Nick Mills-Barrett

Infrastructure & DevOps @onbeeper. Recovering rage tweeter.

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Dunno what vibe coding they allow at Spotify but the iOS app performance has consistently dropped over the last few months. Loading my liked songs now burns at least 20% of my battery.

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Every time I have AI bootstrap something new I end up throwing it all out and writing the basic layout by hand. So good at writing code and so utterly terrible at designing systems.

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Guess what?! GitHub actions is broken. Again.

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Want me to never, ever try your product? Put a random invite in my calendar.

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This whole nvidia/groq thing is thoroughly depressing. Spineless governments are doing nothing while companies to eat the world. Who needs competition anyway monopolies benefit us all right? Right?

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One of my kids presents is apparently from the future..

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Used Claude plan mode for the first time, some thoughts

1. instantly 10x cost of everything
2. nothing that couldn’t be done in my head, and probably quicker (watching Claude is boring)
3. thinking is the fun bit, the entire process feels completely soulless

Not my cup of tea.

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Flying. 2 things. 1. Overhead cabin bags should be banned, so much drama. 2. Why is it that half of people on board seem to be completely new to flying “oh I’m on an exit row I have to keep the floor clear?”

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Watching two restaurant staff mind a table delivery robot through slightly wonky floor is peak 2025. What the fuck is happening to the world, this is not progress.

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New core training regime: hold the baby in the air while the toddler repeatedly jumps onto the core.

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This bullshit is infuriating. Your email is spam, to “opt out” I will move it to the spam folder where it belongs. Don’t cold email me.

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ABC is spineless and democracy is dead in the US. Wild times.

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“pacifiers for adults” is such a great description (for vapes). Very cool project: https://t.co/u57lw1LM4H

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Generally avoid politics because internet but this photo of the London met arresting an 80yr old lady for peaceful protest sums up what a total catastrophe this country has become. Disgrace. https://t.co/g7Cn7yZbT0

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Spot on: coding agents aren’t like junior engineers, they’re like mid-tier engineers who are drunk. https://t.co/Lkx8MmGZ77

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Tomorrow.

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Shocking (yet not surprising) that companies are allowed to torrent anything for AI training but dare we peasants do the same.

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🫡 Ozzy, legend

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Dear online retailers: if you don’t give me a way to checkout without setting up an account then you won’t have my business.

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This post perfectly highlights my experience with code “assistants”: Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs? https://t.co/PySYwqOe93