Andrew Bloom (@andrewbloom) profile picture
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Joined July 2007
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Andrew Bloom retweeted
I still cannot believe how bloated modern web development has become You open a random website and see megabytes of javascript garbage loading in the background just to render a basic static button I think we're completely overcomplicating everything and pretending it is progress
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I just can’t imagine wanting an entire secure ballroom for one man and not wanting gun reform for every child in America.
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Andrew Bloom retweeted
We have to admit that frontend developers have spent last ten years making the web slower, more complicated, and entirely dependent on javascript frameworks that break every month
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We spent years and billions of dollars inserting a C compiler into a lossy hash table. Here’s how we spent two weeks getting it back out with a Markov process.
New Engineering blog: We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C compiler. Then we (mostly) walked away. Two weeks later, it worked on the Linux kernel. Here's what it taught us about the future of autonomous software development. Read more: anthropic.com/engineering/bu…
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Andrew Bloom retweeted
it seems impossible to do anything of worth on a mac (play video games) unsure why they even exist
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Replying to @Enterprise
@Enterprise I reserved an Audi A5 and you’re trying to give me a Toyota RAV4. I can’t explain how mad and disappointed I am. That’s so many steps down. Why even bother to make a reservation?!
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@Enterprise your website let us book this car, but the people here say they don’t get that class of vehicle at this location. Why does your website even let us do this!?
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@Enterprise why didn’t you call us weeks ago and let us know this was impossible when we booked. How are you going to fix this!?
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Andrew Bloom retweeted
"we made it so you can talk to the computer like a person!" i don't think you understand why i got into computers in the first place
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Why is the slurpee machine a computer? This is a job for a piece of paper or a sticker
Mmmm tasty bios crash flavor
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Andrew Bloom retweeted
A memecoin is a zero-sum* lottery. There is no wealth creation. Every buy order is simply matched by a sell order. And after an initial spike, the price eventually crashes and the last buyers lose everything. * It’s actually negative sum if the platform takes a cut.
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Andrew Bloom retweeted
got stuck at the bar until 2am so my friend could flirt with the ugliest man i’ve ever seen
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Andrew Bloom retweeted
our review culture is killing me. i don't want to give my socks a star rating. i will not grade my doc's appt. i am not enjoying my purchase, i simply needed it
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Andrew Bloom retweeted
tired: fix the memory leak wired: figure out how to run a cronjob with kubernetes to restart the service once a day inspired: write a function that panics and kills the service at a certain time every day which will cause kubernetes to restart the pod
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This is a first for me: got a Lyft and it’s a crew cab pickup truck.
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Just found a marketing email unsubscribe page that detected my ad-blocker and made me disable it to complete the process. If you built that website you should feel bad.
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Hey @DoorDash @DoorDash_Help I have all the notifications except “order updates” disabled and yet I keep getting push notification ads for stuff I don’t want. Your app is broken, what are the chances you can you fix it before I delete it?
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Oh look @DoorDash @DoorDash_Help my 2nd push notification TODAY despite disabling all that shit last week. Fix your fucking software.
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Hey @DoorDash @DoorDash_Help why am I still getting push notifications about deals? Cmon. It’s disabled. Stop treating me like trash.
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Pretty good night for a baseball game.
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