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Ebay may sell off Skype (Duh!)

On April 21, 2008April 22, 2008 By rmascardoIn ebay, skypeLeave a comment

TechCrunch is reporting that Ebay is considering selling off Skype.

One word: Duh!

Someone get the new CEO a carrot for recognizing the obvious. What the hell were they thinking when they bought Skype in the first place?

We’re Back in the Garage

We’re Back in the Garage

ClawdBot, MoltBot, OpenClaw, MoltBook — and the Return of the Homebrew Energy It was 1995. I was sitting in my dorm room at the University of Richmond — beige tower PC humming like it had something important to prove, CRT monitor warming the room, Ethernet cable stretched across the carpet like a tripwire for the…

by rmascardo February 16, 2026February 15, 2026
The Holiday Break That Broke the Software Development Lifecycle

The Holiday Break That Broke the Software Development Lifecycle

The 2025 holiday break was supposed to be slow. It has been a long year of hard work and I needed to take a break. My parents are older now. Cruises are their speed. Elevators instead of staircases. Early dinners. My dad triple-checking the daily schedule like it’s a mission briefing. My mom insisting we…

by rmascardo February 15, 2026February 15, 2026
Move 37 and the Shape of What’s Next

Move 37 and the Shape of What’s Next

There’s something about forced stillness that creates space for the unexpected. Molly was a few weeks into recovery from her second ankle surgery—the one where she “won the ankle injury lottery in the worst way possible.” Her boot-clad ankle propped up next to me on the couch, she wasn’t going anywhere. Neither was I. So…

by rmascardo February 8, 2026February 8, 2026
2025 Year-in-Review: Read. Write. Code.

2025 Year-in-Review: Read. Write. Code.

2025 felt like one of those years where you don’t fully understand what happened until you look backward and realize: oh… that was a phase shift. The year had a rhythm to it. The front half was dominated by reading — books, papers, blog posts, half-formed ideas scribbled into notes apps. The back half turned into…

by rmascardo December 30, 2025December 30, 2025

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a16z a16z @a16z ·
23 Mar

The comfortable middle is over for software.

Growth has stalled but true profitability still hasn't arrived — most of the sector is stuck: too slow for a premium growth multiple, too diluted for a fortress multiple.

a16z's David George says CEOs have 12-18 months to pick

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witbrock Michael Witbrock @witbrock ·
8 Mar

Computer science will stop being taught as a useful craft; it has become an explanation of how the world works, like physics, biology and chemistry. This change is long overdue.

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rmascardo Renato J. Mascardo @rmascardo ·
24 Feb

Damn.

Anthropic @AnthropicAI

We’ve identified industrial-scale distillation attacks on our models by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax.

These labs created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude, extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own models.

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teamusa Team USA @teamusa ·
22 Feb

46 YEARS TO THE DAY. GOLD AGAIN. 🇺🇸🥇

#WinterOlympics

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