while but i quite like this blog: https://www.culinarycrush.biz/all/will-it-garum
joshu··on The simple geometry behind any road
Relevant: https://youtu.be/jvPPXbo87ds and https://youtu.be/aVwxzDHniEw
joshu··on Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer
ported my random glyph generator to this method using pytorch timm and... it works! very cool
joshu··on Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer
anyone know how this works? i assume just rasterizing and embedding?
joshu··on Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example
i liked how https://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-picture... uses color visualization to explain
joshu··on Every GPU That Mattered
sgi? evans and sutherland? gl came from sgi originally!

this is just slop

joshu··on CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
brackets aren’t really the best way to figure this out, is it? makes a lot of assumptions about human preferences that probably don’t actually hold. something like ELO might be better.
joshu··on Alpha Micro AM-1000E and AM-1200
How did they get memory protection on 68000?
joshu··on Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software
how is it that logitech software is such awful trash
joshu··on Runners who churn butter on their runs
i've made cultured butter. you want to use the correct strain. i buy a buttermilk culture specifically
joshu··on Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has ignited a passion again
all the insane and/or speculative projects that i never did because they would require heavy lift but with vague outcomes are now in progress. it's glorious.
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