About time! Nobody likes gatekept "access-license-only" content: "Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks" - https://www.kdpcommunity.com/s/article/New-eBook-Download-Options-for-Readers-Coming-in-2026?language=en_US #epub #indiepub

how it started: "let's build a quick masto/bsky/twit crossposter, quick 15 min adventure" how it's going: *builds feature-rich unified social desktop client* #socialsox #buildinpublic

I continue to think LLMs are absurdly powerful for learning, and I'm using them more often for it. The problem is that a lot of people don't have solid metacognitive skills around epistemics and autodidactism. You've got to have a handle on what you know, how you learn, and if you're learning.

My real skill as an author isn't writing, it's taking procrastination to ever newer creative heights, so I almost convince myself it's productive. #writinglife

Currently reading ... #spinaltap #theboss

Interesting talk about desktop UX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZTOjd_bOQ #linux #desktop #ubuntu

Continuing to build out the unified Home Feed that shows merged Bluesky/Mastodon in SocialSox: - exclude languages from your feed - follow/mute/block/boost/reply - slide for mixing Bluesky/Masto items #buildinpublic #bluesky #mastodon

Nice! Anthropic just donated its Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the Linux Foundation. Real open-source infra & agent interoperability just leveled up. https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation #Linux #AI #llm #claude

At this point I'm convinced AWS & Google Cloud console GUIs are deliberately designed as obtuse labyrinths so you’ll inevitably flip the wrong toggle, enable a hidden service, and get quietly nickel-and-dimed to death by micro-requests. #webdev #aws #googlecloud #serverless

Any kind of for-profit marketing messaging feels out of place on Mastodon/Bluesky, and that's a good thing #fediverse #mastodon #bluesky

I think software engineering will be needed as much as ever, but it will probably move to a higher level: less worrying about individual lines of code, more thinking about the overall properties that a system needs to satisfy, and finding ways of specifying those properties precisely.

I love how seo guestpost spammers still lead with: "[dear site owner] The content on your site is amazing and thought-provoking..." Really Jane? Could have at least let some LLM run over some articles to pretend you've actually read anything. Come on, these are low hanging fruit! #seo #spam #webdev

well put

Experimenting with bringing a merged Bluesky/Mastodon feed straight into SocialSox - nice side-bonus: now i can finally filter for certain languages #buildinpublic #mastodon #bluesky

I made a thing sidetrail.app/@isaaccorbre...

Higher education isn’t dying because kids use ChatGPT. It’s dying because we’re still grading like it’s 1895 and pretending Google never happened. https://andreklein.net/ai-isnt-killing-learning-our-standards-were-already-on-life-support/ #education #edchat #edtech #teaching

🚔 PSA: "The Darkside Detective" point-and-click adventure is currently free on Epic. Takes me back to the good old days of Zak McKracken and ManiacMansion. Witty, without being too on the nose. https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-darkside-detective-ios-f97bd7 #pixelart #indiegames

KarpeSlop: "The AI Slop Linter that Andrej Karpathy wishes existed" lol https://github.com/CodeDeficient/KarpeSlop "go forth and purge the slop." 🦸 #slopocalpyse #vibecoding #typescript #react #next

Spotify Wrapped dropping and everyone's flexing their “top 0.05% of Taylor Swift fans” like it’s a Nobel Prize. Just say no to the algo overlords. Slap Jellyfin on a dusty old PC and flex on Big Music forever: https://andreklein.net/make-your-own-spotify-with-blackjack-and-hookers/ #Spotify #music

I'm no video editor (in any sense of the word), but sometimes I need to quickly smash clips together, crop, and speed up footage. Most editors are bloated and annoying. Kdenlive's been a real game-changer: lightweight, fast, and minimal. https://kdenlive.org/ #FOSS #VideoEditing

AI slop sucks. So in SocialSox v0.3.0 I added AI that actually stays in its lane: spellcheck, shorten (basically a crop tool for text), and hashtag suggestions, nothing that drowns your voice. Your words, just… less messy. github.com/burninc0de/s... #indiedev #buildinpublic

Soon wee will all häve to write with spellings mistakes to proove to each other that messages werent touched by the devlish ai - (or if that becomes too much effort, just have Jipitty insert spelling mistakes for us) #writing #slopocalypse

“To advance an idea is to steal something from someone and make it so cool and covetable that someone then steals it from you.” — Nick Cave #rockandroll #copypaste

fascinating stuff: https://tympanus.net/codrops/2025/11/29/building-the-monolith-composable-rendering-systems-for-a-13-scene-webgl-epic/ #webgl

My little crossposter just grew fangs 🧛 ⏰ proper scheduling (fully local) 📊 shiny new analytics 🤖 AI spellcheck, shortening, or your own custom prompts 🔄 basic sync to folder 100% open source, forever free https://github.com/burninc0de/socialsox #indiedev #buildinpublic

Wife: "These headphones have too much clamping force." Me: "Hold my books" #Engineering #Headphones

Ever wanted to sound like a terminally online monk? 🙏I present: The SocialSox "Spice Factory": #buildinpublic #indiedev (This will probably never be part of production, but too much fun too mess around with.)

Been playing around with some nice new stats view for socialsox #buildinpublic #indiedev 📊

"I think actually on the programming side, we're in a fairly good spot. I really think that AI will be a tool -- and it will make people more productive." - Linus Torvalds https://youtu.be/mfv0V1SxbNA?si=uy9YOb29hK9_u6uZ&t=2003 #linux #coding #AI

AI is most useful to the people least likely to use it, and most depended on by the people least equipped to evaluate it. I wrote about why this paradox isn't going away: https://andreklein.net/the-ai-paradox-it-only-works-if-you-already-know-how/ #AI #ChatGPT #Claude #LLM

Gotta love these Amazon “Creator Rewards” emails: “As of Nov 30, 2025 you failed to meet shipped revenue targets.” Forgive me, Great Lord of the Zon, for I have sinned. My affiliate links did not sacrifice enough souls to the algorithm this month. #GigEconomy #CreatorGrift

Does any one use IDEs for long-form writing? Seems like commits and diffs could be extremely handy when doing extensive rewrites. Never lose that one tiny perfect phrase again that got lost in a 2am revision. #WritingCommunity #WritersLife #CreativeWriting

Me: "Hey, let's whip up a quick tool to post occasional messages to X/Bluesky/Mastodon." 🫠 *Dives headfirst into a whirlwind of shiny new post mania.* My blog and 37 half-written drafts gathering dust:

And yeah, your personal blog getting 10 visits a day? The hype is real -- you simply must spin up serverless clusters, stream JSON like Netflix, and slap Kubernetes on it for “enterprise scaling.” Get real. #DevLife

React's cool, but for small/medium projects, you don't need a full Next.js/Express setup just for contact forms & basic auth. New fave: Use WordPress as your "backend in a box"! Battle-tested auth, REST endpoints, & a full dashboard. Simple wins. 🚀 #WebDev #WordPress #React

"when you ask claude to generate UI, it defaults to the same patterns every time ... everyone's seen it so much it's become a meme" Fascinating take on Claude and UI: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1p9srut/finally_figured_out_why_claudes_ui_generations/ #ai #coding #ui

TIL: dark mode styling support for textarea resize handlers in most (all?) browsers is basically non-existent. The only reliable way of doing this AFAIK: turn off resize altogether and wire up frankenstein JS to re-enable resizing with custom click handler. #weirdweb #darkdesign #html

99% of self-hosted scheduling/cross-posting apps for social media: “Spin up a server, Docker, reverse proxy, keep it online forever.” Normal people just give up. What if it was much simpler: Desktop app + one tiny WordPress plugin you drop on any site you already have? #indiedev

New space-trucker ID for Arno, fresh off the printer for my free chat-style sci-fi story "Gestrandet", a German learning experience disguised as interstellar chaos. Beat-by-beat, message-by-message. https://learnoutlive.com/stories/gestrandet/ #SciFi #German #TimeWarpTales

Everyone loves to dunk on #Electron. Yet VS Code, Slack, Discord all use it. New AI IDEs fork VSC (Cursor, Kiro, Antigrav) instead of going native. Laziness? I don't think so. Electron is simply one of the best ways to ship cross-platform apps. Chromium overhead? Negligible.

Season 5’s Upside Down isn’t a hell-dimension anymore, more like a day trip to New Jersey with beef jerky, constant silly banter, and a cheap Cronenberg filter slapped on top. The horror’s on life support and writers are pulling the plug. #StrangerThings

Mastodon/Bluesky: verified = I own this domain, here’s the DNS proof. Xwitter: verified = I gave Elon $8, gimme reach. Different universes. #decentralizeallthethings #checkmarkgang

Spent 3 hours debugging a completely dead WordPress site. Checked every plugin, dug through 1200 lines of ancient functions.php… Turns out the site was dead because someone had disabled the emojis. Removing emoji support completely tanked it. I’m done with this timeline. 😭💀 #WordPress #WebDev

"AI code is trash” hits the same note as 1904 farmers roasting the first tractor: “Mule never breaks down in the rain. This thing can’t feel the soil. Potatoes taste weird now.” They were 100% right: those early tractors sucked. Funny how we still ended up replacing the mule.

Germanic tribes in 410: Visigoths sack Rome like it's Black Friday. Franks (their West Germanic cousins) in 800: 'Hold my mead - we're Rome now, Charlemagne edition, blessed by the Pope.' HRE: Peak barbarian-to-bishop pipeline. #VoltaireWasRight #notholynotromannotempire

🚀 SocialSox v0.2.4 is out! Now with multi-image crossposting (up to 4 pics everywhere), instant API verification, brand new icon, and a bunch of bug fixes. Post once → hit X, Mastodon & Bluesky perfectly. github.com/burninc0de/s... (Still 100% free & open source ❤️ #indiedev #buildinpublic

I was down to one dry business post every blue moon ... opening socials meant instant regret: trending slop, politics, ragebait. Built a dumb little desktop app to hurl posts from the outside. Now I’m firing off hot nonsense like it’s 2009 again. Microblogging is fun?? Who allowed this 😂

I mean, seriously, Medium. Was a sidebar ad or one polite banner at the end really not enough? No, you had to literally inject the ad straight into the middle of my article like a tumor. And of course Adblock doesn’t catch it because of your obfuscated DOM wizardry. #Medium #enshittification

Haven’t posted on Medium in years. Opened it in 2025 and got slapped by ads. The Silicon Valley script we all know: 2012–2016: “We’re the future of publishing!” -> $132M raised, big dreams, clean UI 2017–2025: ideas dry up -> “guess we just crank the ad dial to 11 and pray”