Ryan Brooks
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Staff Eng @getsentry | Formerly employee 1 @emergetools (YC W21)
Joined June 2020
Wish I had this when I worked at Airbnb, Firebender is killing it 🔥.
Android engineers spend thousands of hours converting figmas to compose code. This is why we are introducing Composer in Firebender, a simple coding agent plugin in Android Studio. Here are some samples we've open sourced:
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RT @indragie: So excited for @jshchnz, @sond813, and the @emergetools team to join us at @getsentry. I admired their work from afar while b….
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Almost 4 years after joining @emergetools as the first employee, I can't be more excited to be joining @getsentry! What a crazy ride it's been.
emergetools.com
Emerge Tools is joining Sentry to build the best mobile tooling in the world.
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Maybe a bit clearer with this, left is bad (aliasing changes), right is good (no change)?
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Any Android rendering experts out there?. I made a small change to profile our snapshot SDK code using a trace() { . } function with a lambda. Somehow this affected aliasing?. Skipping the lambda & inlining the start/endSpan fixes things, what gives? 🤔
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RT @emergetools: Our Snapshots product generates images from Previews (Xcode & Compose). For teams like @OpenAI & @joinHandshake, this has….
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It's been awesome watching ChatGPT on Android being built with Compose and using Emerge's snapshot testing before the it was ever released!.
woah, a new blog post co-written w/ @openai just dropped 👀. 👇 thoughts on mobile development processes, previews & how OpenAI uses @emergetools Snapshots
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This combined with frameworks like / Vercel where you can have "preview" branches are game changing - siloed environments based on branches are basically built for agents.
sst.dev
if you’re not working in a monorepo, you should probably start to now. otherwise you’re pretty much dead in the water with regards to software engineering agents etc. interesting how the best practices for humans are 10x multipliers for agents. see also: documentation, tests.
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The solution is @Flighty, finally tried it and it’s so good. Just need the ability to hold my boarding pass and I never have to use an awful airline app again.
What's up with airline apps consistently being awful? . No matter the airline - Delta, Alaska, British Airways - jank, unhandled errors, random logouts/exits, they're all so consistently bad. Why aren't airlines meeting the same quality bar as Uber, Airbnb, Doordash, etc.?.
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RT @emergetools: Had a great first day at @droidconLondon yesterday, make sure to stop by the booth today! 🤖✨
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RT @Sp4ghettiCode: Shout out to @emergetools for a great write-up on PDD and the approach they took with their open-source Hacker News clie….
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RT @emergetools: We've all heard about Test-driven Development, but what about Preview-driven Development 🤔. That's exactly how we built ou….
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What's up with airline apps consistently being awful? . No matter the airline - Delta, Alaska, British Airways - jank, unhandled errors, random logouts/exits, they're all so consistently bad. Why aren't airlines meeting the same quality bar as Uber, Airbnb, Doordash, etc.?.
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The inspiration for this post all came from this tweet if you’re curious why we use Linear as our sample:
This doesn't tell the true story though - Android has its ways of "hiding" the true size impact, but is able to avoid this at download time, unlike iOS. Working up a blog post about this!
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I've already seen some Reaper users on the Android side realize ~25% of their entire codebase is unused, despite millions of real user sessions 👀👀.
"Since integrating Reaper, we've analyzed & executed the results only twice & removed over 10,000 lines of code, nearly 1% of our codebase!" 👀. Great post by our friends @duolingo on how Reaper has helped Duolingo delete code + why less code is better 💀.
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