Theo Bleier @theombl Twitter profile

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

I am a 16-year-old from Boston with almost no SV connections. I dug through public records, wrote a cold email to @elonmusk 's team, & started the relationship between Elon + Hack Club. the internet is a democratizer like nothing else. love @hackclub , I'm grateful to be a part.

Hack Club

@hackclub

4 years

We're excited to share that @ElonMusk & The Musk Foundation is donating $500,000 to Hack Club! 💸🚀 Elon’s gift will bring Hack Club to even more high schoolers. Our finances are now open source, so you can see how we spend it Read our full announcement:

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

I dug through legal filings to find an email for someone on Elon's team & sent a cold email over. 14 hours later, this started coming together:

Hack Club

@hackclub

4 years

We’re excited to announce that @ElonMusk is doing an AMA this Friday at 1pm PT / 4pm ET with Hack Club students! 🚀🛰☀️🚘🧠🕳 Follow us at @hackclub we'll post a link to the livestream 20 min before the AMA starts so you can tune in!

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

7 months

i worked on this!

Notion

@NotionHQ

7 months

What if… you could talk to your workspace? Meet Q&A, Notion AI’s newest superpower. Join the beta:

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

11 months

excited to share that i’ve joined @notionhq to work on AI. notion has a loved product, a respected brand, and the best people. ai could radically change the way we work together; i don't think there's a better place to figure out what the future of collaboration looks like :)

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

3 years

🎉news (1/2): I’ve joined @synthesischool as a software engineer! Synthesis has an ambitious goal: re-build education from the ground up to better serve kids — teaching them how to think, vs what to think. It's a goal I'm deeply passionate about, and spawns an exciting challenge

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

my new project, revealed! 🚚 i'm working on building the best swag fulfillment experience for startups. if you're interested, reach out—happy to give a demo :)

Linus

@thesephist

4 years

Got to do some branding/graphic design work for the first time in a while, helping @theombl with his new project 🚀 If you are/know a small startup looking for A+ swag/merch shipping fulfillment + logistics, you should talk to Theo!

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

"Kids are adults in development who can understand any hard concept, given the tools" — @rauchg on a @hackclub AMA

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

1 year

the best comms i've seen from a member of congress, bar none.

Rep. Jeff Jackson

@JeffJacksonNC

1 year

Last night we had an emergency Zoom call with most of Congress to stop a bank run. Here’s the situation:

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

3 years

(2/2) Huge thanks to @thesephist for assisting me throughout my search, and @tayroga , @BrennanColberg , and @chrismanfrank for running a delightful interview process. And thank you to @hackclub , I don’t think I’d be here without you. (And yes, I’m still finishing my senior year)

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

Just released Tempus v0.1 🎉🕒 -- Tempus lets you quickly convert between multiple timezones. NEW: - +1/-1 day bug squashed (h/t @thesephist ) - open source () - re-ordered some timezones please check it out and lmk what you think!

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

3 years

This is the most exciting project I have ever been a part of. Working on it has been a privilege: thanks to everyone who contributed, shared, and helped out. Working with our team was an experience I’ll cherish forever. Long live @ConstitutionDAO :)

ConstitutionDAO (📜, 📜)

@ConstitutionDAO

3 years

We didn't get the Constitution, but we made history nonetheless. We broke records for the largest crowdfund for a physical object and most money crowdfunded in 72h, which will of course be refunded to everyone who participated. To all our 17,437 contributors, THANK YOU ❤️

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

last weekend, I built Tempus, an easier way to compare times when scheduling a meeting across multiple timezones :) check it out!:

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

@elonmusk thank you so much for spending your time with us!

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

blog post coming probably in a week or so talking more about this :)

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

@elonmusk so excited about this—thanks for being down :)

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

9 months

I’m in the arena trying stuff. Some will work, some won’t. But always eating.

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

11 months

IKEA's corporate structure is a marvel. Their business is technically owned by two foundations; one of which does an IP leaseback to the other to shroud profit via royalties. Report () estimates they avoided $1b in taxes between 2009 and 2014.

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

WE JUST PUT TWO PEOPLE INTO SPACE!!!

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

3 years

tweeted this four days ago. three days ago we started fundraising. we now have more than $40mm (in what has to be a crowdfunding record), and I’m getting ready to watch us buy the Constitution.

Theo Bleier

@theombl

3 years

@ConstitutionDAO is an absolutely next-level project. if things go to plan: thousands and thousands of people are going to collectively own a copy of the us constitution. grateful to be a (very small!) part of the core team that's helping make it happen.

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

5 years

I'm in the news! 👀

When a hack-a-thon denied this 15-year-old’s application, he found a security flaw on their website...

Theo Bleier of Westborough identified a discrepancy on Hack the North’s website and accessed data that a team of developers had accidentally left open and available.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

it'd really be nice if the people who build online learning software & curriculum were forced to take classes using their tools before shoving them onto students (looking at you: D2L & VHS :)

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

3 years

🙏 we're not done yet. excited to get some sleep first though.

ConstitutionDAO (📜, 📜)

@ConstitutionDAO

3 years

Hey frens! 📜 Over the past few days we've shown the world what a group of internet friends can do with the powers of web3. Raising +$47M, uniting 21k people on Discord and 42k on twitter in just 4 days. That's all thanks to you, and we couldn't be more grateful. So, what now?

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

11 months

and! i'm looking forward to figuring it out alongside wonderful people like @thesephist @thesophiaxu @ivanhzhao @ryolu_ @simonlast , and many others without Twitter (or, I guess X now lol) very grateful to be here!

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

finally brought my website into the modern-era!

Theo Bleier

Theo Bleier likes computers.

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

I want to write more so I built a blog! Here's a bit about why & what I'm excited to write about in the future:

Theo Bleier's Blog - Pledging to Write More

A little bit about why I'm starting to blog & what I want to write about.

tmb.sh

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

9 months

local reality distortion fields are underrated

Jimmy

@hisnameisjimmy

9 months

One thing I’ve learned in the last couple years of being a PM is how important it is to get people fucking pumped about what you’re building. Getting everyone to yearn for the vast and endless sea makes product execution dramatically easier.

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

5 years

we just released check sending on Bank! check it out

Hack Club

@hackclub

5 years

we are kicking off #HackClubBankWeek by launching our most requested feature: you can now send checks and bank-to-bank (ACH) transfers! 💌

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

5 years

BIG NEWS: I'll be interning @hackclub HQ this summer in SF working on Bank! 🎉 If you live in SF, I'd love to meet you, reply to this tweet :) (also, I got my Twitter account back)

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

3 years

@ConstitutionDAO is an absolutely next-level project. if things go to plan: thousands and thousands of people are going to collectively own a copy of the us constitution. grateful to be a (very small!) part of the core team that's helping make it happen.

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

11 months

we are hiring and you should come work with us!

Careers at Notion

Join us on our mission to help everyone shape the tools that shape their lives.

www.notion.so

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

3 years

@nwilliams030 @m1guelpf @ghosttyped @patagucci_girl @gnovak_ @sabrinahahn @imdilick @ciaomack @0xJuicero @liminal_warmth @Jierlich @bhwags @cswenberg_ @julianweisser @j_austincain @packyM @adriyoung @youfoundanisha @_mihirpatel @alicemama15 @ngeloxyz @RobbieHeeger @carterwilki @slowgraffitii @sadlyoddisfying @erik_vanwinkle @IttaiSvidler @JonathanHillis @Kyle_Billings @MunamWasi @Nogoodtwts @WillPapper @pseudotheos lol i haven't even tried a list b/c like omg so many people to thank. what a crazy crazy experience

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

@hackclub this is my favorite GIF

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

“They encourage people to go from training wheels to driving motorcycles,” Scott Smith, who tracks brokerage firms at the financial consulting firm Cerulli, said of Robinhood. “Over the long term, it’s like trying to beat the casino.”

Robinhood Has Lured Young Traders, Sometimes With Devastating Results (Published 2020)

Its users buy and sell the riskiest financial products and do so more frequently than customers at other retail brokerage firms, but their inexperience can lead to staggering losses.

www.nytimes.com

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

really cool to see a huge corporation hiring HS students to do real work that plays to their skills :)

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

5 years

hack club changed my life—please help us change others'

Hack Club

@hackclub

5 years

This #GivingTuesday , we need your help to bring coding clubs to even more high schools around the world in 2020! 💕 💸 Consider donating to us today at , and @sqs will match the first $5,000 in donations! ✨ (PS we'd appreciate a RT for signal boost! 📢)

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

it is truly dystopian that a government official is on TV, on record, saying that it is ok for kids to die

State of the Union

@CNNSOTU

4 years

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos calls on schools to reopen despite CDC guidelines that say children meeting in groups can put everyone at risk: "There is going to be the exception to the rule. But the rule should be that kids go back to school this fall" #CNNSOTU

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

5 years

@amasad specific to hacking, from my experience, it's really hard to keep learning & creating while school is happening. feels like a massive heavy chain that's trying to pull you down.

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

i really love how my linkedin bio says "please send a message when you connect" and 3/4 of the connection requests i get just.. don't have messages

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

right now, we’re seeing the manifestation of the years of harm, oppression, prejudice, & anti-blackness that we as a society have shown to the black community. whatever you can do: donating, speaking out, educating yourself—do it. everyone deserves to be able to live their life..

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

@rauchg @hackclub hell yeah! so grateful & excited that you're supporting us :)

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

3 years

@TieshunR @DiceForLoot @dhof @lootproject just bought one -- super cool. first nft!

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

1 year

Today in MUNI.

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

6 years

I wouldn't know any of the incredible people that I do without the @hackclub community. You should join.

zach latta

@zachlatta

6 years

Messages sent on the @hackclub Slack in 2017: 367K. In 2018 so far? 1.8M. Our community is wild and blows me away every day.

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

one step closer to being able to have a good dev environment on iPad!!

Guillermo Rauch

@rauchg

4 years

iSH is like "cygwin for iPad", and capable of native userspace emulation of Linux

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

3 years

it boggles the mind that Congresspeople are still allowed to trade individual stocks.

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

today i said to @thesephist "what's the status code called when the user fucks it up" and he started cackling

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

2 years

the lede is buried here. the guy bought and sold put options! sitting us congressman trading a speculative asset that he has direct influence over. buy a put option, ham it up in congress, sell the option a few days later. absolutely disgusting

CNBC

@CNBC

2 years

China critic Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama bought Alibaba stock again, months after violating disclosure law

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

today i brought 3 electronic things downstairs and realized that i only needed 1 charger b/c usb-c!

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

3 years

MSCHF has done it again. on feb 24 they're going to give random people the controls to a Boston Dynamics robot mounted with a paintball gun inside an art gallery. so ridiculous and awesome and i don't get how they come up with all of these things??

Spot's Rampage

Drive a robot war dog! Wreak havoc in an art gallery!

spotsrampage.com

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

1918 went through something similar to what we're going through now.. i wonder how you pandemic without the internet

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

5 years

we’re using in APCS! cc @amasad @replit

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

@EthanZ something from @mschfxyz . they do crazy internet things—some of my favorites: , ,

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

2 years

@Suhail they help high school students run coding clubs and hackathons. everything is OSS (incl all finances):

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

These folks were awesome. They got on the phone at 10AM with @MaxWofford & I after I sent them a cold email at 1AM the morning before—they let us use their product for free & wouldn't let us pay them.

Hack Club

@hackclub

4 years

We wanted to give a massive thank you to @PexipInc for helping us get our A/V working at the very last minute - our @ElonMusk AMA would not been possible without you! 💖

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@theombl

6 years

@zachlatta @hackclub @hackclub community is awesome!

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

3 years

@amasad i am very ready for amjad and vs k12 firewalls

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

@SamNChiet this is super cool!!

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

watching AOC stream has really made me wish that MA had younger senators / my district had a young rep

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

5 years

@seldo I watch the debate via your commentary and it's a much better experience

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

my friend Sarv is killing it with his videos!! @rtwlz is super cool—highly recommend watching :)

sarv

@SarvasvKulpati

4 years

Made a video about how @rtwlz pranked Twitter, made them change their policies, and was covered by dozens of media outlets like CNN, Barstool sports, etc. The story is seriously crazy, check it out!

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

6 years

@SuperhumanCo is incredible. I've been onboard for a few hours and already improved workflow. Great job @rahulvohra & Superhuman team!

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

today's productivity:

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

spending money on the internet is too easy—it doesn't feel like the money is leaving the account. wonder if someone has looked into whether "1 click" type purchase systems (e.g: amazon 1click, apple pay, etc..) encourage consumers to spend more money more often

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

imagine still being forced to go to school tomorrow (that’s me!)

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

8 months

bearish on airport advertised etfs

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

5 years

did you know that if you just delete every email in your inbox, you no longer have an email problem. this is very effective & no one should do it

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

6 years

Just had a chat with another high school student-- it's very interesting how a lot of people in my age group think that you need a crazy master plan in order to build something cool. No you don't, find something on a computer that pisses you off and fix it, then go from there.

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@theombl

3 years

@kellylougheed @anildash @glitch i cannot explain how much joy it brings me that there are high school teachers teaching students how to use APIs in CS class! thank you for being awesome!

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

3 years

@mojombo @hackclub this is easily one of the coolest things hack club will do :)

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

@paulg age isn’t an indicator of passion or skill

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

6 years

@bfeld superhuman is incredible! hadn't ever hit inbox 0 till I started using it

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

5 years

thread: so I've been thinking about what I want to do with @stutechgrants . it's something i'm extremely passionate about but fell by the back-burner as school kicked into high gear & I took on more projects

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

@zachlatta @hackclub ❤️

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

2 years

@camimtw i am seeing this too. woke up consistently at 830am for a week in SF alone. seemingly impossible to do at home.

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

3 years

@cyantist fairly sure I found them — sent you a DM

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

5 years

@hackclub @github wild how far we’ve come in a year. I still remember joining last year- could’ve never guessed the impact that HC would have on my life

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

2 years

@rauchg I was there too! What an incredible show.

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

3 years

@chrismanfrank @amasad @amasad you’ve had as young as 14, right?

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

5 years

@hackclub @zachlatta @EnDimensions @itsmingjie this is a screenshot of 25 students in our community getting together @ 8:30pm on Sunday to talk about hack club

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

@selynnasun lol i wish

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

today i typed javascript into imessage it was great send tweet

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

@JamesKerrane @hackclub of course!!

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

sonos is awesome, one of those things that "just works"—it plays music and that is it. reminds me of the simplicity of the original ipods

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

3 years

@mojombo @hackclub oh, and happy birthday!

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

2 years

@VictorPontis Coinbase has a free unauthenticated one that I’ve used in the past:

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

9 months

@thesephist @jdan bet he doesn’t talk to you like this

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

@katmhuang @camimtw @thesephist (was going to say he'll be here in a minute to adamantly declare he will not drop out lmao)

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

started playing overwatch again after a months-long hiatus & tried to queue in ranked- 5 placement matches is a _lot_ of time!!

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

3 years

i have generally been a crypto skeptic, but this is the type of project that literally could not come to life w/o it. also, best way to understand something is to immerse yourself in it, so here we are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

3 years

an entire house!

CarlosAvilaGonzalez

@CAGisMe

3 years

Its not everyday you see a 140-year-old two-story Victorian moving down the street in San Francisco. The house is being moved from 807 Franklin Street to 635 Fulton Street. @sfchronicle

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

as per usual, Tom is awesome. happy birthday!

Tom Preston-Werner

@mojombo

4 years

I turn 41 today, so I’m giving away 41 MacBook Air laptops (reverse 🎁)! 40 to @hackclub students, and one to a follower. To enter, follow me & reply with a tweet-sized poem about coding. Retweet to double your chance. On June 3, I’ll select ten random poems and my fave will win!

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

4 years

Apple's ads are always really cool but I think this one takes the cake:

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

11 months

@thesephist true if you're an llm whisperer go here:

Notion

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

3 years

@amasad when I was in middle school I bought the cheapest VPS I could find and ran XFCE through noVNC to escape the school firewall on my Chromebook. had to use Pale Moon as a browser because Firefox/Chromium would crash it. fun times :)

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

11 months

Corporations not paying taxes is obviously net negative for society (and Europe really should change their laws so this isn't permissible); but what an incredible way to go about doing it.

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

10 months

@ivanhzhao @simonlast @NotionHQ thank you ivan!!

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Theo Bleier

@theombl

1 year

jack stratton contributing in the weirdest possible way to the cultural zeitgeist as per usual