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Fuchsia kernel (Zircon) technical lead. Previously Chrome on Windows lead. Held hostage in the bay area. They make me manage people. Help. He/him.
Jan 14, 2022 12 tweets 2 min read
Ah yes, that was me. Let me explain (thread). So MS teams is built on top of Electron which is basically Chrome and it inherits its installer/updater.

(apparently as a race we have lost the knowledge to build client applications that are not forks of Chrome, but I digress)
May 25, 2021 10 tweets 2 min read
Why didn't we write the (Zircon) kernel in Rust?
there were a few factors: I was given the task to learn Rust and write a report on the fitness for Zircon. The internal doc colloquially known as "2016 cpu's Rust trip report" remained very popular for years in that did not made me very popular with with the (then nascent) internal Rust community.