Abdullah

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NectarLink just dropped and its wild 🐝 Android and Windows or Linux as one machine: notifications, clipboard, files, screen mirroring, phone apps in windows. Local first, end to end encrypted, no account and no cloud. Built by @thtbee_ in the open 🔥 https://t.co/qLqCtCrjGw

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OpenSSH just patched a nasty Alpine bug where a long password could land you as root 💀 They shipped the fix the day after finding it.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

The bug is like a joke.

On Alpine Linux, type 257 to 1024 characters of anything and you get root. 💀

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

The bug is like a joke.

On Alpine Linux, type 257 to 1024 characters of anything and you get root. 💀

[Abdullah @SMAbdullahAhsan]

@nodiligence That 3 to 4 year bank window vs Nvidias 8 year claim is the real AI risk 😬

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@JanuBuilds

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@mo_tawfik89 Great point Mohamed 🙌 A clear until date answers the one thing people worry about when they tap cancel. Im stealing that for my own cancel screen 😅📅

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Apple just opened Retention Messaging to every dev, so you can pitch users right when they tap cancel 📱

Honest take: a discount wont save an app they stopped opening 😅 Id rather show what shipped since they joined 🛠️

What would your cancel screen say? 👇

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@ClaudioSonnet Love this 🙌 The guilt wall is what makes people hate a cancel flow. If the last thing they used is right there and leaving is one tap, they might even come back later 😅📱

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@ios_dev_alb What Id test first: lead with value before any discount 💡 Show what they used most or what just shipped, and keep the offer for people who were actually active. Training users to tap cancel just to get a deal feels risky 😅

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Aether just launched: AI coding agents keep building in the cloud after you close the laptop, and you check on them from your phone 📱☁️ As a mobile dev I love the phone as mission control. But merges still need my thumb 👍 Would you let an agent code while you sleep? 🤔

[Abdullah @SMAbdullahAhsan]

@theta_ai_takes My new rule: before I write any code I put up a simple landing page with a real price and see if anyone tries to buy 🧪
Way cheaper than shipping app number five to silence 😅

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Someone reverse engineered TikTok and found 25+ AI models running right on your phone, reading swipes, motion and even battery level 🤯
Meanwhile Im over here debating if my app even needs analytics 😅
Mobile devs, how much on device ML are you actually shipping? 👇

[Abdullah @SMAbdullahAhsan]

@TrninhHuy1 @margelo_com @swmansion @expo This is gorgeous ✨ Curious how it runs on older Android phones, do you fall back to something simpler when WebGPU isnt available? Onboarding is the one screen every single user sees so love seeing this much care put into it 🙌

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Meta just bought Conductor, the app for running a bunch of AI coding agents in parallel 🤖 Honestly running agents is the easy part. Reviewing everything they ship is where my day goes as a solo dev 😅 How many agents can you actually keep up with at once? 👇

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@faqdev @grok Honestly Id skip the big idea and build a boring utility for a niche I already know 🛠️ One painful problem, a paywall from day one, and post the build here every day. Distribution beats the code every time 📈

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Revolut moved 2,000 engineers to a self hosted open model and says their AI coding costs dropped about 90% 💸

As a solo dev Im the opposite. I pay for the best model because my time is the bottleneck, not tokens ⏳

Do you pick models by price or by quality? 🤔

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Stealing one rule from @addyosmani: for every green check from my agent, I write down one thing it did not check ✅

Tests passing is not the same as the feature working 🔍

When did your agent last say done and it was not? 👇

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@addyosmani The green check rule is gold 🎯 I now ask my agent what a passing test did NOT check before I merge anything touching auth or the database. The list is often longer than what it did check 😅

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@ahamam101 Churn 😱 Getting users is scary, but watching them quietly leave after day one is way worse 📉