Amit Jotwani

@DigitalOcean Dev Advocate. Making macOS menu bar apps for fun. Creator of PopLight. I make complex APIs sound simple.

[Amit Jotwani @amit]

Was away for two weeks and somehow missed the whole "mutuals are back" update 😄

Hopefully you're all still here.

Quick life update if we haven't crossed paths in a while:

- Still in NYC.

- Still doing Developer Advocacy, now at @DigitalOcean.

- Took 2024 off to travel around Asia and Europe with my wife and our then-2-year-old. Still one of the best decisions we've made.

- That 2-year-old is somehow a hilarious 4-year-old now.

- I still tell myself the LEGO is for my daughter.

- Been building way too many tiny Mac apps and Python automations just because I wanted them to exist.

- Still quote Seinfeld way more than I should.

- Still hoping to get back on a stand-up stage one day.

What's new with you?

[Amit Jotwani @amit]

Missing @devrelcon in NYC this year and it's weird not being there! 😭

But not gonna lie, I'm still SO happy watching from afar.

Eventmate - the SMS tool I built for it, is still out there doing its thing, three years running now! 🎉

Attendees just text in questions or feedback, crew can reply privately or blast the whole crowd an announcement - no app, no login, just texting.

And it's been so great seeing all the messages flow in and out through the new dashboard I built - so many familiar names in there, friends I know from the community.

Keeping watch on the whole thing even while I'm halfway around the world has genuinely made my day!

And a big congrats to the @MLHacks crew for putting on yet another grand slam of a show 👏

[Amit Jotwani @amit]

@nolanhu @digitalocean What’s that?

[Amit Jotwani @amit]

Last week while we were traveling around Spain, I kept using Claude Code’s Remote Control from my phone.

It worked great, but my laptop still had to be on and connected to Wi-Fi back at the Airbnb.

So I finally moved my Claude Code setup to a @DigitalOcean Droplet.

Now I SSH into it from my Mac or iPhone using Termius, start (or reconnect to) Claude Code there, and use Remote Control just like before.

The nice part is I can kick off work while I’m out and check back in later without thinking about whether my laptop is awake, or even with me.

The whole setup is running on a pretty basic Ubuntu Droplet (1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM) that costs me $12/month.

The only things I installed for now were Node.js, Claude Code, Git, and GitHub CLI.

I’m still adding a few things to make it a little more usable and secure, but it’s already been a really nice workflow.

I’ll write up the full setup once I’ve finished polishing it.

[Amit Jotwani @amit]

@motdotla fish noob here. curious, what's the gain?

[Amit Jotwani @amit]

I don’t know about you, but Apple using AI to automatically organize Safari tabs into relevant topics is the best use of AI I’ve seen.

This is what AI should be doing: solving real problems that actually exist.

Like my 143 open tabs.

[Amit Jotwani @amit]

@WadeWegner What? I am sorry 😕

[Amit Jotwani @amit]

Arcade is open source if you want to peek under the hood → https://t.co/0DbHiCs1P0

[Amit Jotwani @amit]

6 months ago I was a web dev who'd never written Swift.

Last month I shipped Arcade: multimodal AI playground, 16 providers, native SwiftUI, no Electron.

Anyone can generate a Mac app with AI. Almost none of them feel native.

I'm writing the playbook for the difference. $29 pre-order, $49 launch.

Would you buy? Reply or DM.

[Amit Jotwani @amit]

Claude Code is down so I can’t continue building the app no one asked for and no one needs

[Amit Jotwani @amit]

It's open source! grab it or poke around the code on GitHub - https://t.co/HmJPFZv2JU

[Amit Jotwani @amit]

I built a Mac app called Arcade and it's basically a playground for LLM APIs.

15+ providers. Text, image, audio, video. Bring your own API key.

Cmd+K to jump between endpoints, streaming for chat models, example prompts baked in so you can just hit go.

It's been really fun to build honestly 🙂

[Amit Jotwani @amit]

Down with the flu and somehow I sound like Matthew McConaughey in The Wolf of Wall Street

Been doing the humming chest-thump impression for my wife all morning

She doesn’t seem impressed

[Amit Jotwani @amit]

@dvassallo I am afraid to ask 🙂

[Amit Jotwani @amit]

blasphemous, claude code is down.

what's a variable again?

[Amit Jotwani @amit]

@dvassallo 100%. The prompts definitely give you more insight into the thinking and the mental model than the final product does.

Remember reading this from a university professor who was doing that to grade student assignments.

https://t.co/37LG3jSIFV

[Amit Jotwani @amit]

RIP bazillion speech to text apps.

Including a hacky version I had made for myself few months ago lol

[Thariq @trq212]

Voice mode is rolling out now in Claude Code. It’s live for ~5% of users today, and will be ramping through the coming weeks.

You'll see a note on the welcome screen once you have access. /voice to toggle it on!

[DigitalOcean @digitalocean]

Stop Claude-coding yourself into a corner. 🚫🤖

@amit built a simple CLI tool that automates setup & forces you to document your intent before you write a single function. We're showing you how. ⬇️

[Amit Jotwani @amit]

@amorriscode just me or claude code seems to be asking for way too many permission requests in a session?

started seeing this last couple days I think