Using AI has brought back my love of homelabbing. It's so nice to ask for a plan for add new services or hunting down issues. I use Warp + markdown memory, but this is a next level setup I want to try: rsgm.dev/post/ai-dev-... Are y'all using AI to manage your lab? What are you using it for?

The Lex Friedman podcast with the OpenClaw founder is really good. Kinda figured it'd be like a lot of YOLO but he's very thoughtful. Really fun hearing from someone using agents so heavily and about workflows etc podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

I've been trying out ePaper tablets for the past few weeks, mostly journaling and taking notes. Remarkable is hands down the best. I wanted to love the Kindle Scribe but it's heavier, slower, pen feels worse, writing feels worse, just all around worse minus the Kindle catalog.

This is a really good run down of the actual steps to get Claude to work well. My implementation planning process is similar, but I updated it with some tips from here. I should probably write a post about mine! boristane.com/blog/how-i-u...

Think of all the wonderful aliases we could have if the CIA had to release them! FOIA anyone? spencer.wtf/2026/02/20/c...

www.latent.space/p/ainews-why... YES PLEASE. Actually, a whole bunch of companies should try and replace Slack. Google Chat isn't even close and missing so many features. Zoom Chat is closer, but not there.

I'm having a lot of fun reading all the things people are doing with OpenClaw. But working in healthcare, no way I'm setting it up for any of my data or tooling... But something similar, using my local LLMs, proper security? Definitely interesting. Anyone have experience with NanoClaw yet?

> Your turn, Josh 🏆 > 22 connections already solved LinkedIn puzzle games Today must be "LinkedIn created a new category of emails that you're automatically subscribed to" day! It's a near monthly holiday!

Only took like 3 years, but Spotify finally has what I thought DJ was going to be: prompting for a playlist. Yay!

I swear half my job is copying questions into ChatGPT and copying the answer to whoever asked. Some day I'll convince them to go to GPT first...

A lot of my days are now a split between managing a whole bunch of agents (Cursor/Devin/Claude) and code review (assisted by AI more and more). I'm so *so* much more productive, but I miss coding a whole feature some days. On the high side, it's let me scratch my side project itch again!

In the past couple years I'd moved a bit away from dotfiles, but having a few projects and couple machines, I've had to get back to using them more. Having Claude to do things like "fix the shell prompt to look like this" has made them sooo much nicer to work with. Any good strategies for syncing?

Just noticed with Chrome/Safari next to each other with Slack behind... macOS Tahoe has some rough edges:

Told a vendor today to cancel our account and hopefully refund us. Salesperson oversold, engineer says the features we need might be there Q2, so I tasked Claude to replace it. 2 days of on and off prompting and I have a working alternative. This is what SaaS is gonna be up against going forward.

I love when a company selling software write a blog post about 5 best XYZ and puts themselves at the top. Yay SEO game.

Super interesting thread on how the creator of Claude writes Claude with Claude: twitter-thread.com/t/2007179832...

Fun reading this as I'm moving our PRDs and implementation plans into our monorepo so AI has better context: www.kasava.dev/blog/everyth...

Working on converting all of our repos to Bun. Holy shit, it's so fast, so nice, and I wish I did it years ago. Plus compiling the backend down to a single executable and tossing that in Docker is so nice. Anyone have any good tips for linking in libraries to React Native with Bun?

My toxic trait is putting ketchup on tacos 🌮

If you ever need to present at work or give a talk, this was a fabulous talk on giving a talk. I might submit a few presentations for 2026! It’s been nearly 10 years since my last talk, wow. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc...

I'm PhD in graphic design and Cracker Barrel's REAL problem is they didn't go *far enough*

My flight is delayed because the plane is too hot…it’s only 87 in Seattle.

Anyone have good ideas for individual engineer KPIs? Goal is easy to track and the engineer has as much agency as possible. So far my only ideas are numbers of PR review and/or lag between review request and review.

Headed to #defcon for the first time! I know no one, any other newbies in the same position? Planning to head to the BBQ tonight.

Literally every time I cook I'm annoyed by all the different recipe apps and sites. Put the measurements in the instructions (but dynamically, so I can scale) and always give me grams with dry ingredients. e.g. "Add 1 cup (120g) flour to the mixture". Time to spin AvoToast back up.

Always blows my mind when I try to work from a coffee shop like Starbucks and get like 2Mbps. Left and tried a Caribou in a grocery story in rural WI and I get 300Mbps.

Always a good sign when the pilot tries turning the plane on and off again.

Struggled most of yesterday with a bug. Finally threw the whole feature description and the 1800 lines I wrote into Gemini. 2 minutes later it pointed out I was a dumbass (“made a logical error”) and fixed it. Worked first try. Damn robots taking our jobs 😂

I'm surprised react-native-mmkv isn't as popular - honestly, there's no reason to use AsyncStorage anymore results.stateofreactnative.com/en-US/state-...

Using Cursor to help write Cursor rules. Inception.

Legend List 1.0 beta is ready! It started as a performance experiment, but it ended up solving a lot of the major issues with lists in React Native. 🎉 ✨ Better perf than FlashList ✨ maintainContentVisiblePosition ✨ Bidirectional infinite lists ✨ Chat UI without inverting

"Becoming a professional software developer is accumulating a back-catalogue of regrets and mistakes. You learn nothing from success. It is not that you know what good code looks like, but the scars of bad code are fresh in your mind." - @tef.bsky.social

Implemented a whole moderately complex feature, about 300 lines with tests. I wrote maybe 20 of those lines. Fed Windsurf the PRD and a brief implementation plan, nudged it a couple times, and it worked. Amazing how far these tools have come.

Does anyone have experience with Twilio campaign suspensions? Had one of our campaigns suspended (I suspect they flagged something as spam) and haven't had any luck getting any answers, even after paying for Twilio support.

I was just thinking “well, I’m at a good stopping point, it’s 430 on a Friday, I’m taking off early!” Forgot I started at 7…

Love my 3D printer. 30 mins after I broke my treadmill clip, I had a new one.

Using Windsurf and it is _amazing_. I love Cursor, but having it actually able to run tests, read the results, and come up with solutions on its own is incredible. I might need to spend the first couple of weeks updating some of our infra to support it better (faster tests, UI tests, etc)

There's a terrible Meta Glasses ad I keep getting on podcasts that starts out with the person asking "how do I make a latte"? If you're capable of making a latte at home, you'd know it because you bought an espresso machine. If not, Meta AI ain't gonna help, other than "help" you order one.

Two days, two coworking day passes that failed. Probably should have bit the bullet and went into Chicago proper rather than staying in the far burbs (where family is). On the high side, I’m getting tons of Starbucks stars ⭐️

Visiting family for the holidays. 73 is too high for the thermostat during the day IMO, but I’ll survive. 73 during the night? I’m dying.

It was about my 6th try and heavvvvy help from Claude, but finally added the ability to pin columns to our React Native Table component. It is literally the most requested feature by our staff. I wish ScrollView or FlatList would support it natively.

Just read the response from Costco to shareholders requesting it back down from DEI. It was glorious. It begins "Our Board has considered this proposal and believes … an enterprise rooted in respect and inclusion is appropriate and necessary." and gets better. A happy investor #diversityandinclusion

Great thread on why a ton of AI agents won’t suddenly get rid of devs. Plus have you ever code reviewed and tested for a whole team? It’s a *ton* of work. AI will help with that but only so much (until AGI)

Anyone here on #peloton? Add me! My username is BasicBae. Just about to hit a 52 week streak! Really loving the Guide for strength training, especially with form feedback. #workout

I was pushed for a KPI for my dev team and this is what I landed on as the least dumb option. The key was setting the number of changes at a “yeah we’ll hit that with no behavior change” level. I tried to explain why KPIs are worthless in software but…

How you harm young people by assuming cell phones are a mental health problem: You ignore the real evidence that adults are the problem to be solved.

Yup, that scans Oura! The stress tracking feature has been my fave part of my ring. And this is a good reminder I should mix in more breaks or start meditating again. Oof December.

Seeing negative responses to GitHub trying to AI-supercharge VSCode. If you've spent the last 3 months touching grass and not focusing on new tools, I get it. But this new era of AI editors is not just GitHub Copilot giving you autocomplete. Maybe Bsky Tech folks already know this, but here we go:

this 1-liner will filter out all the browser extension noise in Sentry and dare I say, change your life for the best 😃

Setup Ollama locally on a 3090, holy shit is it cool. A lot of project possibilities open up when you don’t have to worry about per request costs.