building signed.com and calendearing.com. investing: tifo.com. formerly: @github, @gitlab.
San Francisco, CA
Joined December 2007
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A few years back I cold DM'ed my way into owning a part of @oaklandrootssc and @oaklandsoulsc. That led to a lot of joy and heartbreak, to running ethernet on the roof of an NFL team's building, to mostly an all Roots-themed wardrobe, and more.
Here's a long post about it all:
The year is 2013:
- password managers worked
- you could get most TV content from one or two streaming services
- you could paste links into chats and previews would actually unfurl correctly
- google results contained actual search results
Taking money off the table: zachholman.com/posts/money-o…
Wrote a bit this morning about tender offers and that "oh god do I sell my stock?" decision startup employees face.
people be like "can we REALLY trust the security and privacy of a new startup?" and then a major bank emails me a PDF receipt of someone else's flight and personal data
twitter is hilarious these days because no one is on it anymore and the algorithm tries its best to never show your tweets anyway. what a clusterfuck this place is. the bots love it, tho
Python Foundation declines $1.5M strings-attached from Trump administration: theregister.com/2025/10/27/p…
Love to see it. Always liked those Python folk.
Single hardest thing in computer science: getting the people who wanted to beta test your software to actually beta test your software.
I see endless people dragging WNBA & NWSL teams for “losing money” (“the NBA is subsidizing the WNBA”, etc)… but the Yankees, Clippers, Mets, Everton, Barcelona, etc aren’t losing money… they’re “investing in the club”.
Just can’t *quite* put my finger on the difference here.
life is just living a couple days at a time between having to change the battery in another airtag you forgot about
Here's a post: zachholman.com/posts/calende…
And here's Calendearing, the product:
calendearing.com
I built a calendar again! Sort of. This one is super tiny: take all the bunch of calendars you might have, and then spit out a single URL that you can share with others.
It's going to end up taking 1x-2x longer to get my new LLC registration and EIN than it was to create the actual code and product for a new company. Wild.
i don’t care about the liquid glass hot takes in iOS 26; the single greatest thing about these betas is it hides every single political spam text i get
wild that we all used to just raw dog legal PDFs instead of dropping them into chatgpt to get an understanding of them before signing
feels like now would be a good time for github to start focusing on code and AI rather than making the repo page slower
Wrote a quick thing this morning about the WNBA, among other money-losing organizations:
Losing money is the point: zachholman.com/posts/losing-…
