@hamstu

Engineering Manager at @Buffer + husband, father of four little monkeys, and happy Latter-day Saint. If you're reading this we should be friends. 👋🏻日本語を勉強します！

 Chilliwack, Canada
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Joined January 2008
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Having your Grok Bot spin up Opus 5.5 agents to work on features for your app, and then also a Codex agent to use Computer Use to test the final app is... amazing. We're living in the future,.folks.
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hamish retweeted
CleanShot
@CleanShotSep 1
Introducing CleanShot 5.0 ✨ The new Studio Mode is all you need to turn a simple screen recording into a polished, professional video - with the quality you expect from CleanShot. Available now on all plans. No subscription required.

Introducing CleanShot 5.0

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I'm an IC now, but I actually spent two years as an engineering manager at Buffer. It was a pretty challenging time. Buffer's revenue was down. Pressure was high. And so, part of me looks back at that time as a failure.
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I felt like I was always a few steps behind where I needed to be. It's hard to say if that was due to just the situation or if I'm just not really cut out for it. Maybe we'll never know? 😅 All that said, I think I prefer being an IC to management.
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I feel incredibly fortunate that my first job was actually in tech. I was only 16, but as an awkward homeschooled kid in Montréal, I had the skills and the flexibility they needed. I still remember going in for the interview. I was so nervous.
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I started part-time as a "Jr. Web Designer." This was circa 2006 when we were still using apps like Dreamweaver, and slicing designs from Photoshop into <table> layouts. (If you know, you know! 😅) It's been 20 years. I'm still in tech. Still feel like I've got a lot to learn!
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Raycast
@raycastAug 28
Sold out in 5 hours 🤯 If you missed it, we're giving away 3 Raycast keyboards. To enter: 1️⃣ Follow @raycast and @nuphystudio 2️⃣ Repost this tweet 3️⃣ Reply with your favorite shortcut We'll pick 3 winners on Monday. Good luck!
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Hello from CascadiaJS!
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I think I'm terrified of shipping.
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So now that I'm writing less code 'by hand', I'm finally trying to properly learn `vim`, since it feels like it'll be less costly in terms of time-commitment. I got Claude to set me up with a nice neovim setup for webdev (tree view, LSPs), but I'm still weak at vim basics.
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We'll only have AGI when LLMs can properly close an ASCII text box.
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so... u too?
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I just did that thing where you accidentally send a message to the wrong chat, except instead of a person, I sent a message to the wrong Claude Code session. 🤦‍♂️
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I ran out of GitHub Actions minutes (free plan) while building my upcoming Rust/Tauri app. 🙈
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My solution; vibe-code an orchestrator script on my MacBook that builds the macOS version locally, and then uses `ssh` to remotely run the build script on my Gaming PC downstairs (for Windows) and also ssh into WSL running on that same PC (for the Linux version).
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AI makes me faster, but it doesn't necessarily make me better. With my upcoming app Hangar, i've spent a lot of time trying to polish little things to improve the overall design, and UX. It's a bit buzzwordy, but I do feel like "craft" is going to become even more important.
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When just about anybody can clone your app with one-shotted AI slop, this feels essential to help you really stand out. ✨
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Coming soon: Hangar ✈️ It's a desktop app I've been building for the past few weeks. Fully cross platform with Tauri/Rust. Local-first. Get ready to organize the chaos of your local dev/projects directory. ✨ Launching next week!
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It's a silly thing, but my favorite part is the customization. I love tweaking the fonts and theme till it's just right.
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Welp... guess it's time to fully move to a different messaging platform.
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