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winterbloom··on The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU
Why does the western world care about Chinese CPUs, let them play in their sandbox with their own systems
winterbloom··on I'm becoming AI-blind
we are working on it, the thousands of gig workers tuning frontier models
winterbloom··on Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way
You need to spell and grammar check your writing
winterbloom··on Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers
lemme guess, you are anti-israel as well
winterbloom··on The 14 Steps it takes to open my office door with a new phone
the vast majority of things are on you, if you had a working phone, it would just be install an app, login, and it works

it is better than having to carry keys around

winterbloom··on The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE
how does that solution work if the table that is dropped has foreign key constraints?
winterbloom··on Don't read any books written post-2024
Did your symptoms ever improve?
winterbloom··on Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage
what happens if you suffer catastrophic failure, you'd lose up to one hour of data?
winterbloom··on Average is all you need
how do you know those queries are actually correct without domain knowledge?

Do you know enough about JOINs and how they work to be able to break those big queries down and figure out whether they are doing exactly what you're asking for in English?

winterbloom··on How long-distance couples use digital games to facilitate intimacy (2025)
i mean that would apply to meeting your SO in real life too, that's just how life works
winterbloom··on Show HN: Littlebird – Screenreading is the missing link in AI
I guess it is AMA, anything except about your current hiring pipeline lol
winterbloom··on Show HN: Littlebird – Screenreading is the missing link in AI
Does your company actually look at resumes? you post in HN but nothing ever goes through. I have a feeling that your recruitment team is not doing their job properly (or being super selective)
winterbloom··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)
Why not just move to NA/Europe? Chinese engineers are a security risk
winterbloom··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
how does this work from a security standpoint? per user encryption?
winterbloom··on Setting up phones is a nightmare
yeah you might do that, but how many non-technical people can be bothered to do so?
winterbloom··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)
Location: Canada/US Remote: Open to it

Willing to relocate: Open to it

Technologies: React/Next.js/Ruby/Ruby on Rails/Tailwind/Typescript/Python/Django/etc

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZuUttzrImLuoBmBcJL_tu0rP...

Email: actual.edward@gmail.com

My name is Edward. I'm an individual with close to a decade of experience shipping impactful software and leading teams

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edward-c-040270111/

Quick bullet points:

- Significant experience with working across the stack

- Cooperative engineer with a focus on velocity and revenue

- Wears many hats

winterbloom··on Setting up phones is a nightmare
who do you think gets in trouble if her phone dies and all her stuff is gone

storing things in the cloud is responsible

winterbloom··on Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule
Yeah but a good majority don't want Islam in Iran, Iran used to have a culture
winterbloom··on The Internet Is Becoming a Dark Forest – and AI Is the Hunter
I mean we could be just like rodents to them, I won't think people care about uprooting rodents
winterbloom··on Discord Is Not an Acceptable Choice for Free Software Projects (2020)
Normal people find discord to be more user friendly than irc
winterbloom··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
Location: Canada/US

Remote: Open to it

Willing to relocate: Open to it

Technologies: React/Next.js/Ruby/Ruby on Rails/Tailwind/Typescript/Python/Django/etc

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZuUttzrImLuoBmBcJL_tu0rP...

Email: actual.edward@gmail.com

My name is Edward. I'm an individual with close to a decade of experience shipping impactful software and leading teams

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edward-c-040270111/

Quick bullet points:

- Significant experience with working across the stack

- Cooperative engineer with a focus on velocity and revenue

- Wears many hats

winterbloom··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
looks like in-office, boss
winterbloom··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
Careful with this

I applied and got rejected without feedback. They stated that there was a high volume of strong applicants (if there were, why are they posting again?)

winterbloom··on Steam "Offline" status leaks exact login timestamps (Valve: Won't Fix)
if you're tracking someone's sleep schedule, you need a life
winterbloom··on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
he wasn't, he was calling the person who responded to the individual who got laid off
winterbloom··on Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
Didn't feel like reading all this so I shortened it! sorry!

I shortened it for anyone else that might need it

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Software engineers are sleeping on Claude Code agents. By teaching it your conventions, you can automate your entire workflow:

Custom Skills: Generates code matching your UI library and API patterns.

Quality Ops: Automates ESLint, doc syncing, and E2E coverage audits.

Agentic Reviews: Performs deep PR checks against custom checklists.

Smart Triage: Pre-analyzes tickets to give devs a head start.

Check out the showcase repo to see these patterns in action.

winterbloom··on 'It's surreal': How US sanctions lock ICC judges out of daily life
You got down voted by haters lol, don't worry there are some of us who support you
winterbloom··on A Thousand Tiny Optimisations
They are being genuine, no need to be toxic
winterbloom··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)
It says "Remote (US, UK, EMEA)" so the answer is no
winterbloom··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)
yeah some of the best jobs out there will be in-office, that's just the way it is bro
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