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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

6 months

Team is firing on all cylinders. Going to ship some really dope things in next week's release. Keep your eyes peeled.

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11 months

Tons of good stuff should be live on Android. 1. Better scroll performance on all pages. 2. Faster app startup. 3. Tons of improvements to the video consumption experience! Let us know if you see any issues and if you're interested in working on X's mobile apps we are hiring!

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1 year

Been doing some codebase cleanup lately

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4 months

Systematically rebuilding all surface areas for maximum iteration speed!

Haofei

@wanghaofei

4 months

@GailAlfarATX @SmokeAwayyy An entire rewrite is underway since many parts of the system are not useful anymore. Major product surfaces like For you, and several others, have been rewritten. Working aggressively on deleting the long tail of our code base. The goal is to make the system extremely fast to

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1 year

We just released a massive improvement to scroll performance in the android app. If you see any issues on how tweets show up please let us know.

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@FredLohner

7 months

Sick of seeing online gambling ads on everything.

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

1 year

Have always wanted this. First thing I do when I check out a new subreddit is go to "Top"

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@ehikian

1 year

adding the ability to sort posts on profiles

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

3 months

We have a hotfix out for Android users that will reallow you to see who has liked one of your posts. Apologies for introducing that bug, please update to the latest version for a fix.

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

11 months

X for Android 10.13 is starting to roll out. Let us know if you see any issues. We are still hiring for mobile engineers (DM me). The team has added the following in this release: - You can now long press a video to embed it in a new post or download it - You can now go Live

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1 year

We have a bunch of a android developers in San Francisco this week and are planning to do a big bug fix day on Friday. What are some things that you think we should fix? We're going to see how many we can get through in one day!

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Fred Lohner

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5 months

We just had an iOS internship opportunity open up for this summer. If you're interested reach out. Bonus points if you have an app in the app store.

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@FredLohner

10 months

X for Android 10.14 starting to roll out

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Fred Lohner

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1 year

7 years working on these apps. Lots of cool stories along the way. Still wake up excited to get after it every single day. Grateful to work and learn from some great people.

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

1 year

Data has stabilized. We've seen ~43% reduction in frame drops on Android. More perf improvements coming soon. Shoutout to the OG perf folks who predicted this change would bear fruit.

Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

1 year

We just released a massive improvement to scroll performance in the android app. If you see any issues on how tweets show up please let us know.

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

8 months

Hard to explain the surreal feeling of being 250 miles from civilization, in the middle of the jungle and still able to call my loved ones. Sic itur ad astra.

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

10 months

The team crossed 100,000 JIRA tickets in the Android project yesterday. Lots of history built into this app!

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@FredLohner

10 months

Folks need to realize just how expensive SMS's are at scale. And it gets worse when you factor in random countries telecom providers trying to scam you! You're essentially having to operate in a trustless environment. I'm hopeful that some passkey type solution might work here.

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@nearcyan

10 months

signal spends $6M/yr just to verify phone numbers during signup - almost half their entire budget!

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

2 months

First time I’ve seen someone describe the area around the office as pretty nice 🤣🤣

Jim Ausman

@I_Heart_Frisco

2 months

Elon Musk said he was leaving San Francisco because roving gangs of violent drug addicts in front of his business were terrifying him and his employees. This was alarming to me because the last time I had been there it was pretty nice. I decided to take a look myself.

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

2 months

Fix for this is rolling out now. Apologies for breaking voiceover, we are making sure we have more comprehensive testing in place to make sure it does not happen again.

Apple accessibility MENA

@AppleA11yMENA

2 months

In recent X iOS update, the posts have become unreadable by using voiceover except for quotes

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

6 months

Looking to hire web engineers as well. SF/NYC/London. Tons of interesting product and infra work to be done!

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

9 months

wat

Ryan Grim

@ryangrim

9 months

India Accidentally Hired a DEA Agent to Kill Sikh American Activist, Federal Prosecutors Say by @mazmhussain

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

11 months

Solid day so far

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

9 months

For folks who are seeing issues are you on Android 14?

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

9 months

Trying to get a fat jar to compile from a KMP project might be the end of me

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

4 months

We’re doing a ton of work to improve communities. Tell us what’s missing

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

4 months

What more do we need to do to improve Communities?

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

7 months

We're hiring mobile engineers in SF/NYC/London. If you'd like to be a part of a fast moving team with a massive surface area (on both product and infrastructure) to cover feel free to DM me.

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

10 months

Cold light in the sky 🤣

The Good Liars

@TheGoodLiars

10 months

Had a conversation about the sun at a Flat Earth Convention and it almost broke us.

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@FredLohner

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Aaron

@aaronp613

2 months

Here is what X is going to look like without any like/repost buttons on the timeline, all gesture based: Swipe left and right to like and reply or Force Touch to see a menu with more actions

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

6 months

We're still looking for somebody to join us this summer for an Android internship. If you've built android apps before (in particular if you have something on the play store), hit me up.

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

10 months

Vi un post en mi timeline ayer de un tio usando su webcam y un model como midjourney para dibujarse en diferentes poses mientras se movia pero ahora no lo logro encontrar!

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

9 months

We've been getting reports that X is slow for users on pixel phones. Has that been your experience? If you happen to have different phones could you reply to this with some video examples of the differences? Thanks!

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

6 months

We've identified and fixed an issue that was causing android users to not see spaces at the top of their For You feed. Fix will begin to roll out tomorrow. The root cause was the upgrading of a very old infrastructure library to comply with some more modern build tooling.

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

18 days

No better feeling than working on a problem right at the edge of your competence level. Having a vague idea that it should work, trying for weeks and then seeing it come together.

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

1 year

@RosenbergJonah @bobbibarn @galeabrewer @ShaunAbreu @MarkLevineNYC @RiversideParkNY Saw that white BMW and the car that ended up flipping racing 2 minutes before the crash. Unbelievable. Insta Stories are full of them going insanely over the speed limits.

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

5 months

First cyborg to post on X!

Noland Arbaugh

@ModdedQuad

5 months

Twitter banned me because they thought I was a bot, @X and @elonmusk reinstated me because I am.

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5 months

The Dwarves dug too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dûm... shadow and flame.

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@FredLohner

6 months

I'd do the same tbh

murat 🍥

@mayfer

6 months

lmao first neuralink guy (quadriplegic) says he immediately stayed up till 6am playing civilization VI

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2 months

You can tell he's been out of the game for a while and hasn't been conducting interviews. It's rotting peoples ability to think and program basic concepts without help.

Gergely Orosz

@GergelyOrosz

2 months

From a CTO: "I'm not sure if very junior developers should get AI tools; there's a risk that they don't learn to code, don't learn to spot the mistakes, and won't feel comfortable manually refactoring things." My two cents: we need to stop "over-babying" less experienced devs.

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

3 months

Who could have seen this coming...

Kelano

@kelano_eth

3 months

BAYC has fallen from 150Ξ to 8Ξ A pragmatic look at the rise and fall of the most successful NFT collection of all times 📉

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

5 months

Vengaaaaaaa

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

5 months

Starlink now in Argentina!

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@FredLohner

4 months

Literally goes against the whole point… read the damn things if you truly want to understand them. Don’t read summaries that will make you think you understand things. Do the work.

Marcos Gorgojo | thevisualizer.ai

@MarcosGorgojo

4 months

Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack a list of papers to read, so as to improve John's understanding of AI. That is a lot to read. If you want to quickly grasp what those papers are about, in this thread I share maps on over 20 of them 👇

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6 months

3 AM debugging, great success, @Safety don't ban this one plz

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@Fred123534Fred

6 months

Hello world

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

6 months

Check out all the great work Paiman has been up to on Android.

Paiman

@spaimann

6 months

For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been putting more focus on improving the user experience on X Android app, especially that frustrating experience where things jump to the top randomly when you are in the middle of scrolling. Here's what you can expect in version 10.33.

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

4 months

Principles of programming languages class is turning out to be quite useful today.

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@FredLohner

1 year

Hoping it makes android studio a little bit more responsive but we'll see.

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

6 months

Factoriooooo

Daily Overview

@DOverview

6 months

The Gwangyang Steel Works in Gwangyang, South Korea is the largest facility of its kind in the world. It outputs an average of 18 million tons of steel per year, producing parts for bridges and other infrastructure, cars, refrigerators, and more.

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@FredLohner

11 months

Testing some edit functions!

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

4 months

> Notion free > Notion slow

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@FredLohner

2 months

kache

@yacineMTB

2 months

update announcement 📢 on x dot com (the website), the gun emoji was returned back into its rightful form: an m1911 🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫

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Jim Cramer

@jimcramer

3 months

With Iggy Azalea, after opening bell!

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

6 months

Powerful innovation going on at YouTube. Now when you pause a video it takes the opportunity to show you an ad…

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

7 months

RIP to a legend.

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

5 months

Why is github's support for stacked diffs/branches so poor.

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

5 months

I'm putting together a team.

Amtrak and Privately-Owned Rail Cars

Train car owners can have their privately-owned train cars attached to the Amtrak trains between specified locations to see North America in an extraordinary way.

www.amtrak.com

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

6 months

Strapped in to a middle row seat. Let’s see how much code we can write in 4 hours.

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@FredLohner

1 year

What do folks think of the new scrolling on Android?

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@FredLohner

3 months

Thinking of riding a century around NY and some of the surrounding area this weekend. If anybody wants to join (even for a part) let me know.

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

6 months

Congrats to all the SpaceX folks! What an achievement!

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

4 months

SF mayor needs new security. Any high school wrestler could have done better.

Lead Actor from Pixar’s Sodas

@ByYourLogic

4 months

this is killing me, why are they adhering to Olympic Judo rules?

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

5 months

Pretty sick mod

Dave Sparks

@heavydsparks801

6 months

I was trying to hold off on posting any videos of the CyberTrax until we had the full YouTube video ready to go but I’m impatient and really just wanna share it with you right now, so here ya go….enjoy 😎 Huge thanks to the folks at @teslamotors for being so cool and supportive

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

3 months

Crazy how America scaled up wartime production. All through the free market and private enterprise.

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@FredLohner

3 months

Only on X

BuccoCapital Bloke

@buccocapital

3 months

Just two people who love enterprise software Who says FinTwit and PornTwit can't get along?

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@FredLohner

5 months

Help

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

3 months

Laughs in Monterrey Mexico 🇲🇽

Daniel Feldman

@d_feldman

3 months

a lot of people about to learn about wet-bulb temperature

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@FredLohner

7 months

Playing around with NixOS this weekend. Super interesting concepts.

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@FredLohner

3 months

Is there a way around code signing when running a debug build or running tests? We are seeing quite a bit of time spent code signing when running an incremental unit test and I'm wondering why its necessary?

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@FredLohner

5 months

What is the equivalent to this in software? Impossibly fast builds/dev env? If you can run build/deploy loop order of magnitudes faster how much faster can you get rid of legacy cruft? How much faster can you bisect the introduction of a bug? How often can you prevent yourself

Casey Handmer, PhD

@CJHandmer

5 months

Turns out all you ever needed was an impossibly enormous reusable rocket. Logistics rules all. 70 years of paper missions spending 98% of their ink trying to cram 20 lbs of stuff into a 10 lb bag. All their insights irrelevant once we build a 10000 lb bag. This trend applies

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

11 months

@tekwendell First class is a bit of an exaggeration. Constant issues and random crashes are the norm.

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

6 months

Lazy tweet: Does okhttp/retrofit support streaming out of the box ?(I see @\Streaming but it's not behaving as expected) Seems like I don't get a body() emission until the entire response is complete

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@FredLohner

7 months

Spent the last 15 minutes recompiling the app and not seeing any changes only to realize I was running the wrong gradle command...

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

6 months

What can we crank out in 5 hours, lets find out. See you soon San Francisco

Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

6 months

Strapped in to a middle row seat. Let’s see how much code we can write in 4 hours.

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

7 months

Amen

not a sloth

@testaccountoki

7 months

linus still going hard

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

5 months

Some really nice QOL improvements coming for Android (as well as some hidden one's we'll be testing soon 😄)

Paiman

@spaimann

5 months

Anyone who have issues with search autocomplete on X Android app, y’all should look out for the fix in version 10.34 later today. We also heard the feedback related to video playback speed. More speed options are added and they should be clearer to see now.

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5 months

I sense a disturbance in the force...

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@FredLohner

5 months

Damn, NYC earthquake?

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@FredLohner

1 month

The state of mobile tooling today seems to be that the more you know the madder you get.

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@FredLohner

7 months

Double fisting builds kind of morning

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@FredLohner

2 months

MTA TrainTime app is extremely well done. So much attention to detail and nice integration with OS features. Props to the devs.

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

8 months

Did you file a flyway doc, do a legal review, complete your flyaway lite training, write your TDD, sacrifice a goat, read the tea leaves, put your project on the UPL, pray it survives the re-org.

terminally onλine εngineer 🇺🇦

@tekbog

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u cant just write code u gotta ponder the issue, u have to file a ticket, u gotta check on with the architect, u have to consider the security specs, u gotta get the manager approval, u need to sync up with product, u gotta talk with ux, u gotta determine the scope, u gotta

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5 months

El jefe de jefes

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Fred Lohner

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29 days

How is the Amazon Fling iOS SDK 138 MB.... what could it possibly be doing

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

6 months

Absolutely not. The lowered friction combined with the addiction forward nature of modern technology (notifications, etc) results in vastly more usage.

Paul Graham

@paulg

6 months

@Itsjoeco Don't you think it's more the case that if people can't gamble legally, they'll just do it illegally, and thus enrich organized crime?

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@FredLohner

6 months

😤

ashdavies.dev

@askashdavies

6 months

Because it wasn't enough that Kotlin would constantly have compatibility requirements with Compose Compiler, now Android has joined in with the fun

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@FredLohner

7 months

⁦ @cambridgemike ⁩ if you can see this I have good news

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@FredLohner

5 months

When in doubt the problem is always translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints

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@FredLohner

2 months

"Science girl"

Science girl

@gunsnrosesgirl3

2 months

But why

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

1 year

Issues with images around pinch/gestures should be fixed in this weeks release so please update once it's out. Fixed by the powerful @iSaurabhArora

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

11 months

That feeling when the tests finally pass, the lights go green and the patches start to merge 🤤

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

11 months

Sometimes writing proper tests takes so much longer than getting the code working. Always worth it though

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

1 year

Product Mixer and Strato are god tier eng accelerants.

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Fred Lohner

@FredLohner

1 month

If you are experiencing the issue on pixel phones where the app seems blocked and then unblocks itself when you start charging. 1. Does the issue persist if you plug the device back in? 2. Does it "come back" after a set amount of time? (next morning, next day?)

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Jobs To Be Done®™

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😡

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@FredLohner

6 months

Fuck yeah! @jasonjoyride great spotlight! They're Reimagining How to Build Anything | Hadrian

They're Reimagining How to Build Anything | Hadrian

Industrial power is the base of any great civilization and Hadrian is building the future of manufacturing in America. Episode 32 of S³ features Hadrian.0:00...

www.youtube.com

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🤣

Sophie Fuji

@sophfuji

5 months

I think I’m finally SF pilled because the food is 10x better than NYC

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@FredLohner

1 year

@EVeeeeee1337 What exactly do you think is simple about it? This app has tons of complexity that very smart people have worked on for many many years. It's not perfect but you have to realize how much complexity it contains. 1. Tweets, which can have tons of different things attached to them.

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Fred Lohner

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6 months

We need to talk about corporate security software that intercepts file read/write operations effectively killing any sort of build performance on developer machines. Surely there is a better way of accomplishing what it's doing?

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