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Thijs
@cdngdev
Joined March 2020
i made this feature! never thought my hand would make it to discord twitter lmaonew feature update: the desktop pip (picture-in-picture) is now resizable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wo0oooo!!!!
00:00- Two years ago, 10 minutes before my code access was cut off to on my last day working at Discord, I added an easter egg into the app. I had to get another engineer to promote it to stable since my access cut off mid-merge. Two years later, I'm surprised it's still there haha.
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share a piece of software dev lore about yourself - I've re-joined Discord as an intern!I've joined Discord as an intern!
- The merch quality is insane, it's so soft!! thx @OfficialLoganK
I wonder what's inside! - just put the trolley problem into a video model. i don't think it understood the assignment
00:00 - Three years ago, I cold-emailed @jasoncitron and landed an internship at Discord while in high school. He responded in 30 minutes. Sending that email changed my life forever :)
- We've tested hundreds of models at lmarena… never before has model hype brought in 2 MILLION new chats in one day. 🍌 nano banana by @GoogleDeepMind is here.
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🚨🍌Breaking News: Gemini-2.5-Flash-Image-Preview (“nano-banana”) by @GoogleDeepMind now ranks #1 in Image Edit Arena. In just two weeks: 🟡“nano-banana” has driven over 5 million community votes in the Arena 🟡Record-breaking 2.5M+ votes casted for this model alone 🟡It has - Sooo my bug fix last month didn't go to planI have a weird bug on my discord where every time I open it it sends this picture of my pie and mash lol
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00:00 - GPT-5 JUST ONE-SHOTTED A MINECRAFT CLONE
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Replying to @arenaGPT-5 dominates the Text Arena, ranking #1 in every major category: 🧠 Hard Prompts 💻 Coding ➗ Math 🎨 Creative Writing 📝 Long Queries …and more. - Google CEO just replied to my intern project! (Video Arena) LMArena is awesome.Replying to @arena and @GoogleDeepMind
00:00 - for fun: here's an early iteration of this vid that i made as a joke internally after building the feature! had no idea it would become a real marketing vid. discord culture is awesome imo, where you can do random stuff like this as an engineer that could end up on socials.
00:0000:29new feature update: the desktop pip (picture-in-picture) is now resizable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wo0oooo!!!! - Replying to @cdngdev @jasoncitron and 3 othersIt's an interesting concept, but with the environmental impact, and the amount of spam and scams, the problems outweigh the benefits here. Also, Discord already runs in carbon-neutral servers, don't mess that up with this!
