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Head of Product in quantum computing at Quantum Brilliance, building room-temperature quantum accelerators. Previously founder of the Corilla CMS and technical writer at Red Hat.
Head of Product in quantum computing at Quantum Brilliance, building room-temperature quantum accelerators. Previously founder of the Corilla CMS and technical writer at Red Hat.
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A great piece Blake, and one that resonates a lot with me personally and the team here. It feels like I've been exploring the same ideas for the last few years, first within an open source company, and now cofounding one myself to pursue it as a core focus. I've spoken of that journey pretty much on the same hit points that you mention [1] and it makes me smile to read this.
Pardon the link, but I think you will laugh to see pretty much the exact same references. We're tackling a different problem to your team, but I love that there's more common thinking in this area. I really enjoyed reading about your process of abstraction and reduction.
Also love the final paragraph a lot. That's actually harder to implement than it seems, as the cultural legacy/story/momentum of large open source companies is a pretty righteous thing that's fought a lot of worthy battles. Which is where startups can switch out, explore ideas, act as proof of concept efforts, and the build up community program support. Quickly.
It was great to read this and great to come across PencilBlue!
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDY2sJhdS-I
Going to try this out on a little Fedora-based rig over the holiday period. We need to render out some dailies from GoPro-based sports camera shoots of extreme sports in New Zealand, and this could be an excellent (and hopefully resource-friendly) addition to the toolchain.
Thanks for posting such a detailed introduction!