@BlackHC: Lol at the background story. Such large corp vibes but yeah don't use the name or logo ofc
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A tweet reacting to the story of Justin Poehnelt being fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI, which went viral.
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Lol at the background story. Such large corp vibes 😅 but yeah don’t use the name or logo ofc
Justin Poehnelt (@JPoehnelt): Two months ago I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI. It went viral, hit #1 on Hacker News, gained thousands of GitHub stars and many thousands of actual users in just a couple days.
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