Michal Glowacki

A $500 kamikaze drone, created by a Ukrainian engineering student, has the capability to destroy a $10 million Russian tank. Both Ukraine and Russia are deploying tens of thousands of drones each month. It's surprising there's minimal coverage on Ukraine's transition from traditional military hardware, such as tanks and helicopters, to FPV (first person view) drones. While we've seen unsettling footage of these drones targeting soldiers, the broader strategic shift remains underreported. This transformation is as monumental as the shift from horse cavalry to mechanized warfare in WW1. Ukraine now seeks drones and loitering munitions instead of traditional military equipment from the US. With AI handling target identification, drone operators will focus more on striking than piloting. As armored targets like tanks become more vulnerable, the primary targets on the battlefield will increasingly (and sadly) be humans.

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At Forge, our mission is crystal clear: helping software companies build thriving ecosystems through plugins. Here’s how we do it: ͐➡ Technical Enablement & Infrastructure: Everything you need to support your ecosystem from libraries, SDKs, plugin hosting and tooling ➡ Ecosystem Seeding: Getting your ecosystem off the ground with early-stage momentum. ➡ Security, Compliance & Governance: Peace of mind for you and your users. Companies like Shopify, Salesforce, Miro, Microsoft, Slack, Zoom, and Atlassian have already set the gold standard. They’ve shown why extensible ecosystems are a modern blueprint for success. Our goal? To bring this capability to every software company—whether you’re a startup or scaling fast. Extensibility isn’t just a buzzword. It’s a growth engine: 🪄 It fuels revenue. 🪄 It builds long-term scalability. 🪄 And most importantly, it empowers your customers with solutions they never imagined possible. 🔥 Forge makes that possible. #plugins #productlaunch #startup #saas #technology #api

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Ever since taking the word `CEO` out of my title on LinkedIn, I have noticed a refreshing drop in un-personalized cold outreach selling things that I would never buy in 100 years. (Not to mention that my legal title is actually not `CEO` but rather `Managing Member of the LLC`...so my profile is now more correct 🤓 ). Tangentially, this makes me somewhat sad about where our business world is headed. AI is being misused to amplify the amount of vapid and shallow content available rather than to drive higher quality. I always prefer real human interactions over anything AI or robo-driven. The robots on customer support lines, chatbots, etc...Even at Shake Shack, the experience of ordering from a human employee is 5x better than those horrible kiosks.

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Large codebases are scary! 😱 When you're starting out contributing to a mammoth codebase like SigNoz with over 300000 lines of code, you have no idea where to even start looking. We took an open issue from Signoz's repository and asked Potpie AI's low level design agent to help us get started. The results were mindblowing 🤯. For a repository with THOUSANDS of files, Potpie was able to : * Pinpoint which exact file needed to be updated * Tell which part of the code needed updating * Suggest next steps like testing 🥧 agents >> Try us out at https://potpie.ai We are open source! Pranay Prateek Ankit Nayan Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava

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I am coming out today October 7, 2024, exactly one year after the unspeakable butchery in Israel, as an single, autistic Jew and I am in search of a Shidduch (Jewish wife). I have reserved autisticalpha dot com & autistic_alpha Twitter handle with intent to educate everyone around me about AHAVAH (Hebrew word for love) & wisdom. I am extremely saddened by the number of people giving up on our faith & renewal through the next generation. This following article is especially saddening & disturbing!! P.S. I would like to clarify that by "autistic alpha", AHAVAH, and wisdom I did not mean to promote conservative values or any form of male dominance. This is my autism at work :) I mean that they women as women, we men as men, and we people as people, should stand for a better world, love & protect each other, love & protect all of our children. This article below reflects to me a very, very sad reality, we men need to have more courage to step forward with love & risk getting hurt by rejection on the way to the happiness that I believe the LORD of hosts has intended for us! P.S. 2: I would also like to clarify that I think my autism is thankfully very minor. I did have some speech & motor-coordination issues when I was young, and I feel that I have very largely overcome these issues. But in reflection, I think there are enough signs though I think very minor to take this label on myself, and use it to bring a stronger voice for strengthening & improving our interactions through AHAVAH ("Agape" in Greek?), not through becoming arrogant jerks:)

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I’m definitely a DFS type of Netflix Viewer #ai #machinelearning #artificalintelligence #datascience #tech #innovation #llm #languagemodel #NLP #textgeneration #textanalysis #RAG #RetrievalAugmentedGeneration #knowledgegraph #semanticsearch #informationretrieval #livecoding #coding #development #programming #softwareengineer #developer #huggingface #tensorflow #pytorch #python #jupyternotebook

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Chasing the perfect Software QA plan is WRECKING your speed—and your product. Unfolding (thanks, Rob Snyder, for introducing me to the concept!) is the idea that things gradually take shape over time, and you make adjustments along the way. Instead of trying to plan every detail upfront, unfolding allows room for flexibility, learning, and growth as you progress. The key is to keep moving forward, knowing that your path will become clearer as you take steps and respond to new information or challenges. In QA, that means starting testing with WHAT you have, testing early, and refining your strategy as new information surfaces. Start testing NOW, even if your strategy isn’t flawless. Test and adjust/improve your strategy as you learn. That’s how you catch critical issues faster and keep momentum. Perfect QA plans don’t exist. Unfold your testing strategy in real time .... or fall behind.

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🏅 Just a reminder to the OSS contributors out there that Kong Inc. has a fantastic community + contributor program. 🐛 Squash bugs, 🏅 earn badges. (just make sure you’re submitting your projects and getting recognized for your work!) #KongPin #KongCommunity #OpenSource #DevOps #DeveloperCommunity

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🏅 Just a reminder to the OSS contributors out there that Kong Inc. has a fantastic community + contributor program. 🐛 Squash bugs, 🏅 earn badges. (just make sure you’re submitting your projects and getting recognized for your work!) #KongPin #KongCommunity #OpenSource #DevOps #DeveloperCommunity

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💻 TypeScript: The CTO’s Superpower 💻 As the CTO of LoneScale, I love TypeScript because it's like my dream coworker: ✅ Never undefined ✅ Always knows what it’s supposed to do ✅ And it screams at you when you're wrong—just like the dev team on a Friday deploy! 😂 If only life had autocomplete for decision-making… 🙃 #CTOHumor #TypeScript #TechLife #LeadershipInTech

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WIESNER ON HUMANS VS AI: MIT Media Lab co-founder and science advisor to JFK, Jerome B. Wiesner was a unique figure in the history of MIT at the crossroads of science, engineering, and the arts with a lifelong pursuit of world peace. There's a terrific talk he gave at the founding of the MIT "E15" building designed by I.M. Pei — often nicknamed "the bathroom building" — that's worth a watch, especially during these extraordinary times https://lnkd.in/g2zEJRrk and a piece of the talk he gave is below. Information on the talk I'm giving with Jerome B. Wiesner Professor Hiroshi Ishii is here https://lnkd.in/gJpKkeY8 on November 8th (Fri) from 11 am EST, and you can register online for free here https://lnkd.in/gADUyCs7 --- Jerome B. Wiesner at the founding moment of the MIT Media Lab's E15 building https://lnkd.in/g2zEJRrk > ... Now some people will be offended by what I'm going to say, but I think man-made systems use better components. Electrical signals travel a million times faster than signals on nerve fibers. And semiconductor devices also act billions of times faster than neurons, which are the biological information processing elements. Also, manmade elements appear to be more reliable. But nature has a very large edge, maybe a decisive edge. In design complexity involving a number of individual elements, it can use it in a system effectively. And these are advantages man may never match. Nature may always retain this edge, who knows? > But for the moment, it really doesn't matter. The manmade systems that we are involved with enhance human creative capacities, that's what they can do, but so far they cannot displace them. Cognitive and computer scientists are having an exciting time trying to understand and imitate human reasoning with computing systems. And though they can do a few things that would be regarded as thinking if done by a human, they differ violently among themselves on whether or not machines with human thinking and creative abilities are possible. Even the so-called artificial intelligence field, which prompted Walter Rosenblith to say he preferred natural stupidity, his greatest achievement in this field is capturing knowledge and skills of humans -- of human experts. > For now, it’s clear that thinking machines and true creativity don’t exist. We should focus on how tech can expand human creative capacity.

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Attended 40+ events in 12 days at #DSS and #Devcon. Here’s the brutal truth about what events need to do better: 1. Your merch sucks. If you’re giving something away, make it useful and fun for this event. Hot? Hand out branded fans, deodorant (yeah, I said it), or SPF. Rainy? Branded umbrellas. Be cheeky: branded condoms—"If you're at Devcon, you probably wont need this.” Make it memorable. Make it practical. 2. Your panels are boring. Most panelists can’t speak. It’s painful. Add spice—literally. I saw one with chilies, and it brought energy. Get founders out of their comfort zones. We want to see the human behind the pitch deck. 3. Break the cliques. Most people stick to their circles. Fix it. Use icebreakers. Incorporate games or activities that force interaction. Even the shyest folks need a way to connect and feel included. 4. Separate spaces. Break room ≠ speaking stage. Don’t make speakers fight for attention while people sip coffee. Respect the content and the audience. 5. Use Web3 tech. We’re in #Web3—act like it. Luma is mid. Give me an NFT for attending. Drop event photos on-chain. Reward attendees with tokens for engagement. Be creative. On-brand. Memorable. 6. Understand your audience. Want to stand out? Start by listening. Then execute. Events need to evolve. Stop coasting. Innovate or fade out.

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Captain SwiftUI kicks off his new SwiftUI Craftsmanship Series discussing View Contracts. The (inter)face value of a View is really important. Crafting a good one can unlock a Views full potential and usability. Join the Captain as he shares the one question that can make all the difference: “What is this View for?”. https://lnkd.in/eQfcVka6

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Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, an American, was executed by an Israeli sniper in the West Bank this past Friday. She was shot in the head right after a weekly multi-religious prayer. Earlier this year, Tawfic Abdel Jabbar and Mohammad Khdour were killed in the West Bank by Israeli gunman. Both were 17 years old Americans. Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, an American journalist, was executed in 2021 by an Israeli sniper while wearing a press vest in the West Bank. In 2003, Rachel Corrie, an American, was crushed by an armored Israeli bulldozer in the West Bank. This was ruled an "accident" by Israeli officials. As a reminder: 1. These are Americans being killed by a foreign nation 2. These Americans are being killed on lands deemed illegal by the US government 3. These Americans were not violent or posing any threat 4. The US has either not launched an investigation (ie the 17 year olds) or the investigation has gone silent 5. Israel has a "shoot-to-main" policy which a 2023 report showed that Israeli forces killed 10 Palestinians and over 6,000 protestors from May 2021-2022 To summarize: iInnocent Americans killed by a foreign nation on illegal lands = self defense + more military supplies. The genocide needs to end. https://lnkd.in/e-_Wu-Ee

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Engineers: Exhausted from manually instrumenting tracking code for every single event? 🙋‍♀️🙋🙋‍♂️ Enter Amplitude Autocapture – the game-changer you've been waiting for. With just one line of code, you can automatically capture clicks, page views, and other user interactions across your website or app. No more tedious setup! But wait, there’s more: effortlessly populate baseline metrics, build dashboards, and use visual labeling to decide exactly what to measure. 🚀 And don’t worry, precision tracking isn’t going anywhere – we’re just giving you a faster, smarter way to get started with your data. #Autocapture Learn more: https://bit.ly/4gcxhDz

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Wartime in Ukraine: How the Dev Team Does Their Part Imagine working while your homeland is at war. Adam Lehde shares the emotional resilience of his team and their inspiring contributions beyond the keyboard."  Watch the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/gKSsV4nF #Techpodcast #podcastforentrepreneurs #tech #design #startup #innovation #venturecapital #privateequity #techcxo #business #happentechnologies #talesfromtheskylounge

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