Andy Appleton

Writes software @poolsideai. Formerly
@gocardless ➡️ @heroku ➡️ @github ➡️ @plaid

[almonk @almonk]

Today we're launching our first public Poolside models: Laguna M.1 and Laguna XS.2, and we've built ❈Shimmer, an instant-on VM sandbox with Poolside Agent pre-installed so you can try them out.

Go play out our new models for free, and build something fun → https://t.co/G2YKxQmT9L

[Andy Appleton @appltn]

Big day

[Poolside @poolsideai]

Today we’re releasing Laguna XS.2, Poolside’s first open-weight model.
It’s a 33B total / 3B active MoE model built for agentic coding and long-horizon tasks.
Trained fully in-house on our own stack. Runs on a single GPU. Released under Apache 2.0.
Links 👇
Weights: https://t.co/HSo8L2gM64
API: https://t.co/DMJtNFrace
Blog: https://t.co/BXEjQxtQoV

[Andy Appleton @appltn]

Dusting off my account to say that it's new job time - very happy to say I joined @poolsideai on Monday! 🏖️🦩

[Andy Appleton @appltn]

@mercuryweather is there any chance of getting this complication style made available in the top corner of the utility face please?

[Andy Appleton @appltn]

@ChrisSinjo Alpine Lexus

[Andy Appleton @appltn]

@itchymutt In the uk you can go “out” (for a nice evening) or you can go “out out” (on huge bender)

[Andy Appleton @appltn]

@ClimbingNarc I ended up delivering mine by hand when I was passing the London office ~10 months after leaving 🤷‍♂️

[Andy Appleton @appltn]

@simpsoka @vercel That’s so rad, congratulations Kathy!!

[Andy Appleton @appltn]

@destroywerk Love that story about The Fall in the middle “they’ve been robbed!”

[Andrew Brookins @abrookins]

My 2-year-old daughter's favorite stuffed animal, "Meow-Meow," is a critical service in my house, so I run a highly available three-node Meow-Meow cluster.

Here's how it works:

1. Three observer processes monitor the current Meow-Meow leader (wife, oldest daughter, and me)

[Andy Appleton @appltn]

@ChrisSinjo @planetscaledata Oh damn, congratulations!

[Andy Appleton @appltn]

@konnaire @ChrisSinjo He’ll get there, he just doesn’t know it yet https://t.co/U1LO3P6H7Z

[Andy Appleton @appltn]

@howells You’ve shown weakness.

I grew up on a dairy farm and can tell you that your only recourse now is to find the biggest one and punch it.

[Andy Appleton @appltn]

@bigkevmcd @dmathieu I find myself advocating for a direwolf-like thing surprisingly often

[Andy Appleton @appltn]

@naaman @itchymutt Santa Barbara and drive to LA when you absolutely must?

[Andy Appleton @appltn]

@almonk I’m more interested in figuring out how that lid was attached to that pot

[Andy Appleton @appltn]

@ChrisSinjo Well well well. The well actuallyer becomes the well actuallyee. 🧐

[Ed Balls @edballs]

Ed Balls

[Tom Moylan @moylato]

Belgian man parks in garage 6cm wider than his car