Steve Francia

Working with the Go team there are a lot of conversations that go completely over my head. Earlier in my career I'd be embarrassed about this and pretend to understand, now I'm vocal about it. If I don't understand it, it's likely others would benefit from simplification.

Fort Mason today, Hollywood Boulevard tomorrow. ⭐️ Usually my repos get the GitHub stars, so seeing one with my own name on the pavement is a surreal new career milestone. Having an absolute blast at #GitHubUniverse this week catching up with friends & talking about the future.

After beating the first few Zelda dungeons on my conference badge's NES emulator, I realized the badge looks a lot more like a Game Boy than an NES. So I built a Game Boy Color emulator in MicroPython too. spf13.com/p/game-boy-color-o…

Gemini 3.6 Flash has completely changed how I work. It’s not at frontier-level for coding, but for computer use? Very capable and very fast. Multiple times I thought it glitched because the response was instant, only to realize it had already finished the task. Game changer. ⚡️

The real story isn’t Sol but Terra and Luna which have achieved a level of higher intelligence at a lower cost. We haven’t seen this yet. Game changing.

spf13.com/p/go-the-agentic-l… Why TypeScript 7.0 Was Rewritten in Go, and What It Means for Your Agentic Development Stack

Also wild that the day after @Microsoft stopped subsidizing copilot they announce a device that runs frontier models locally. Can’t wait to get one of these. Local models are the future. Reliable, private and responsive.

For those of us old enough to remember the year of “Linux on the desktop” in the 90s and 2000s. Never expected that the way this story would have ended would be with @Microsoft being the one to make it happen and that it would be on Windows.

Loving all the changes @Microsoft is announcing at MS Build. Fully embracing the Linux/Unix tooling from adding built in Unix shells, core tools and containers.

When Rob Pike says "no" to AI contributions, the Go project keeps functioning. It has funded reviewers. When I say "no" to AI reviewing a PR on spf13/Afero, it just sits there. Those are very different kinds of "no." spf13.com/p/the-maintainers-…

Stop debating language features. Start measuring economic impact. 9 factors that reveal what your programming language actually costs across its full lifecycle, from authoring to hiring to security to AI. #EngineeringLeadership #DevOps spf13.com/p/the-9-factors/

Why do tech leaders burn millions on language choice? They think it's a tech debate. It's an identity crisis. Explore the "invisible conversation" (ego vs. logic) and how to reframe it as an economic decision. #Leadership #Engineering #Tech spf13.com/p/the-hidden-conve…

Deeply inspired by conversations with @simonw @johnlindquist @jlengstorf @knowtheory, @pfrazee and Jesse (@s.ly on bluesky) The best part of #GitHubUniverse is bringing together people from across the different ecosystems

Heading home inspired by #GitHubUniverse. I feel like the entire vibe can be summed up in this one slide by @martinwoodward The best developers never stop experimenting. Stay curious.

Had a great time at #GitHubUniverse with friends new and old @ashleymcnamara @trunarla @shaundai @theo @pfrazee Jerry Shavon