Introducing Exciting New Tools from Ceros: Farewell to Avocode Products

Side Projects - AVC

Back when we started USV in 2003/2004, we used to see a lot of side projects that had taken off and were turning into companies. We funded at least one such side project, Delicious, which ended up getting sold to Yahoo! a few years later. But I remember that we would see one or two […]

I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline

AI took the last of the wind out of my Open Source sails. I wish you all the best!

Front page · Saturday, June 6, 2026

On ThinkStack: Linux kernel adopts no-embargo policy as LLMs flood maintainers with CVEs · Evan You ships Vite Plus to unify Rollup, Oxlint, Oxformat, and Vitest into one Rust/Go toolchain · 88% of firms use AI coding tools but only 5.5% see business impact, PlatformCon study fin

Switching to Protobuf (from Avro) on Kafka | Clear Street

Clear Street is a cloud-native financial technology firm on a mission to modernize the brokerage ecosystem.

I've gone full Nix: Proxmox to NixOS + Incus | Bas Nijholt

After years of running a Proxmox cluster, I migrated my entire homelab to NixOS with Incus. I explain the philosophical friction of imperative 'appliance' OSs vs declarative hosts, share how I migrated my LXC/VM workloads, and why it is the perfect infrastructure to manage using AI agents.

Andreessen-Horowitz craps on “AI” startups from a great height

Andreessen-Horowitz has always been the most levelheaded of the major current year VC firms. While other firms were levering up on “cleantech” and nonsensical biotech startups that viol…

A Different Approach To VC - AVC

I wrote this to my partner the other day. I’m not going to provide the context. It doesn’t matter. It could have been about almost anything in the startup sector right now. “the biggest thing that is wrong with the startup sector right now is entrepreneurs and their teams are too focused on valuation and […]

sunil pai on Twitter / X

suspect we're a few months (if not weeks!) away from a model that's good enough for tool calling / small enough to be shipped on devices/OSes by default these already exist in research space, but hitting mainstream /consumer space is when it'll really take off. apps will be…— sunil pai (@threepointone) September 8, 2025

Building in the dark forest

We write from our new home in the Dark Forest. This week we fully committed to our new universe: we abandoned Slack and moved all operations into DFOS, our new tool, available more widely in the coming weeks. It feels good in here. Calm. Cozy. Just enough activity for things

Settling in, and looking ahead - pckt - Dev Journal

Hey Bloggers ! A lot has happened since our last post. Which always seems to be the case... We've been hard at work crafting new features and refining existing...

the world hasn’t figured out yet that you can literally just fix everything with a Nix overlay

There are many things that are uncertain in our industry right now, but one thing I am certain about, and have been for almost 13 years, is that Nix is a terrible programming language. I remember when I first learned it, it felt like pushing shit uphill. The learning cliff

Former Apple Developer Explains Why The Company's Software Is Struggling - BGR

In recent months, Apple's software development has been called into question like never before. Between a critical security bug in macOS, a brand-new product being…

The Beginning of the End of Big Tech

From politicians to VC firms, everyone is falling out of love with the massive, money-oriented, global technology titans. In their place, we have the chance to build something open and trustworthy.