jeff irwin

jeff irwin

@jeffirwin.xyz

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jeff irwin
@jeffirwin.xyz

trying so hard not to look at the hot lady in the grocery store that i'm now in an aisle i've never been in before holding a product i can't identify

jeff irwin
@jeffirwin.xyz

for the last ten years i've been enduring an in-house binary package manager at work. all it does is download files, unzip them, and generate some cmake lists. sounds simple right? 30 python spaghetti files. painful to use. slow as hell. and it needs pip just to bootstrap itself

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jeff irwin
@jeffirwin.xyz

but it's 6 minutes faster in ci/cd. zero security vulnerabilities from random pip dependencies. and i never have to fix it again because python shipped a "minor" update that broke everything

jeff irwin
@jeffirwin.xyz

ten years of suffering replaced by one lunch break and a mass of bash. mass of bash still mass, but mass of bash is faster mass

jeff irwin
@jeffirwin.xyz

for the last ten years i've been enduring an in-house binary package manager at work. all it does is download files, unzip them, and generate some cmake lists. sounds simple right? 30 python spaghetti files. painful to use. slow as hell. and it needs pip just to bootstrap itself

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jeff irwin
@jeffirwin.xyz

it's still a pain in the ass to use because i made it backwards compatible with the old schema. i'm not pretending i built something beautiful here

jeff irwin
@jeffirwin.xyz

for the last ten years i've been enduring an in-house binary package manager at work. all it does is download files, unzip them, and generate some cmake lists. sounds simple right? 30 python spaghetti files. painful to use. slow as hell. and it needs pip just to bootstrap itself

jeff irwin
@jeffirwin.xyz

claude code has done the impossible — it made me empathize with product managers claude be like “this is a separate issue outside the scope of what you reported” like bro just fix it

jeff irwin
@jeffirwin.xyz

josh hawley just said that tiktok can read your text messages that’s false and even if it were true, that would be a critical bug on apple/android’s end for failing to sandbox 3rd party apps from your messages