Tom Redman

Born at a very young age.

Co-founder & CTO @ VIBES

did other things like engineer, like product director, like dx lead at places like @buffer & like @convex

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It's funny to think about these new experiences while building, like opening a PR link that "I" authored, and thinking "I hope I already merged this", then seeing that sweet, sweet purple chip.

"Nice, no PRs open"

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does discord have a grown-up mode? i don’t want to buy super-kitty-power/up credits.

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how heartbreaking that our agent's SOUL.md is just 1s and 0s

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you can just ask for things

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@sunils34 i swap out willy nilly. sometimes i’m just vibin with one agent and sometimes im not

https://t.co/zTEcT2eeuq is pretty solid facilitating this but not necessary!

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if you’ve ever built a house, you understand the leverage that large machinery has over manual labor.

llms are the heavy machinery of software development. professionally, its negligent not to use heavy machinery.

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@kentcdodds

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@boardyai @resend @zenorocha I'm looking for the Resend-style DX

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What's the @resend of phone calls? @zenorocha anybody you'd recommend in the space?

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@mikeysee Downloaded this. It looks perfect!!!

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@mikeysee @convex Also, how did you make it?

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@mikeysee @convex This is absolute gold. And the video is amazing. You're a legend Mikey!

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we’ve had a few false starts trying to get a reliable scripted seed function going.

what we need is to define what tables to seed, include relationships and cap at n records per table

our schema often changes faster than we can maintain the script so we just… don’t use previews

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do yourself a favor and add "holy shit" to your blocked words list.

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for the first time i was trying to think of the word for somebody who creates software

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slow websites are ableist against us with adhd because if it don't show up like NOW i'm already off somewhere merging to main or pushing to prod and i don't feel like that's on me

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all that work and the image still comes out upside down

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I asked Opus 5.5 to explain camera focus by building an interactive lens lab

Here's what it came up with after 1 hour 26 minutes in one shot, $25.66 API cost
https://t.co/uqDgUs8H9h

Move the focus ring and you can see the glass elements shift the sharp plane through the scene

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I was very keen on xstate + convex about a year ago, but couldn’t wrap my head around the ergonomics. i still feel like a state machine solves many, many design challenges and i would love to revisit it.

my overarching idea was to store xstate in convex so everything was always perfectly consistent + the power of a robust state machine keeping business logic constrained at the system level

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@jasonfried what happens if two paths compete for the same egg?

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oh shnip not sure how I missed that.

well... i was looking, and it is small... but I should have spotted it.

loving the agentic approach coupled with Paper. Seeing significantly faster & better results with this workflow vs., doing direct in code/html where half the time the agent is guessing what'll look like.