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McManus: GitHub account made for Silicon Valley character Winnie accidentally went viral
“I actually, I created a GitHub profile for playback purposes, right? So just, like, we wanted an authentic looking GitHub profile. The best way to do that is just to make a GitHub profile for that person. Yeah. So I made one for Winnie and we had to populate i…”
HBO's Silicon Valley writers visit San Francisco startups before every season
“Before every season, they actually come up to San Francisco for, I think, like a week or two weeks and meet with a bunch of startups. So they, like, every writer goes through this kind of like you know, crash course to get up to speed.”
McManus: Silicon Valley flashed real, compilable C code Easter eggs on screen
“I think in the second episode we hid an Easter egg in some C code. That we like had just sort of like flash on screen for like a second. Pausing it, copying it over and actually compiling it. And it was kind of cool. I wrote like a really simple compression al…”