Dustin Lyons

Ex-@creditkarma data and platform engineering guy. Toddler dad.

[Sarah @araseb_]

Why does every AI start with “C”?

ChatGPT,
Claude,
Codex,
Copilot,
Cursor…

coincidence ??

[Dustin Lyons @dustinhlyons]

@garrytan My hack is to ask AI for text in Org format, which they seem to do a better job at. Then I can easily convert it back to Markdown.

[Dustin Lyons @dustinhlyons]

@grhmc very nice. I use home assistant as a bridge into the Apple Home app (HomeKit), so now the garage door is part of our automated, nightly “turn the house off” routine. Security camera tells some running python if it’s already closed

[Dustin Lyons @dustinhlyons]

Raspberry PI + simple relay + ChatGPT and I can now SSH into my garage door opener. The plan is to write simple software to detect if the door is open after hours (using a camera) and make sure it's always closed. Surprisingly easy to get going.

[Dustin Lyons @dustinhlyons]

@grhmc I love Twitter where you can meet other fellow garage door hackers haha. Everything is a tech problem to be solved

[Dustin Lyons @dustinhlyons]

Posthog's new website is the best thing I've seen all month. Love that companies throw out the standard playbook for something a bit more risky... including employee feet pics???

https://t.co/v4gWZ8lHgh

[Dustin Lyons @dustinhlyons]

Still can't leave magit tho

[Dustin Lyons @dustinhlyons]

Zed is the first editor to pull me out of Emacs. Super easy to get going with out of the box LSP servers, insanely fast, and now native support for Claude Code.

[Dustin Lyons @dustinhlyons]

Probably one of my favorite use cases for Claude Code is to resolve merge conflicts. Like, I'll never be doing that again. Rejoice.

[Dustin Lyons @dustinhlyons]

@grhmc Hey coming from you that means a lot! Thanks Graham. Btw, I blew up my Nix install on macOS a few days ago and the Determinate macOS installer got me going almost instantly. Was super impressed!

[Dustin Lyons @dustinhlyons]

My Github project, a starter Nix configuration for macOS, hit 3k stars over the weekend. It's been fun seeing the feedback and helping other ppl find the magic in a declarative environment. I have some good ideas to improve on it, hopefully in 2025!

https://t.co/G4TWsaNBDP

[Dustin Lyons @dustinhlyons]

I was sorting through my tech closet earlier, and all of a sudden felt something extremely hot to the touch. A bag of batteries had a 9V so hot you couldn't hold it in your hand. Feels like we avoided a fire. PSA: Check your closets for exploding things.

[Dustin Lyons @dustinhlyons]

@jspujji Deck

[Dustin Lyons @dustinhlyons]

Copilot in terminal vim feels pretty neat. Something special about software you've been using most of your life still getting new superpowers.

Also, of course with Nix I enabled it with only 12 characters: https://t.co/PMIKJoiJih

[Dustin Lyons @dustinhlyons]

@PeterKimFrank @iannuttall This. I've had the same success. Gave very small tasks at first and fired a few folks on the first day when it was obvious they weren't cutting it. So many candidates that it didn't take long before I found two highly qualified.

[Dustin Lyons @dustinhlyons]

GPT-4 to generate the code. Copilot to make edits. This is the way.

[Dustin Lyons @dustinhlyons]

@mitchellh Before the Internet was a big thing, I loved going to my local bookseller and browsing the rows and rows of technical books. Now it's a small shelf. 😔

It's amazing what you learn when sitting down to cover the breadth of a technical topic. You don't know what you don't know?

[Dustin Lyons @dustinhlyons]

@coreybgary @sweatystartup Yes, can concur. My trick is to use the scheduling feature to have lots of different apps displaying at different times so it feels fresh.

[Dustin Lyons @dustinhlyons]

@dhh @wfaler I 100% agree with the pair programmer analogy; but I still like GitHub Copilot to save me keystrokes. I use it for tab complete where it’s usually right (import statements, variable definitions, etc etc). Both together are great.

[Dustin Lyons @dustinhlyons]

Just don't think this works out for native yet. But for building anything on the web this is insane.

[Dustin Lyons @dustinhlyons]

Sqlite on the edge is insane. If you need proof, check out Cloudflare's demo app: https://t.co/uouMTS8NPy

I can't see a future where there isn't more of this

[Dustin Lyons @dustinhlyons]

Need a large app? No problem. Just split your customers into their own database. It's just another file.