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Everyone in #infrastructure

🧎‍♂️🧎‍♀️🧎‍♂️🧎‍♀️➡️ 🦸 @Usama

"@Usama can you give me access"

#infrastructure

One does not simply do anything without pinging Usama first. AWS access, Sentry access, Redis, proxies, whitelisted IPs, prod DB, Postmark, GitHub, emails — 20+ tags in one week. The man IS the infrastructure.

Src: #infrastructure — literally the entire channel

Islamabad · 40°C

🥵🔥🪑🔥🥵❄️🚫 AC has left the chat

"We'd love it if the AC could join the team again soon"

#random

Rapid Fire got "surprisingly competitive" — mostly because everyone was already sweating. The AC remains the most-missed team member of the week.

Src: Hasnain Nafees, #random

Rulebook × Jane Street

💰🤝📈$100K / YEAR — first deal closed

Success Kid: We did it

#celebrations

"FINALLY — Rulebook closed their first deal of $100K/YEAR with Jane Street!" A genuinely huge W for everyone who touched the product. 🚀

Src: Asim, #celebrations

Claude down. GitHub down.

🔥🐶☕🔥GitHub Actions minutes: 0 / 2000

"This is fine"

#random · #infrastructure

A trilogy of outages: Claude went down mid-prompt, GitHub Actions ran out of minutes (reset in 6 days 🙃), and githubstatus.com became required reading. Productivity: heroic.

Src: Asim + Usama heads-up

🙅Budgeting our AI token spend❌

😎🔥Fable 5: uses 2× the Opus tokens✅

#random

"We've got a new token burner in town: Fable 5 uses 2x the Opus 😂" — reported by Junaid. The finance team felt a disturbance in the force.

Src: Junaid Daud Baloch, #random

*posts something in #random*

😳📊💥50 people: 👀👀👀

"GUYS CALM DOWN — I was just testing the poll app"

#random

Founder deploys experimental poll app directly into production (the team). Panic ensues. Damage control follows. Classic.

Src: Asim, #random

Nobody:

🏠💻🏠💻🏠Mubeen · Uzair · Junaid · Waleed

"is working from home today!" (again)

#remote-work

The #remote-work bot basically ran a subscription service this week. WFH streaks were maintained with championship consistency.

Src: #remote-work (on repeat)

resolved ✅ → pending ⏳

♻️😩♻️auto-unresolve intensifies

→ resolved ✅ → pending ⏳ → resolved...

#operations-queue

Asim resolves a ticket. Someone replies. Bot auto-unresolves it. Repeat forever. The ops queue achieved perpetual motion — physicists are intrigued.

Src: #operations-queue status loop

Migrating VPN: Surfshark → Tailscale

🦈➡️🐾"Share your Gmail in the channel — NO DMs"

DMs: 📨📨📨 (immediately)

#infrastructure

Full VPN migration announced before the billing cycle. The one rule — "no DMs" — was, statistically, the first rule broken.

Src: Usama, #infrastructure

It's 3:30 PM — Chill Call

🎮😌🛑"Let the AI rest"

"Stop swallowing up Claude limits with prompts"

#general

Hanzlah called the weekly pit stop: pause tasks, step away, play a game, and — crucially — give Claude a breather. Spy game happened. Someone got wrongly blamed. Apologies were issued. 🕵️

Src: Rana Hanzlah Yasir, #general

Weather's cool 🌧️

🍗🪣😋@channel deployed

"Team — up for some KFC?"

#random

The most productive @channel of the week. Correlation between good weather and fried chicken confirmed by Mubeen.

Src: Muhammad Mubeen Aftab, #random

A wholesome one 💜

👋🥹🙏Thank you, Maryam

"Today is my last day — thank you all"

#random · #headquarter-hr

Not every moment is a meme. Maryam wrapped up her journey with the team this week — sincerity, dedication, and a lot of appreciation from Mishal and the crew. All the best. 🌱

Src: Maryam Naseer + Mishal Ali

🏆 Unofficial Awards of the Week

🦸@Usama

MVP

Most Valuable Pinged — carried the entire infra request queue on his back. Someone get this man a "grant access" macro.

🔥💸Fable 5

Biggest Spender

Token Furnace Award — 2× the Opus burn. Beautiful outputs, terrifying invoices.

💰Rulebook

Deal of the Week

$100K/yr with Jane Street. No notes. Just applause. 👏

❄️🚫The AC

Most Missed

Employee of the Month (in absentia). Please come back. It's 40°C.