I recently experienced a surreal moment at work. We had a project slipping down the backlog for weeks because the estimated effort was too high. We spent days in meetings debating the approach. Then a coworker just... did it. Used AI to scaffold the whole thing in one day.

Just published: "Breaking the QR Limit." I wanted true serverless P2P sync between phones, but WebRTC requires signaling servers. Doing it via QR codes usually fails because SDP payloads are huge (2.5KB+), resulting in dense, unscanable QRs. I fixed it by designing a custom binary protocol (QWBP).

I've been building custom skills for Claude Code (Anthropic's CLI) but hit a wall: managing third-party libraries. JavaScript usually demands a package.json and a massive node_modules folder, which is too heavy for simple agent skills. I wanted something like Python's "uv run" but for TypeScript 🧵

Two years at @buffer.com. Time flies. When I joined from a corporate environment, everyone seemed too nice. Too welcoming. Too open. I kept waiting for the catch. 🧵

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The new BIBE environments is a simple shift which has made a big difference for me this last month: No big overhaul — just one tiny adjustment to my workflow with great results. Learn more here: lnkd.in/dDCRcS8f

This new project from Dan Hollick makes me want to share with you all the content I've been gathering as great "teaching". These usually involve visuals and tailored interactive components to help explain complex topics. #1 makingsoftware.co by Dan Hollick

Your 20s: "Commitment, effort, involvement" Your 30s: "I'm delivering this shit as it is and going straight to the gym" #LifeGoals

Managing technical debt is fundamentally changing: AI agents are quite good at understanding legacy code and executing directed refactoring faster than humans, making previously impossible debt reduction viable in resource-constrained teams.

Have you ever wanted to work 4 days a week with full pay? Fully remote. Fully transparent (even salaries), values-driven company? This role pays between 141K-163K USD. You can work from anywhere in the world. We're looking for someone to join our Marketing Team at Buffer. Read more buff.ly/gU6JHk7

Most people misunderstand how AI Agents are designed to assist us in our everyday activities. There's a common fear that AI will take over human jobs.

You don't always have to review GenAI code - it could be the other way around! Ask AI to review your own code instead. Use Copilot as a reviewer on GitHub, or ask Claude Code to review your PR content. It can give you really good insights and catch those small, subtle bugs you could easily miss.

When I worked as a sysadmin 10+ years ago, Mutt was my go-to email client. After moving away from it, I never felt comfortable with anything else... until I found Mimestream 2 years ago. Been using it since beta and it's simply the best: elegant, fast, and feels like it truly belongs on the Mac. 🙌

Due to the Coriolis effect, loading spinners in the Southern hemisphere spin the other way.

Did you know there are resolution media queries? developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W... #CSS

This is my favourite performance-enhancing JS feature ⚡ It allows ES modules to achieve laziness similar to inline require() in CJS modules, and adds safe handling of Top-Level Await 👍 It's an easy way to speed up existing codebases without introducing the async virality of dynamic import() 🦠

🧵 Want to share a technique I've been using with generative AI for coding that's been really helpful When you ask AI to make large changes across a codebase (like migrations), it often struggles - uses lots of tokens, makes mistakes, takes forever. But there's a better approach

In the past few weeks, a new surge of "background" coding agents came out. I wrote down an example of using OpenAI's Codex, this will hopefully help you understand better what they do under the hood, and which agent category they fall into. martinfowler.com/articles/exp...

It’s not new but I just discovered this @theoatmeal.bsky.social post and I think it may well be my favorite of his. “Sometimes going down the wrong path isn’t a mistake — it’s a construction line” Amen to that! theoatmeal.com/comics/creat...

I want my code to be understandable to idiots with limited context, because that's also future-me.

9 months of Palabreja.com growth captured in one chart. The ups and downs tell the real story, but that upward trend? That's what happens when you keep showing up and iterating. Slow and steady feels pretty good.

$22,384,596 may seem like a random number, but it's oh so meaningful for us at @buffer. This number marks the transition from ARR recovery, which is essentially a continual look backward at our previous all-time high, to a bright and beautiful launch forward into *everything* that is to come.

async await async await async await async await in the function, the mighty function, the child thread sleeps tonight 🎵

Wow, we did it! We have officially achieved a new all-time-high ARR at Buffer 🎉 Our previous all-time-high was $22,384,598 on February 6, 2020. Today, our ARR stands at $22,395,427. This milestone has been 5 years in the making for us, it's going to take a little time to sink in for me personally!

One interesting thing I've learned when talking with GitHub CEO @ashtom.bsky.social last week is how GitHub is hiring *more* early-careers devs (interns / new grads) as before. I asked: why? Given lots of companies are hiring less assuming AI might be at the level of a junior dev (cont'd)

Another milestone: 22 weeks of posting this year alone! The Palabreja.com journey has been documented for much longer, but I love hitting these consistency markers. Nothing beats showing up regularly and watching it all unfold. @buffer.com

I'm building a date-time picker with timezone support for Buffer. What date pickers have you found that actually work well with timezones and good #a11y?

*Very* cool use of typed attr() for grid placement! 😀 dev.to/madsstoumann...

One of the most important properties of a junior developer is the fact that you can turn them into a senior developer. --- Martin Fowler www.youtube.com/watch?v=lurb...

. @buffer ‘s “default to transparency” value was the #buildinpublic 10 years ago - @joelgascoigne

A code generation tool that gets you 80-90% of the way there is like a boat that gets you 80-90% of the way. You'll need to be a strong swimmer.

It's that time of the year again:

New in Chrome DevTools: Accurately emulate CPU performance of a low/mid tier phone with Automatic CPU throttling calibration! 📲 This feature calculates slow-downs for your specific device. Wanted this for years! We just shipped it.

"10 Google engineering practices your team can adopt" Free to read: addyo.substack.com/p/applied-so... My new post breaks down our software engineering practices into actionable steps you can implement in your own team. From smaller teams to larger orgs, there are key takeaways here for everyone.

⭐️ Today marks my 5 year anniversary at @Buffer.com ⭐️ This is also my longest tenure at a company. Usually after about 3 years, I would start to look for my next opportunity. So why have I decided to stay? For me, it's a mix of Product, Personal Growth and People.

Gentle reminder: Consistency beats perfection every time. 💙

I just published "Migrating to the Compose PullToRefreshBox" 👉 https://buff.ly/3Cx0uKf #AndroidDev #JetpackCompose #GDE

We're making habit-building a whole lot happier. 🥳 Introducing: Streaks! ⚡ The concept is beautifully simple: share a post in Buffer every week and watch your streak count grow. 🪴 Miss a week, and your streak resets, gently nudging you to stay on track. 😌

NEW POST Design tokens are fundamental design decisions represented as data. Andreas Kutschmann explains how they work and how to organize them to balance scalability, maintainability and developer experience. martinfowler.com/articles/des...

We hit $20M ARR at @buffer again, with just 73 team members! I joined in 2019 when the decade-long growth was slowing. Bouncing back was one of the toughest challenges of my career. What a comeback! Here are some of the things I've learned as part of the Product Team:

For @buffer.com's December All Hands, I presented about our growth on Bluesky. Our daily Bluesky connections (by unique users) have increased by 528% 🤯 I'm deep in 2025 planning and I'm excited to focus more on Bluesky features in the coming months! Keep sending your suggestions my way 🙏

As we see more LLM adoption on producing/helping to produce content in products like Buffer, Miro, and alike, it would be awesome to understand the similarity of the content it is generated.

Naming things is hard. If you don’t know what to call a component in your design system, you can start by looking at what other teams are doing. Component Gallery is a great resource for this: component.gallery/components/ …But don’t assume that something is correct, just because it’s popular.

I made a Chrome Extension to bring Bluesky comments to any URL :) Get it here: github.com/joneslloyd/b... Credits to: - @emilyliu.me - @coryzue.com - @louee.bsky.social Any feedback and/or PRs are welcome. I threw this together in 1.5 errors, so expect bugs etc.

So proud of the amazing @buffer.com team! We have been so focused on this turnaround for the last few years. And we still have so much more we want to do and build. 😄 🎉

3D split-flap display ✈️

Want to tease something my team has been working on over @buffer.com !

Over the last few days, we've seen a bunch of new people join Bluesky and also connect their accounts to @buffer.com As the Product Manager for the Bluesky <> Buffer integration, I would love to hear more about how we can improve this experience for you. Feel free to comment below or send me a DM!

Ever curious about the folks who build Buffer? We have a Starter Pack of Buffer teammates here. 💙 go.bsky.app/6btj3D2