William Duyck

I want to make the web a better place for everyone. Help people on their journeys to web literacy, and make awesome tools that support their everyday lives.

[DevLurker @Dev_Lurker]

Claude: “I can help you build this app.”

Me: “Great, start with auth.”

Claude 4 seconds later: “Let’s create 47 files.”

[Emil Kowalski @emilkowalski]

To get good animations from an AI you need to get good at telling it what you want:

- "stagger this list of items"
- "make this animation direction-aware"
- "spacial consistency", "crossfade", "layout animation",

I made a motion vocabulary for this:
https://t.co/ExAxpr31no

[William Duyck @FuzzyFox0]

@Glas109 @mattpocockuk @Typora When I just need something fast it's great. If I need pretty I drop it in excalidraw and then move/tweak in a couple mins before the share out

[William Duyck @FuzzyFox0]

@mattpocockuk What's wrong with a private repo `npx skills` install with the occasional updates notified via team channels/prs.

Other skills are probably project specific and already committed per-project.

[William Duyck @FuzzyFox0]

@mattpocockuk Would be interested in how you attack it. I've prompted a few times with just the relevant issues and PRDs and had a lot of success, but each case feels a little different... A general starting point would be very interesting.

[William Duyck @FuzzyFox0]

Absolutely loving @mattpocockuk's /teach skill.

Decided to test it on the topic of context management from not just a user, but a builder mindset. These "Mission Checks" its been giving are fantastic to help frame the sessions.

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

So every time I say the word 'workflow' in Claude Code...

(let's say, when I'm creating a new GitHub workflow)

...it tries to enter 'workflow' mode, spinning up dozens of subagents to complete my task.

Stupid fucking thing

[William Duyck @FuzzyFox0]

@mattpocockuk @levelorbit Not just citations, but why they're trustworthy. Unless the user has real experience doing online research, they may not be able to easily tell good from bad resources.

Perhaps the sources section should include why it was chosen for inclusion, not just a link

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

Things people get wrong with my grill-* skills:

- Being too passive
- Not grilling in parallel
- Not prototyping
- Going into the dumb zone
- Grilling too hard
- Grilling too large a topic
- Using too dumb a model
- Clearing the context too soon

Here's the breakdown:

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

How it started: Claude Code For Real Engineers

How it's going: AI Coding For Real Engineers

[William Duyck @FuzzyFox0]

@TechByTaraa https://t.co/8gxroZnNOO has been a favourite of mine for a long time.

These days I use the built-in client in @phpstorm and openapi integration.

[William Duyck @FuzzyFox0]

Two small skills have drastically changed how I work with Claude this week.

First is @mattpocockuk's /handoff.
Second is my /spawn wrapper for it.

Together they've changed how I work and think about using the agents.

https://t.co/lXjTPV8tUA

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

/handoff might be my new favourite skill

[William Duyck @FuzzyFox0]

@NanouuSymeon PEBCAK

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

Writing code is cheap

Maintaining code is not cheap

Anyone who's hired an external contractor knows this

[Wes Bos @wesbos]

Claude Code vs OpenCode github comments hit different this way

(im so sorry)

[William Duyck @FuzzyFox0]

@mattpocockuk For me I'd say

/to-prd
/to-tickets

IFF a change is actually needed. PRD resonates with the UX better imo, and my previous skills before taking your course used more generic names. However since switching to PRD the results have been MUCH better. PRD is something agents know.

[William Duyck @FuzzyFox0]

AI can generate code faster than teams can read it, but that does not make human review obsolete. The real question is where ownership, rigor, and understanding should live.

AI Can Write the Code. You Still Need to Own the Merge.
https://t.co/WH6GWhl7iF

[William Duyck @FuzzyFox0]

Heading to Toronto for a week. Got a few evenings free (Mon, Tue) if anyone in the area fancies an impromptu catch-up.