James Read

Dad, hobbiest developer & Red Hatter. Find my blog, GitHub, and contact details at

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New blog article about keep trying new tools: https://t.co/NhILcM1l2s

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I have to say I'm really enjoying #cursor 3; being able to switch between multiple projects in the agents view at once, without having multiple instances open is a real game changer.

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https://t.co/5bE473zD4U hypeeee

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"Half-width numbers" - oops, that literal translation didn't work so well :-)

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“Disney this, sheep shaggers that.”

“Bribing refs this, play in your own country that”

How many other clubs provide free pies to opposition fans with an edible badge on, hey?

Hey?

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@nazcardev It sure is! I have a few too many workflows, what about you? :-)

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"Hey AI, how are my #Kubernetes deployments?" - using MCP servers on your LAN is with LLMs in the Cloud;
#n8n #automation #ai #mcp https://t.co/U5oVkXIg5j

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Japella now supports image posting to Mastodon, X and Twitter. :-) https://t.co/KXOJXEDyIH

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Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

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https://t.co/WpdNKlJrhA

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AI tools are moving fast—from fancy autocomplete to fully autonomous development teams.

The real question isn’t whether to use AI, but how much autonomy to give it.

I put together a simple 0–5 model to describe these levels of autonomy in practice:

https://t.co/sx0GOMjQBo

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My purchasing power for gadgets exceeds my free time to actually play with them. ;-)

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Waiting for CSS Masonry for 5 long years, but it's getting there; https://t.co/ebNU1ITQaX

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Don't underestimate the impact of compound interest, they said! In a game I'm creating, I added .5% interest per minute (per tick), and over 3 days 261 gold has become 707 billion gold! Now, how can I get those interest rates in real life?!

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"Opus? Who cares about Opus? Codex 5.3 has been the industry standard for the last 20 minutes" https://t.co/HWUavxBUIP

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My kids seem to be compiled with -vvvv on at runtime, should have compiled with -g.

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I know a lot of customers who waited for this - they've been using it in preview - and now will appreciate that it's GA! Put simply, this provides better security controls for those containers that need to connect directly to Azure resources on ARO: https://t.co/NfmEy9In8g

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The Architectural Problem with Clawdbot/Moltbolt/OpenClaw - it tears down security walls we've build around our apps for the last 2 decades; https://t.co/yvlMObGHpt

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Just a normal Sunday morning; an AI is writing a tech spec for constraint solver for my game, and I'm folding laundry... #coding #ai #gamdev

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Time to upgrade my #homelab timeserver from GSM+NTP to GPS/Galileo+PTP.