chrissy

Product Engineer

[chrissy @chrissy_dev]

These Rust rewrites are interesting, especially the performance gains, but I think we sometimes overlook the foundations that keep things running.

The PHP Foundation and wider community have done themselves proud this week in a pretty difficult situation.

There’s so much more to maintaining something that powers a huge chunk of the web than having a working repository. Security, governance, compatibility, long-term support etc.

[chrissy @chrissy_dev]

@jaydrogers Amazon Linux was painfully slow too release patches too. We were preparing to build from source too. Following this, cheers!

[chrissy @chrissy_dev]

@AnkanXplorer tmux sessions, split panes, lazygit, build tooling etc. Maybe a bit old school, but I feel far more productive in the terminal.

[chrissy @chrissy_dev]

@1stevengrant You just took me back to a very happy place 🥹

[chrissy @chrissy_dev]

@benjaminakar I use @mailmateapp on Mac. Fantastic software.

[chrissy @chrissy_dev]

Does this count as rage baiting? Running an ad with diesel at 118 a litre 🥹

[chrissy @chrissy_dev]

@gilbitron Nice read, and well put. All the best in your next chapter. 🫡

[chrissy @chrissy_dev]

@dwlz Solid take. 🫡

[chrissy @chrissy_dev]

All those ideas that were a pipe dream can now come alive. I’m loving it.

[Dan Loewenherz @dwlz]

I honestly don’t care at all that I spend 30 years of my life learning syntax and now that knowledge is essentially useless.

Frankly, I’m relieved that I don’t need to care about it anymore. That stuff never really mattered anyways. Code was always just a means to an end.

All I care about is building products that users love. Now I can do that faster. That means I can have bigger impact.

If anything, software engineers should all be celebrating. I don’t understand why you’d “mourn” not needing to write code. The code was never the point.

[chrissy @chrissy_dev]

@rootswp …and Gulp 🥹

[chrissy @chrissy_dev]

One day I'll ship this app.

https://t.co/k5haPgGBYi

[chrissy @chrissy_dev]

The great re-write is delivering. Of course it’s not 1:1 feature parity but for a surface level Photoshop user, this is absolutely outstanding.

[Robbie Tilton @robbietilton]

I built a Photoshop-like image editor. It’s called Compositor.

https://t.co/5EMXCgaWI1

I originally built it for myself to get off my Adobe subscription, but decided to release it for free and make it open source. It has all the essential tools I need for compositing, with none of the BS.

I know this workflow is kind of archaic in 2026, but I’m still using it until AI can actually get pixel-perfect on some of the details.

The entire app is 12MB. Photoshop is 6,455MB on my machine.

[Diogo Almeida @CompleteSkeptic]

After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to AGI?

I’ve spent the last 2 years in stealth building a new way to train models (RLCD), and a new type of frontier AI model that we are releasing today: Jev

• 20-200x faster
• 40-400x cheaper (w/ output tokens free)
• Frontier composable intelligence optimized for decisions

AFAICT the shortest path to AI-based economic revolution

[chrissy @chrissy_dev]

@bradgessler I’ve actually never had an issue with this, but I do agree it’s a bit odd. Imagine individual fields for each credit card number 😬

[Rasmus Andersson @rsms]

It’s amazing to see people discover the joy of making your own personal-scale software.

Interestingly most of what at least I see on my timeline is art/entertainment, not productivity software.

I have a growing suspicion that existing productivity software is quickly becoming a “middle man” (which means their days are numbered.)

Someone says “but people use email, I need to do email” — what they mean is people communicate and that’s true, but it being email or as text on a screen is kind of irrelevant on a human level.

The economy of software is moving so quickly right now that it’s hard to even see it; like motion blur in a movie scene

[chrissy @chrissy_dev]

I’ve been following @OmarchyLinux for a while and with the apple silicon stuff moving so quickly i think it might finally be the thing that gets me properly onto linux. Crazy speed you guys are moving at @dhh

https://t.co/M57WXKVnIR

[chrissy @chrissy_dev]

I really want this to be great

[Netflix UK & Ireland @NetflixUK]

Ooh, Netflix friends.

THE INBETWEENERS 3. Now filming.

[Dillon Mulroy @dillon_mulroy]

this is what taste and craft looks like in the age of code written by ai

[chrissy @chrissy_dev]

@Spotify can you add a way for parents to mark a song as “played for my kids” to remove it from the DJ and recommendation algorithm? Cheers 😶‍🌫️