Benjamin Drury

I like code & startups

@dearflow_ai (Techstars ’24) | hyper-personalized email client | 22 years

24. July: 43 Subscriptions / 14k ARR

[Benjamin Drury @BenjaminAtDF]

Building AI apps in NestJS?

Use listener-based architecture to orchestrate workflows cleanly:
– Decouple modules
– React to events in real time
– Chain tools with ease
– Use sagas for orchestration
It’s like reactive glue for your backend.
#NestJS #AI #EventDriven #DevTips

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People always making fun of gemini. We solved that!

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Splitting backend like this is supposedly easy with nestjs... its suprisingly difficult

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Today my major todo is to split our backend into two... One for Webhooks & polling and one to serve users... I do this as one server is getting overwhelmed. Whish me luck

[Benjamin Drury @BenjaminAtDF]

Today my major todo is to split our backend into two... One for Webhooks & polling and one to serve users... I do this as one server is getting overwhelmed. Whish me luck

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Wth do I have to 2factor auth every time after I login in appstoreconnect? I clicked Trust this device like a million times

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Sitting in the eve, resubmitting the IOS & Android App again to each store to get approval at 1am in the night needing to wake up 5 next morning.... its the dream

[Benjamin Drury @BenjaminAtDF]

Sitting in the eve, resubmitting the IOS & Android App again to each store to get approval at 1am in the night needing to wake up 5 next morning.... its the dream

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This interview has many good questions:

Did working with agentic systems change the expectations of your team towards you? I believe actually more towards non devs then to devs. Whats your take?

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Have an interview now to talk about a recent post of mine that was negative towards lovable in some way.

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Q: Does using vibe coding tools affect your mental health?

Somehow hit me. My mental stress level is way higher now, why? I code on 3 repos with vibe coder each needs to be checked for mistakes and I take way more architechture decisions in way shorter time.

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Have an interview now to talk about a recent post of mine that was negative towards lovable in some way.

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Another interesting question:

Using Cursor; Do you think you have less time or more time for important directional decisions.

I find this interesting because... idk... before I always thought deeply about more complex code decisions coming up whilst writing boiler plate...

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very interesting questions....

If there is a bug wirtten by cursor, do you take full responsibility?

[Benjamin Drury @BenjaminAtDF]

very interesting questions....

If there is a bug wirtten by cursor, do you take full responsibility?

[Benjamin Drury @BenjaminAtDF]

Have an interview now to talk about a recent post of mine that was negative towards lovable in some way.

[Benjamin Drury @BenjaminAtDF]

Have an interview now to talk about a recent post of mine that was negative towards lovable in some way.

[Benjamin Drury @BenjaminAtDF]

e.g.

node -e "const { createMimeMessage } = require('mail-mime-builder'); const msg = createMimeMessage(); console.log(Object.getOwnPropertyNames(Object.getPrototypeOf(msg)).filter(name => name.startsWith('set')))"

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I was today years old when i discovered this command:

node -e "console.log(Object.keys(require('package-name')))"

🤯so helpful for new packages omg

[Benjamin Drury @BenjaminAtDF]

I was today years old when i discovered this command:

node -e "console.log(Object.keys(require('package-name')))"

🤯so helpful for new packages omg

[Benjamin Drury @BenjaminAtDF]

I was today years old when i discovered this command:

node -e "console.log(Object.keys(require('package-name')))"

🤯so helpful for new packages omg

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Building & Deploying Apps takes too long. Anyone have oslution for this? I am using expo and it still takes 20 min per build

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Anyone else get a swet on dependency warnings?

Always see memes of devs ignoring it. Honestly once in 2 weeks i get a sweat about them, and do try to fix. Sometimes it solves things sometimes it makes it worse...

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Just had another onboarding. this one really made my day

"Oh this is way better than superhuman".

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I am starting with building in public now together with @shobrunjb, currently we are at 40 subscriptions and around 14k ARR, but I have 0 followers on X (sad :(), follow to tag along

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Today refactoring my code base written by Cursor.... wish me luck

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AI tools like loveable out here killing the respect for engineers

What they do is still very basic coding, not even engineering. People now *think* they know what we engineers do.