Edward Thomson

@ethomson

Product at @TrustVanta focusing on privacy and data security. Formerly @Vercel, @GitHub, @Microsoft. Maintainer of @libgit2.

Cambridge, UK

Edward Thomson
@ethomson
2025年10月1日
It’s October 1 — the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act takes effect today! Do you know where the personal data lives in your organization? What tools are you using to track this and maintain records?
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Edward Thomson
@ethomson
2025年4月26日
Throughout my career, I’ve focused on developer tools… mostly because I checked the wrong box on a form once…
Christoph Nakazawa
@cnakazawa
2025年4月24日
I don't understand why squash merging is not the default on GitHub. The other options make no sense, and just slow things down. Similarly, it's confusing that people *still* use `git merge`. It makes everything so complicated. Always rebase, never merge.
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Edward Thomson
@ethomson
2025年4月22日
I thought "vibe coding" was silly... until I watched my design counterpart — who has never written a line of code in his life — create a real outcome. Watching him succeed with these tools was the breakthrough for me to become a believer. What made vibe coding real for _you_?
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Edward Thomson
@ethomson
2025年3月25日
Perhaps my finest contribution to Vercel was printing the LFG stickers.
Evil Rabbit
@evilrabbit_
2025年3月25日
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Edward Thomson
@ethomson
2025年3月15日
What’s an example of a developer tool with “great taste”? And why? What does that phrase mean to you?
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