chromy

He/Him, Staff Engineer at @getsentry by way of @emergetools, Previously:

[chromy @chromeyhex]

@mitsuhiko @jennmueng I find it helps to imagine I'm an angry kernel maintainer. (Not even kidding, now whenever I have to choose between --ours and --theirs I think of which Linus would consider theirs, my first try accuracy has gone from 50% to ~80%).

[Josh Cohenzadeh @jshchnz]

Our team put out a great post today on @Sentry's engineering blog about a lovely performance issue we encountered, definitely worth a read 📚

https://t.co/LJapNTjMVb

[Emerge Tools @emergetools]

📢 SIZE ANALYSIS IS AVAILABLE IN @getsentry 📢

And to mark the occasion, we’re not only going to breakdown an app, we’re going to fix it

👷 Shaving 70 MB (30%) off of the @firefox iOS app

[chromy @chromeyhex]

@jshchnz @Hormold @getsentry @MPTop27 @NHinderling @nellyspageli @Hormold we tried two approaches! The Claude agents used yaml ARIA snapshots (much like rendered html but a lot of the irreverent stuff stripped out). The browser-use agents combine a bunch of input - including vision https://t.co/bxNQN4l57N

[chromy @chromeyhex]

@snifftheair Do you have a link to the judgement? I haven't been able to find it.

[Emerge Tools @emergetools]

The entire @EmergeTools team celebrating now being apart of @getSentry in San Francisco 🍾

Crazy enough, this was actually the first time the full team has ever been in person together 🤯

[chromy @chromeyhex]

Exactly a year ago 2024-05-06 was my first official day at @emergetools getting onboarded and tagging along to the @DeepDishSwift events, the year went quick.

[Josh Cohenzadeh @jshchnz]

Biggest news of my life incoming: @emergetools has been acquired by @getsentry 🤯

We're incredibly excited about this new chapter, but first I thought it could be fun to share a bit more about how we got here 🧵

[Emerge Tools @emergetools]

Ok so what about TractorPlus?

Well they're actually shipping a ~112 MB of html files in their en.lproj, which we initially attributed as a localization even though it isn't really

[chromy @chromeyhex]

@CJHandmer 'Cities in flight' by James Blish https://t.co/9L4fQoEacB. You might enjoy the opening, it's 2013, everyone is bemoaning the slow death of space flight - but also they are building a 50 mile suspended ice bridge on Jupiter for the next LHC so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[chromy @chromeyhex]

@CJHandmer

[Emerge Tools @emergetools]

woah, a new blog post co-written w/ @openai just dropped 👀

👇 thoughts on mobile development processes, previews & how OpenAI uses @emergetools Snapshots

[chromy @chromeyhex]

@inthecompanyof 'Our incredible swag' à la https://t.co/I76AVcSlMC

[chromy @chromeyhex]

I've been helping out on this since I joined @emergetools, excited to see it ship!

[Emerge Tools @emergetools]

Super excited to announce our Reaper product is open for beta in Android today! 🤖

Reaper is a tool designed specifically to find and delete dead code based on production data ☠️

Link here to sign up, keep reading for more info 👇
https://t.co/DQosFGMNuY

[tldraw @tldraw]

your favorite app’s favorite app

[Ryan Brooks @rbro112]

Discovered something interesting - lots of Android apps are shipping compose Previews in their release builds 🤔

Check out this @calm release build - using a bit of magic, I could snapshot 78 previews! More to come 👀 https://t.co/EMBTumlRY3

[Josh Cohenzadeh @jshchnz]

Rare opportunity to join our small team @EmergeTools & work on iOS/product/engineering

https://t.co/KVPxdcZUZE

[chromy @chromeyhex]

Google+ is securities fraud for sure.

[Emerge Tools @emergetools]

A sneak peek of something coming soon... 👀

Make sure to swing by our booth at @droidconSF for a live demo and to chat more!

Link to sign up for the waitlist in 🧵

[chromy @chromeyhex]

@joningold "Carp diem" - take the fish, "veni vidi venti" - recounting a recent coffee experience, "unus injuria tempus" - one crime at a time.

[chromy @chromeyhex]

@inkleStudios Veronica’s Murder Mansion! I can't wait for Veronica’s next run in with the Major.