One of the best things about my long weekend trip to Oostende was the fact that I did not have to worry about work at all and could fully switch off knowing that my colleagues at @buffer.com got me covered

I’m this 🤏🏾 close to spin up my own little game for the World Cup 2026. A bit more interesting that just guessing the scores but still simple enough that players would be motivated enough to play through 104 matches

Just updated my phone number on WhatsApp and it resurfaced all the old WhatsApp groups brb just taking a walk down memory lane 🙈

I built this in one shot with Claude Code. No back-and-forth. No "actually, can you change that." No fixing what it got wrong on the third try. I just gave it this one single prompt and it delivered: scratchpad.aheenam.com

I just realized that half of 2026 is almost over 🤯 Where did all the time go this fast

Finally managed to uninstall Cursor and switch to Zed instead. So now my new setup is Ghostty + Claude Code + Zed (AI Disabled) + Whispr Flow Still debating if Vibe Island is something I actually need

With AI enabling non-engineers to write code and contribute to the product, what is the future of local dev environments? I don't want to send a designer or customer advocate pages of instructions to set up all the things. Are CDEs the answer? Is there anything new? Curious to hear your thoughts!

Another run in the books

Took the advantage of the long weekend to have a decent BBQ

How long until the revert this ugly Spotify app icon? I’m just this far 🤏🏾 away from just uninstalling the app altogether

London, UK / November 2024

Incredibly proud to be part of the journey ahead! bsky.app/profile/joel...

Pico do Areeiro, Madeira / October 2022

I'm building Maxout again. Five years ago I shut it down — not because it went bust, but because I lost the plot. New post on why, and what's different this time: rathes.me/blog/en/building-maxout-again

I’m burning 100 calories every morning just by doing the morning routine with our toddler baby 🫠

Bergen, Norway / April 2024

Reykjavík, Iceland / February 2024

Holy shit, a sub 2 hour marathon happened at the London marathon today 🤯

Read this in @thorstenball.com’s newsletter today and it’s so so true 😅

Waking up to a tiramisu cake at 5:30am in the morning of my birthday while also constantly checking if I packed everything for my first @buffer.com retreat. So looking forward to meet all the lovely people!

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 😍