Bologna, Italy / June 2023

Looks pretty interesting, has anyone tried this yet? www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

It's been a really long time that I visited back home 😔

There’s something about history-based fiction that gets me every time. The feeling that the past holds secrets we haven’t uncovered yet. The Venetian Betrayal leans into that perfectly like the previous two already did. Love these Cotton Malone books 📚​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Kew Gardens, London / October 2021

People ask me what tools I use for coding. The honest answer: it's not one tool anymore. It's an entire ecosystem. Here's what my daily setup looks like as a frontend engineer at Buffer 🧵

I don’t own an espresso machine at the moment but my son does

Sketching out how I my office to look like now that I have a dedicated room for it now 😍

Took the little time of resting after our move to build a couple of little things that I had on my list for a while now. A little interactive quiz to practice Tamil letters for learn-tamil.com and a little plate calculator for getmaxout.app

Moved back to 🇩🇪 from 🇬🇧 and found this at my parents place. When did we stop exchanging business cards? I love designing these 😍

Big week for our family: If everything goes well we will be moving from the UK 🇬🇧 to Germany 🇩🇪

Current state: Spending all my tokens to find a meeting slot that works for everyone 😅

Anyone else facing the issue that they can't use Yarn 4.x on Claude Code in the desktop app? For some reason, it always fails to install?

Claude's scheduled tasks: What do you use them for? The only thing that I use them for at the moment is to weekly update some npm packages for projects and create a PR for these changes (basically what dependabot does but in a single PR instead of multiple)

One of the biggest improvements in my workflow recently has basically been talking to AI using a speech-to-text tool like Wispr Flow. Especially with multiple instances of Claude running, talking instead of typing makes you a lot quicker.

Designers and PMs that code, engineers that ship entire UIs that actually don't suck. Things have changed so much recently and I love it. It's just a matter of time that these roles will merge into one single. A builder (or how the Laravel community would say: "Artisans") rathes.me/blog/en/are-...

Working at @buffer.com also means having meetings that end with "Have a great rest of your morning" for one and "Have a good night" for the other teammate. Absolutely love it.

Small @buffer.com <-> @bsky.app tip: If you append /rss to a username (like bsky.app/profile/rath...) it will give you the RSS feed for a profile which you can then load inside of Buffer. I have been doing this to stay up-to-date with a few accounts that regularly share interesting articles

Looking for Claude Code experts: How do I trigger a skill from a hook? Is that possible? For example, I want to run a specific skill if the user prompt contained a specific word. How would I set that up?

Not sure if anyone else feels the same but these days my bottleneck for productivity is not waiting for others to review my PRs anymore but actually reviewing what each of my Claude instances produced.

Back in the days, I used to stay up to date with what happens in the Laravel community by just following some key people on Twitter. Now that I've left that platform and moved here, I feel like I'm not catching up on the same amount of information. What do you folks do to stay up to date?

My 23 weeks @buffer.com streak is lost 😭😭 😭

More than 60 days that I started at @buffer.com and I still need to get used to someone saying "Have a nice weekend" on a Thursday evening call 🙈

Crazy idea, what if your desk was the PC case. It’s a thick “box” that could fit a lot of components, why couldn’t this work?

I'm due for another iteration of my personal website rathes.me and I am wondering if I should try a version that has no navigation at all and everything is based off the homepage. You can navigate my website without the navbar already but I am thinking of removing the top navigation altogether 🤔

Any parents that work on side projects? How do you manage that? I would love to work on some of mine but the last few weeks if not months, I've just been too tired at the end of the day 😴😪 😅

So, can I just ask Openclaw to earn as much money as possible and it will just do the work for me in the background? 🙈😂

It’s this kind of day today 😅

I’m currently using purely Claude Code in the terminal and then only use Cursor for reviewing these changes and sometimes make quick manual changes. Do I still need Cursor then? 🤔 Is there anything I can do with Cursor here that would improve my flow?

Found my native language #Tamil 😍

With AI tools, everybody can build tools now that nobody uses 😅🙈

Please help me fight the urge to build my own calendar component 🙏🏾😅

Looks like I need new running shoes. What’s the one I should’ve get for the time until the new Pegasus are coming out?

I’m about to start Dan Browns “The Secret of Secrets”, I really hope it’s closer to the first few of the Robert Langdon books.

I've been going for early morning runs (waking up at 5:30am and out at 6am) and while my running hasn't improved, I had a really nice side effect: I can kinda handle the cold better than I did before 🙈 I'll take that as a win!

I’m just going through all Sherlock Holmes books again and it’s crazy to think I’m regularly taking the same Metropolitan line that is mentioned in the books from all these years back 😮

After more than 4 years and having a top 2% streak, my wife and I decided that we won’t renew our Whoop membership anymore. £412/yr are just not worth it

You know what’s painful? A runner’s nipple 🥲

Happy New Year everyone!

Post Christmas Day Breakfast: Panettone and Coffee. Perfect combination.

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄🎅🏾💫

✍🏾 Publish my probably most personal and reflective Year in Review post rathes.me/blog/en/revi...

Anyone's started writing their Year in Review posts? I think mine this year will be a different one compared to the previous ones. I've started to enjoy writing more about my reflections so this Year in Review post will be going in that directions as well.

Similar to what I did with todos.aheenam.com, I’m really inclined to build a fully stripped down version of Notion. Just for writing and organising it. Not AI stuff, no calendar or email, maybe not even databases

My Bluesky Wrapped. Love my replies to posts ratio 😍 www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

Shipped a small side project: a todo app for solo devs juggling multiple projects. Built it mainly for myself — to code without AI but also to have a simple enough place to manage my side projects (Notion does not work for me) todos.aheenam.com

✍🏾 New post: My social media plan for 2026, or something like that In short, different platforms get different versions of me. And for Bluesky I think this is where the nerdy side lives — technical stuff, side projects, dev thoughts. What I've been sharing so far anyway. rathes.me/blog/en/soci...

After a few months of trying, I’m back to light themes in my terminal and editor by default. If I ever change to dark mode they will automatically adapt but I barely use dark mode 🙈

Curious, is a popover that opens from a dropdown menu item a bad idea from a UX standpoint?

How does our 10 month old already know that he can swipe on a phone display? And we don’t even actively hand him a device. He hasn’t even any screen time yet. 😮😮😮