Hella excited to be joining the ownership of Serie A’s Cagliari. Some real over-the-moon excitement for the club and for The Island. LFG!

i mean that’s not how this works but okay

zachholman.com decided to redo the blog for maybe the tenth time. turns out if you write every now and then and do it for over fifteen years that leads to a shit ton of posts, wowza. how did you all listen to me for so long?

Just finished up a two-month jury duty stint and I’m really realizing how much solo projects depend on inertia and motivation. You take a break and it takes ages to get back in the swing of things.

Added a free/busy calendar to Calendearing this morning: calendearing.com — so now you can have a more public calendar without any of your personal data visible.

The year is 2013: - password managers worked - you could get most TV content from one or two streaming services - you could paste links into chats and previews would actually unfurl correctly - google results contained actual search results

Taking money off the table: zachholman.com/posts/money-... Wrote a bit this morning about tender offers and that "oh god do I sell my stock?" decision startup employees face.

Single hardest thing in computer science: getting the people who wanted to beta test your software to actually beta test your software.

I see endless people dragging WNBA & NWSL teams for “losing money” (“the NBA is subsidizing the WNBA”, etc)… but the Yankees, Clippers, Mets, Everton, Barcelona, etc aren’t losing money… they’re “investing in the club”. Just can’t *quite* put my finger on the difference here.

fox, always with their one-track mind

I built a calendar again! Sort of. This one is super tiny: take all the bunch of calendars you might have, and then spit out a single URL that you can share with others. Here's a post: zachholman.com/posts/calend... And here's Calendearing, the product: calendearing.com

It's going to end up taking 1x-2x longer to get my new LLC registration and EIN than it was to create the actual code and product for a new company. Wild.

I think the funniest thing that best describes the iPhone 17 Pro is that Apple doesn't even let you compare it against the iPhone 16 Pro. It... would not look that impressive.

i don’t care about the liquid glass hot takes in iOS 26; the single greatest thing about these betas is it hides every single political spam text i get

wild that we all used to just raw dog legal PDFs instead of dropping them into chatgpt to get an understanding of them before signing

Wrote a quick thing this morning about the WNBA, among other money-losing organizations: Losing money is the point: zachholman.com/posts/losing...

someone asked me recently what i was building my latest project with and i told them "ruby on rails", but then i realized they weren't asking about the language, they were asking which LLM i was using. welcome to the future of software

USMNT Dad training his kid to be a soccer fan.

Generally, I think it’s a great thing to take some time off from work, so you stay fresh and like, be a human. But keep in mind if you’re taking an official leave or sabbatical, it’s a great time for the company to fire you. It happens allllll the time.

One of the dumbest things I've done for as far back as I can remember is to check the start of every commit sha1 and see how long the first number is. So commit `78867d` is a nice five-int sha. So yes, here's a script to look through every repo in a dir for your personal record:

2010, companies we'd talk to about switching to GitHub: "NO WAY WE CAN USE YOUR THIRD-PARTY SERVICE, OUR SPECIAL CODE IS SO PRIVATE AND IMPORTANT" 2025, every engineer fuckin around: "oh whatever i'll just oauth every repo in our org to whatever AI is hip this morning"

what's stopping you from your github contribution chart looking like this

best optical illusion i’ve seen lately is if you just continue to stare at this photo really hard it gets weirder and weirder

one (1) vibe code is approximately equal to the time between turns in civ 7 so this has been a good combination

the american medical system is going great!

i’m a huge proponent of being in the Flow, when you’re deep in programming and don’t have any distractions to get in between you and your code. that’s why i never interrupt my AI as it writes all my code

there's something about how AI never writes tests for its code unless i explicitly tell it to that makes me think damn, it really did become a human-level programmer

ai images are good again though, sorry

decided to redo tifo.com last night. i invest in good people and good companies; slide into my inbox if you’re building.

automattic.com/2025/04/02/r... Honestly, amazing to start a blog post out with “while our revenue continues to grow” and then announce layoffs in the next paragraph. They never fire the idiots who hired the “bad employees” in the first place, tho.

spun up a new `cloudflared` tunnel today and this was the url they gave me managers-agreed-penetration-screw.trycloudflare .com r u ok cloudflare

some day github will hire people who use github and maybe we won't have to worry about things like "is github showing me the whole line, or are they just deciding to hide important parts of it?"

Our app just launched for realsies! It’s a beauty inventory app that we built to track stuff in our cabinets, and shop smarter. (Do I need another red lipstick? Did I even like this sunscreen or was I just in a hurry? Etc.) ✨Download it now from an AppStore near you: apps.apple.com/us/app/beaut...

who is going to make the AI that helps me quickly and effortlessly switch between the eight different new AI editors that launch every day

thought I was ready for civ VII and then I realized I can just... throw it in the ultrawide vision pro display and now I'm losing my mind

Did some more writing today... this time about nontraditional red teams. Like when GitHub almost goatse'd all of San Francisco. zachholman.com/posts/red-te...

good luck on everyone’s last sprint. civ vii drops in nine days so the productivity of your dev team is about to take a huge hit, all the best managers have already built this into plan

great post @holman.bsky.social ... friendly reminder for Bay area sports fans the community investment round closes tonight at 9 pm, PT. Invest Now: wefunder.com/oakland @oaklandsoul.bsky.social (women's ⚽ team) and @oaklandroots.bsky.social (men's ⚽ team) #OaklandFirstAlways

A few years back I cold DM'ed my way into owning a part of @oaklandroots.bsky.social and @oaklandsoul.bsky.social. That led to a lot of joy and heartbreak, to running ethernet on the roof of an NFL team's building, to mostly an all Roots-themed wardrobe, and more. zachholman.com/posts/oakland

I’m at the point where my home cameras can scan faces of the general public and alert me if specific problematic people walk by my house again. The future is full of innovative, bleak consumer tech.

strong open source leadership by china's deepseek tbqh www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-c...

thinking of starting a hardware named called LEG. we wouldn't be using any intel chips, though, so the products might end up costing an ARM and a LEG

zuckerberg is off his rocker, so in protest all developers need to refuse to write another line of react, pass it on

I’ve been to zillions of tech conferences over the years, but this is the first time I’ve been to a sports conference and it’s comforting to see that “guy who asks a 30-part question to the speaker but really it’s just him talking to himself” is alive and well in other areas, too

every time i check twitter these days the only people left are posting these surreal linkedin motivational drivel takes. all the weird people are gone it's kind of hilarious

honestly i find it hilarious we don't reset the cache, or refresh the cache, we all BUST THE CACHE

that very familiar feeling where you have a great idea for a side project but you haven’t finished any of your existing side projects yet and feel guilty

me, to us soccer leadership: “hey you really gotta lower supporter section ticket prices” us soccer: “oh yeah, we want to do that” anyway they just announced tickets for $70 for a rando uswnt tuesday friendly next month

honestly don’t understand how they haven’t caught the unitedhealthcare shooter yet. you don’t even need physical evidence- just go through their records and find who ended up dying after they were denied life-saving treatment, should be easy

the breakdown of categories for YC demo days this time around is pretty stark. it's always kind of amusing to see independent-minded founders all walk in lockstep together. anyway, if i were thinking of building a new company I'd be looking at those bottom categories tbqh