winterbloom's comments

On: Discord Is Not an Acceptable Choice for Free Software Projects (2020)

[winterbloom]

Normal people find discord to be more user friendly than irc

[trollbridge → winterbloom]

Likewise, normal people do not find NNTP to be user friendly.

On: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)

[winterbloom]

Location: Canada/US

Remote: Open to it

Willing to relocate: Open to it

Technologies: React/Next.js/Ruby/Ruby on Rails/Tailwind/Typescript/Python/Django/etc

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZuUttzrImLuoBmBcJL_tu0rP...

Email: actual.edward@gmail.com

My name is Edward. I'm an individual with close to a decade of experience shipping impactful software and leading teams

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edward-c-040270111/

Quick bullet points:

- Significant experience with working across the stack

- Cooperative engineer with a focus on velocity and revenue

- Wears many hats

On: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)

[winterbloom]

looks like in-office, boss

On: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)

[winterbloom]

Careful with this

I applied and got rejected without feedback. They stated that there was a high volume of strong applicants (if there were, why are they posting again?)

[EddieRingle → winterbloom]

> I applied and got rejected without feedback. They stated that there was a high volume of strong applicants (if there were, why are they posting again?)

This is the case for the vast majority of companies posting jobs here and elsewhere (e.g., LinkedIn) right now. I've been looking for the past 7 months after a lay-off and that exact reply is the most common response I've seen (because it's an automated response). Well, most common after not hearing back at all, of course.

[dang → winterbloom]

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46858512. Please see the rules at the top of the thread.

I know situations like this are frustrating and the job market in general has a lot of issues, but Who Is Hiring threads aren't a great place to prosecute these topics.

There are links to a lot of past explanations here, in case helpful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45094555.

[coolThingsFirst → winterbloom]

Tons and tons of ghost jobs, well over 90%.

On: Steam "Offline" status leaks exact login timestamps (Valve: Won't Fix)

[winterbloom]

if you're tracking someone's sleep schedule, you need a life

[BoredPositron → winterbloom]

It's a hobby for someone extreme stans on twitch.

On: Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team

[winterbloom]

he wasn't, he was calling the person who responded to the individual who got laid off

On: Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far

[winterbloom]

Didn't feel like reading all this so I shortened it! sorry!

I shortened it for anyone else that might need it

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Software engineers are sleeping on Claude Code agents. By teaching it your conventions, you can automate your entire workflow:

Custom Skills: Generates code matching your UI library and API patterns.

Quality Ops: Automates ESLint, doc syncing, and E2E coverage audits.

Agentic Reviews: Performs deep PR checks against custom checklists.

Smart Triage: Pre-analyzes tickets to give devs a head start.

Check out the showcase repo to see these patterns in action.

[gjvc → winterbloom]

you are part of the problem

On: 'It's surreal': How US sanctions lock ICC judges out of daily life

[winterbloom]

You got down voted by haters lol, don't worry there are some of us who support you

On: A Thousand Tiny Optimisations

[winterbloom]

They are being genuine, no need to be toxic

[purplesyringa → winterbloom]

I appreciate that calling a hobby "no one" (read: many people) enjoy a mental illness is genuine, but I think I find the grandparent much less toxic than the comment it replies to. There's no need to shame people for things they find interesting.

On: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)

[winterbloom]

It says "Remote (US, UK, EMEA)" so the answer is no

[zhyd1997_ → winterbloom]

Yeah, just saw they hire someone from other countries as contractor.

https://posthog.com/handbook/people/hiring-process#countries...