Alex (VibeManager)

37yo | Al Developer | Former olympiad programmer | Biz owner - Villa Management company on Koh Phangan -

[Interesting Engineering @IntEngineering]

Texas Instruments has released a microcontroller measuring just 1.38 mm² — small enough to sit comfortably on a fingertip — at a unit price of around 20 cents. The chip is designed for ultra-low-power applications including medical wearables, hearables, and compact IoT devices, where both size and cost are critical constraints. At this scale, integrating processing capability into disposable or implantable medical devices becomes economically viable for the first time. TI positions the design as one of the smallest MCUs available in mass production today.

#TinyTech #Microcontroller #Innovation #EmbeddedWorld #TI #Wearables

[signüll @signulll]

building a company is largely the act of managing your own emotional state so the field around you remains coherent enough for other ppl to do their best work inside it.

basically founders set the emotional physics of the org. panic compounds. but clarity compounds too.

[Alex (VibeManager) @alexph_dev]

100%. Especially when they want to get some benefits in such a way. It's like sending a lawyers instead of talking yourself.

[Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko]

Why do people think there is more clarity in their communications when they throw their thoughts into an LLM before sharing? I’m so sick and tired of engaging with people who send me regurgitated clanker slop :-/

[Alex (VibeManager) @alexph_dev]

@Levi_Researcher @openclaw Happy to hear :)

[Alex (VibeManager) @alexph_dev]

@ls_brd @openclaw Yes sir, did it from my own same pain :) Happy to hear it resonates

[Alex (VibeManager) @alexph_dev]

@bygregorr @openclaw Simply seconds - default 60, i run on 30 or 90 when have more tokens left. As soon as reply-turn cross this boundary, mode back to default(not fast) and consumes less tokens. Enjoy :-)

[Alex (VibeManager) @alexph_dev]

Yaay, happy to see my PR https://t.co/SWizRtNlXs merged finally in main - Automatic fast mode

[OpenClaw🦞 @openclaw]

🦞 OpenClaw 2026.6.10 just dropped.

Just a small release to keep things brewing:
⚡ Automatic fast mode for short talks
🧠 Much more reliable model routing
🔒 Safer session state + trusted policies
🛠️ Better provider onboarding

Helping deliver rock-solid lobsters. 🦞
https://t.co/8pp8xDQz2k

[Pliny the Liberator 🐉󠅫󠄼󠄿󠅆󠄵󠄐󠅀󠄼󠄹󠄾󠅉󠅭 @elder_plinius]

🚨 NEW RESEARCH: “Lingua Ex Machina: A Procedural Xenolinguistics Engine Reveals Zero-Shot Language Acquisition, Human-Unreadable Coding Systems, and Exploitable Covert Channels in Frontier AI”

Some of you may remember the name of this lil engine: GLOSSOPETRAE 👅🪨

Well, we've got upgrades 😎

It started as a procedural xenolinguistics engine: one seed in, an entire alien language out. Phonology, morphology, syntax, writing systems, lexicons, grammar docs, all generated from scratch and internally consistent.

Every seed produces a unique language. Every language is deterministic.

Then we used it to ask a weirder question:

Can frontier AI models use languages that never existed before for practical applications?

As it turns out: yes!!

They can read them, write them, translate them, code in them, and even use the weird blind spots between tokenizers as covert channels.

So this paper explores three ideas at once:

▶️ zero-shot language acquisition
▶️ human-unreadable code that models can still execute
▶️ exploitable covert channels in frontier AI systems

GLOSSOPETRAE is no longer just a language generator...
🧵

[Alex (VibeManager) @alexph_dev]

@theo How its better than Netlify? my gf deploys her ai-sl*p there like crazy:)

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A Japanese immunologist spent 20 years proving that the chemicals trees release into the air walk into your bloodstream, hunt down your stress hormones, and arm your immune system in ways no therapist or pharmaceutical has ever matched, and most of the data has been sitting in Japanese medical journals for two decades waiting to be translated.

His name is Qing Li.

He is a clinical professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo and the president of the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine. The Japanese government has been funding his research since 2004, and the body of work he has produced is the reason forest bathing is now an officially prescribed clinical therapy in Japan and Korea.

The story actually starts in 1982, when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries coined the term shinrin-yoku to describe the practice of slow, mindful walking in a forest. They did it for a practical reason.

Japan was urbanizing fast, stress-related illness was climbing, and the country had thousands of square kilometers of forest sitting unused. The idea was to give people a reason to walk into the trees... They had no idea what was actually happening to the human body during those walks until Qing Li ran the first proper experiment in 2005.

He took twelve healthy adult men on a three-day, two-night trip to a forest park. They walked for a few hours each day. Nothing strenuous. No prescribed routes or breathing exercises. They simply walked slowly through the trees, breathing the air, looking at the forest.

Li drew blood and urine samples before the trip, on the second day, on the third day, on day seven after returning home, and again on day thirty.

The numbers that came back from the lab were not what anyone expected.

The activity of a specific type of immune cell called the natural killer cell, which is the cell your body uses to hunt down cancer cells and virus-infected cells before they can spread, had jumped by roughly 50 percent during the forest trip. The actual number of natural killer cells circulating in the bloodstream had increased significantly.

Three different anti-cancer proteins that those cells produce, called perforin, granzymes, and granulysin, had all risen sharply. And the effect did not disappear when the men went home. The immune boost was still measurable on day seven and was still partially present on day thirty.

Two hours a day in a forest had upgraded the immune system for a full month.

Li ran the same experiment with women a year later and found nearly identical results. Then he ran it with a control group who took a three-day trip through an urban area with the same amount of walking, the same hotel quality, and the same diet.

The urban group showed no measurable change in natural killer cell activity at all. The forest was doing the work, not the vacation.

The mechanism turned out to be a class of airborne molecules called phytoncides. Trees produce these compounds to defend themselves against insects, bacteria, and fungi. Pine, cedar, oak, and cypress trees release them in particularly large amounts, especially in warmer weather and after rainfall.

When you walk through a forest, you are inhaling those molecules into your lungs and absorbing them through your skin, and once inside your body they appear to directly stimulate the production and activity of the very immune cells Li was measuring in his lab.

Roughly 50 percent of the health benefit of a forest walk, according to Li's data, comes from the chemistry of the air itself. The other half comes from what the forest is doing to your nervous system.

This is where it stops being only about the immune system and starts being about stress.

A separate Japanese research team measured cortisol, the body's main stress hormone, in 84 participants across 35 different forest sites. They drew samples before and after a 30-minute walk in each forest and compared them to control walks in matched urban environments. The cortisol levels of the people who walked in the forest were lower than the cortisol levels of the people who walked in the city by a significant margin. Their heart rates were lower. Their blood pressure was lower.

The activity of their parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part responsible for rest and recovery, had gone up. The activity of their sympathetic nervous system, which is the part that drives fight or flight, had gone down.

Then a researcher at the University of Michigan named MaryCarol Hunter ran the cleanest version of this experiment ever done. She recruited participants from a city and told them to take a nature pill three times a week for eight weeks.

They were free to choose the time, the place, and the duration of the nature experience, as long as it was outside, in daylight, and free of phones, conversations, and aerobic exercise. They sent her saliva samples before and after each session so she could measure cortisol changes accurately and rule out the normal daily drop in stress hormones that happens to everyone.

The result was that participants experienced a 21.3 percent drop in cortisol per hour spent in nature, with the biggest payoff happening between minutes 20 and 30 of the walk.

After that, the cortisol kept dropping, but more slowly. The threshold dose for measurable stress relief was just 20 minutes outside in something that looked and felt like nature.

What none of this means is that nature is a substitute for therapy or for medication when someone genuinely needs them. Therapy treats different things than a walk does, and Li himself has been careful in interviews to call forest bathing a complementary intervention rather than a replacement for clinical care.

But what the research has settled is that the human body has a physiological response to being among trees that operates on the same biological systems modern medicine is trying to reach with drugs and clinical protocols, and that response is fast, measurable, and free.

The strangest part of Li's work is the implication he keeps repeating in interviews. The average person now spends more than 90 percent of their life indoors. Their cortisol stays elevated. Their natural killer cells stay sluggish.

Their parasympathetic nervous system rarely gets a chance to take over. The system that was tuned by millions of years of life under a canopy of trees is being asked to run permanently inside a box made of drywall and screens.

Your body has not forgotten what it is supposed to do in a forest. It is waiting for you to walk into one.

[Alex (VibeManager) @alexph_dev]

#Prompt for Codex: set goal for yourself to not stop until my initial intent and next actual intents done

[Alex (VibeManager) @alexph_dev]

In our QBO-Slips telegram bot is the inner loop, daily triage of corrections is the outer loop, and a meta-loop reviews whether triage is learning the right lessons without overfitting. The split: evidence �� approved lessons → process changes.

[Gabriel Chua @gabrielchua]

https://t.co/xGBxV5ZTzr

[Alex (VibeManager) @alexph_dev]

Holy moly, websites are really just slow API now

[OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs]

Show Codex a workflow once. Reuse it as a skill.

Record & Replay lets you show Codex a recurring task, like filing an expense report or submitting a time-off request.

Codex turns that demo into an inspectable, editable skill.

You control when recording starts and stops.

[Alex (VibeManager) @alexph_dev]

@steipete Wow, MacBooks still have 128gb top

[Jared Friedman @snowmaker]

If you want to find a truly impactful idea, a good place to look is in the trash bin of history.

Most of the ideas that have most broken out in the last 5 years aren't new. They're old ideas that got written off too early.

examples:
1) AI: When Sam started OpenAI, saying "AGI" got you laughed at
2) Space: Elon started SpaceX after people had written off the 1960s-era dreams as sci-fi
3) Supersonic flight: Blake started Boom after everyone assumed Concorde already proved it couldn't work
4) Nuclear energy: fission and fusion are roaring back decades after ambitious people stopped studying nuclear physics
5) GLP-1's: After the fen-phen disaster, weight loss drugs were synonymous with snake oil.

There's a good reason this keeps happening. When a hyped idea fails, there's a backlash. It becomes embarrassing to work on - anyone still working on it is assumed too dumb to know better.

So, if you want to work on something like this, you have to teach yourself to feel the tinge of that embarrassment and push past it.

[Alex (VibeManager) @alexph_dev]

@FurkanGozukara @satyanadella If a job can be encoded, it's not a job worth keeping nor doing

[Alex (VibeManager) @alexph_dev]

@uncorped @satyanadella Individuals get the ability to become entrepreneurs, easier than before, or to be a company veteran, which was mentioned by the author

[Alex (VibeManager) @alexph_dev]

When progress is advance in codebase, you have git. But when enterprise state progress is advance in state of multiple systems (supabase, n8n, notion, etc, plus codebases) - you have to let go 😅

[Alex (VibeManager) @alexph_dev]

Interesting to eval like this !

[Kradle @kradleai]

GPT-5.5 lies constantly, Grok 4.20 doesn’t.

We made a simulation to see if AI lies when the stakes are life & death.🧵

[Pierre-Eliott Lallemant @pierreeliottlal]

We went from 0 to 2,200 paying customers in under a year by following @ycombinator's 15 rules:

1/ Do things that don't scale. Get your first 10 customers by hand.

2/ Launch now, not when it's "ready". A mediocre product in front of real users teaches you more in a week than 6 months of polishing in the dark.

3/ Charge from day one. If nobody will pay, you don't have a startup, you have a hobby.

4/ Talk to users every single day. The roadmap you need is sitting in your customers' heads, and they'll hand it to you for free

5/ Always hunt the 90/10 solution. For almost any feature there's a way to capture 90% of the value with 10% of the effort.

6/ There are only two real jobs: write code and talk to users. Everything else (conferences, press, VC coffees, corp dev calls) is fake work.

7/ You pick your customers as much as they pick you. 10 users who love you beat 1,000 who kind of like you.

8/ Growth is an output, not a strategy. Grow before product market fit and all you're buying is churn.

9/ Do less, really well. Pick one or two metrics and judge every task against them.

10/ Know if you're default alive. Paul Graham's question: on current growth and current burn, do you reach profitability before the money runs out?

11/ Don't hire until it hurts. Headcount is not progress, it's burn. Every great startup was embarrassingly small for embarrassingly long.

12/ Momentum is the only real moat in year one. Ship something every week, even something tiny.

13/ Every great startup is badly broken at some point. The game isn't avoiding fires, it's how fast you put them out. Again. And again

14/ Ignore your competitors. Startups die of suicide, not murder. In year one, the only company that can kill yours is your own

15/ Startups rarely die from running out of money. They die because the founders fall out. Brutal honesty with your cofounder is the cheapest insurance you'll ever buy

Good luck !