Jack Bee

Dublin 📍 Limerick 🏡 Used to go to a lot of gigs before the world ended. Software engineer.

[Jack Bee @JackieBeegs]

@dublinbypub The Greyhound in Kilkee used to offer this as what was known as a “snug pint” as the keg sat in the snug rather than in the cooler room

[Darragh Curran @darraghcurran]

9 months ago we publicly committed to 2x the productivity of our R&D org at @intercom.

It was scary. It wasn't always clear we'd pull it off.

We hit it with 3 months to spare. In fact, looking back 16 months - we've 3x'd.

Here's what actually happened (with receipts): 🧵

[Eoghan McCabe @eoghan]

https://t.co/I2Hf40EpIt

[Brian Scanlan @brian_scanlan]

We've been building an internal Claude Code plugin system at Intercom with 13 plugins, 100+ skills, and hooks that turn Claude into a full-stack engineering platform. Lots done, more to do. Here's a thread of some highlights.

[Jack Bee @JackieBeegs]

The refs arm is up to award the try before the ball even approached the line #IREvNZL

[Jack Bee @JackieBeegs]

@feinmhuinin @wednesdaysadums reckon they stayed up late last night to prepare their stickers?

[Jack Bee @JackieBeegs]

@peterjmcgann I never realised the first time around that his song request is for the song that they said they were already playing

[Jack Bee @JackieBeegs]

@bryancsk if you’re not doing this, you’re using it wrong

[Jack Bee @JackieBeegs]

@elchaposer hi

[Jack Bee @JackieBeegs]

@theJoshRedd @VCBrags Rimowa, yep. The chair is an Aeron though

[Jack Bee @JackieBeegs]

@yer_man_himself @dublin_damo Nah, it way predates him. It was a thing in college in Dublin in ~2016

[Jack Bee @JackieBeegs]

@WindforceGames @0xIlyy i do a subset of these but add a force push to “gcan” to make the holy grail “gcanp!” of git commit all no-edit and force push

[Jack Bee @JackieBeegs]

@forksinthebag one of those posters is not like the others @MagnusMudrack

[Jack Bee @JackieBeegs]

@PeteFarrell14 @zenbuffy it’s between 2-5 a year

[Jack Bee @JackieBeegs]

@joyoladokun No hard feelings - Avett Brothers. it’s as good as it gets

[Jack Bee @JackieBeegs]

@nyan0200 @billyhumblebrag We called it pocket sweat when we were there

[Jack Bee @JackieBeegs]

@stretchmypenny this has to be a joke, if it’s not, you’re not cut out for it. get back to working at 39

[Jack Bee @JackieBeegs]

@echetus I was recently visiting shoreditch and was warned by staff in restaurants in the area just not to use my phone on the street and advised to check maps and memorise the path before leaving which felt v uncomfortable as a tourist

[Jack Bee @JackieBeegs]

@CeolanMc I’m guessing either St Pat’s fans or the Sabah FC supporters who have travelled from Azerbaijan to play them tomorrow?

[Jack Bee @JackieBeegs]

@davidciani @philipbrown @patio11 Loads of states charge sales tax on digital services at this point. You even need city and county level granularity on addresses to charge it correctly because of how much it varies